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i don't think that is what is being argued. the claim the article is making is that expectations are extremely powerful. that doesn't mean that someone, carefully trained, and perhaps helped by an environment in which "cues" are removed as much as possible (eg blind tasting) cannot pick up small differences between wines.

so it's not that the undergrads are particularly dumb - it's that expectation is often more powerful than experience unless you consciously control for it. for example, i suspect it's easier to detect the difference between coke + pepsi when you're given an unbranded glass than when you are given the two in branded bottles, but swapped (and, importantly, not expecting it).
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"Teaching them how to get along" and "keeping them entertained" are basically the same thing, in an abstract sense. If you take "entertainment" as utility (which it basically is, disregarding baseline needs like food), then your job as a parent is to give your child the tools they need to most efficiently optimize toward their own utility function. Teaching someone how to be good at business is just the second derivative of entertaining them; you're teaching them to leverage skills to optimize their resource-leveraging capabilities to then optimize their experience of the world.
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> I've been doing stuff like this

Why use callbacks over 'return' for anything other than IO and waiting? If there's not two out of sync parties, there's no need to tell another person to call you back, and no advantage to performing an extra function call.

re: yummyfajitas: that does not use a callback, it returns a list. And if retrieveURL is nonblocking, then iteration is nonblocking.
I think this kind of acknowledgement of consequences behaviour has been documented in other higher mammals too. I read a really interesting article in the New Scientist years ago about study that showed there was cultural knowledge in a particular troupe(?) of Bonobos in Japan. They would teach thier young to wash fruit in the river before eating it and as a result this particular troupe suffered from significantly lower rates of disease than other surrounding troupes. I'll try and find it and submit the link, I think it might be behind a paywall though.
> However what they failed to realize was the inescapable fact that they were living on a small piece of land in the middle of a vast ocean.

Their first problem was that they and their palm trees were too big for the island. A big body size means a low population count, and that means that range of random fluctuations overlaps with zero: extinction. This is why island species evolve towards dwarfism: the Flores "hobbits", dwarf elephants, etc. Like many species that are seeded onto an island, they died out before they could evolve to meet the challenges.

The second problem is that humans are not built for a stable, hospitable situation. Our ability to adapt to change atrophies, so that an emergency becomes a catastrophe. (Look up "water empire".) We are built for constant warfare, plagues, droughts, floods, and so forth.

> I shudder to think what it must have been like to live in this world.

About like the sad story of Rhodesia, renamed Zimbabwe and destroyed as an exercise in social justice.

> Like the eastern islanders we have nowhere to go...

If we build big enough, soon enough, we get the inner solar system, whose resources make our current civilization look like a molecule of water in an ocean. Then we can take the gas giants as an afterthought, whose resources make the inner solar system look like a molecule of water in an ocean. Then we get the galaxy.
<I>The earth is where we have to make our stand</i>

Why? We have a whole solar system right on on our front porch.

<I>but the total possible water supply we can access (and this includes the glaciers)</I>

Water doesn't just get used once and then disappear forever. Now, one could certainly make an argument against (say) sucking water out of the Oglalla Aquifer faster than it gets replenished, but that's a localized problem. We aren't going to "run out of water". Really.
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Simply put: Am I crazy for expecting a Web designer to know how to work with HTML and CSS?

I've been a Web developer for many years (since 1993), and I've been an independent contractor/consultant since 1995, working with many different designers, developers, and other companies. I was born and raised in the US, but have been living and working in Israel for many years. My clients are in a mix of Israel, the US, and Europe.

In general, Web designers in Israel aren't expected to know HTML and CSS. They are expected to come up with one or more pages of Photoshop. The "cutting" of the Photoshop into HTML and CSS is considered to be the domain of the programmer. Increasingly, I've found that my Israeli clients are surprised (and even a bit hostile) when I say that I expect any decent Web designer to be able to work with HTML and CSS files, and even some JavaScript -- although I admit that the responsibility for JavaScript is a bit of a gray area between the developer and the designer.

