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Man, I have to say that 'Weird' really rubs me the wrong way. Grouping those classifications together suggests that non-Western people are by definition uneducated and living in undeveloped, poor, totalitarian backwaters.

The picture on top is of a village in Chile. We see the rich Western scientist talking to these poor farmers who apparently are so stupid they don't know the finer points of Game Theory.

Also, Chile as non-Western is questionable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world

If you've never been there, google for photos of Santiago. The urban elite there would most likely have very different values than that American scientist, but have probably just as little in common with the farmers pictured. Many would be better educated and be far wealthier than that scientist. Replace Santiago with almost any non-Western urban center and you could say the same thing.

Weird also is silly because it suggests that all people living in Western democracies are rich. "How much would you offer? If it's close to half the loot, you're a typical North American." The average North American is not rich. The average American salary is circa 30k per year. Taxes are very high. Cost of living is very high. Disposable income and buying power are low. Fine dining and travel are expensive. Education, health care and insurance are barely affordable.

One of my brothers and his wife are public servants (American). Both have college degrees. Both are very hard working people. My brother moonlights as a commuter pilot. They can afford to have to kids because their insurances are covered by the government. They can't, however, afford to send their oldest daughter (a 4.0 student) to a decent university. They've had to compromise and send her to a second- or third-tier school.

How is that being rich? Isn't that sort of the opposite of being rich?

In comparison, my girlfriend's family (Asian) earned less in dollar terms while my girlfriend was in college. They're not wealthy (by any measure). They can afford to have kids because healthcare is affordable (by any measure) and they could afford to send her to the #1 university in the country after she passed the entrance exams. She graduated without any debt whatsoever, has had a very strong career and has worked for two of the top-three global companies in her field.

Again, her family is not rich. But it's hard not to say they're way better off than my brother's family.

Isn't that weird?
The first time I really noticed that Apple just has a different level of attention to detail than I, an electronics customer, am used to seeing was with my iPad.

I listen to foreign language lessons on part of my commute and have for several years. After I got my iPad I transferred everything there and started listening as normal. For some reason (don't remember why) I needed to stop listening. So I pulled the headphones out, dig the iPad out of my bag to pause the player since I don't want to miss anything. As I take the iPad out I'm expecting to hear someone speaking but they're not. I pause for a second but nothing. I open the case to make sure I didn't accidentally pause it somehow and check the volume. Volume is fine and some other app was in the foreground. I switch to the Ipod app and sure enough, it was paused. Seems so obvious but no other device I've owned did this (I've never owned an iPod or iPhone).
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But you're not observing the underside of his car as if peeking up a lady's dress; you're just observing where he goes, which is as old as following footprints in the dirt. The main difference is that GPS vastly increases productivity compared to more conventional methods.

Now I do agree that one does not expect to have tracking devices or anything else covertly attached to one's car, any more than one expects to have the locks picked. But courts take the opposite view. Attaching a device like this to the underside of a car is held not to constitute a trespass, in turn based on Supreme Court rulings that hiding a tracking device inside a container does not violate the 4th amendment - yes, it trespasses on the person's property, but they still have the use of it so no 'seizure' has occurred. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1604019454511858...

More troubling to me is the fact that in this case the defendant had not been read his rights after being arrested, and said he felt he had no choice but to consent to a search of his home: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9066796837449085...
What model (silver or black screen frame/keys)? I have older one (silver), and the thing is like a lighthouse in a dark bedroom. However, they supposedly fixed it in the newer models.
Like most people, I have lived an entire lifetime conforming to schedules. They exist like the Greek gods: you didn’t ask for them but they are there, there is no negotiating with them, and prolonged association means you are likely to get your dignity violated by a bovine.

Once again Patrick nails it, with his usual flair.
Explaining that doesn't negate the initial disappointment. Having a reason why doesn't make the person feel any less disappointment.

It's like when you give your kid an large expensive toy, and you help them unpack it and show them it, and they then spend the day playing spaceships and forts with the big carboard box it came in.
You can't dictate fun, and the cool features you managed to script in the background are great and all, but if you get hung up on them and they block people having fun with it then you killed 100% of it because you got fixated on 30% of it.
I can do all of those things during the day, because I am self-employed. I do what I want, when I want, because I'm self-employed. I go hiking mid-week, run errands when no one else is, etc.

