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> No. Just because you want it to exist or think it needs to exist, doesn't mean it actually exists.

I understand the parent believes that the EFF are doing this already. I.e. suggesting that if the comment he's responding to doesn't like the EFF's approach they're welcome to create their own.

No thoughts either way but I'm pretty sure you misread them.
Here's one for TextSecure: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf They claim doing the equivalent for WhatsApp is future work, although the paper is a year or two old.
That assumes universal or consistent application of the law, which is very rarely the intention behind these kinds of laws
PGP doesn't have plausible deniability. It actually has `you can prove anyone else what I said to you', if you sign anything. That's dangerous, so shouldn't be on tier 1.

(Or at least that's how it used to be.)
The real problem with people saying "not in your lifetime" is that they fail to understand the exponential nature of a self-improving AI entity. That's the whole reason it's the singularity. Lets say we create an AI that can rewrite and improve itself. The first iteration may take a year to actually be better. But then the next version is only a month away. Then the next is only a day.

Suddenly the AI has self-improved beyond our understanding before we even realize or understand what happened.

The true singularity is dangerous precisely because we won't know when it actually happens, and it will outpace us before we can respond.

Preemptive drone strikes against AI programmers don't sound too far fetched given the direction things are going.

Of course, the singularity is a zero-sum game, in the sense that the first entity there wins. Which is why I plan on programming the singularity AI as a copy of my consciousness so that I will be the singularity god.
Goal should be mass adoption of universal turnkey state-level OPSEC for everyday use.
You can set up your own server. They want to devlop a federated protocol. So they are the only ones that actually have stated a goal to devlop something like that. OWS would probebly do it as well if they had the time and money.

They already have the best clients in the buissness, if they manage to get the crypto and the federation right, it would be fantastic. They also have some support for using their web and desktop clients with email. I wish the Actor guys the best of luck.
Well the laws of physics means it would take some finite time from the initiation of the singularity to the end of all life even if the singularity was extremely hostile to humans.
To post a follow-up comment, what happens when you lose your phone, or simply move to a new phone? Presumably you've lost all of your private keys (I mean...obviously they must not upload them or this would all be farce), message history, etc, right?
No, what you are saying is inaccurate. There are plenty of people who've taken both sides of the predictions. Some people have been optimistic about beating the best players in the Go world:
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go/

As for self-driving cars, they do work under good conditions but we still are at least a decade away. Plenty of people became optimistic about self-driving cars after the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge 11 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005)
Reputational damage is higher for entities with more money. Therefore their credibility of not doing something that causes reputational damage is higher.
I don't know. At a guess such optimization would be beyond the scope of the standard - hence up to each vendor/browser/user-agent.
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> "1.) Moore's law still holds true at the moment. "

No it doesn't, it's already broken. Consider:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/07/intel-confirms-tick...
I think your standard needs some work. Humans also only improve something other humans have created. And in niche applications AIs already outperform humans.

http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

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They're known for not lying through their teeth about what features they've implemented, like most large companies.
> the fact that everyone does have their marginal benefit and marginal costs for every good and service that can translate to a binary decision of whether they would purchase a good or service at a given price.

I think this fact is more like an axiom.
Sounds less like a conference and more like a scam - see also the fake "journals" that will publish literally anything (including vaguely science-flavored Markov-chain nonsense) if you pay the "processing fees".
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You've made this claim multiple times now. Do you really honestly believe that disassembled binary code sees the same scrutiny or gained confidence that open source code does? Have you ever analyzed disassembled code?

It is non-trivial. No one is going to disassemble this and say "Yup, it passes". That doesn't happen.
We don't even need to know that - we just need to design a system that can evolve. No single cell knows how a brain works, yet every day thousands of brains are created from single cells.
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I can't access the article right now. But I'm fairly certain that a couple of stupid deputies who don't understand anything about technology/cryptology want to introduce a law against it and everyone is going ape shit "Hungary want to criminalize the use of encrypted services".

