skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to make the headline less sensationalistic; sorry I couldn't with the 80-character limit.

The article addresses what the 156-letter tweet means, whether it could be the dead-man code to the insurance files, and whether the recent torrent tracker crackdown could be related.

Of note: he did tweet 22 hours ago, but since the tweet in question was deleted, I can't tell the chronology.

I hope he is ok, and this speculation is utterly wrong. The fact that it's utterly possible, though, speaks to how messed up things are.

https://twitter.com/snowden
Does +25% meet your financial goals?

Will you be busier in your new role, thereby having opportunity costs such as building a side project or learning new skills?

Does this new role have risks (industry, company, whether you will perform well)?
DLS, the digital logic simulator game
Which is exactly what Elon Musk has said he is trying to make happen.
One of my worries is that there seems to be the "Google way of doing things" which the rest of the world can't easily adjust to, the way Google insider policies can dictate. If they're too much of a special snowflake it'll slow adoption. Hope you're right though.
While I'm pretty new to the game (only been a user for about 4 years), I still love my Kinesis. Prior to getting a Kinesis, I was buying a fresh MS Ergo 4000 once every 6-8 months because the etchings in the keys would wear off, the membranes would get gunky, certain keys would get sticky or soft-to-the-press, etc. The Kinesis has permanently resolved that class of issues for me (and more than paid for itself just in the cost of replacement keyboards, not to mention heretofore staving off the need for carpal tunnel treatment).

I convinced a friend to get a Kinesis last year. I did a thorough cleaning of mine around the same time and was pleased to see that after a little elbow grease, the brand new unit and my aged unit were practically indistinguishable.

Kinesis keyboards are tough and one of the few buy-it-for-life-priced devices that actually seems like it'll never wear out.
The Xbox One S Still Uses Microsoft's Illegal Warranty-Void-If-Removed Sticker
Now, wouldn't it be more appropriate to align the job with the marsian year? But I assume that wouldn't work as well as PR.
Depends, but objects aren't just about state. There's dynamic dispatch too. You can have different stateless strategies, and at runtime you might want to be able to swap one out for another. If that was a requirement, static methods don't work.
Isn't it illegal to remove the VIN?
I am more and more on board with the Lee Smolin "singular universe" concept. To me it's very analogous to the Darwinian revolution in biology. Physicists are still pre-Darwin, unable to understand why the universe looks so "un-natural". It's the watchmaker analogy for physical laws and constants, and the answer is the laws look so well-tuned because the laws and particles themselves "evolved" and tuned themselves into the stable universe we see.
Call of Duty Ghosts if it was the one with bots that acted like real players. I actually thought I was online when my brother handed me the controller because (a) didn't know COD's had bots and (b) they acted like players albeit with far less range of behavior. It was pretty nice experience with me enjoying screwing with them to test the limits of their capabilities.

Half-life's squads were first to have an impact on me like they were realistic. FEAR was first to really put pressure on me without straight-up cheating (or appearing to). It was awesome. I think Ghosts exceeds it, though, in some ways esp realism.
I'm using formalism as I defined it in my comment, but my thinking is strongly influenced by Moldbug. With high probability I'll defend his conclusions.

https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/04/formal...

I'm saying that I consider it obvious that we don't live in a formalist world, but I don't think everyone agrees.

As evidence that "we" refers to more than just me, consider this interaction with sp332 in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235207

He first claims that equal treatment must result in equal outcomes, but immediately retreats from that when I point out that if he's right, algorithms are no threat.

While not always accurate, I think the actual behavior of the world is usually a better starting point in determining what "power" is striving for than listening to its consciously crafted claims.

I agree with this. That's how I infer that, for example, power wants equal outcomes rather than equal treatment - virtually every action they take favors the former.

I think opaque algorithms are, fundamentally, just ways of automating our thinking. We need to understand why opaque algorithms converge and then accept their conclusions. Interpretability is great, but it turns out that many things in the world simply do not have a simple human interpretation.

