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> How does the created know if it has that trait?

Exactly. In this setup, the created can't know. Therefore it is pointless to worry about it.

Let's say this god entity as understood by any major religion, past or present, exists. Or would that be entities?

1. It doesn't communicate its rules to its created (C) in a way that would be undeniably from It. Books can be written by anyone. Give me letters of starfire in the sky, or floating letters of stone a mile tall, or something similarly miraculous that would be an undeniable mark of its divine provenance.

2. It gives C built-in rules (a moral sense), but enforces an external set of rules that often conflict with the internal rules. Why not just implant the rules in C in the first place?

3. There are rumors among C that they are being judged, and if they don't behave according to aforementioned poorly-communicated rules, they will be "rejected". Why? As the creator it's responsible for any defects in the created.

All together these seem like the actions of a cruel psychopath who gets off on its creations failing. But these are my internal rules, you say. Sure, but it planted them in me. What else am I supposed to use? The Book (any "Book") makes no sense by these rules. And I cannot respect a creator so childish and cruel, because my internal rules forbid me to and because by my rules, I am far superior to it - I don't torture those with less power than me.

I could pretend to respect it, but if it's omniscient as is always claimed, I couldn't fool it. So the only way to live is by my rules, and if at the end it turns out that there is a creator and that it is, indeed, as described in The Book and that I am, indeed, going to Hell, I can only hope for a chance to spit in its face when I meet it.
"This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site"

This is sad.

We need to set stack exchange free. The community failed in creating a free and open environment for asking and answering questions: A place where information may be categorized but never restricted even if it's bad. To be bad it must exist first, if you restrict the existence of crap, it won't be crap anymore, because it won't exist.

Stack exchange is a walled garden run by members blindly following a doctrine put in place to increase revenue in the first place.
More years at fewer hours per week is an interesting idea. Managing burnout could be one way to make it reasonable for people to work into older age, and having norms with fewer hours a week could be one part of that. You see a lot of burnout in tech currently even by middle-age, but I'm not sure the subject matter fundamentally requires it.
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Greenbelt probably has inflated housing prices, being so close to UMD College Park.
Excuse me, what do you think it is the role of a programming language usually ?
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The time you spend past 25 hours a week is making you less productive anyway...
Should tech angels stop investing in startups?
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Funny that. I just forked and fired up Sprunge yesterday. Works great: http://paste.stackgeek.com/
Sadly, RSA was patented. The patent expired in 2000.
Must have been built on Rails
Second joke: Told them not to host their lights on AWS!
I'm just waiting for "Anonymous" to say they did it...
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$300 per unit sounds low. Cheapest iPad 4 goes for $500, and Apple has a ~40% margin. Selling an iPad for $300 will eliminate all their margin.
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Let me guess what else.

- Military or government service.

- Join a company that will pay you to get the degree (likely only from a company that requires a top degree)

- A field of study that no one ever chooses.

If not feel free to share some of that information.
Joel Spolsky did a great job describing how modern browsers and much else are led astray by Postel's law: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html
America spends trillions overseas on unjust wars while the infrastructure at home crumbles around us. Unbelievable.
I wanted it because i realized that a project i'm working on has changed a lot over the past several months. would be cool to have a visual history of the evolution. I take manual screenshots but thats too unreliable, and timelapse software is too far on the other end of the spectrum as overkill.

the best kind of data collection is the kind you don't have to think about (and that is only collecting what you want it to...)
do you have extremely long days but 5 days a week or do you spread it out over 6 or 7 days?
Quite impressive. What's their current profit margin on iPads? 30%? Not to mention that this won't cannibalise an existing market: this is all extra. People in Turkey who were going to buy iPads probably still will. If anything, it might make more sales as word-of-mouth spreads from the students.

Edit: Just saw the price per unit. Even at $300 there's probably still a good profit margin though, especially if they're non-Retina models.
I do this but in a different way. I work 40 hours a week for most of the year and then take off a few months at a time. This allows me to travel with my family before I'm retired and too old to climb mountains etc. You have your whole life to live, it doesn't begin when you retire. I'm fully prepared to work past the standard retirement age.
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It's telling that the code of Gene's script is named "Frustrate_copy". it's all right there, really.

