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> I believe your idea of consciousness is that it is an emergent phenomenon that arises from simpler processes, much like how biology arises from the simple laws of QM. Is this correct?

I wouldn't call that a definition. Here's a working one: my consciousness is the part of me which thinks and feels, which enjoys music and mountains and friends and so forth. Computers as of now can take input, but can't experience input the way I do; the gap is what I call consciousness. (To this definition your above description does apply.)

> "Do you think that this means your consciousness has nothing to do with your claim to be conscious?" Yes, that is exactly what I think. Although replace "consciousness" with "the act of experiencing existence" and that is a much closer semantic match to what I am attempting to convey.

This is the bit I'm having trouble with. For me, I experience things, and then state that I experience things. The relationship is direct and causal. From what I understand you experience things and then state that you experience things, and these facts are completely unrelated? I'm pretty sure Occam had something to say about that.
I honestly don't know; more prominent lawyers/judges etc could comment on it at least to encourage governments to step in. A lot of time and money is being wasted here.
My takeaway seems to be don't apply to YC unless my startup has the potential to become a billion dollar company.
I find quora to be the worst of the mentioned sites. It seems like an endless rehash of things that have already been said elsewhere. Which is probably why we focus on the new; fresh insights usually only come as a result of fresh data.
Overrated they call it in sports, overhyped they call it in economics, overgeeked I call it in the hacker world.

Those of you surprised that HTML5 may not soon (if ever) be the holy grail have been drinking too much cool-aid.
This is a naive viewpoint - everyone knows that "amateur" at the moment is often completely fake, and just another genre that porn companies cater for with completely fake videos.
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Except for the fact that shift + insert is for pasting. ctrl + insert is for copy. Did not change till the old DOS days. Still works today, and even more, it works in my Konsole terminal emulator. There's nothing painful about that. Once you get it, it's like riding a bicycle.

Even more, selecting text for copy, then clicking a mouse button for paste is a pretty much standard workflow. putty uses the right click for paste, while Konsole / Gnome Terminal / etc. use the middle click for that. Don't know about other Windows terminal emulators though. The other emulators that I tried pretty much had the same underwhelming behavior as cmd.exe.
Nokia owns loads of patents for GSM which the standards bodies negotiated terms on; I'm sure it will happen here as well.
Brilliant. From the heart.
Facebook (AFAIK) is not quite profitable yet, but it does have a business model: selling ads. The same business model that Google used, and the same business model that the TV industry has been using (very successfully) for decades.

If you build a company with no business model other than hoping for a nice exit (usually as a talent acquisition) there's no chance that you can give your investors 1000x returns. This should be obvious.
> he oversaw the worst-managed large-scale programming project in history

Really? Have you been following news about gigantic failing IT projects lately?

OS/360 shipped and later versions are currently running mission critical apps and making piles of money large enough to sustain a line of high perf custom CPUs and computers exclusively for running that OS.
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But is porn "not real" in that regard?

Okay, the stories definitely don't happen (pizza boy/girl etc.) but nobody knows why those are a part of porn anyway, everyone just skips over them.

And I'm guessing the logistic problems make three+somes less frequent than in porn, the tabooness of it all as well I guess.

But the sex itself, is it that much different than "real" sex? Are there really that many people having boring sex to make the amount of people coming close to and/or surpassing porn a statistical anomaly?

If I recall the movie correctly (yes, I only watched the movie), Kinsey found out people are a lot kinkier than they let others believe once you really get down to finding out their true behind-the-scenes actions.

With the shifting social mores, has that changed? Do we now let others think we are far kinkier than we really are?
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On October 7, 1998 the Journal presented the results of the 100th dartboard contest. So who won the most contests and by how much? The pros won 61 of the 100 contests versus the darts. That's better than the 50% that would be expected in an efficient market.
Not really. I've worked in many competitive markets and we've not been suing the asses of each other. A victory for another is motivation for us.
Not so uncultured ;)
Someone once told me that the easiest way to get a higher salary will always be to get a new job, and I believe this to be true - either your salary at your new job will be higher, or your current employer will increase your salary to keep you since you have another job offer.
I think the most likely outcome of HTC "succeeding" would just be that Apple and HTC agree to "cross-license" between each other.

