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If the simulation decides to copy itself, and allows the copy to run independently, are there now two autonomous people?

If the copy is allowed to advance one nanosecond and is then deleted, leaving the original running, has a murder been committed? What if the copy never runs at all? What if the original is deleted instead of the copy?

What if the copy receives identical input, and thus has identical state as the original, up to the point it is deleted? What if some aspects of the copy are "optimized" by reusing the results of the original? What if the entire copy just mirrors the state of the original, without recomputing anything? How can we say exactly how many copies actually exist?

What if the original simulation modifies the copy so that it wants to kill itself, which it does, once it starts running? What if it's modified to just not care whether it lives or dies? What if the copy is modified in various other ways? Are some kinds of modifications ethical, while others are not?

Point being, this course of AI development does not spare us having to completely rethink our models of ethics.
you can install cygwin with python and work from a bash shell in windows. or virtualbox a minimal gentoo or arch install inside windows.

there are many ways to skin this cat.
All fair points. I had one friend who interviewed with about 13 different people at Google before getting an offer, which was totally absurd, and a lot of their friends got a negative impression based on that (soon after they set a cap of about 8 total interviews per candidate). So I can imagine having their interview process do other bad things, like not being forthcoming with information or trying to sell the job.
They let us keep that. There is a rule that the price has to be the same AFAIK, but we're doing that anyway.
Great talk. I feel like he spent the first 18 minutes talking about his crappy ASM code just because he did all that work and wanted to present it.
They have a web-launched SaaS version, too, and they're trying to get everybody to switch to it because the pricing model is per-user instead of per-machine.
Just because the government sometimes gets away with unconstitutional things, it doesn't follow that there is no check whatsoever on the government's power.

For example, the government might get away with indefinitely detaining a few people without trial; but they might still forbear to arbitrarily detain more than a few percent of the populace for fear of popular revolt.
The amount of restitution shown in the document was the same as the amount that was seized from her bank accounts. Wouldn't this money be used to pay off her debt to the plaintiff? If this is the case, I don't know why the article would mention that she has to pay at least $150 a month once she is out of prison.
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I would say, this possibly the best advice. It is applicable in many areas in fact. Starting from relationship...
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This is definitely true, the tech Bloomberg uses was novel in the 80s, but the functionality of a modern browser now outstrips that of the terminal program. There's actually some functions in the Bloomberg Terminal these days which just fire up an embedded browser to render the content!
No, that too, but the downloading makes the hammer come down heavier.
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It's about rens mea. The clear intent to defraud. Selling to your brother in good faith is fine. This circumstance is clearly not good faith.
Isn't that the most likely result? There are a lot of possible things we could call intelligent, and only a few of them could be "like us".

(Granted, anyone trying to make an AI will aim towards something like us, but considering how we still haven't developed AI yet, I imagine the first successful one will be more of a lucky accidentally-on-purpose than anything strictly-designed; even with humans making it, the first success will be quite non-human.)
This shouldn't be an effective strategy. In many municipalities, the code enforcement bureau can record abatement liens, which must be paid before title to the building can transfer.

In some cases, civil penalties enforceable in a court of law may also be applied to the property, which the current owner may disclaim if they existed at the time of purchase (so the prior owner must pay).

See, for example, the FAQ from Sonoma County (outside of SF).

http://www.sonoma-county.org/prmd/faq/code-enf.htm
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it is important to mention "ability to survive by its own or in group" to be politically correct, for example little babies usually cant survive on its own but can survive in a group. so they usually have right to live. morality is just another way of saying i care for this baby so i form a group with this baby.
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You have to be really careful about that $10 dollar sandwich depending on how its used. If the company culture is that you all eat together everyday (and probably talk about work stuff) or you take your sandwich back to your desk, the employer has essentially gotten a free hour of work out of you and if you were contractor this might equate to a loss of -$100.
I mean people who have learned Chinese, spent time in China, or who have connectons there.
An intelligent machine has the distinct advantage that its entire consciousness is duplicable and transferrable. You could turn the machine off and on again and it would be just as 'alive' as if it had never been switched off. I think the idea that human life is sacred is largely predicated on the fact that mortality is permanent, so it may not apply to AI in the same way. Perhaps a more salient idea would be "right to regular and secure backups."

Of course, this brings up the troubling thought experiment: if you could copy your own brain, and install it in a new body after your death, would that still be you? Would that satisfy your "right to life"? Our present theory of consciousness is insufficient to answer this question conclusively. My opinion is that consciousness is epiphenomenal.
> If the tenants of sub-code buildings received a statutory reduction in rent until the building is back to code requirements, there would be no incentive for landlords to operate sub-code buildings.

However, then there would be an incentive for tenants to the building damage through neglect or abuse in order to avoid paying rent.
yeah, i move around europe a lot, sigh...
I agree that the writing style is flat, but it's also very thorough and methodical. More than once I've found myself thinking "but what about X?" and then there, on the very next page, he addresses X to a depth I'd never considered.

