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IMHO the idea won't work. I don't see why someone would use the application - saying "I owe you one" doesn't sound particularly engaging , and the overall purpose of the app still remains too cold and calculating. Even if people did use it, favors between friends don't work like transactions - that's why they're favors and not paid services.

That said, I think you should still finish the app. Startups pivot a LOT, and you might stumble across an awesome idea once you start looking at feedback and trying to figure out what people really use the app for.
As well as the issues other posters have mentioned, the HN title (though not the article) is misleading as the Greek retirement age was 55 until recently.

Working 40% longer hours each week, but cutting a decade off your career, does not mean you work 40% longer.
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... and jail the corrupt people that hold public office yet act against the citizens in any way. Until that moment in time, nothing good will come out of this and the status quo will just keep on rolling and smashing everyone in its way.
I think you misunderstand me. I didn't use this phrase in a philosophical way. I'm talking about professors teaching statistics and not knowing the difference between the median and the mean. I'm talking about that level of incompetence.

Imagine a course on compiler design where the professor doesn't know what top-down parsing and lexical analysis is. I'm certain that you would call that class a failure, or not?
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Really cool site - my only (minor) criticism would be that the sliders for number of bedrooms let you select (approximately) 1.3 bedrooms, etc. Would be nice if they 'snapped' to 1/2/3... Other than that, very useful!
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Funny how everybody on the employer's side likes to grab hypothetical agreements and contracts out of thin air.
Without wanting to hijack this thread - and detract from the good work of the OP - this is exactly what we are trying to fix with our startup, OpenRent (http://www.openrent.co.uk).

1. All of our listings are live. There is a big fat RENT NOW button on the listing pages...!

2. All of our charges are transparent - if you use Rent now - we charge tenants £20 each for referencing. For listing - we charge £20. The other costs associated with rentals (bills breakdown based on no. of bedrooms / council tax / etc.. ) we will be adding in - it's on our TODO list.

Anyway, as I said, I don't want to detract from the OP's work. The search side is also an important one to solve (ie. our commute time search), but we feel in order to do that effectively, you need to build out the listing quality first.
Can you imagine how much more difficult that would be to program for? Instead of (relatively) easy to parse timezone rules you have some kind of awful, locale specific agreement that that event you scheduled for 9am monday every week would actually occur at 8am half of the year?
> I may see an interesting reference with a link to a page which will just not work. Firstly, people will not know if it is because the page in fact ceased to exist or the server is down or it has been blocked and by whom exactly and where?

A site that has been blocked will return a fucking huge spalsh page saying it has been blocked, with instructions for removing the block. The customer does not have to unblock each individual site. They call, once, and have the filter removed. It's removed for all sites (except those already on the IWS lists - and they've been blocked for years.)

> perhaps because of some trivial filter 'mistake'. Are you going to get redress?

I've already said it's a bad idea. The difference between me and you is that I'm basing my arguments on fact and I'm not spouting hyperbole based on inaccuracies.
Our approach is collaboration filtering amongst house hunters + machine learning. Keep an eye on this ;).
But what is that number anyway? It's probably just GNP / people. ? Norway will look good in that respect due to the oil.
Lua tables are not an implementation detail. They are the one and only complex data type in Lua and everything (including OO) is built on top of them.
It's great that reporting a listing as expired hides it from your map - most sites offer "add to favourite" but what I usually want is to remove things I'm not interested in and see what's left. Maybe a way to do that without going as far as reporting the listing would be good?
20 years ago, if you had told people that the world's most widely-read source of general knowledge would go out of print and be replaced by a website editable by anyone, anywhere, people would have said you were crazy.