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Congrat! Any plans for an iPhone app?
I think the Turkish goverment is wasting thier money, they could have bought the indian tablet which cost below 100
First off, congratulations! I saw the initial launch on /r/Android but didn't try it until now. Very convenient and easy to use; however I have a question - The pushes are insanely fast, I mean they are quick. I'm assuming you have a service running for the App and it's always listening for new pushes? Have you done any research on how this affects battery and the like?
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I don't personally do this, but I have frequently seen people mention they do on the internet.
Twenty-five hours a week at what rate of pay? There are people working at Walmart and such who make in a week what I would make in a day or two in past years. I also did 60-80 hour weeks in my life (eejit that I was). With all the opposition towards a living wage (read: serf wages), I'll file this under the category that includes jetpacks and flying cars -- and I'd bet on those appearing first.
If I didn't have to answer email or deal with any middle management, this could work. But the paradox is that the only scenario in which legitimate optimal efficiency can be attained is in a small-group, highly-communicative environment (like a startup); in that kind of environment, you're putting in 80-hour weeks so you can get profitable as quickly as possible, so there's no way anyone is saying "I've put in my 25 hours, see you guys next week!"
>>>working 60 hours a week is the norm

What kind of labor is that? White collar or factory assembly?
I know, and it is worse than that. Over a hundred patents on ECC techniques, at least five on identity based encryption, and even patents on fully homomorphic encryption despite the fact that FHE is still years from practicality (including at least one patent on FHE that was granted before Gentry even showed that FHE is possible).

It is, simply put, a monumental failure on the part of patent examiners.
Why is this garbage on the front page? Hacker News isn't for antisocial 12-year-olds, chronological age or otherwise.
that's comparing apples to oranges
Ever try to transfer your legally purchased music from an iPod to a iTunes? Yes it is too hard to use - impossible in this case.
I don't get it. Why we have fixed number of working hours when we have deadlines for our tasks?

You want me to solve that problem for you by Friday? Why should I come to office and stare at monitor four days if I figured it out right in Monday?
That would be nice, then startups where people work 80 a week will be even more magical and money earning. :)
What is the real advantage of this over Expert Advisor on Metatrader ?
Great idea in theory, but there's a reason young people work such long hours: money. If a 22 year old graduates from college and works 25 hours a week, they won't have enough money to pay off their (almost certain) debt and live comfortably, much less have excess money to spend traveling and doing fun things. Young people work so hard so they can have the money to buy and do the things they want. Most just never stop working that hard in order to enjoy those things.
Working 25 hours/week would basically push "life" back a few years, meaning maybe you rent a small apartment and drive a old car until you're 35-40.
As they saying goes, young people have lots of time and no money, but older people have lots of money and no time.
I would think using electronic appliances would save heating effort on any closed-loop heating system, electrical or not. Am I missing something? Other than that, great point.
The only real similarity is the superficial UI styling, the underlying OS is actually Ubuntu Linux where as OSX in based on BSD Unix.
There's a subtle, but big difference between thinking less about yourself, and thinking less of yourself.

Not giving a f-ck is about ignoring unimportant things, and not caring what anyone thinks about important things.

It's not about others, it's about you.

Try to remember how much anything matters in a few years.
"On a positive sidenote $1.6 bn for the duration of this project is peanuts compared to the yearly $140 bn the UE is spending ; )"

On another positive sidenote, the $140B the EU is spending is peanuts compared to the ~$3-4T the US Govt. is spending.
It might be purposefully done, and security-related.
I would feel less skeptical about the prospects for simulating the human brain if I had heard that someone had succeeded in simulating an infinitely simpler nervous system, say that of a spider, for instance, and obtained spider-like behavior from it.
Whatever you do, don't do ads, Try to fit in a subscription model (not sure how the play store works with subscriptions), but I see it useful enough to pay a small subscription fee.
Mental acuity is very much a physical quality. Yes, there are 70 year olds who can think and mentally adapt exceptionally well, just as there are 70 year olds who can do one arm push-ups and live till 100. But it doesn't mean that 70 year old are just like 30 year olds, but with more experience.
What's next, Gucci textbook covers? They could buy just as many Nexus 7's, at full MSRP, at 33% savings.

