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I was expecting SETI to find intelligence on Earth before space. They've been looking at the entropy of bee hives and other disembodied signal-passing collectives for a while now.

Security company SpiderOak (not affiliated) seems to be working on a "zero knowledge" end-to-end encrypted hosted Slack competitor. I'm no security expert and I don't know whether …

I'm not asking for arrests, I'm asking for resignations or internal protest. This was an blatant ethical violation, even if perhaps not a legal one.

Being complicit in state-ordered censorship is different than removing someone's embarrassing video when they ask nicely. And the fact that it was an informal request, not legal ar…

I wonder if anyone at Google would resign over something like this, or if everyone has already rationalized it away and now just keep their head down for the next paycheck. Some pe…

Sorry, hadn't seen it. Is it common practice that I should remove mine?

Title taken from Wikileaks' tweet: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/710855886940540929

"(...) including a fork managed by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture."

Enjoy your entropy while it lasts.[1] [1] https://www.google.com.br/search?q=appelbaum+right+to+be+ent...

The killer feature in the Thinkpad line for me is the military-grade sturdiness. Does Dell have the same kind of resistance to spills, drops, heat, etc.?

Big fan of what you are doing with Armored Bits! Keep it up :)

Programmer in Campinas, Brazil, on a work pause recovering from RSI-related problems. As personal research I'm slowly working on a 8-thimble predictive wireless keyboard and coming…

Bees seem to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477747

Solutions so far seem to boil down to either "trust other people" (multisignature wallets) or "trust your devices" (a la Keybase: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model ).

I think a concatenative language with an immutable append-only log (instead of a stack, like Forth) as its implicit data structure would be the best fit for this sort of keyboard. …

It's about time we let go of the symbols hardcoded onto our keyboards and start finding better abstractions for our thoughts. Touch devices have already started the move to a virtu…

I'm a big fan of Moxie's work, but would you mind elaborating on for which work he'd receive a Turing award? I'm not familiar with their eligibility standards. Thanks!

Thank you for this video. I'm just starting to get interested in the subject, and I think I was approaching it more in the "Meditation Seals" mentality. Glad I saw this video befor…

I bet there are tons of hospital staff who use WhatsApp in Brazil every day to coordinate mission-critical stuff, in which case this absurd move is putting people's lives at risk.

Would a thorough safety check on the parts make up for the lack of history? Or does it become a regulatory obstacle?

The paper says it's a general program induction solution. Does that mean one can already feed Neural Programmer into itself (ie. make it learn from its own previous executions' inp…