That's like the whole point!
Why Can't Programmers.. Program?
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I studied at Columbia and I have to say his tales of class snobbery are a bit over the top. Me and a lot of my friends were poor and did not feel ostracized about it.

And although there were some rich kids and Saudi heiresses in class, the displays of wealth were more likely to be subject of jokes than the other way around. I remember people made fun of one girl because she took a cab to school every day (we would usually walk to school or use the subway).

In general the students in my class considered themselves progressive and enlightened so any snobbery towards poor people was very unlikely to be popular.

I think the writer had some bad luck in that he joined a program witch was considered to be a cash cow for the university so he ended up with a lot of rich kids. Although now that I think of it, my program was also to be considered a bit of a cash cow.

If there is anything wrong with the way the school treated him, it is the fact that no-one pulled him aside to tell him something like "hey kid, this program is for rich kids and financial aid will be harder to come by, so try to find something else."
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X is better than X ALWAYS is usually incorrect. This is a classic take on the PC versus Mac or even the Americans versus Europeans. Of course there is one party strongly opposed to one of the ideas, however in certain circumstances one party can be right while the other wrong, but never can one party always be right.
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"... Part of monogamy is breed into our subconscious, part is based on proximity, part is due to social context, and part is, well, emotional ..."

When you mean monogamy do you mean sexually exclusive or socially monogamous? There is some evidence to suggest the later more than the former. [0] And some counter arguments. [1]

[0] Barber, Nigel "Monogamy is social - not sexual" ~ http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201007/m...

[1] Johnson, Sue "Monogamy: are we - can we be - monogamous?" ~ http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hold-me-tight/201003/mon...
I have stopped taking the issue of 'working from home' so seriously. In fact, I find it liberating to have an infinitely flexible schedule. In fact, not having to commute and not having a strict schedule was one of the primary motivations of doing a startup. As long as you are making more sales than what you were originally earning and the sales keep growing, why bother about fixed schedules? I'd love to see some hard research on productivity effects of fixed v/s flexible schedules.
Most of the entries from "The Horrible" section of that remind me of my effort to work from home full time - I only lasted a month before giving up and moving into quite entertainingly bad offices (no heating, above a welding shop) with my co-founder.
Share your ways to resolve this problem, please. What's happened with your startup/side project?
We are dealing with probabilities.

The most likely scenario. A million and one scenarios can happen but what is more likely to happen and what has happen.
Apparently he does.
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I think that would be OK for an individual, no different from using a notebook to organize one's thoughts. You'd still have the benefit of the systematic circumstance/condition comparison, although you'd lose the benefit of the voting aspects.

California criminal jury instructions say jurors can take notes, but cautions that they are only for individual use.
I mostly saw moaning about how evolutionary psychology is bullshit, and not much serious discussion about the merits of his claims.

I do agree though that it starts out good, and becomes less and less substantiated, but on the whole it is interesting.
> run errands when no one else is

That one can be a fantastic time saver. I like to go food shopping at about 2 in the afternoon - the stores are virtually empty, so it's very quick - so much better than going on a saturday afternoon with a zillion other people.
For iphone, you can use : http://itunes.apple.com/app/dont-break-the-chain/id313567772...
Oldie but goodie - a perenial here on HN and usually guaranteed to create a lively discussion.

Usually when this is discussed "FizzBuzz" gets mentioned, so you can find suitable discussions that way:

http://searchyc.com/fizz+buzz?sort=by_date

Alternatively, just look for the article you actually submitted:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/Why+can%2527t+programmers+pr...

And here it is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605

Finally, here's a more recent discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142398

There are more. Given that you've been on Hacker News for over two years I'm surprised you haven't seen them all.
I agree with you, Buzz is dissimilar to Fridge. My point is that Google is trying to copy Facebook on what Facebook does well, this is not a good strategy.

The point of The Fridge is that it is different to Facebook. That's the only way to succeed.

Google has many active Fridges in Groups, it just needs to make the management of Groups much more simple, as the Fridge does.

But, if The Fridge succeeds (I'm not sure about this), then it would be too late for Google, but this is only relevant to Google.
Evolutionary biologists have argued the monogamy-with-cheaping is a standard human behavior.

In evolutionary terms, a woman would want to give the man the impression that she'd never mate with another if he was gone or away. Whether that's true is a different question.

The human switch from a visible estrus cycle was a change which allowed monogamy-with-cheating to be a much more feasible strategy than with earlier primates - who knew when mating was going to happen.