The same thing happens in France from time to time.
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You missed a couple steps at the beginning there:

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They cannot read your messages. The entire idea behind this is to give them a claim of technical infeasability if they are served with a warrant.
However, if there is/will be some sort of back door to cease encryption without the user's knowledge, that's another matter which really would require it being open source.
Depends who you ask. Until we clearly go a reasonable amount of time in which it proves false we should assume that any momentary hold ups/falterings are just that.

http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/01/11/moores-law-not-dead-and-in...

http://www.hpcwire.com/2015/11/20/top500/
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Don't know why this is being downvoted. VLC can play .part files of many formats, but not if they're seperate streams. I wish there was a way to just download the highest format that will download only one file.
Agreed. I remember attending a presentation by Google regarding their self-driving cars. What they told us fascinated me. Their last main hurdle is ethics, and they used to following scenario to illustrate:

Two motorcycles are coming towards the self-driving car, and the car is forced to crash into one of them. One of the motorcyclists is not wearing his helmet, and there's a definite chance of fatal injury if crashed into by a car. By not wearing his helmet, he is also breaking the law.

The other motorcyclist is wearing her helmet, and there's less of a chance of fatal injuries.

Should the self-driving car crash into the law-abiding motorcyclist who is doing everything right but with a less chance of fatal injuries, or into the irresponsible non-helmet wearing motorcyclist where injuries could be fatal?

That's the kind of scenarios they have to deal with. The technology however, works.
1. We don't have to understand how it works to make something that works as well. It can always be found by trial and error.

2. That's indeed not an argument.

3. Whatever the human body does, it does not require any of its parts to be smaller than an atom. Transistors are already much smaller than a neuron. When Moore's law ends, companies will focus on making them more efficient so they can use more of them in the same time.
Yes, and I imagine it would be a short step to having e.g. your portrait painted in the style of an artist of your choice for a fraction of the cost. I wonder could there be any intellectual property issues arising from this down the line?
I made an argument that we were reinventing many of the ideas of Erlang in the DCOS model (Docker, Kub, and cloud etc).

Text is here (CTRL-F erlang):

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/dockerconeu-20...

Video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qHwL8C9UoA
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No, they will jail anyone who they think have done something, but have no proof. This law will make them able to jail anyone without a reason.
Just to check, As a newcomer to finance, what hedge fund managers add?

I watched a documentary recently that suggested that they gain % for every X period they add value (over risk-free rate?), but don't pay back any % for losses they make? This the situation?
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I think you're mistaken. Intel provides infrastructure to ensure you're talking to an enclave running on an actual Intel machine, and you can then do a remote attestation to verify the contents of that enclave.
I am on OVH, and never get a reCAPTCHA.

(I used to use my OVH VPS for some time as VPN, so it has gained quite a reputation for a "normal" browsing history)
can't wait that Google make this decision
If you stick to the 99% feedback with more than 50 feedbacks on Amazon you'll do fine as well.

Amazon has far stricter requirements for sellers. What specifically do you find better at eBay?
I think the problem is that crypto is a devil-in-the-details issue. I'll cast around and see if I can dig up a survey of the general divergences in crypto schemes, but one chink in an implementation sinks the ship.

Haven't dug into it, but I guess another interesting question would be "Are various crypto solutions using the same underlying base libraries (and versions) or each rewriting their own implementation of a new system?"
Yeah, after trying all the apps on iOS I prefer Narwhal the most. I'm not sure why. It's similar to Reddit is fun in terms of the subreddit list which why I guess I like it. The other apps seem to not make it easier to manage your multis or subreddits.
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WhatsApp, like Apple, wants a defense against government orders and warrants to unlock and reveal customer information. There is only one defense to the order that the government will not contest: it is impossible.
>youtube-dl actually has quite sane defaults

not really, if you copy url of a clip in a playlist it will start downloading WHOLE playlist :(
"They want to develop a federated protocol".
There is already one, it's a IETF standard, deployed accross the globe and have already hundreds of clients and several serious servers : XMPP.
The pafy python add-in library is good too, although it is command-line it's really easy and well-documented.

http://pythonhosted.org/Pafy/
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Don't forget artificially tying their so-so Netflix competitor video service to their own so-so Android-based tablets and not allowing it to be used on proper Android at all for years. And now artificially tying their video service to their app store so Android users who pay for it can't use it without compromising the security of their device by enabling apps from unknown sources and manually installing the Amazon App Store on their device with full permissions for everything - and the ability for it to spy on and alter anything it wants.
Very poor quality times article.