Am I wrong to have such expectations? I find it totally weird and wrong-headed to think that a Web designer, who presumably makes their living working on the Web, doesn't have a clue about CSS and how it works, and assumes that this will be taken care of by a programmer. The analogy that I've used is that of a photographer: When I hire a photographer, I don't expect them to sketch what they want on paper, and then hand it to a technician who will aim, focus, and click the shutter.

I've been told that these expectations are unreasonable, but my expectations are (I believe) more than reasonable, and are the norm outside of Israel. But I'm curious to hear what other HN community members think...

Thanks in advance,

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Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is an interesting example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
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I live in China for some years now. This sounds just like stuff that would happen over here. I have met so many Americans that, after having been here for more than just a few month, have realized just how similar China and the USA have become. Kind of scary.

The author was lucky not having had ties with the wrong political party or some other US opposition group.
#1:

When you click the up/down arrows, it sends the vote in the background, using javascript.

So if you upvote + immediately refresh, that will cause the javascript submission to cancel, thus the vote won't count. (e.g. when you refresh a page, any async javascript queries which haven't yet completed will be canceled due to the refresh.)

#2:

Your average karma is the average of your 50 most recent comments. However it's only recalculated every so often. Specifically, each time you click the "add comment" button, there is a small random chance that your average karma will be recalculated right then.

e.g. the act of writing a comment is the trigger for recalc of avg karma; but it doesn't recalc every single time you write a comment --- rather, only every ~20 comments or so. (HN does this because it would be prohibitively expensive to recalculate avg karma for every user for every comment.)

So it's likely you had an avg of 1.64 in the past, which dropped to 1.0 over time, and that fact only became visible to you after your recalc.
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In the footnotes, he lists "what's in a transaction" (http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html?t=1319912579#foot...).
I slightly understand the push to move experienced coders into management. I have enjoyed coding but the biggest frustration has been the poor direction of management. Companies often don't know how and why technology should be used. They need smart people that know technology to lead (not just code).
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Maybe one day someone will invent a mechanism that can assign some kind of time slice to each event being processed, and if it doesn't return control to the master event coordinator, it could preempt that task somehow, storing the context in which it is executing, and switching to a different one: that way we could write code without having to worry about this kind of stuff.

Thinking about it more, while most people are using these event loops to process unrelated web requests (the data being shared between these different contexts likely being small), we'd still run into mild data corruption issues. :( I guess we'd also then have to figure out a way to protect these critical sections of our code... maybe some way to lock people out of your data while you are using it.

(Silly pipe dream, I know.)

(edit: I've been thinking a lot about this idea, and I realized that once we figure out all of those critical sections in the code, we might actually be able to run multiple event loops on the same machine at once, taking advantage of multiple CPUs or other types of execution core, without having to make any other serious changes to our code. I'm starting to think someone should actually work on this.)
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http://www.felixsalmon.com/2007/11/pinot-contest/

My own personal experience is that wine + food is most interesting. Both the wine and the food can change their taste substantially when paired well. But it's very rare that I can find a wine that I can stand in quantities to drink without food.
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I am a founder of web startup (topic: web operation system in a cloud).
Have an 75% ready beta.
And I need a co-founder to enter to YC.
Now it is a great technology and has to became a great business.

Whom I looking for:

- Change the world mantra in a heart guy))
- Passion, energy, ...
- Age 20 - 24 - 28
- Skills: extrovert, business orientation, technical background or something economical (but mix is better), sense of design and taste, understanding technology and making money, mannagment skills
- very very big optimist
- leadership and charisma is welcome
- Ready to take responsibility.
- Great communication skills, and deals maker.
- Ready to work a lot but have a lot of fun, and results that improve people life, making world better (bla ... bla ... bla ....), and become rich too.
- As I am not from US it's would be better to be a US citizen (but not required )
- Very big experience in CS, engineering, business etc. is great but not required.
- Ability to be full time in a project from development - to - lunch - to - growing

If you are interested, don't be shy please comment or mail me alezozov@gmail.com and we would have a conversation (maybe text/video) on which we would find answers to a lot of questions.
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>>> "In fact I think Linux has a tendency to encourage average computer users to become power users once they spend some time with it."