I think it's truly a luddite idea that all decisions should be understandable to humans. If a computer can do a demonstrably better job, why should we insist that the computer be brought down to our level?

Do you maybe mean "they did gloss over" (made it superficially lustrous by omitting essential details) or maybe that "didn't gloss" (failed to define their terms as with a glossary)?

In my blog post I glossed over the statistical test. I ran linear regression on synthetic data to show the directional results of various possible worlds; e.g., a world where an input is biased, a world where an input is unbiased, etc. But I didn't actually run a hypothesis test to determine significance. ProPublica did, they just ignored the conclusion when they didn't like it.

And yes, as my HN profile says, I am also the person behind chrisstucchio.com. I figured listing it there was disclosure enough.
What does any of that have to do with ending subsidies?
I'm quite confused with a lot of your dislike for Markdown.

I have a reverse question, what is better than Markdown in your mind? I'm starting a project that is heavily based around text, and for simplicity i just wanted plain text. Ie, i have no editor for the project. So for markup, i need something. What do you feel is the right markup language?

Personally i feel Markdown is easiest markup language i've found. Compared to some, it's quite intuitive. Combined with the fact that it is becoming quite prominent means users are also learning it. The only downfall with Markdown in my mind is a lack of a standard, but i think that's being worked on (there are some attempts at that, i believe).

Anyway.. i would really appreciate your feedback, if you feel there are better pure text Markup languages :)
> And smartbooks ran limited mobile software, not powerful PC software.

They say this right below pictures of the Vaio P series, which ran Windows 7 on a 1600x768 screen. It was good for traveling, where you didn't want to use your computer but might need some desperate computer use, and it fit in a jeans pocket if your thighs aren't bloated.
'All money is money' 50 cent
Really wish this article had more details. How much better was the treatment? What kind of leukemia? It's pretty vague.
Yeah, this is actually really funny and a good way to keep digital "peeping toms" out. Even my wife refuses to use my workstation beyond the bare minimum because she's not good with the Kinesis.
Self driving cars are still cars. The only thing self driving cars might change is parking. The ability to have cars circulating around with no one in them might actually make things worse.
Some of my F keys gave out, and I emailed Kinesis and they told me that the new mechanical F keys can't replace the old ones, because the circuit board is different.
Beautiful, thank you for your story.
Meant as a parabole. If server access is that strong, could it be better protected by equivalent of 2 factor auth?
I have an example in the tutorial. As I say in my recent comment, maybe I should have the tutorial / help section pop up automatically when people visit the site?
Having spent time in both cities, I don't think the residential urban areas of Moscow have the same problem as Barcelona does. If you look closely between all of those Brezhnev era apartment blocks, you'll find that the soviets packed them with green space, playgrounds, etc. If anything, Moscow is short on parking lots. (edit: Not advocating tearing up the playgrounds for parking lots.)
Recursion and Iteration: Syntax vs. Process, an In-Depth Analysis
That's why they said "mask off" instead of "file off". On some (many? all?) cars the VIN is stamped on a plate that's visible through the windshield.
Detroit does get it. Almost all major auto manufacturers and many Tier 1 suppliers have R&D labs in Silicon Valley. http://www.autonews.com/section/map502&iframe=true&width=960...

These folks are quite active in the startup autotech community, hosting hackathons and other events. I run an autotech related startup and find the OEM offices in Silicon Valley very receptive to new tech.
These have been made (with the trackpoint replaced with a touchscreen + stylus), although you don't see them much nowadays. A examples would be the NEC MobilePro 900 (on the not-far-from-full-sized-keyboard end of the scale) and HP Jornada 6xx/7xx series (on the technically-pocket-sized-but-really-slightly-too-big scale).