But that did happen. Yale may not "go out of print", but I don't find it hard to imagine new online schools competing and winning in the battle to redefine education.
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The point isn't the code, it's the emulation of the hardware the code runs on. A processor, ram, display and sound are being emulated inside a browser by JavaScript, and we can use this to run a binary almost perfectly. That is what is amazing here, not the ability to play tetris!
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Awesome, may I ask why you did decide to hack that together in 6hours. Were 5hours ot 7 hours options also on the table?
I'm pessimistic about this type of technology because it isn't "you" that we are talking about; it's a copy of you; you still get to die, and I don't think that knowing a copy of your mind exists will be of any real comfort.
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Jean-Claude Wippler is doing awsome work at http://jeelabs.org/

He is doing his own Arduino form factor and I guess is he doesn't need a sponsor but maybe you two will have an interesting conversation anyway :) BTW: JCW is supporting a super-cheap radio on his platform you might be interested in :)
Have I killed Jews? Did my dad? My Grandfather?
Nope. My family lived outside the big cities the entire time.

Even so. If your Grandfather killed someone before you even were born. How could you feel responsible? It's not like you were able to whisper: "kill him! Kill him!"

But of course we can learn from that tragedy. Everyone can. But learning something and being responsible are two completely different things. It's ok if you say Germany's responsible though.
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
So in the time it takes to brush teeth, take shower, roughly 30 min daily, it is possible to build a dream project, a business?

It takes 15 min to fully focus again on work, which was interrupted by a phone call, colleague question. That's our reality.

I would suggest to spend these 30 min on some physical activity and you'll much happier.
MOAI also (now) supports Linux. So, you have exactly one set of code to run on MacOSX, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS.
Do you realize that this comment is misleading? People make this sort of argument all the time, and I think it's one of the reasons that we waste so much time on irrelevant points. It's basically a game that people play.

Has anyone given it a name? It would be nice to call people out on this.
Very interesting. I don't think slime-molds are fast enough to build a useful NP-oracle, though.
because sometimes some of us want to experiment with things, to push the envelope and if not anything, to have fun.
Well, funny

I know about people with no college education being interviewed at google

You can blame google for having a broken interview process but it appears 99% of their assessment comes from the interview and it really doesn't matter if your major is in pet grooming or math

Edit 'cause I can't answer: Not "friend of a friend" account, but directly from the concerned person

'"99% of their assessment comes from the interview." Indeed, it's the very opposite since the interview is not where you show that you can |excel in multiple areas."'

I don't believe you are familiar with the Google selection process. The importance of academic achievement (for engineering positions especially) is underrated by google.

You may shine in academia, if you don't get almost a perfect score in the interview you're out.
That would be ideal, if everyone worked on GMT and just started work at different times, rather than the same time in a different timezone.

Technically we could all do that now anyway, just start using GMT rather than our local timezone :)
"Actually, I think it would be better if everyone and every web site had that, a way that sites could automatically be cached in servers local to everyone's city. Wouldn't that be nice?"

HTTP over NNTP. I see a great need…
So what kind of algorithm does the slime mold use?
I heard some of them even hold two full time jobs at the same time, receiving double salary. And that is in government employment, one of the most stressful jobs available in Greece.
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Question for ya: Did you design the themes mostly yourself?

Personally, I feel like that if all infographics were the same, it would loses its appeal. The purpose of an infographic is to display information visually and grab attention at the same time. It's a step up from the typical graph. That said, getting designers to design new themes and providing them a cut might be an interesting way to monetize.
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We actually used to do this at school, where in the winter we moved sports to be after lunch and then had afternoon lessions at night.

We basically had a summer and winter timetable.
I wonder how many accountants, lawyers and doctors have "hobby" projects in their respective fields. And whether they get asked that in interviews.
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yup additionally our robots check all the listings very often, even though they might still miss out some of them.
thanks, that looks interesting!
Correct

And also medicine, biology, most of engineering, etc

Sad, yeah.
This stuff is cyclical. The deregulation of S&L rates in the 1980s led to huge problems.
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'Host' and 'join' are identical apart from 'Tell us your dinner party idea'.

Why not just give one simpler option to 'attend' a dinner party?
Each attendee can then submit an idea/vote on the best.
2 is a good question. One answer is presumably mandatory payments for social security and health insurance. You can't spend money recklessly anymore that you gave to the taxman.
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I always store it as a UTC double-precision Julian day value (not Julian Day Number - that would be an integer). This has the advantage of being able to represent small fractions of a second, but having differences that are easily comparable by eye - each whole number represents a day.
ah ha, 1.3 is actually 1 :D, some people prefer a smooth transition (like me :D), so this will be taken into consideration.
Hi Thomas - Yeah, and Methuselah was said to live to 969. There's some commentary on that here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_myths#Hebrew_Bible).
Why don't you ask for just an email address?
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Pointing me to the source as documentation is just lazy. Entice me to use your project. Excite me about your goals. Interest me in looking at your code.

