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The biggest take away for me from trello is that a two dimensional view of data is extremely powerful. Personally, I love outlines even though Joel thinks they are dead ends for UIs. I think workflowy is awesome and my love of emacs org mode is why I created my own web version, yata.in(yet another task application). I think one large drawback of outlines is that you have a linear view of data, as you scroll up and down, it makes it hard to compare things that are scattered all over the outline. I think if one can bring the power of working with outline data vertically, as well as horizonatally, it would be really effective. I think I know how and I'll post it on hn when I'm done.
well it is hard to tell without predicting the long term future. I mean if we eradicate all malaria something else may also happen as a consecuence that we were not aware now but is bad for us.
And the killer mistake in # 2 is that he "He shows no interest in political and social issues" Now Law is inherently political (both big and small P's) even more so in the USA where Judges etc are elected.

I would bet good money that hes more likely an engineer than a lawyer.
Awesome! We haven't solved that topic for humans, now comes the next load.
Okay. Let's follow that through:

1) Plants survive on their own and in groups. Therefore, plants have the right to live. (Don't step on the grass!)

2) Bacteria survive on their own and in groups. Therefore, bacteria have the right to live and should not be eradicated. (Sorry, hand sanitizer.)

3) Cows survive on their own and in groups. Therefore, cows have the right to live and should not be slaughtered. (So much for that steak last night.)

So yes, under this thesis, AI & robots have a right to live, regardless of their threat or benefit to society and humans.
Yes, Yoga practiced incorrectly can screw your body. Even the breathing exercises if done incorrectly can screw your body. Tip: Do NOT practice Yoga from a book.

A close friend of mine started breathing exercises & yoga from a book. He's been doing some forms of these for many years, and this was the first time he was doing them from a book, and doing newer things.

He did or overdid something, and some balance in his body was disturbed. His weight dropped from 85kg to 54kg within a couple of months, becoming almost literally skin and bones.

He had to go for some intensive treatment to get his body back in line.

And this is a guy who I've known personally for 8 years now - not an anecdote I've heard.

So stick to the basic exercises, don't tie yourself up in knots, don't do any crazy breathing exercises, and certainly don't over do anything.
It looks like this is because rescue is a reserved word in Ruby (Disclaimer: I'm not a Ruby expert, just basing this on a Google search and the syntax highlighting)
Robotics rule #1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics#.22The_...)

Also see this discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_artificial_intellige...
Previously, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294202

More specifically, someone hunted down what I think is the Guy Steele talk mentioned in the OP: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Thinking-Parallel-Program...
That's a rather different standard of right and wrong than you seem to support in your previous post.
Until we become intelligent enough to get our resources without hurting any other species on the planet, we'll keep defending our "own right" to life against anything else, and just try to minimize the casualties on the other "side".

Until we manage that, as the supreme species on the planet, we will get to arbitrarily decide what gets to live and what doesn't. All the other life forms are at our mercy. At least most of them aren't even aware of it.
I'm pretty sure it triangulates by a combination of liquor stores, nail salons and pawn shops.
no no, that was not what i was saying. if you kill a cow it is dead and therfore not survived.
I think it's pretty likely that people will say that very complete, high-level AI (if it is ever invented) would have a right to life. Actually, there's a fantastic exploration of this from an AI's point of view in Life Artificial by David A. Eubanks:

http://lifeartificial.com/

I think a far more interesting question is: will a human ever be put to death for "killing" an artificial intelligence?
Isn't it obvious?

A truly intelligent and self-aware computer will be created by simply simulating a human brain on a powerful computer. I can't see how that mind would have any less rights than its biological counterparts.

So the answer is: Yes, it'll have the exact same rights, as we do.
Morally, that is, because the law might take time to catch up.
She claimed to be highly connected claimed her father was a well known physicist or biologist working there.
The constitution is just a piece of paper. It only has force so long as people allow it to. And local and federal laws can violate the constitution up until they are overturned by the courts (potentially a lengthy process).

It took nearly a century for the 14th Amendment to achieve the full force of law everywhere in the US.

We should not be the least bit blase about allowing unconstitutional laws to be passed, as though they would be null and void upon passing.
So seductive that the focus is on hacking rather than business building.

Would love to hear anecdotes about past batches, how far they progressed, and maybe even know a little more about how placements have worked out from the perspective of participants and hiring companies.

