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I work in Azure, and my team builds the Coco Framework. There is more information on the details in the technical whitepaper here: https://aka.ms/cocopaper

Coco is designed for permissioned networks (as opposed to public networks). The network constitution in Coco contains a list, arrived at by a vote of consortium members, of all of the actors permitted to interact with the network. Coco implements network-level authentication to restrict access to participants. The constitution state is stored within the state replicated by the Coco Framework, so it is stored on all of the nodes in the network.

Beyond network-level authentication, there is also ledger and DApp level authentication. The supply chain demo demonstrates this capability. For the demo, we modified Ethereum to integrate it with the Coco prototype. We removed the capability to read raw transactions or to access raw smart contract state directly. Instead, the DApp must implement public smart contract methods enabling reads to state that the developer wants to expose. Those read methods contain code (in this case implemented in Solidity, executed by the EVM) that is responsible for authentication and authorization of callers. This enables the DApp developer to decide for themselves now to authenticate the caller, and what roles and privileges apply to the DApp's data. We also did some work to restrict access to events to only authorized callers - you can read more in the whitepaper on this.

We believe there's an opportunity for common patterns here (a la the ERC20 token standard), but these patterns can vary by ledger and by DApp. All of that is above the Coco layer. This is why the ledger (in this example Ethereum) matters. The ledger exposes capabilities that either natively, or through smart contracts, secure the data in the ledger. Coco's job is to ensure that ledger data is only ever in the clear inside the TEE, where the ledger and smart contract code can implement a confidentiality model appropriate for the use case.
Aware and signed off on the project and aware and signed off on the defcon presentation are two different things. I only know what I've read in this article and discussion on this, but I don't read "Salesforce executives were first made aware of the project in a February meeting" as meaning they had corporate sign off (they may have, but thats not what that sentence means)
That's incorrect. Prior to 2.0 yes, but since 2.0 https is allowed. see https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html in the Comments section.
In a past life as a cloud (VDN) provider, this was a real trade off.

When you have customers doing events, it’s more often that the scale up is from a real event than that someone fat fingered a config.

If they are broadcasting an unscheduled Obama speech from home page of a major paper, that’s not the time to go “Oh, anomalous, shut it down.” By the time that gets fixed and back on, Obama’s left the building - and your customer leaves too.

If you are in the business of offering a service with “elasticity” as a core capability, we found it better for SLOs and better for the bottom line to ‘fix’ this after the fact by discussion than to attempt to tell real spikes from glitches.

If you don’t want elasticity, you might not be looking for “cloud”.
Except he blatantly misconstrued what Bill C-16 was.
> Travis makes each partner a $1 billion personally

On paper.
True enough. I had the speak-out-loud in natural language demo in my mind, I guess! :)
How Aspirin Came into Being
I think on GCC or Clang Threadripper should be much better (see link on my other reply)

And also Arstechnica reported much better numbers, I think Anantech either had a bad config or there is a bug in the compiler they used.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/08/amd-threadripper-r...
This is a big problem in the USA, but much of Europe is far stricter about food labeling.
I one quadrupled my capital with a betting bot running a martingale strategy. Then I made it run overnight and lost all the funds. Turns out there aren't any betting strategies that can last over the long run.

With a martingale strategy the chances of losing are miniscule but if you play 10,000 rounds at a 0.01% of losing, you're going to lose once. And that's when you lose all your capital.
We just digged a bit to learn more about them; WOW, what an amazing organization and mission!

A lot of the tech we've built is focused on integrating with US insurance plans, but we have been starting to get asks from some of our clients about offering our solution in other markets as well, so we can definitely see efforts like ours expanding internationally. In the short term we're focused on serving US companies who are struggling with rising healthcare costs, but perhaps there's an opportunity to partner on the tech related to things like our symptom checker and condition content.

From a mission standpoint of helping everyone get access to better healthcare, that's something where we definitely align strongly. We'll reach out to see if they might find any of our technology useful -- would be an amazing partner!

[edited for grammar + expanding on a point]
You cannot forcibly hire someone who would prefer to work elsewhere (if that someone can really work elsewhere, e.g. not be worried with matters of survival and quality of life). This is probably a reason that in a lot of developing countries (e.g. India) gender gap in IT is much smaller than in developed ones (e.g. Norway, #1 gender equal country)- salary is choosen over comfort.

Now, imagine a situation: 100 persons (80 men, 20 women - ratio observed by actual HR) are looking for a job in Google, which has 10 open positions for them. Google wants to hire the best possible candidate - and hires 8 men and 2 women; both genders are choosed from top 10% of candidates of a same gender (Assuming their skill does not correlate with their gender). That hiring policy does not reduces observed gender gap between candidates at all. So let's introduce positive discrimination (so called affirmative action), and say, that Google wants to hire 5 men and 5 women (1:1 ratio, but even 7:3 will suffice to show worsening effect, albeit in weaker proportions). Now men are choosed from top 6.25%, and women - just from top 25%. The is no gender gap anymore, but now there is a considerable skill gap - top 6.25% men are having considerable advantage over 25% women. More to that: men are not happy because they think they have struggled much more for the same position than women; women are not happy because they think they were hired not for their skills, but for their gender. Also,both men and women being paid based on their performance alone will result if considerable wage gap.