Read the two Wait But Why posts on this:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
You do all the work for the talk, you are the content of the conference, and they want you to pay to speak as well?

I think that's a very bad deal.
I'm Hungarian. This bullshit is actively being reverted.

Originally there was a plan to put encryption app users in jail for up to two years.

But not all communication apps would be treated equal: mainstream applications already using encryption, such as Skype or Viber, would be perfectly okay. Only using those applications specifically written to encrypt communication, primarily CryptTalk, would have been punishable.

Edit: Our speculation is that this is the same strategy seen with the internet tax. Spreading FUD and stealing state wealth while everybody runs in circles.

Edit 2: They did ban using CryptTalk and similar products (all communication services with encryption as their main selling point). No information on how they plan to enforce this decision: their only tool is to ask mobile app stores nicely to hide these apps from plain sight.
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On Android you have Conversations (https://conversations.im/) based on XMPP, good looking, nice battery optimizations, and supporting E2E encryption. And you have the XMPP federation behind.
As far as I know they continue with this plan, maybe there are some minor updates, but I don't have last details since I left year ago.
We didn't need to know how birds fly to build planes.
Would it be possible to split those libraries in smaller modules?
For example Preact (https://github.com/developit/preact) has the same basic API of React but it's just 3kb because a lot of features are stripped away in optional modules.
Also, using preact-compat you could replace it as-is* in your bundle right now.
Well, the phone number is the identifier. What would happen is that you get a new phone, idenftify via phone number. It would generate new keys but your contacts are still around. You contacts all the notifications (if they have turned them on) that you have new keys.

I am not sure about chat history, you think its moved to the cloud if you have that activated.

Im not 100% on any of this, but I think that is how it works.

If you want something that is not bound to your phone, Threema is pretty nice. If you lose your phone and you have no backup, its gone.
"The notion of the Singularity is predicated on Moore’s Law" - is it?
Off schedule 1, but to where? If it ends up on schedule 2, it will still be very tightly controlled, just like narcotic painkillers.
Singapore has a middle class "ice" (methamphetamine) problem. http://www.thecabinsingapore.com.sg/why-meth-is-becoming-a-p...
This appears to be a rather sensationalist headline for a move that is admittedly boneheaded on Orbán's part. To ensure the state's ability to surveil, the government had a plan to enforce the inclusion of backdoors.

However, it appears that after some consultation with people that had a clue - of which Hungary actually has a large number - the government has decided that would be a Bad Idea and has tabled the plans.

Source: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (http://tasz.hu/en/news/hungarian-government-plans-enforce-en...).

This is actually very typical of Fidesz (Orbán Viktor's ruling party). They love making abrupt and sweeping changes to the law, then leaving everybody else to pick up the pieces. Occasionally, cooler heads prevail before the law is actually broken, but normally there's just a mess.
I don't think it is just the iphone the other thing that they don't talk about is that digital cameras were rapidly improving in image quality from the late 90's to the mid-00's. My digital camera from '02 takes total trash photos compared to the one I got in '05 but my '05 model is about on par with what I could buy today for a similar price so there is no reason to spend money on an upgrade unless it breaks.
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For React you kind of have to use the minified file size, because the dev file size is SHOCK FULL of dev-only validation and error messages and other logic that is made to be minified away. The prod build isn't even close to the same code.

With that said React + ReactDOM is 180kbish unminified.