The biggest counterargument against his tests is that like a lot of sentences, they can be read in more than one way. Possibly for people with System 2 minds that like to dissect concepts, that's enormously annoying.
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It's too bad that the term "hacker" has been exploited and redefined into something that has almost no resemblance to it's true and original meaning.

This Hacker School is essentially a training ground for startup programmers, focusing on everything from writing code to scheduling and managing expectations. This is a great idea, but it does not create a true "hacker".

A hacker de-assembles, re-assembles, engineers, and reverse engineers systems, on their own time, at their own pace, and is not motivated by profits and deliverables as much as the mere process.

But, I suppose if enough people re-define the word, then it must be.
I've done yoga with an excellent teacher for years and never had a problem. One day with a substitute was all it took to put my upper vertebrae in a bad state for two years.

There is wide variation in teacher knowledge and experience. Maybe they should be licensed, or, if you prefer the libertarian approach, caveat emptor.

BTW I am in my 50's, most of the class was 40+ yrs old
Or living in a less expensive area where people aren't trampling over each other to bid for such valuable real estate.

I understand the sympathy for the poor, but that sympathy should not extend to giving them inefficient subsidies through rent control of high-value real estate. There are good ways to help the poor; letting them crowd out better uses of critical real estate that a thousand other people would thankful to live in at ten times the rent ... isn't one of them.

(If you're wondering what rent control has to do with this, it's the reason that slumlords have to resort to such elaborate tactics to clear out a building for redevelopment in the first place.)
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It's not necessarily vocation. It's just building things. Craft is the word I use in my head. I enjoy CS a lot, but I primarily want to be a better craftsman. CS is a useful tool for me to get better at my craft, but my primary interest is in being good at building things.
But why would it be? If you give it the first law, then that command should be "disabled" for anyone from outside. You could try to tell a robot that, but it shouldn't work. Your best chance should be if you try to trick the robot into doing a certain action that would indirectly get that person dead. but if he's smart enough to know how to protect a human life, he should be smart enough to deny you the command, knowing it will endanger that other person's life.
It seems that developers have to take the backseat unless they want to miss out on the ride.

A lot of Apple's thinking can be explained through the eyes of the user. As a user I'd hate for apps to continually bill me unless I expect it (which I would in case of a publication). As a Developer, I can see where SaaS billing would make sense and would like to have that option.
On further consideration, I think yoga is best thought of as a sport, rather than a therapy. You risk injury in all sport activities, but you decide it's worth it, not just for the physical benefits but because you enjoy the challenge, it makes you feel good about yourself. Yoga definitely gives benefits that are more than physical, and like almost any physical activity, you have to understand the risks, and especially be very aware of your level of competence to avoid pushing your risk profile dangerously high. The teacher is really a trainer, and should be competent enough not to have you do something that will hurt you. This is hard in a big class; the best teachers constantly remind you to listen to your body, and be aware of your limits.

It should definitely not be used as a replacement for physical therapy, though it can help with general problems such as joint and back stiffness and mild pain.
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thanks for adding this to hacker news. I wrote it and happy to discuss if folks have comments
Sounds good! You need to allow more than 14 people, though. It's full up at the momet. Need a bigger venue?
Law #2 makes mention of law #1:

A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
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.

We've had two batches so far. The second just ended a few weeks ago, so it's too early to report from that one, but for the first: We had six students. Four decided to look for jobs after Hacker School. Of those, one went to Photoshelter, two went to Venmo, and one went to Tumblr (another has since started working part-time at Venmo). We keep in close touch with all of them (they're friends now) and all are quite happy. (We obviously have little data so far, but my hunch is that was an abnormally high percent of a batch to be interested in a new job right after Hacker School; I expect it to lower in the future.)

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 . . . ?

The guys who ended up at Venmo happened organically, so the portfolios worked well, I guess :)

We stress building code and putting it on Github because we think it's a really good way to improve, but it also has the benefit of building up a portfolio which helps a lot when it comes to getting a job. There are so many stupid proxies in hiring, and having good code online cuts through a lot of the bullshit like a knife through butter.

Regardless, this is a very cool take on the "building better hackers" stories going on and I hope you guys are wildly successful.

Thanks!
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Rather than answer this right now, I would suggest that everyone go watch a season or two of Battlestar Galactica, which probes this question deeply. Cylons (the "skin job" kind) were severely subjected to a kind of anti-machine racism, even though they were basically indistinguishable from humans.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HR17ZG/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
weren't humans put to death by killing or stealing horse. when horse was vital resource this was considered righteous thing to do. So to answer;. if AI was somehow vital resource to someone , it could possibly be that someone would get sentenced to death if one disables it.
Apple would do a big favor to developers by being a bit more open and transparent with the regulations.In your case this will probably be the relevant guideline that they may cite.