I think this is an important general point. I've got no real opinion on the evolution of Ubuntu, but we must stop thinking about beginners and expert users as rigid, separated categories. First, there are many degrees and variations on the tech savviness scale. Second, people can learn. Granted, many people won't, since they don't care about the tools they use. But others will learn, if you give them computers that don't push toward laziness and reduce the steepness of the learning curve.

I think Mac OS, in some aspects, is a good example of empowering. For years, Preview and iPhoto had basic tools for editing pictures that Windows lacked. You can adjust saturation, levels, and so on. You can realize that these tinkerings can be not hugely complicated. And if, as a newbie, you end up stuck in Photoshop someday, you will be less scared and hopeless than if you had never used Preview.
A friend of mine that is pretty versed with wines, and who used to be a skeptic, wrote an interesting piece about this last year: http://www.triplesequitur.com/winespeak/

It's an argument that changed my thinking on this. Wine tasting and critique is not only about what's in the wine, it's also about what tasting the wine enables us to do.

In a phrase, wine is liquid metaphor.
I came across this a while ago on twitter fascinating stuff there is loads more info on the team blog. http://blogs.lmax.com/
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> but if 300 million people started sending private information to federal agents

I hope he understands he is advocating a DDoS attack on FBI's information collection departments ;-)

I hope this insanity ends someday, but it's not really a very rational expectation. Once paranoia sets in, it's hard to cure. It's costing us (mankind - I am neither a US citizen nor live in the US) resources that could be better employed. I am sure the FBI folks would prefer to spend their time investigating actual crimes instead of shadows. But, again, once you start believing every shadow is your enemy, it's very hard to act rationally.

Instilling fear is the goal of the terrorists they try to fight. As far as I can see, they won. Long ago.

:-(
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It seems that insulation etc should be printable too. Spray insulation has been on the market for years, and that should be relatively easily adaptable to printing. I don't see why ductwork shouldn't also be printable, and maybe even plumbing too (there are already PVC printers on the market). There are also designs like the Earthship that supposedly get by on passive heating and cooling and don't require HVAC.

Certainly Dini's machine won't do all of this, but the approach is promising.
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"if you apply both to the same subject"

Where's the scientific thought?

If the world was covered with an ocean any time soon (call it the last million years so we can include every human culture) then there would be obvious physical traces, and salt-intolerant species, including plants, would have died.
Who are these vast majorities that want to stay completely divorced from using their computer in a meaningful way, but want to run Linux on it?
Ditto for the AT&T "You Will" ads from 10 years earlier:

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Oddly enough, I read this and came to the conclusion that the author was not so smart.

The premise here, that there is some underlying objective version of reality when it comes to consuming works of art (wine, food at restaurants, TV images, or even haircuts.) is extremely flawed. This article is like comparing the price of haircuts to the amount of hair removed. Yes, there is a metric, but I'm not sure it has meaning.

You drink wine or eat in a nice restaurant for the experience you receive, not for where the food comes from. Expectations are part of that experience, sure, but trying to assign it all to "expectations" is just a rhetorical dodge. How can anything experiential not involve expectations? It can't. It's ludicrous to think otherwise.

