obvio171

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by obvio171 10y ago
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.
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by obvio171 10y ago
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 these claims actually hold up. You can r
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by obvio171 11y ago
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.
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by obvio171 11y ago
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 arm-twisting, and that they complied anyway just makes
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by obvio171 11y ago
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 people definitely do go in with very strong principles, but th
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by obvio171 11y ago
Sorry, hadn't seen it. Is it common practice that I should remove mine?
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by obvio171 11y ago
Title taken from Wikileaks' tweet: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/710855886940540929
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by obvio171 11y ago
"(...) including a fork managed by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture."
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MPAA Takedown Efforts Target Legal Popcorn Time Spin-Offs(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by obvio171 11y ago|1 comments
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by obvio171 11y ago
Enjoy your entropy while it lasts.[1] [1] https://www.google.com.br/search?q=appelbaum+right+to+be+ent...
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by obvio171 11y ago
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.?
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by obvio171 11y ago
Big fan of what you are doing with Armored Bits! Keep it up :)
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by obvio171 11y ago
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 up with plans for a solar-peltier atmospheric water ge
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by obvio171 11y ago
Bees seem to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477747
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by obvio171 11y ago
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 ).
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by obvio171 11y ago
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. You don't need to type commands and then run them i
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by obvio171 11y ago
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 virtualized keyboard, but so far they only parrot the stati
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by obvio171 11y ago
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!
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Strongly-Typed Recurrent Neural Networks(arxiv.org)
4 points by obvio171 11y ago|0 comments
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by obvio171 11y ago
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 before going in.
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by obvio171 11y ago
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.
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by obvio171 11y ago
Would a thorough safety check on the parts make up for the lack of history? Or does it become a regulatory obstacle?
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by obvio171 11y ago
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' inputs—training sets—and outputs—learned programs) an
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by obvio171 11y ago
"The ability to penetrate human brains through BCI will add a new dimension to physical and cyber security." Brain infosec needs development desperately, and there's plenty of testing ground for it in figuring out how to repe
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by obvio171 11y ago
Mechanical Turk for your house, soon to be replaced by real AI. Everyone wants to be the next plantation owner.
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by obvio171 12y ago
I don't know if inserting backdoors on apps in the development process, before they go out to everyone , counts as targeted collection.
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by obvio171 12y ago
So this is kind of a special-purpose Bacon.js stream processing library that has one central Property that all events flow into and out of? I might not be making any sense, this stuff is all new to me. Thanks for any clarification!
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ReactLoop–The ReactJS Reading Club(rss.reactloop.org)
3 points by obvio171 12y ago|0 comments
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by obvio171 12y ago
Another important point about censorship-resistance is that git works even by email, so worst-case people can still set up mailing lists and exchange patches.
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by obvio171 12y ago
TPB's problem is that it was a SPOF. Git is distributed, so even it Github shuts down repositories, people can just still pull from each other or move to a different host.

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