Besides, from a security standpoint, I have no idea whether the code in that repository is actually the code running on the site.
Aren't ISPs already doing that? (the caching part)
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Very few have comments, but the stories are varied.
Fair enough, I think it's personal preference like you said. Perhaps being able to choose a range would be good too.. recently I was looking for a 1 or 2 bed.
I really liked the idea, too bad I'm too paranoid to host strangers at my home :(
I'm a transport planner who lives in London. An elder statesman amongst local transport planners once told me the following story.

"Once there was a sheik that was planning to make a £3B investment in a new real estate development in Canary Wharf [located about 5 miles east of the city centre]. Plans had been drawn up, and everything was in place and ready to go -- with one hitch: the sheik wanted to see the site for himself. Wouldn't sign the on the dotted line until he'd walked around and kicked its metaphorical tyres a bit.

"The problem is, if you're a billionaire sheik you you have to stay in a a certain class of hotel, and there just wasn't anything appropriate in Canary Wharf. So he found a nice place in the West End [about 3 miles west of the city centre]. He flew in, spent the night there, and went to see the site first thing in the morning, around rush hour.

"The other problem is, if you're a billionaire sheik, you don't just hop on the tube with everybody else. So, he hired a limousine and said 'take me to Canary Wharf!'.

"Two hours later, the limousine was still crawling past the Tower of London [about 1 mile east of the city centre]. They'd managed an average speed of 2 miles per hour. The sheik was fuming. Any property this hard to access surely had to be worthless. 'Driver!' he said, 'Change of plans. Take me to Heathrow.'

"And that's how 3 billion pounds of investment died in traffic."

You can bet that the London team pitching to the IOC were very well aware of this story.
Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth games cost a whopping $1.5billion AUD (about £600 million GBP; about 3% of the current estimate for the 2012 Olympics).

Now the Delhi 2010 games did go vastly overbudget, possibly as high as 60,000 crore INR (about £7 billion; less than half the current estimate for the Olympics). But they also built a 4 lane highway, new metro tunnels, and expanded the airport in that price. About one-quarter of that gross estimate was budget spent on the sporting events and directly related infrastructure.

There are 302 events at the 2012 Olympics versus 272 at the 2010 Commonwealth games.

They're not exactly doing it on the cheap.
I'm not excited about this future. Whatever is uploaded isn't me, it is merely like me--a copy. Anything that is theoretically capable of running while I'm still alive is just a copy--it isn't me.
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For myself, I don't have too many outstanding favors at any one time. I tend to know who has helped me out. Even had I forgot, I'm sure just talking to the person (or at least when they redeem their favor), I'd remember.

That being said, some people might still find it interesting.

I might actually use the service in reverse to, but more in a business context. So and so owes me 1, because I did this for them. A sales rep I worked with once gave me 15% on a future order (I could call in that favor whenever), because of some screw ups, so I would definitely record that.
The front page is constantly changing, I didn't see it 4 days ago, and apparently a lot of other people didn't either. If you don't like it, just ignore it.
Wouldn't you just helicopter him there?
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I was hoping for another way to sign in.

I killed my Facebook account a couple weeks ago and would rather not reactivate. Also 'strangers for dinner' makes me think of cannibalism. Not something I particularly want to be thinking about when getting the opportunity to meet new people in my own home.

It also doesn't seem particularly safe.
because I don't want to sign in with facebook.
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People still feel like that about investing in land and houses (where I live at least) - they are seen as an investment that is never going to be a bad one (freqently comparing this to renting a place to live).

But there is got to be a catch.
You're picking out a couple of rare cases, and saying "it still happens".

Try living in the US for a while. Over there it happens every day.
One of my college teachers used to say: "People should come to college just for one thing: to make friends".