I actually wouldn't say that monogamy-with-cheating is the only human social/sexual pattern since humans also evolved an incredibly ability to change their behavior based on their social system.

But don't assume that a society that overtly pushes monogamy will actually wind-up with husbands always fathering their official children.
In my point of view, it should be possible to use a Fridge as a mailing list, I mean, at least, I should be able to answer comments by e-mail. It is already possible to do this on Facebook. This would help to introduce The Fridge to middle aged people who are proficient in email but don't want to "waste time" in learning new technologies. I'm thinking in small businesses.
ack, sorry I meant "most romance languages".
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VPS.net sells both highwinds and Akamai. Akamai is $100 for 1 TB. However, they only offer origin pull, so performance will be slightly degraded versus using their NetStorage.

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The article linked says, "that differing levels of interest in monogamy for our own species are also partly a matter of biology". I meant to infer the same thing and am sorry if I did not. I believe that both biology[3] and society in part play a role on our views.
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Most women who do, do so by accident.

Or don't get caught....
It would have been obvious general knowledge to any post Great War (World War I) reader in England.

See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-481882/Condemned-v...
Roy F. Baumeister recently expanded his original essay into a book:

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Hi all,

I will try to make a long story short. I'm currently working as a software developer in the financial sector of an European Nordic Country for 2 years (I am a foreigner, but still an EU citizen). I have both a bachelor and a master (finished in 2008) in computer science, but the problem is that I use pretty old technologies at work, which have some bad consequences:

- It is difficult to see software houses (and even financial institutions) that uses technologies from the 60s/70s;
- I actually don't want to work with those technologies - damn, they even hire people with no IT background for the same job. I don't want to be disrespectful for those persons, but I am not not learning anything technical since the first 6 months on the job... I don't think that is normal for a graduate/junior position... and furthermore, there is a reason why I studied for 5 years computer science and mathematics, and this job is not the reason why!
- The third big issue is that after 2 years, I don't have commercial experience with recent stuff like Java/C/C++/Python etc etc etc.

Yes, sure, you can definitely ask "so why did you take the job??". Unfortunately I was not aware of these problems before, I lacked experience and perhaps maturity. They also never mentioned that I would work only with old technologies, so I feel a little deceived as well. Once I was inside I tried to move to other departments where I could use recent stuff, however, I didn't succeed. Now, I am seriously afraid I have "doomed" my career with my decision of taking the job.

I am trying to find another job for quite some time. Since this is a small country, during the recession there were not many open positions) and the same happens now, so I am trying to move to London where there are more possibilities (and competition of course), but I am struggling with the following:

- As I said, I don't have professional experience in recent stuff - this reduces my search almost to graduate positions (and some junior);
- I have worked for 3 years in an open source project (mainly with Java technologies), but according to the recruiters "that is not commercial experience"!!;
- I have a website where I post some technical stuff that I do during my free time in order to keep active with recent stuff, but again that is not important for a recruiter/company;
- I already have 2 years of experience, so I am not really a graduate and I am a junior of something not really interesting for the majority of the companies;
- I have worked in part-time for a software company during my studies with web technologies, but it was only for 6 months (I needed money to help paying my expenses), so not much experience either from here.

So, I finally get down to my questions:

- How can I get a/any job using recent stuff?
- Would you hire me (figure of speech) as a graduate, even though I have professional experience in something else (no salary demands of course), or would you prefer a graduate coming from the university?
- Is it really realistic to change area?

Thanks in advance for your help.
It got a bit sexist there in the end.
I agree with your point, but I think it's an interesting project, nevertheless. Mostly, I'd like to see if there really would be enough people to make this happen. Also, chalk it up to morbid curiousity as to how good their results would actually be; there doesn't seem to be any hints as to which "internationally renown[ed]" orchestra they have their eye on.

In any case, the value of this project would be exactly how much people are going to assign to it. If nothing else, maybe I'd end up with more legit music in my collection. :)
Very cool. Possibility of an android port? I'd be happy to help if required
What's also missing from the picture is the comparative advantage that the US had in the fifties compared to the rest of the world (with Europe in shambles after WW II). Today it's a lot harder/more expensive to have the best educational system now that the others are doing a decent job again.
I'm not sure if you know, but a similar game exists already: http://thewikigame.com/

Try to take this fact as validation of your concept. TheWikiGame's interface is a bit clunky. So if you do it better, more power to you.