I regularly use a Jornada 690, with Linux installed, which I use to do some programming on when doing things like taking my mom to her doctors appointments. I don't keep mine in my pocket, but have a small bag, intended to be attached the front handlebars of a bicycle, that I attach to my belt, to keep it in.
Are laws not simply constantly applicable rules, existing outside of spacetime? How would such a thing evolve?
I just came back from an extended trip in Barcelona, and I saw first hand how there is plenty of wasted space in neighborhoods.

Many intersections between dense housing areas are overly large hexagons where you must annoyingly walk around dedicated parking spaces to cross streets.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/16nine/22802717995

Hopefully the city will have buy-in from the residents, as this plan seems to also modify the bus routes. And from what I saw, the locals have ingrained those stops in their daily routines, which might cause some backlash when those drastically change.
http://pyra-handheld.com/ a coming-soon thing I'm waiting for.
I wonder why they aren't any direct Kinesis competitors. Their patent expired a few years ago.
Nothing can really be ruled out at this point, and there are all kinds of theories. Most seem to agree at this point that the Level I Multiverse is a thing because it's existence directly flows from the concept of an infinite inflationary universe. That's a theory which would lead to us existing here because we're in a universe where the physical laws worked out in such a way that we could be here. I've never heard of the concept that the laws "evolved" to what they are now, I'll certainly read up on it.
The author also has a great series of blog posts where he's designing various CPU components in the game (so far the ALU and the register file):

http://dls.makingartstudios.com/categories/circuits/index.ht...
See, clickbait title again. Not representative of actual title. Com'on people.
Evolution depends on a means of variation (in biology, random mutation), and on a measure of fitness (in biology, number of children). What would the means of variation and the measure of fitness be for laws of physics?
Did Dan change the styling on his site? I remember it being much easier to read before. Now there is almost no styling at all.
That looks sort of interesting, but as a programmer, the awkward positioning of tab and return, and the need to use modifier keys to get the directional arrows, {}, and [] just completely kills it for me.
That's true and perhaps surprisingly enough, despite the small size I don't find myself bending my wrists when typing.

The fact that the layout is column-staggered helps a lot with this too: I don't have to bend my wrists sideways to reach the "corners" of the keyboard; I just move my hands back and forth.
AWS hosts large public data sets: https://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/

The problem with data is that every set can have a different schema. Hence there is no universal API across datasets that will make naive queries possible across multiple data products.

Good luck.
I like manual for snowy/icy roads, but after a few miles stuck in a stop-and-go traffic jam I'm ready to have an automatic transmission back.
Too Unwilling to Fail
Non-sensational possible explanation: it's the checksum of a file he sent to a journalist or friend. He deleted the tweet because the receiver saw it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/4wc9ep/huge_edw...
Survival of the fittest universe.
Inspecting JSON at the command line
Here apparently it isn't if you mask it. That's not the same as removing it, but your local police might have a different opinion.

Whether or not it is effective is another matter (and that's hoping there is only one instance of the VIN on your car, there may be other, less obvious ones for instance bar-codes).
Why Is the Copyright Office Protecting the Cable Industry's Cable Box Monopoly?
I'm more inclined to go with the anthropic principle, where we're observing this universe with these particular physical constants because the other universes (with slightly different constants) are a largely undifferentiated soup of basic particles.
I tried out the original and found it to be incredibly frustrating. I'm a fast typist, used to MS Natural keyboards,and I constantly felt like my fingers were "tripping" over the keys. I'm sure part of that is just getting used to the arrangement but I really felt like I was putting more strain on my wrists trying to move my fingers more deliberately to avoid hitting other keys.
A good rover would keep going. A good rover like they wanted.