It seems funny but in college you get the possibility to meet people that excel within any field of knowledge (mentors or other students that can become your partner in a startup for example). People in college have TIME to hang out together, that is crutial. I took already some online courses and is not the same. They are just a complement in any education. Sorry.
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It also serves to make the public feel safer.
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How so?

I interpreted you as reacting negatively to the idea that gay men in fashion should be blamed for the absence of straight men. If I misinterpreted, my apologies.

I believe what you're trying to argue is that, because men would be told to "deal with it" when put a similar situation, it's alright to tell women to do the same.

Not quite, I'm saying that a lot of people would object to my characterization of gays driving straights out of some field, and I'm suggesting there is probably a bit of a double standard present.
Also worth noting -- if they offer more money, and you stay, that implies that you were leaving (or just threatening to leave...) because of the money (rather than discussing money with them in a more upfront way).

That would change your relationship somewhat, going forward, so don't do this unless you actually would be content to stay at the higher salary longer term.
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Yep, they pretty much control the rates.

This is not "a few years back" - this clusterfuck has been brewing since year 2000 with the euribor. At that point several countries needed high rates to stop their overheating borrowing and they were given a shower of petrol to stop their fires.
Thanks for a full and detailed response.
While it does make for some entertaining fiction, and may provide some benefits to the living, I do not believe that 'uploading' is a desirable experience.

In fact, I don't believe that one can experience it at all. Imagine the procedure (for a conscious person): your brain is connected to a computer interface and a copy of your mind is taken. Great. Now there is a digital copy of your mind. So what? You still get to die.

Consciousness is mortally bound to the physical body, and will die along with it regardless of how many mental copies are made.

I much prefer the idea of human metamorphosis. I want to inject nanorobots into my body which will transform it gradually, cell by cell into an improved synthetic one. In this way, immortality and superhumanity can be achieved without loss of continuity. I imagine the experience would be one of waking up a little better (stronger, smarter, etc.) every morning until the cells are all upgraded.

I don't read enough these days because of chronic eyestrain, but if you are aware of anything dealing with this concept of human metamorphosis, fiction or otherwise, I would appreciate a link. It's something I would like to read about (if it's even been dealt with), someday when I have time (and don't have a headache).
I prefer paging content. Maybe you do too?

Try scrolling a web page with page/up/down. Or use the space bar (and shift + space.) Flipping is just paging with an animated transition (the transition I personally don't care for.)
I've always felt dark humour works. :P

As for safety, we've actually fretted over it for a few weeks before finally writing it. Facebook as it turns out, can be quite useful in terms of safety.

We've put in place a system where we will work with authorities should security and safety be an issue (for example, if someone gets robbed). This is where we figured Facebook information would be quite useful.

It's a debate we constantly have internally though, and we aren't quite clear about how far is too far yet
Killed my facebook account a half a year ago, so FB-required is a no-go for me. It's amazing how many new sites are requiring FB. But at least yours makes sense why you'd want to.
Now do the math on building and shipping 85,000 watches.

Hint: Pebble have $117 each to get it done.
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Does Python do that too?
Two lists that are almost identical but with small differences. I can't be bothered to diff it. Then there is also a legend with some esoteric symbols.

How simple can you make this?
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Another one of those articles where they really should include a picture of the network the mold came up with. A picture really would say 1000's of words in this case; they spend the whole article describing what the mold did :-(
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From what you say, I don't think that you communicated all that you've said to your bosses.
If what you say are facts and not your opinions, I think that you should go to see them and tell them what you think, what you want.
It's okay to be involved with people at work, it's not okay to use this as an excuse.
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Next step : connect slime-mold to virtual reality , and expose API for it.
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And of course, you can't learn medicine (and others) without actually examining people

Would you trust a doctor that only learned on the internet to operate on you?
And what is the time complexity of its algorithm? Seems like you could measure it by using larger and larger problems and then determining whether the time increases exponentially.

That, to me seems like the most interesting problem. Kickstarter project anyone?
>considering we now have plans to start mining bod[ie]s in space //

We need new resources in the next couple of decades (at the outside IMO, ie eariler would be better). Do you realistically see us harvesting a varied collection of minerals from space in that sort of time-scale.
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