The original memo stated the same, albeit in less transparent form: personal skills cannot be measured with 100% accuracy, so there is always a chance to hire underperforming person (false-positive) or not to hire well performing person (false-negative). Positive discrimination radically reduces false-negatives, which inevitabely magnifies number of false-positives (see Type I and Type II errors in statistics and Neyman-Pearson criterion). Author proposed not to fight on-enter gender gap with discrimination, which would result in negative effect for company's performance, but to make company's environment to be a more attractive (which may reduce on-enter gender gap, reduce number or women leaving industry permanently and won't compromise performance)
Facebook Announces Its New YouTube Competitor
> Intel asks its customers to place their final orders on the Atom x5-Z8100P SoC (belonging to the Cherry Trail family) by September 30 and says that the final shipments will be made on October 30. Given the fact that Intel seems to have only one customer using the microprocessor, the short amount of time between the announcement of the product discontinuance and the actual EOL was probably negotiated before. Moreover, since we are talking about a semi-custom chip, Microsoft was probably the initiator of the EOL, which indicates that the company is on track with its next-gen HoloLens.
Engineers in San Francisco Have Mediocre Take Home Pay
Among the complaints of bad behavior:

"Kalanick [aquired] a self-driving startup that, according to a confidential report not disclosed to Benchmark (the "Stroz report") allegedly harbored trade secrets from a competitor . . . "

The Stroz Report was created when "Otto and Uber jointly hired an outside forensic expert Stroz Friedman. Friedman interviewed employees, including Levandowski and Lior Ron, reviewed their digital devices like mobile phones and cloud storage, and prepared a report recording the results of the investigation. . . Uber dangled a huge carrot for Levandowski to be truthful . . and agreed to indemnify him for any prior bad acts he confessed to committing. In other words, if Levandowski told Stroz what he stole, then the high priests at Uber have absolved him of his civil sins and Uber will pay for any resulting lawsuits or penalties"(1)

Maybe I'm reading between the lines, but it seems like they're saying in black & white that the Stroz report contains incriminating evidence that Levandowski DID "harbor trade secrets" from Google which will materially impact the outcome of Ubers broader legal woes . . .

EDIT - Reading further in the actual complaint ""if the contents of Stroz's interim findings had been disclosed to Benchmark at the time, they would have had a material impact on Benchmark's decision to authorize the board seats . . ." (2)

Sounds quite a bit like a smoking gun, that Benchmark probably realizes now is going to come to light.

(1) https://medium.com/@nikhilgabraham/why-anthony-levandowski-h...

(2) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3922911-67730336-DE-...
Please don't paint all of us with the idiot brush. It's not "opposition in the US", it's opposition from one party in the US. We were ready and willing, and had started under Obama, to combat climate change. It's the Republicans who have made opposition to even acknowledging climate change an article of their faith.
How I created a lightning fast hero image, using good old fashioned ingenuity
What's the trick to getting search to work on non-webpages?
I couldn't find any keywords that would pull up PDFs, including elements of their bookmark name.
Did you? They didn't explicitly say the company signed off on the talk/presentation, just the project.
You captured the basic idea of the TEEs well. One way of thinking about this is that proof of work and proof of stake consensus protocols establish trust on a per-block basis. By leveraging TEEs, we have hoisted that trust establishment out of the per-block workflow and instead have the option to pay the cost once, at the time the network is established. One tradeoff of this design is that a TEE compromise would have major impact on the ledger. The whitepaper (https://aka.ms/cocopaper) contains a section on mitigating TEE compromise. Additionally, our intent is to support multiple consensus models, including models that require per-block trust validation. Ledgers and consortiums are free to make choices about what they want to support depending on their threat model and the assets being protected - with the ability to trade off scalability and latency against security as they see fit. What we demo'ed is one design that we think is interesting for many use cases we've heard about from customers.

Permissions are not tied to AAD members per se - we rely on a set of X.509 certs that correspond to the identities of the actors on the network for network-level authentication. These certs are referenced in the network constitution.

Ledger- and app-level authentication can be done however developers would like to do it. It can be, but need not be, AAD. See my comment above or the whitepaper for more details on the confidentiality design.
As a sport enthusiast, I run a website for athletes to tell stories based on activity data http://storyteller.fit

Doing it out of passion is a great source of motivation and continuous learning, plus you get in touch with a lot of people.
Any chance you'd have a link to a repository where you publish your work ?
Do you like the coding train[1]?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman
There is no argument, racism and sexism are bad ideas that were entertained widely in the past and are not up for debate anymore as potentially positive influences or the correct way to consider the world.