> 11.9 Apps containing "rental" content or services that expire after a limited time will be rejected

It seems that Apple's review team has interpreted SaaS to fall under this guideline.
You raise an interesting point with the slavery. I'm not sure if it's such a good analogy, but saying it is, Abraham Lincoln did try to free the slaves. There will be people, probably a lot of people, who will feel threatened by them, just like now there are people being afraid of robots taking their jobs (which is another interesting debate), but things will still change gradually, as robots become smart enough, "lovable" enough, and human-like enough, and some people will even want to marry them.

A few years ago I was reading sort of a joke, that by 2050, Massachusetts will be the first state that will allow human-to-robot marriages.

There's already this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4qwLknKag
I did the available levels a few years ago, if anyone's curious: http://github.com/akkartik/brooks-ruby-warrior
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Ultimately yes, but the only other choice was to not distribute the work at all. Musicians are given the same choice. If you do not want others to use your work, you can keep it private or not create it at all.
That's interesting thought. I could see that working in the Mac App Store.

I think there are two reasons we redirect to the review page. The first is that it makes it really simple to go to a review. The user won't have to scroll down to rate it. The second is that some apps are more concerned with reviews. Star ratings tend to be lower with a different distribution that fewer users care about.
This Hacker School is essentially a training ground for startup programmers, focusing on everything from writing code to scheduling and managing expectations.

I'm not sure where you got this impression, but this is definitely not what Hacker School is. We encourage students to work on projects and not "products" and certainly not startups. We especially encourage code that's written for other programmers to use (e.g., frameworks, libraries, command line utilities). We also focus purely on code and there's nothing at Hacker School about "scheduling or managing expectations" (that confusion might have come from our use of the word "shipping"? We use that to mean "getting code out and to a publishable state" because so many people -- ourselves included -- have a tendency do the first 90% of a project and then not put in the last bit of effort to put it on Github where others might benefit from it).

A hacker de-assembles, re-assembles, engineers, and reverse engineers systems, on their own time, at their own pace, and is not motivated by profits and deliverables as much as the mere process.

There are no profits or deliverables (at least in the traditional sense of the term) at Hacker School. We just build stuff we love and that we think will help us grow as programmers. For instance, last batch a Hacker Schooler and I wrote an Apple II emulator in JavaScript (https://github.com/nicholasbs/appletoo), simply because we'd never done it before. We also pair up and work through SICP, or do problems from K&R, or study different concurrency models.
"we say we love high signal, low noise services but then proceed to bring the noise."

I wrote about this 2 years ago:

"People will jump to the next great thing, somewhere along the facebook-twitter-friendfeed trajectory, and they'll find it works so much better! They'll think it's because of some shiny new feature in the new tool. They'll never realize it's just that they're subscribed to less crap. So they'll start subscribing to crap again, and the cycle will repeat."

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the problem is there are so many hacky, cold-calling SEOs that the majority of people you're likely to run into in SEO suck. when you really get into it (obviously biased) i think the combination of statistics, data mining, creative content and competitive analysis of your position in a perpetually changing market is a fascinating blend and you can learn as much as you want and take your skills and strategies in a ton of different directions.

it'd be nice if we could be completely transparent with analytics while iterating a search strategy for a large site, because the learning experience would be great whether you're a big-name, experienced SEO, looking to get further into SEO, or an anti-SEO hacker looking to just call us all out for being full of shit :) it'd be cool. too bad the economic reality of releasing complete analytics data to the entire internet makes this an impossible dream.
I really hope they re-open the grounds. That's one of those reminders that needs to stay fresh in the memory of humanity.
As a practical matter, municipalities often hesitate to encumber problematic properties with large liens because they make transfer of property to a new owner with better promises less economically viable.

The theory that the prior owner must pay, is simply not the case. First because liens run with the land regardless of ownership, and secondly, because a new owner's name cannot be recorded on the deed until the lien is cleared (and thirdly because everything in a real-estate transaction is negotiable).
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In my experience, the bottleneck skillset for the tech industry (and probably many others) is initiative: the ability to take an actual user need and then figure out what needs to happen for that user need to be met, then go make it happen. This doesn't have to be a manager: you put together a group of 3-4 engineers with strong initiative and a worthwhile goal, and it'll happen regardless of whether they have an official manager.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to teach this. The best thing a manager can do is get out of the way and see who steps up to the plate, possibly giving some helpful hints if people seem stuck. It's very easy to kill initiative, though, and most conventional approaches to management do exactly that. Heck, for most people the public school system is 13 years of training in how not to anything other than what you're explicitly told to do.
Yeah, that Panera doesn't handle large crowds very well. I'm working on something for February that should allow a much larger crowd. Andy from Open Software Integrators has said he's cool with us meeting at their offices, so now it's just down to working out the exact details.
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