My guess is that Apple will enter cross-licensing deals with each of the major manufacturers, which is actually much worse because it would effectively block newcomers from entering the market and all you end up with is an oligarchy of incumbents.
There so much cool design and neat ideas that really were just ahead of their time to be found in the past.

My suspicion is that nearly everything people are breathlessly running to the patent office with these days thinking they've got something new, someone has already tried to pull off with gears and little bits of paper 100 years ago.
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too late, mate, paypal must die. for you, mister, it is not the time to play marketing games with the people you have betrayed - it is time to go into prison. your company has destroyed too many lifes of innocent people to give you a second chance - all you fincial scum guys will go to prison, and you will be happy to be there, in a safe place, where nobody can chop of your head if you leave your office in the dark of the night...
Indeed. Even going 50 years back, we had different plugs for different parts of the UK. I remember my grandmother plugging stuff into her light fitting as well with an adapter. I'm sure stuff caught fire a lot then.

Regarding dates, I think yyyy-mm-dd makes sense (big endian dates) as you can sort naturally.
Pretty cool list. Small nit pick though:

> In the UK, it’s all about .uk.

I very rarely see .uk domains, most at .co.uk
> Why is nobody using the ISO format for dates?

Sweden uses it. In informal situations you often see d/m but whenever a year is present it's always y-m-d. In fact people identify themselves using this format as part of the national ID numbers that are used for everything from healthcare to newspaper subscriptions.
I don't see how this comparison in dollars is in any way relevant without also comparing the cost of living and relative strength of the country's currency.
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Interesting that this repeats Martin Fowler's definition of technical debt (http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html). While Fowler references Ward Cunningham as the originator of the term I think he gives an interestingly different definition.

Fowler says

"You have a piece of functionality that you need to add to your system. You see two ways to do it, one is quick to do but is messy - you are sure that it will make further changes harder in the future. The other results in a cleaner design, but will take longer to put in place. Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt. "

Here the decision to take on technical debt is a deliberate one. You knowingly taking the quick-n-dirty route because of time constraints, not because you don't understand the "good" design.

Here's a video of Ward talking about technical debt (referenced in Fowler's definition)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE

Here he talks about debt being something that you notice later. You learn more about what the solution should be, and need to go back and refactor your code so it reflects your new best understanding of the code. Debt is something that builds up over time, and you need to pay it off regularly so that the debt doesn't become disabling.

At about 3:20 he talks explicitly about the idea of knowingly writing poor code:

"A lot of bloggers at least have explained the debt metaphor and confused it I think with the idea that you could write code poorly with the intention of doing a good job later and thinking that was the primary source of debt. I'm never in favour of writing code poorly, but I am in favour of writing code to reflect your current understanding of the problem even if that understanding is partial".

Not trying to say one definition is good, and the other bad, but the difference gives you quite a different approach. Read Fowler's piece. Watch Ward's video. Have a think :-)
if it's a known malicious entity I don't think I'd want to confirm that my email address is 'live' either way ...

the majority use case here is that they're not malicious, merely spammy with good intentions.
Nobody's said that though. Facebook has, in fact, replaced some web views with native code, and that has sped up the app tremendously.
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When the time comes? Do you think that this would be a well defined time? Will someone declare it 'Production Ready' one day? It is going to be a very slow transition (painfully slow). Once most thing are transitioned, other technologies will be so far ahead that 'web applications' will no longer exists. Content web sites will always exist, but not applications.
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Here is how I sold a domain for >$4,000 -> If the domain has SEO potential (exact match to search term), what worked for me was to create a one-page static website explaining the domain name is for sale, and explaining the major benefit of the domain name. Important is to optimize the title and meta tages for SEO. Put the site up, wait a few months and see if anyone comes to you. If your site starts ranking in google you will get people's attention. What is key is to know if your domain has value, and if it does to know how to negotiate.
Besides Sedo there's also flippa.com, although i'm not entirely sure if that's for domains-only...
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It would be great if there's an online demo or something.
It depends on if you already have a buyer.