I could have been referencing chattel slavery and your words would be currently for it.

You can take whatever you like from my statement (and clearly are) but you calling me "the left" and pretending I was indoctrinated by some entity indicates your mind is as closed as you intimate mine is.
Code is read much more often than it is written. I'll take something verbose and explicit over something magical and brief any day of the week. It's why I'm preferring Elixir to Ruby for any side projects. Elixir is so explicit about how everything works. There's little magic happening behind the scenes.
The Science of Gender and Science Pinker vs. Spelke a Debate (2005)
Which is odd as the Jeff Dean pattern of "small feedforward network to say if this mail can be answered and then deep rnn to create an answer" seems to actually work. So how come IBM haven't just lifted it?
But at the same time, we're moving past deterrence. The USSR fell 26 years ago. There's "deterrence" and there's "we can wipe out the entire planet". It's especially disconcerting when you consider that in most nuclear armed countries, US included, the authority to launch a nuclear strike lies solely with one person.
You do not need to be that high of a level at Facebook/Google to make 350k/yr. It is not a very small subset, but rather a very large set.
> What if he gets angry at politico.com because they write articles criticising his favourite politician?

OK, what if Politico.com doesn't do anything illegal or actionable subsequent to that?

The only reason Thiel had the power he had over Gawker is that Gawker did something which was actually, legally wrong after it wronged him in a non-actionable fashion. Unless you have both of those elements, Thiel would have been powerless to redress the grievance he had in any very quick fashion. He could have done other things, but Gawker did him the favor of stepping onto the firing range after they painted the target on themselves.

> The only barrier to complete control of the media by a select number of plutocrats is that the specific case he used (the sex tape) was so egregious that you won't be able to make similar cases against serious publishers.

Rephrase: "The only barrier to complete control of the media by a select number of plutocrats is that most of the media can refrain from doing flagrantly illegal bullshit."

> And that's why this article is relevant: it's about some guy's obsession with being recognised as the inventor of e-mail. If he wins, ruining any publisher would become a whole lot easier overnight.

He isn't going to win. People who can dispute his claims totally are still alive (OK, one of the main people has died, but you don't have to be the inventor to disprove this yahoo) and plenty of records have been kept.

Thiel is funding a loser of a case here, and, despite what some people believe, an expensive lawyer can't save a loser of a case.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s a good thing to be a jerk. I’m at a startup now with an extremely nice and respectful culture. That doesn’t mean people keep their opinions to themselves.

You can’t realistically look at engineering culture and say wow here’s a sympathetic bunch who stay quiet when they see something wrong. Just read what industry leaders Richard Stallmen or Linus Torvalds write.
Very good points.

But one doesn't often get through 20+ years without learning "something" (even if it's not the best things as far as an employer is concerned).
Yea, it was; I might come back to it some day. The source is available at https://github.com/nfriedly/Coin-Allocator
I wonder whether it would work with Google.
This is the kind of thing I meant:

http://automatingbetfair.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/betfair-bots...
I really really want project Starshot to become a reality. I think this is our best bet for scoping out these near by star systems. At least within our lifetime.

If we could hit 50% speed of light we could do a fly-by mission in ~25 years. Then another 12 years waiting for the data. Honestly, ~37-40 years isn't bad for an interstellar mission. Remember the Voyager program
has been going on for that long! So we already have experience with long space missions.

https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Initiative/3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Initiatives#Break...
Yes that is what I was referring to.
The way to read it is, there is a report, Benchmark (the board) was not aware of it. It's an acknowledgement of the report - as it is from the court case - but not about its content.
I am flabbergasted that as a society we aren't rushing to build a 100 metre wide telescope mirror large enough for us to directly image the spectra of the potentially habitable exoplanets around us.

A telescope this large could tell us whether any of these potentially habitable planets contain oxygen, and thus, biological processes.

Yet thanks to funding cuts in science the biggest telescope we have in the pipeline right now is one with a 30 metre mirror.
This telescope won't be big enough, and as a result, our failure to push now for bigger sizes is almost certainly going to push back for decades humanity's ability to answer one of the most important questions we face:

Why are we here, and are we alone.
Who in their right mind, except for the utterly desperate, would accept money from Benchmark? Talk about letting the fox into the henhouse, you can't trust those guys whatsoever.
Expect antivirus changes as Microsoft and Kaspersky bury hatchet
It's the latter. I don't know why it costs so much, this is the first time I have ever hosted anything so I didn't realize I was overpaying. The way it was phrased I thought I had a year free and then it would be 29$/month but they just started charging me immediately. I haven't had time to look into it. I'll investigate tonight, thanks for pointing it out.
There is a whole lot that's new here. Benchmark, one of the most renowned VC firms in the world suing the CEO of its biggest current investment. That's huge news.
I have been using DDG for quite some time now.