These things are not evidence of you not being so smart, they are evidence of the wonderful experiential nature of being alive. Isn't it great that we can plan and dream about a very inexpensive upcoming trip to the mountains and end up having a better time than somebody who spent 100 times as much for a much longer holiday? Or that we can spend an extra 40 dollars on a bottle of wine and imagine how much better the experience will be -- thereby increasing our eventual enjoyment? There's nothing dumb or not-so-smart about this. This is the human experience. Anybody who has ever spent any time around children understands that this subjectivity is a huge part of our makeup. In fact, to suppose that somehow this would be news to anyone is to assume the audience thinks of themselves as super-rational machines. Perhaps that's the problem: I'm not a member of the target audience. Still, I didn't like it. These books are the kinds you read and end up thinking "People are really broken! They are pretty stupid!" which is most likely the same damn thing you thought before you picked up the book in the first place.
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Do you know anyone in need of a good existing small team to become co-founders in a US company to implement a solution to a strong user problem? What is a good way to find a business-side co-founder with a great idea that needs implementation in addition to various networking events?

We are an experienced 3-person tech & product development team from Europe, looking for a new challenge. We want to make users happy, solve real problems and change the world for a better place.

1 of us is mostly a UX / UI / JS / graphical design person, 1 SW dev / frontend / backend, 1 product design / business (although with tech background). 2 of us have 10+ years experience of working together, the 3rd 2 years. We are a great match working as a unified team.

Our team experience includes designing, implementing and operating both consumer and B2B services, which this far have usually been on the scale of up to a few hundred thousand weekly visitors / ~10 distributed servers. A lot of our previous work has been very backend/database intensive. Have done some HTML5 mobile stuff recently as well.

We are pretty well connected to both US and European investors, accelerators and tech press. Have previously raised both angel and VC funding in US as well as Europe. Currently might be able to bootstrap our costs for some time from our own resources.

We are interested in a setup where we build the product development team in Europe and customer facing operations/HQ in the US. We know the challenges of distributed startup teams and why it is good to be 24/7 in the same room, but also believe this is not a problem with strong people, have seen distributed teams work out well if you know what you are doing. Willing to travel and spend up to 50% of our time either on East or West Coast, but not relocate permanently.

In whatever we do, we also take an active role in discussing the business, idea and customer experience side of whatever company we are involved in.

Our advantage includes also hiring additional developers and tech people at speeds and cost level times lower than in the US.

If you are someone with an exciting B2B or consumer idea who think this might be a good match for you and you need tech co-founders, please do contact us.

You can contact us at eutechteam@gmail.com or give some helpful suggestions / comments here.
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I'm not sure it's cheaper. I didn't get charged extra for having someone check me out at the grocery store, but the baggers are faster than I am.

If I'm paying them a fair wage for their time, how can you call me a burden on society? Is your boss a burden on society when he tells you to do your job?

Are you against all forms of division of labor or just the convenient ones?
Most people are not "experts in the field for 20-30 years". They are not even as well-trained as the undergraduates in the article.

This kind of experiment has been done before -- serving water from a garden hose in fancy spring water bottles, serving fast food on a plate in a restaurant, etc. People pretty much always assume the presentation is accurate. They think they can taste the melting glaciers in the hose water, and that the salad from Wendy's is a healthy, high-quality item was lovingly prepared by a master chef in the kitchen just for them.
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> If you're at a place run by a bunch of clueless MBAs that don't understand the value of their in-house engineers you just don't have a good (or reliable) job.

That is exactly Patricks point. If you can explain to those MBAs how you make $N for the company, then your job (as long as your job costs less than $N) is safe because you're now a profit centre. You will then have turned those clueless MBAs into bosses who understands and values programmers.
These pictures are not from Poland. There come from many countries, they just happend to be on a polish website (demotywatory.pl), where people share funny stuff.
Good luck with finding someone! Not probably suitable for your case, but we are also on a somewhat similar quest. As a team, we are looking for a business co-founder with a great idea to start something new: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3174188
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Since I am from that part of Europe I understand the situation. After Yugoslavia fall apart many public companies gone bankrupt which caused problems like this. Since foreign companies don't have need to change something people need to fight for their rights.