I've sold a few domains through Sedo and it's a pretty painless process, however their fees are really high, especially if you list your domain in their marketplace.

You can save money by finding a buyer outside of Sedo and then using them purely for escrow.

Since most people are going to find your domain by typing it in or through Google, that might be the best approach.
Okay, but how does it justify criminalizing 16 years old taking shots of themselves?
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> ... or your current employer will increase your salary to keep you since you have another job offer.

Accepting a counter offer is almost never a good decision.

The old employer is probably only buying time before replacing you. Even if this is not the case: You stay at a company that only pays you fair money when you threaten to leave. You look disloyal to the old company (see point 1, even if not now you might get fired later) and unreliable to the new one. It also perpetuates the "no raises, we'll just make a counteroffer if necessary" mindset which probably made you seek other job in the first place.
> I am merely suggesting there indeed appears to be strong "market" for watching violence and murder, whether it is Hollywood or whether it is for real. And I might hope that the reader would question why that market exists. Issues of whether or how it should be "regulated" are besides the point. The question I'm asking is: Why do people want to watch such things to begin with?

Why do people want to watch gore videos? For the reasons I just listed. Morbidity, curiosity, etc. I'm sure there are a few other reasons besides these.

All valid reasons why a reasonable, sane person might want to view such videos. I suppose you could say this creates a "market". In the case of gore videos, I would contend this market extends only so far as some (not all) people in possession of existing gore videos deciding to make them public on the Internet.

In other words, the market fuels the propagation of existing material, but not necessarily the creation of new material.
A domain like usethesource.com will not be easy to sell. The audience of possible buyers for a domain like that is quite limited. That being said, the best thing you can do to sell it is put it on sedo and godaddy with a low BIN price. You can also email site owners that could be interested in the subject of your domains. Though again, a brandable domain like the one you posted will most likely not be attractive for a person who has already established his business. If you have generic domains, the story is quite different. A good generic .com domain will give you great results in an auction. You can check with the adwords keyword tool to see hou many exact match searches are done for your domain keywords every month. If youre looking at anything below 10k searches, its not a good domain. My personal expectation, being a long time domainer, is to have more than 160k exact searches per month.

In my experience, the best results i´ve had have been through Sedo. I´ve sold 26k usd with just 6 domain sales. They were generics and I just put an "asking for" price and let offers come through. You have to be patient though.
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Two thoughts.

1, that's terrible. So many benefit from the ability to read (and interact with) your opinions. It's so much more valuable than a random once-off Reddit AMA. It's a shame the value is reduced through the actions of a few.

2, this community attracts young smart people, exactly those who might want to match wits with you. Some of it is valuable, some is just annoying. I'm reminded of the niceness value in discussion; if everyone was nice about it, maybe you wouldn't feel as apprehensive or besieged and we could still have a good debate to extract the maximum benefit.

In the end, I hope you find some way to care less about the opinions, because what you do and write about are so valuable. In the spirit of "If you aren't writing enough wrong stuff, maybe you're being too cautious."
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Here's what i'd do if i was in your situation: find a local school that's interested, and volunteer some time teaching programming to kids. Maybe teach them how to make iphone games - they'd love that :)

Sorry to hear you're in a funk, we all go thru those sometimes.
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My ex was much smarter than me. Top of her computer science class as a woman was no mean feat with one of the highest overall grades in the department's history. Jumped straight from B.Sc to Ph.D, skipping the usual masters expectation/requirement (UK). She has a couple of papers published concerning language processing.