I can't find Relay's size as a single file. Is it really over 800kb?
Prime Video isn't anywhere near as good as Netflix in terms of content or in terms of technical prowess. The Xbox apps are pretty bad. The Android Prime Video app can't even be used without enabling Unknown Sources and then manually installing the whole Amazon App Store on your Android device. Even then, it doesn't work that well. It's kind of a joke.
At best it's an ok working class job; for Amazon, it's more of a stop-gap until delivery vehicles with auto-pilot are more widely available.
The problem is that they won't allow third parties to sell them on marketplace. Even if Apple won't sell to Amazon, as long as third parties want to list they should be allowed to and it shouldn't cause problems. (I'm probably missing something; what is it?)
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WhatsApp allows you to (optionally) backup your chat history to iCloud or Google Drive. Moving to a new device involves restoring that backup. Your contacts will also have to re-verify your fingerprint.

This, of course, is also a way for adversaries to get to your chat history. The backups are not encrypted using a key under your control, so law enforcement could force WhatsApp, Google or Apple to hand over any backups.
I think they may have been looking for the longer paragraph you wrote (I would be - to see how you would tackle the problem and get a conversation flowing), not for an actual answer you eventually gave. The wording of the request was unfortunate, IMHO - it did make it sound like "help me influence my boss" first and foremost.
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It's not in this article but in the one about Drupal (http://drupal.ovh/drupal-panama-papers-leaks-mossack-fonseca) it says that they were running a customer portal for the purpose of giving customers access to those very same documents. So yes, they probably should have ran their Wordpress site and Drupal portal separately but it wouldn't have changed anything anyway.
There's a limit to what you can do without "simple" scaling, meaning, without making cheaper, faster, smaller individual gates. That is, an architecture optimized for a given problem domain will give you maybe 1000x efficiency improvement over a more general architecture, but that's it. (Typically it will be <1000x, but let's say you're lucky; the point is, that's your last 1000x, and then you'll see no improvements, ever.)

So if Moore's law is indeed over, progress will be slow, domain-specific, and decelerating due to diminishing returns (specializing for a problem domain is worth it as long as that domain is not too narrow but at some point it's too narrow to justify the investment into building specialized hardware for it; you'll be better off using something less specialized. GPGPU, which does not provide amazing performance in an absolute sense, but does beat CPUs on a large range of problems, is an example to this - any accelerator more efficient than GPGPU needs to be justifiable in the sense that GPGPU is already there wherever there's a need for GPU doing graphics, which is where GPUs do provide amazing performance in an absolute sense [you can totally beat GPGPU with more specialized hardware on most benchmarks, while you can't beat GPUs in graphics.])

I'm a chip & accelerator architect, so it's not like I'm particularly happy about this, I think I'm realistic though. A higher-caliber architect saying the same pessimistic thing is Bob Colwell.

The one nice thing about really stopping at some manufacturing technology and not being able to improve any further is that the cost of using this technology will likely continue dropping for some years. Only when it reaches the bottom will progress have truly stopped.
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Well, a huge percentage of people who are actually working on the AI field (unlike Hawking, Gates and others) disagree with you: http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/survey.pdf (warning: PDF (obviously))
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There are a huge, huge number of people that have 401ks and IRAs that only offer a small number of actively managed mutual funds, many of which have high fees, and there is little consumer education about the high of these fees. If this rule change leads more 401ks to offer ETFs and some education about there value, it will make a big difference.
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Apps that force you to give them (and everyone else) your phone numbers for .. ummm ... "contact discovery" and yet talk about privacy are a bit of a contradiction.

No plausible reason for why apps like WhatsApp (and Signal) couldn't use e-mail addresses for this. Or at least provide it as an alternative. It's even problematic for people who change phone numbers, have multiple phones, want to use desktop clients, etc

My opinion: if it requires a phone number, it's not really interested in privacy. Move on.
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Is plausible deniability something you want in your communication? Just curious, as this is something I haven't heard before. It seems like non-repudiation would be what you want in your comms.