Let's see, $1.5B saved... Average Turkish teacher salary (after 15 years) is $16,000/yr. They could trivially save 93,750 teacher-years of salary?
25 hours to earn less? What's the point of having more free time if you have no money to do anything with it ?

There's a reason why we have a current optimal 40-60 hours kind of range for working hours in most countries. That's an equilibrium point between how much people are willing to work vs how much they are willing to earn. Everyone still wants to have free time, but not at the expense of their well-being or the future of their family (education, etc.).

Working 25 hours and earning the same amount as working 40 would not sit well with companies (if this was made mandatory by state regulation, for example). Local companies would lose their competitive edge vs other companies elsewhere and this would end up in increased unemployment.

Let people work how long they want. That's their choice.
Not every country saddles their young graduates with tens (to hundreds!) of thousands of dollars in debt.
Sorry, I couldn't remember something more relevant, like a pill for the heart that reduces the blood pressure but after some years it produces more strokes. But if no one test the new proposed drugs for effectiveness and side effects, then there would be more death and complications.
Except that there's no guarantee that working more hours makes you more productive. If anything, studies seem to have shown the opposite. Ultimately, efficiency trumps hard work--there are only so many hours in a week where the limit on your efficiency is much further away.
This is an extremist view.

Humans tend to take extremist views, black or white, see half the posts in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157092 or this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106767.

The real answer is usually somewhere in the grey.
It isn't for antisocial 12 year olds, you're right. Its for Entrepreneurs and Technologists, many of whom can be very sensitive to what others think.

While this isn't the best article in the world, I think its a good lessor (or reminder) to give less of a fuck. I know giving less of a fuck did my life a world of good, but sometimes I go off and start becoming sensitive to other peoples thoughts and opinions. Its a good reminder that what other people think about you shouldn't have such a strong hold over you.
Because of standardization on "normal" workweeks, it's pretty hard to have the choice even if you're willing to forego salary for fewer hours. Google won't let you work a 4-day week for 80% of the regular salary, for example (or even for 60% of it!), and more traditional companies are even less likely to. You take their 5-day, 40-hour offer or you don't. You typically only have an option to work a 25-hour week if you have either a consulting/freelance career, or a very low-end hourly-wage job.
>>For job like programming or CEO, I kind of think that 70 year olds can do better than say 20 year olds.

Maybe in 50 years, but currently I'd say a 20-30 years old is the prime programmer age. Young people tend to learn new tech quicker, and be faster/more efficient at typing and using computers.
I'm confuse. From my understanding of B-Tree, B-Tree are good when you load data from hard drive. It allow to minimize the number of time you load a range of data from the hard drive.
Since C++B-Tree is in RAM, and thus the data loading should be less important, how does it appears to have a so good benchmark? What is the secret ingredient?
It would be nice if you had wrote about this dilemma without making a strawman argument.

It's a fact that DRM only inconveniences the paying customers. You of all people should know that. The laws preventing people from getting around it certainly aren't going to stop the one guy that rips a DVD and sends it out, but they are put to good use against the one guy that wants to help you use your Playstation hardware as you wish. Not to mention your phone. Or the guy selling you reasonably-priced watches from abroad. Their price segmentation is more important than the doctrine of first sale, right?

Nobody thinks a content provider should give it away for free, and many people arguing against copyright ridiculousness are also against piracy. Many people remark that maybe if the content providers weren't charging fistfuls for a shitty experience they might have better luck. Plenty of people would buy a movie DRM-free for $3 but don't feel entitled to download it.
For those interested, Pinkie Pie has another chromium hack under his belt [1]

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2012/05/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-1.h...
This guy might be on to something, but I have an even better idea, and it required 0 scientific research to synthesize.