Did I do a good job? Do I get to come home?... Guys?......

https://xkcd.com/695/
Worth noting regarding Barcelona is that this is, to a great extent, retrofitting a concept that already exists within the city to "new" parts. In Ciutat Vella, there are a few "outer" thoroughfares, with the inner streets shared between cars and pedestrians. They are, however, narrow to the point where they are not really navigable by anything larger than a Smart Car moving at rolling speed, and it's very clear that cars are second-class citizens. Thus, this isn't really introducing a new "social order" as if this were to be done anywhere in the US.
On bullshit [pdf]
I have one of these on every computer I own. It's amazing. It saved my career. I physically cannot type on a regular keyboard anymore.
I'm late to the party, but here's what bothers me about Airbnb: It's being treated like a technology company and not what it is, a retail company. Which is bad because wall street hates retail, but not as much as venture capital hates retail. And when people are delusion thats when mistakes are made.

Look at this way, Airbnb is a broker for rental inventory that they never own or control. Since they don't actually control the inventory, the owner of the inventory is free to take it anywhere they want. Airbnb has no secret sauce.

This leaves Airbnb's business totally unprotected and vulnerable to an unlimited number of competitors coming up. Eventually Airbnb will make a mistake, maybe they'll push hosts too far, maybe some catastrophic thing will happen to a guest, the point is something will happen that will shift favor to a competitor. Maybe not tomorrow or next year, but someday.

But it gets worse, Airbnb is going to spend a lot of their vc funds fighting lawsuits, lobbying, and paving the way for their competitors. If I were to compete with Airbnb, I'd spend my time building a better platform and marketing strategy. Then wait for Airbnb to solve short-term rental legislation, then slip into those markets with a far lower cost to entry than Airbnb paid.

But what about technology you say? They've built a great platform that will take time for a competitor to replicate you say. Well if your business defense is solely based on having a complicated website, you're going to have a bad time.

They've hit on a great idea: home sharing. But they don't own the idea, they don't own the homes and those homes are free to list anywhere they want.
Show HN: Use shell script to play android game Tap Titans
How would you the equivalent of 2-finger scrolling on a trackpoint?
"on Earth"
I wouldn't mind if the state was collecting the money. Prison is a punishment and you shouldn't be able to just chit chat all day. However, letting two private companies cash in is corruption.
A Brief Introduction to Neural Networks (2009) [pdf]
I was thinking the same thing. Is there any way to tell?
The only thing that you have to determine is which political campaigns are these two companies donating the most to. Then you'll know why this isn't being changed.
Rackspace on the table
I always thought that the LHC "nightmare scenario" referred to accidential creation of a black hole... Well, looks like different people have different ideas of what a "catastrophe" means :)
Given the usual price multiples, this is going to be a nearly 500 euro keyboard in Europe (inc. VAT).

E.g. Kinesis Advantage Pro in US: $359 ( http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage-pro-for-pc-mac/ )

In Holland: 390 Euro ex VAT ( https://www.backshop.nl/kinesis-advantage-toetsenbord )

So let's say for the Advantage 2 the $369 price becomes 400 Euro. Add 21% VAT and you end up paying about 484 euro, without shipping of course.

Ouch.
That's very expensive, and highly disrupts the walkability of the area.
Prison rape and other violence, either.
I use a Dell xps13 (13" screen in an 11" laptop chassis, almost no bezel).

The (very high DPI) monitor is just barley large enough for comfort. I wouldn't want to work on anything smaller.

Although there's still a bunch to cut down in thickness & weight.
Clickbait is clickbait.
Evolved how? According to what selection criterion? There has to be an environment or you just get a random walk across state space. Evolution is a learning process that transfers information from the environment into the evolving system as such information pertains to an implied goal function.

Selection need not be wholly external. It can be emergent from within the system, as it is with life viewed collectively as it manifests ecology and coevolution. But in the end there is still the basic criterion of mortality and reproductive fitness that serves as a top level goal function to orient the entire system. There is the environment and the implied goal of genetic survival.

What might the top level goal function be for an evolving universe? And where would it come from? How can "all that there is" possess an environment?