Regarding hiring companies - are they looking at the output of participants or using the Hacker School team as highly trusted referral agents? I know it has to be both, but am curious how much the project portfolio at the end is impressing companies.

I guess one way of answering that question might be knowing a little about how participants did with their project portfolios in finding new gigs that you guys did not act as referral agents for . . . ?

Regardless, this is a very cool take on the "building better hackers" stories going on and I hope you guys are wildly successful.
If I kill you, you are dead and therefore have not survived. Does that mean you lack a right to life?
Ask HN: How do you manage your customer knowledgebase?
I've written a web app for the ecommerce space and I need something quick and easy to set up a customer focussed knowledge base.

My current thoughts are a wiki but I would prefer something more specialised.

Does anyone else have any thoughts on this ?
I think in my area (Vancouver) there's a set of codes which cover both new and existing buildings; but yes, I should have been clearer.
I don't remember now, but I think I heard that law is flawed, and could be easily bypassed, even when used together with the other 2.

Does anyone know how that law is flawed? Unless I'm remembering it wrong.
Most of these projects, from a small documentary to multi-billion dollar aid projects, are feel-good projects. The impact on the ground is often doubtful, sometimes downright negative. They don't scale, because you don't build a scalable economy by handouts and cheerleading.

Ask Africans who work with these organizations what they think. Read Bill Easterly. See here: http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mwenda_takes_a_new_look_at_a...
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Just to clarify...you gave Apple permission to make money off of your work, right?
You know the dating site OKCupid? It matches people by their answers to user-submitted questions.

One of about a dozen questions on there I've marked as "important to me" is one on AI rights. And interestingly enough, I'd say the site's suggestions have become markedly better since I did that; I think that question is a barometer for a lot of things about one's morals and interests.
Look, either you believe the Constitution limits the powers of the government, or you believe it doesn't.

If it does, then SOPA would be subject to those limitations as much as any printing press law would (the example to which I was responding).

If it doesn't, then why does SOPA matter at all? The government could just shut down websites left and right tomorrow regardless of what the law says.
if you kill me yes i don't have right to live.
Perhaps this is an argument in favor of some sort of perverted natural selection, where you have a right to life commensurate with your ability to defend it?
Weird, I am using two dating apps that have a monthly subscription that enables certain features.
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I practiced yoga for several years on a very regular basis. Although I personally did not experience any significant injury, I can really understand how people can get caught up in pushing their body beyond its means, even through pain. Despite the fact that teachers often emphasize staying within your ability and focusing on your own practice, the ego often creeps in. Either between students or even w/i yourself, struggling to further 'perfect' a pose or match what you did last week, is too easy to fall into.

I think it is probably similar to other pursuits, whether it be running, weight lifting, or swimming. It's easy to over do it, and you have to keep your ego in check.

Yoga is an amazing practice with a lot of benefits. The take away that I get from this is to not assume that yoga is always harmless, and to check your ego at the door and really pay attention to your body. Sometimes easier said than done (especially as I currently nurse a knee injury from a long run last week, which I really knew I shouldn't have done, but badly wanted).
"Most cities have landlord/tenant regulations that tilt towards (if not strongly favor) the tenants."

Maybe you missed the part where the landlords were blatantly in violation of those regulations.

Also, the tenants continued to live there largely because they didn't have many options. For most of these people the only option otherwise available to them would likely be a homeless shelter.
Can you build a business on data that you do not own or have control over? What is your plan if the usage rules change, you get request limited or your dependency disappears altogether?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Neanderthals-were-too-smart-t...
Even if the robots themselves won't have many rights, humans will try to get them more rights by electing the politicians that will do it. Why would humans do that? Because I believe we will become emotional towards them. We can easily become emotional towards our pets, so it should be even easier with a robot that is even smarter than that. Heck, some people are even somewhat emotional towards their iPhones.

The first step towards becoming more emotional will be naming them. I remember reading a couple of years ago about that cleaning robot Roomba, and how people started naming them, and when they were giving them away for repairing, they demanded the same robot back, not a replacement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21102202/ns/technology_and_scien...

http://gizmodo.com/5483750/peoples-emotional-attachment-to-r...
The problem is the gray area in between. Once passed, the law is the lay of the land. Its constitutionality can only be challenged once you've been charged with it. In the meanwhile, your livelihood is offline.

It's not uncommon for a law to be passed that is unconstitutional.
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Why do they even bother with special hardware? The keyboard I guess I can see.