We should all do whatever the fuck we want, until we die.
Actually, no it doesn't. There are plenty of non-white people in the tech industry and your article makes it sound otherwise.
> what will likely be a post-labor world

Says who ? This preposterous way of thinking has been around for x years already. "when the world population will reach 4 billions people, there will be no jobs for everyone", yet the population is still increasing beyond 6 billions and most people still work to live/survive. There is no hint we are moving to a post-labor world.

You will see that there is a strong relationship between reduced employment/working hours, welfare benefits when not working, and government spending. And somehow most of the countries which went down that way have now humongous public debt problems to solve. Their model is not sustainable in the long term.
How to write un-maintainable code.
I bet they plan to make up for it with content sales via iTunes and the App Store.
I wonder if this could be where we're headed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine_(1960_film)
awesome, I have been documenting web development projects taking screenshots at each x seconds, but this make more sense, to just capture the browser upon refresh.

are there any chances to see this soon in the Web Store (to keep up with the updates)?
The argument here is about quality of life. I suspect the reason you mention income is that you believe it is nessecary to be able to do things outside of work.

I personally earn more than I need to get by, and I'm sure as I get older and have more commitments I'll want to forgo money in exchange for time.

Also income (or at least productivity) and time spent at work is not a linear relationship. I think this is a great idea.
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Note that the standardization you are talking about is also heavily driven by work regulations, saying that a work week is x hours and nothing else. If such restrictions were abolished I believe there would be much more flexibility (up and down) in the job market.
All this was in the Bay Area
I agree we are stuck in an outdated model however I am not keen on someone me telling how many hours I can or should work.
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We're looking to bring on a full stack engineer. We work mostly with Ruby on Rails and Backbone.js. Good hackers can learn any framework of course, so there's no prerequisite on experience -- you just need to be a smart hacker willing to take on problems. We've got backend data needs, front end products to build, mobile apps in need of love. There's lots to do.

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Because we're entirely composed of other capable founders, we only need to do things like meetings once every couple of weeks. It's refreshing. Of course, we play bughouse (team chess) every day. Often, several times a day. We even wrote an app to calculate our rankings...but I digress.

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In Japan, by the way, it is not uncommon to work 6 days a week (Saturdays). It depends on your contract.
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If I could make enough to eat, keep the lights on, and pay an internet bill, I'd be satiated.

Problem is that unless you go for contract work (which doesn't really translate into 25 hours a week), you won't get a 20 hour a week part time software development gig, even if it had a 35k salary attached. I much prefer working on the projects I want to than those that people are willing to pay me for.
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In Denmark college is free or close to it, I don't think they've got massive debts to pay.
I'm fairly sure the 40 hour week is far from arbitrary. There's someone on HN who has a long post about working hours and the wide variety of studies that were done demonstrating that 40 hours resulted in higher efficiency than 50 or more as far back as the 1930s, and that peak efficiency for white collar work is even less (6 hour days). I'll have to see if I can find it.
Shoggoths. They've definitely found shoggoths.
The regulations just put a maximum; there is nothing preventing companies from offering lower hours if they wish. Before those maximums were brought in, you had the same situation as now, just with more hours being standard: you had to agree to 6-days-a-week, 10+ hour days, or nothing. The union movement successfully negotiated that down to 5-days-a-week, 8-hour days as a cap, which was at least an improvement.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't matter how complex the simulation is if there is simply not enough underlying data? As far as I understand, we simply do not understand neuron activity at a low level enough to make such a thing feasible.
I feel like this thread might help you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5161899 (It may not be the greatest post in general, but seems applicable here.)
This is exactly what I thought when reading the article. One of the reasons I'm interested in start-ups is the idea of condensing my career so I can have more time to do the things I love later on.
This post, if you read it to the end, doesn't reject the principle of being liberal in what you accept. Rather, it proposes being liberal in a formally specified an interoperable way - i.e. specs should explicitly define behavior for all inputs, including any error correction.

HTML5 takes this path with its parsing algorithm, and in fact is cited as an example in the post. However, the designers of the parsing algorithm saw it as being an application of Postel's Principle, rather than an example of the opposite.

The post is really more nuanced than it sounds and would better be titled "Specifications Should Define How to be Liberal in What You Accept".