Of course in an eternal universe model with changing physical laws you could have a random walk across state space, but this amounts to saying the digits of pi contain Shakespeare. They do but it doesn't tell us any more than infinite multiverse theories. In fact we might call this an infinite multiverse theory linearized across time instead of parallelized across dimensions.
During the hypergrowth years, frugality is not rewarded, the only KPI that matters is growth, i am sure there is a lot of growth but - for now - who cares?
If you email it to your Kindle, it often gets converted fine.
I think it's relevant to point out that the discussion is driven by interest groups, not principle.
Even before the superblock idea, that first picture of existing Barcelona blocks looks so massively better than anything I've seen in USA. I looked hard, twice, before reading article cause I was sure it was is was artist rendering rather than reality.

So, uniform, dense, but no sky scrapers, corners cut off, wide wide streets, wide sidewalks, interior (to block) "courtyards".

I want to move to Barcelona!
This is what a communist mayor gets you.
I added a "How does this work?" link to the login popup. Does that make easier to understand what's going on?
They do own the accumulated trust
The trackpoint on the original Toshiba Libretto worked well, it was next to the screen with two buttons on the back.
Routing page: http://www.routeloops.com/
haven't managed to crash it yet. it seems stable for daily use.
This isn't clickbait. Do you see any ads on this page?

This is an accurate characterization of the worst outcome (that doesn't involve space aliens) that scientists were worried about when the LHC launched.
@spaceflunky they said that about Facebook as well. Tech matters a lot less than network effects.
The more we know the more we know how much we do not know...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIlWDljtlN4
Slow down.

The asymmetry you are used to with the (un)Natural keyboards induced reflexes that no longer work with the contoured. For instance, to hit many keys in staggered keyboard such as Microsoft's, you have to twist your wrist a little. If you counter this natural twist (instead of not twisting at all), this contracts your wrist even more than it used to.

So slow down, it will get more natural over time.
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> But in the end there is still the basic criterion of mortality and reproductive fitness that serves as a top level goal function to orient the entire system.

Reproductive fitness is necessary to apply the concept of evolution, but mortality isn't.
I once had the idea of a "subscription to pizza" wherein a pizza would arrive at your door every friday night without prompt. Though to some degree I maintain it is a good idea, Pizza ATM may trump it.
Aside from the high temperature of the early universe, we haven't seen evidence that the physical laws are changing over time, much less 'adapting' in some way. What's the pressure for them to change? What's the reward for them to stay stable now?
Barcelona is also quite busy taking the city back from the tourists.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/11643...
Bee's blog is about as far from clickbait as you can get,
Thanks for the perspective. One small correction/clarification: ChaCha operates on pairs 32-bits at a time, not 64-bits, which makes it nice for 32-bit only systems in software. I really wish ChaCha20/Poly1305 was included in benchmarks for the CAESAR AEAD contest since my understanding is that it would do a little better than NORX (at least in software and it would be interesting to see how it compares in hardware), which is generally the fastest of the secure non-AES options (e.g. disqalifying MORUS due to the BRUTUS identified adaptive chosen plaintext issue).

For those wondering why this came up now, the third round CAESAR candidates will be announced any day now. DJB's choices in Salsa20/ChaCha are still looking very good.

The ability to do relatively effient masking/blinding in LRX algorithms is a major advantage at least, but with NORX you need 64-bit operations to get a 256-bit key which is frustrating. I wonder if NORX32-f could be used to make a Salsa20/ChaCha style stream cipher where you operate on block size data (say use the pseudo-addition to incorporate the start state).
We have reached human UI/UX limitations on many tech devices. Our eyes can only see so much detail, our hands need space to type accurately and comfortably.

We need improvements in IO between human and machine to reach the next stage of technological evolution.
Scala Scripting and the 15 Minute Blog Engine
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Well, Germany has so-called "Paketshops". Unfortunately, apart from gas stations and the like, those usually close at 18:00.
Alternatively, there are always neighbours who can take the packet for you.
It's one of the nicest cities in Europe but the Spanish economy is still so far down that many Spanish people with marketable skills are to be found all over Europe.