We got on well and she helped me through a dreary computer science bachelors course, for which I am very grateful. We went our separate ways afterwards for a variety of reasons (all non-related to the fact that she was smarter than I was).

Though incredibly smart, she had her own failings. We all have.

If you have a self-esteem problem with your girlfriend being smarter than you, then that is your problem. Self-esteem: the key is in the word 'self'. Put another way, if you were smarter than her, do you think that would be a problem for her?

Look to find areas where you can complement your girlfriend. You'll soon realize you have talents where she doesn't and vice versa. Embrace them and her!
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I would think so; as we see there is not much else this kind of employee can do, so unless they have a skill which is harder to replace by robots, I fear the worst.

Something with 'voice' would be good for instance, because voice recognition sucks still. Call centers and such are not completely replaceable by 'Watsons' yet because the recognition still really stinks.
> You are using the temporal sense of the word "predict" ...

Yes -- that's because that's how the word is defined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction

"A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dicere, "to say") or forecast is a statement about the way things will happen in the future, often but not always based on experience or knowledge." (Emphasis added.)

> A word may have more than one sense. I am talking about the word prediction as used in statistics.

Yes, all right. Statistics uses the word in the same way, for the same purpose -- as a description of a forecasting method, a statement about the future based on past and present data. Consider the various regression-based prediction methods that are, by definition, statements about the future, based on the past.

http://www.isixsigma.com/tools-templates/risk-management/use...

"Forecasting is a business and communicative process and not merely a statistical tool. Basic forecasting methods serve to predict future events and conditions and should be key decision-making elements for management in service organizations."

Shall I list ten more references that make the same point about statistical prediction? How about just one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis

"Regression analysis is widely used for prediction and forecasting, where its use has substantial overlap with the field of machine learning."

> If they are correlated then you can use the evidence in the sample to make general predictions in the population ...

Only if you don't understand science. Correlation is not causation.
I can't think of any reasons why Dropbox would have 'seemed like a bad idea'.
OTOH I can't understand why it's so valuable either because 1)it seems pretty vulnerable to being replaced by something smarter.
2)I think there must be a lot of people like me who keep their storage below the free 2GB limit.
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Because it's not good yet. I've tried it and it does some things better, but is slightly slower and much buggier (2 lockups of the tablet -- which I consider to be an Android problem too)
In Sweden I've seen d/m-yy or d/m-yyyy used when a year is present, and I still use it when signing contracts, though I am starting to write the first letters of the month instead.
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Thing is that you can't blame the keyboard for a PEBCAK. We all encounter that "never forget" moments at some point. Having a Command key is a moot point as the whole purpose of power user tools is this: having the power, and the consequences, at the finger tips. You know: "power is nothing without control", "with great power comes great responsibility", etc - stuff like this.

Don't get me wrong, I am not against specific boundaries for keeping people from doing potentially unwanted actions. But at some point, all the technical solutions to human errors are like sudo.
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I'm a strong supporter that when it comes to office furnitures, a company should really spare no expense. This is stuff we use everyday, so better feel comfortable with it. And yes, totally agree that it depends on the person. Would be stupid to buy an expensive Aeron for someone that don't like it.
I suppose that you don't believe in brainwashing either. You do not believe that something that we watch continually can change our thoughts or habits. The lines between fantasy and reality never blur for some people right? You don't believe that the human mind can be influenced to believe something that it never believed before or to stop believing something. Evil thoughts or ideas cannot be put into our head that were not there before right?

I don't know if you are just playing devil's advocate here or if you are really that ignorant to how what is fed into our minds shape who we are, our convictions, our desires, our conscience. How is shapes our perception of our reality(or lack thereof). How self diluted humans can easily be.

If you really are serious than let me just tell you that I am deeply sickened by you and anyone like you.