It's hard to tell how you think your game is going to work... it's not obvious to me how "enlightenment" motivates players, but you never know. I rather like TheWikiGame's beat-the-clock dramatic tension, and that one plays against others. TheWikiGame can be addictive especially if you play it with other friends in the room suggesting strategies.
This should be easy to convert into a chrome extention: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/

(It would increase it's usefulness, because the tool could overlay the current page and you could then compare colours.)
Some questions:

1. What are you starting? a Startup? a Barbecue? an e-shop?
2. What kind of needs are you looking for? Are you looking for a payment gateway?

I'm asking this because i'm looking some solutions for in-app Mobile Payments, and i found that Boku is great for what i need, but certainly your solution depends directly in your needs.
my g5 imac won't go to sleep because the capacitors in it have leaked, periodically in its life cds have been trapped in it which wouldn't eject from the command line, i've had two old style keyboards that have broken completely because of small spillages on them, the mouse that came with the g5 was a worse at detecting movement than an older ms mouse.. i could go on. I bought it expecting engineering attention to detail, what i got was cosmetic attention to detail.
I'm surprised wealth distribution wasn't mentioned in the stuff about GDP comparison. I'm no Economist but I was under the impression that wealth is distributed more evenly in European countries than in the US. We have rich people here in Europe but the US seems to have lots of insanely rich people and lots of poor people to go with it...
I think the idea of not having control over your fighter is great. The doubts about people returning because their fighter will get his ass kicked is fallacious, I think. It'll just incentivize you to come up with a better character, which means that as long as sequential incentives to keep returning back the ability to do so, the non-control acts as a positive game dynamic/mechanic.
Facebook-like app for customer communication that turns email into an SMS
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I love the idea of Google voice, and I want to like it. I've installed it 3 times on my Android phone, and then uninstalled it.

But, then I realize that they already have my email, schedule, internet search and probably have a very good idea about my web traffic even though I don't use them for analytics.

I'll stick with Skype and Vonage rather than give GOOG access to a library of my voice conversations.
I did, when i read the heading it said six keys, i automatically scrolled to the six keys, then realized this is just like the books i read, "outliers" and "talent is overrated". I then looked at the links at the bottom and realized that there were two new books on the same topic that came out in 2010, how many more do they need to make to tell us the same thing.
We are seeing very interesting pattern. A lot of people (including PG in recent interview http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632477 ) noted that YC founders communicate via Facebook not email. We take this observation to the business - customer world (b2b) and we have created real-time facebook-like communication platform that controls the context (sales business process). Each action fires up an email - but in this case email is just a notification - SMS-like service to let you know that something is going on in the project.
Evolutionary biologists have argued the monogamy-with-cheaping is a standard human behavior.

I do not mean to make you think that I believe that monogamy is "the only way", however, psychology plays a huge role in our sexual and social relationships. Many women prefer a more intimate one-on-one relationship, while men do not; or so it has been said.

In evolutionary terms, a woman would want to give the man the impression that she'd never mate with another if he was gone or away. Whether that's true is a different question.

I do not believe that all women want to cheat on their spouse. More data from a wider set is needed, and even then it is a matter of biology and social context; random chance.

But don't assume that a society that overtly pushes monogamy will actually wind-up with husbands always fathering their official children.

I did mean to imply that I did. It really depends on the social context and size of the group. A smaller group will be more apt to provide more intimate care than a larger group. It was not my intention to put the blame on the male gender by any means. Women and men have an equal role to play in the physical and mental rearing of any child.
I think he may have had one too many cokes from the refreshment cart on that trip.
Novelty, but awesome. Will it make my beer explode though?
"How did Germany become such a great place to work in the first place? The Allies did it.”

What? I’m pretty sure the European labour movement and the Social Democrats wouldn’t agree with that answer. On a list of possible explanations, I think ”You can thank the Americans for it” would rank rather low.
It's an interesting topic, and quite complex. In my line of work (high level tech support), measuring productivity is relatively straightforward, and the European team with its 30 days of holidays and no overtime at all beats the US team in average output per year easily. Both lose out to the Indians, whom I admire a lot for the pure raw effort.

On the other hand, I've heard local startups complain about the difficulty of finding people that are willing to put in the hours that you'd need in a startup.
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"free university tuition" ->
Not true anymore, it's more like 300-600 Euros per semester. Still not much compared to the US but enough for german students to protest and public banks to create state-sponsored student loans. This type of loan for students was unknown before in Germany.