Seems like the whole thing could just be web app now.
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It sounds like the Trello API is coming along. Has anyone made an Alfred plugin or command line tool for adding cards? Quick keyboard-based capture of thoughts is important for keeping focused on what I'm doing.
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Primitives in Smalltalk are not objects? Then how come I can send messages to strings? Numbers aren't objects either? Then how come integers have so many methods, most of which are inherited from an abstract base class called Number?

For that matter, unless you're working in an edition of Fortran that's older than you and possibly also your parents, trying to blame the language for tangled, unreadable code is kind of silly.

I, too, am growing tired of the "I don't know much about it, all I know is I don't like it!" genre of articles.
KVM gets my vote. It's both free and Free; I personally prefer it to Xen.
Sham transactions are a common part of financial crimes. Ownership didn't change in fact, just on paper. Linking all the owners together in one family showed that the transactions had no material effect on where the rent and equity money was going.
More than anything this shows how people all across the world look up to Silicon Valley. Well ok, nerds and designers (web), tech entrepreneurs and the type. But still, for this group of people Silicon Valley is like a dream.

I am myself planning to stay, work and learn from the valley sometime soon. And I am sure there are hundreds like me.
+1

I can only use trello for mumdane work tasks or personal work if there is no self hosted solution.

This decision is a mistake, Joel. I love trello, but i cannot trust a hosted solution with my plans for taking over a market. Please give us an installable version. anything else is amature hour or naive.
The extent to which having a four-year US degree equivalent will assist this young man in getting an H1-B visa cannot be exaggerated. It's possible without it, but, AFAIK, it then becomes a non-standard process which will require quite a bit of effort/explanation on the part of the sponsor - i.e. the immigrant will need to be quite a special person. Professional work experience can be substituted for study (I think at a 3:1 ratio, i.e 12 years of professional work experience = 4 year degree), but for obvious reasons that doesn't seem like a good option in this case.

I'm not an expert on this topic by any means, but I do speak from personal experience.
Localization doesn't seem to work very well. I'm in Waterloo, Canada. This is what the script outputs for me:

> session.locale.country

"US"

> session.locale.location

undefined
Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again
He will require a H1-B visa to move and work in US. But unfortunately, you require a 4 year degree to be eligible for H1-B or 12 years work experience. So, H1-B is out of question.

The only viable option is to join a University in Silicon Valley and work part time in a start up.
something like that, anyway im not saying that i know the future of machine and know it would survive. and therfore i don't know if it has right to live. saying that something doesn't have right to live is not same as being able to kill it or shut it down.

i mean if some machine is not usefull for nothing and it wastes resources than you have right to shut it down if you can, no matter what IQ it has.
I was in batch[1] and worked on the back end of a startup simultaneously, but not while on HS time. Having had the experience, I wouldn't recommend HS if you're more interested in startups than you are in programming. The goals are completely different. The measure of a startup's success can be directly observed, but you can't simply observe an overwhelming sense of curiosity or the triumphal sense of discovery. The reason I'm interested in startups is that it's a way to spend all of your time creating things that enrich other people's lives, which is exactly what we try to do at HS.

Then you have the concept of ownership and monetary gain, but nobody really owns HS projects, they just happen. There are no contracts or points, there is only the joy of programming. When you naturally put people together that are all working to better themselves in the same way, they wind up cooperating. It's much easier to cooperate on something that's already shared.

Now that's not to say that you can't do anything tangentially related to your startup while you are working on HS. I wrote and open-sourced a library that was tangentially related to my startup, but I did it as a learning experience; it wasn't mission-critical, it just scratched an itch. I wound up not using the project on my startup because it contacted an API that changed, which crushed my curiosity and caused me to stop working on it, but looming in the back of my head, it gave me some inspiration for the curiosity that HS satisfies.

In hindsight, I wish I had never written that library. Yes I learned from it, but my time would probably have been better spent reading Erlang and OTP in Action.
It seems like the embodiment of what a patent shouldn't be to me. There is no detail on how to implement any of the parts. It is hilarious that it actually specifies "An artificical intelligent component that makes at least one inference" ... it's the equivalent of saying "here magic happens". I'm certainly no expert but my understanding is that one is supposed to be able to implement the patented invention using the information in the patent. When it is full of "magic" words like "information sources" and "articifical intelligence components" it should be obvious that there is insufficient information to actually implement the invention given the patent.
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Construction occurring on existing buildings falls under the building codes. However, existing buildings in which no construction is taking place are not regulated by the building codes - as noted previously, building codes regulate construction.