I am now interested in bang paths and feel woefully ignorant. can you elaborate with an example? the definition [0] I found for bang paths tells me I found the wrong item.

[0] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/6138/bang-path
A bang path is a mostly obsolete kind of address function that shows each server in a message trajectory over a complex network, for example, the Internet. It is called a bang path because each designated server is separated by an exclamation point, also known as a bang.

EDIT: Question answered [1] I was searching for an alternate meaning and should not have. thank you!

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang
https://github.com/fergiemcdowall/search-index/ - its a lib for making embedable, torrantable, load-into-the-browserable search indices. Pretty modest downloads so far, but I love hacking on it.
Nobody put a gun to Benchmark's head and forced them to take a deal that left so much control in Kalanick's hands. It was a reflection of the relative strengths of their negotiating position at the time. Kalanick is owed control because Benchmark agreed he had control.

The legal question is whether the various scandals that followed show in some way that Kalanick made that deal under fraudulent conditions. It has nothing to do with a supposed generic truism that VCs always deserve to control the companies they fund. Uber is actually a great counterexample to your rule. They appeared to be such a good investment, and so many VCs wanted in, that they were able to dictate very favorable terms.
A question I've been pondering since the Martin Shkreli verdict, is fraud OK if the deceived parties still profit?
Difference here is that transportation is a daily requirement. Smoking is not. It's just a disgusting habit.
Why do you think "you can't", despite Patreon (for now) looking like it can work? (Although they of course don't have to finance an entire music sharing service with this)

Music fans seem comparatively loyal and willing-to-spend to me, so I'm curious about your reasoning.

(EDIT: reworded for clarity/less confrontational)
Trump Is Declaring a National Emergency Over the Opioid Epidemic
Gore is a political figure. He made a convenient target for the "no global warming" crowd. I do not see his actions as political but they were painted that way when "An Inconvenient Truth" came out.

I don't see Gore at fault but rather an unintentional result.
Just another mefite adding thanks to the pile here!
Honestly, an open source solution backed by an automated hosting company (like how Ghost) is probably the best solution.

Charge your customers for DMCA claims and just skim enough off the underlying hosting company to cover your expenses.
Absolutely, It's a unique opportunity in the space, it feels like everyone is racing to market - next 6 months will be interesting to watch.
Because both sides negotiated that arrangement in good faith.

That may not be the case in this particular instance, but in general, both parties are adults, reasonably smart, and not operating from a position of duress.

So if you negotiate a deal that has a governance structure of that form, you are stilled owed control.
Corporations are not taxed on revenue, so I can only assume that the headline is designed to be inflammatory.
>why don't we trust our scientists and climatologists?

"We" do. It's a faction of conservatives in the US who either don't or find it politically useful not to. Unfortunately they're currently in charge. Obama had started to move the US towards working on the problem, but that's hit a wall now.

>(Is this, sort of, Gore's fault, combined with a highly-polarizing media? I have to wonder.)

This is madness. Gore didn't politicize the issue, the right did by gearing up their ideology media machine to skewer him as part of its anti-climate change crusade.
But I don't want to die from a disease contracted from a dirty telephone!
Have you heard of https://trakt.tv/ before? It seems to have similar functionality.
>always tries to drag you to the app

To be fair, this seems to be the unfortunate norm these days.
Board seats are part of bargaining chip during funding rounds.... they are very very important.

If you lose control of the board as a founder, you basically are another employee at the company, at the mercy of your investors, who can choose to bring "adult" supervision anytime they seem it is fit to them.

Having the founders control of the board did well to both facebook and google on the long term.
On the other hand you have Twitter where nobody is in real control of it, and it ended up with no clear direction.
> No company on earth spends $100 so they can save $40 on their tax bill. It is nonsensical.

How is that nonsensical? Seems like lots of companies expend/transfer/invest rather than being taxed on their profits?

Edit: Replaced "to avoid" with "rather than".
Love the idea, the illustrations are very cute. Cats rule the internets!
It seems like newspeak to call people "greedy" for suing someone despite that they (nominally) made a lot of money for those people. It seems like the fund is insisting that its investments follow the law, not indemnify criminal actions, etc. Doing that to an investment that made you money seems the opposite of greedy.

How are we seeing this so differently?
Relevant XCKD: http://www.xkcd.com/1205

This is a very big issue and one I recently faced in the workplace. Needed a script to parse some log files to generate CSV reports for the business users. I knew jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) and hence was able to write less than 10 lines of jq to do it combined with some preprocessing using sed.

I then realised that NOBODY on the team knew jq apart from me and I had to rewrite it in Python which took me 4 days to do correctly and handle everything that jq did for me.