Thus, they are silent in regards to the maintenance of existing structures and the ways in which they are occupied, hence property maintenance and fire codes respectively - e.g. the building code inspects a fire sprinkler system when it is in installed, a property maintenance code may require continuous water service to the structure, and the fire code require that the system is regularly tested.

Here is the Vancouver, Washington Property Maintenance Code:
http://www.cityofvancouver.us/MunicipalCode.asp?menuid=10462...

With proper Canadian propriety, here is Vancouver B.C.'s "By-law to prevent the existence of untidy premises
within the City of Vancouver": http://vancouver.ca/bylaws/4548c.PDF
Reverse proxying an external application isn't always as trivial as just proxy_pass in vhost.conf and go - we recently moved our company blog from blog.picklive.com to picklive.com/blog and it caused issues with WordPress relating to cookies for the admin control panel and invalid cookies set by WordPress caused us huge problems with our actual app.

These issues were fixed by doing slightly more complicated proxying rules and by filtering the cookies as part of the proxying.

Reverse proxying is a really powerful technique (you could sit things like mod_security in front of your relatively vulnerable WordPress install, for example), but unless you have an experienced sysadmin on hand to help if it all goes wrong it's probably not something you want to try based solely on an infographic.
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Has anyone else noticed that everyone who calls his/herself a "designer" uses very similar fonts (and font structures/patterns)? It always seems to be a taller-than-normal, skinny, bold, with < 0 letter-spacing kind of font, in all caps.

I mean I guess it looks good. I just wish "designers" would try something else for a change. It gets kind of old. Trying something else and making it look good (and function well), in my eyes, is what separates a great designer from the good.
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I'd like to add a second thought: what if the intelligence is undeniably sophisticated and very non-human?
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I kinda agree with you but then, there's the uncanny valley. I think slavery ended by slaves fighting for their rights more than the 'masters' being the source behind the movement. I read many 'masters' were emotionally and even romantically involved but didn't fought so much as cope with the system.
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DMCA should work without "connecting to right people".
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The example does work well if a company makes the mistake of not even going over salary early in the process. It's generally advised for the candidate to not bring up salary early on, but every situation that's involved a recruiter, it's the recruiter that brings salary up early - often before a phone screen. They don't want to waste the company's time if you're way to far off with salary.

I'm also making the assumption that the 105k and 90k salaries both have the same benefit packages, option grants (if applicable) and work environments for the sake of simplicity in the article, but in practice, I've learned the hard way that the things beyond the salary matter most. One does want to maximize salary for a given company, but remember, that once you've been there for short while, all the other things start to matter much more. At least that's my experience.
So "right to live" = "ability to survive"?

I don't think so. That my friend, is the only thing that separates us from pure animals (i.e., morality).

(I do not wish to open the can of worms of consciousness, soul, etc., and etc., so, HN, please refrain.)
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AFAIK, EMI is suing Grooveshark because they DID make a deal, but didn't get any money anyway
I think the parent's underlying point is that, while the title's usage is perfectly comprehensible, the word is unsavory as part of a headline on a news websie. To go through the well-worn analysis: "ghetto" has strong connotations of specifically black poverty and crime, and is often used as somewhat comic shorthand for these issues, which is arguably offensive to people for whom these problems are their lived reality (leave alone its extensions in phrases such as "ghetto fabulous" and "ghetto queen"). I'm not black but I am a racial minority and I've always been attuned to words with valences like these, and I do micro-wince whenever friends or acquaintance use the term flippantly in conversation. So it's usage in this context is worthy of comment and pushing back against it legitimization, especially when its usage adds absolutely zero value above substituting "high crime area."'
Good point about battery life. Perhaps the Chrome team should consider turning this on/off depending on the system state.

It's the type of feature that I think most users would want on when they are at plugged in at home using a virtually unlimited internet connection. On the other hand, when using battery power and a 3g or tethered internet connection, it probably isn't so desirable.
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Here's the paradox: a human tells a robot to kill another human; at that point, law #2 is in direct opposition to law #1.
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>The other labels are contending that Grooveshark employees uploaded the songs and were asked to by management. They claim to have leaked internal documents to prove it.

Didn't Viacom claim something similar?
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Why all the hate against CS education? It's a tough balance between theory and vocation...but I think it's extremely short-sighted to think vocation should rule all.