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«ZCash is only as secure as you trust 9 people and their ceremony»

No. You only need to trust 1 of 9 persons. The cryptographic algorithm works so that if 1 honest and 8 malicious persons participate, then the output can be 100% trusted. I do think it would have been interesting to allow hundreds of random participants to take part in the ceremony. But I'm not sure what the technical hurdles would have been (eg. what if one person abandons the process in the middle, does the whole ceremony has to be restarted?)
Firefox has been great for a few years, except I can't figure out how to get a good Windows touch experience. Is there an add on or theme anyone recommends? The touch points are too small and close.
You mean enforcing the rule of law? I hope the law is enforced everywhere otherwise why have it?

I am from Barca and this referendum shouldn't happen. We have other issues that are more important like housing. Not all people here are for the referendum. Far from it. Wasting public money and ressources when people spend half their salaries on rent. Disgusting!
It's time to stop posting techcrunch
> Firefox on android still feels significantly more sluggish than chrome.

Note that none of the Quantum work has been turned on for mobile Firefox yet. I hear it will be coming online in nightly this cycle, targeting Firefox 58.
Before anyone freaks out that their iPhone is about to get pwnd:

> The vulnerabilities affecting Apple devices have been addressed in iOS 11.
Tree Style Tabs was a recent update, so OP may have missed that.
Dynamic routing between capsules
They don't care where it is, so long as it is not in their back yard. As you have correctly pointed out, this is mostly what everybody says, in which case the obvious points: the project does not get created.
A possibly simpler solution would be to not have assigned places to vote that are based on your ID & DOB.

Just vote at the polling place most convenient to you, and announce available polling places on posters around town, or facebook & twitter if you prefer.
It was denintely a long term play. The worry i had was what if they get 80% down that road and find out it would t work for some reason (say they wouldn't be able to get performance high enough)? They’d have lost a TON of time and resources.

Glad to see they got it to work.
I find it hard to use this analogy in the context of the whole field of AI.

The A in AI stands for artificial, and the AI denomination is so vague that applies to any form of automation however trivial. e.g: fuzzy logic in a washing machine is some sort of AI.

Maybe deep learning could be said to be the equivalent to this definition of "one-trick pony".
There's work to use Gnome client-side decorations for the title bar here, which should help with screen real estate: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283299

It probably won't land in time for 57, but hopefully soon!
Look up the Qualcomm MDM modems of recent history and similarly for Intel / Infineon.
> Lorena Plaza, which would cost about $23 million, would qualify for the funds.

49 units at $23 million or $469k/unit. Is it me or is this an insanely high number? Remember, it's not even a house.
An important note here, if you cannot enable monetize videos, YouTube will not allow you to link to patreon or other sites.

https://i.imgur.com/byCxnAj.jpg

Its not enough for Google to ban you from ads, they have decided to cut off any other funding source aswell...
Dunno... Is the duty of the government from your nation to protect you?.

(tip: the correct answer starts with Y, but not for the spurious reasons that you claim. Is because, as citizen of your country, you have some constitutional rights. No matter if you are super-smart or a frozen cabbage sending your 11yo children to a warfield). Any nation must try to protect their citizens all the time (even from themselves if were the case). Spain is not different in that sense to any other country. Sometimes is not possible, sadly.
Only when you opt-in to using shielded transactions. Which up until the recent upgrade took a ton of CPU power and RAM to do.

Combine that with two of the founders saying they're OK with backdoors (Green) and making it too traceable for criminals (Zooko) plus a 20% cut of all the currency for years and it starts looking sort of bad. (Yes it's 10% overall, but instead of showing long-term trust in their project, they decided to grab 20% really quick.)

Monero is far from perfect. Their ringsize is pitiful. But it works well, doesn't require heavy hardware, and privacy is mandatory. Plus it feels like a real community effort, not commandeered by a group that's open to making things traceable or demanding a huge cut.
Yes, he led some GPG training meetups where he taught best practices for securing yourself while he was stationed in Hawai'i, at the very least.
I don’t see them building their launch ports closer to cities than airports now are, nor do I see them (certainly initially) build launch ports next to each major city. So, for most civilian flights, those earth-to-earth trips would not be that much faster, if at all.

Also, those flights would have to be extremely safe to get in the same ballpark as current commercial flights. I think that is needed to make this a ‘normal’ thing.

I would guess those earth-to-earth trips could make more sense for the military than for civilians. Yes, there is the problem of refueling your rocket near a war zone, and a risk of your rocket getting shot down, but the ability to very rapidly deploy specialized troops and/or materials may eventually be worth that, and the military might fund it even if they aren’t convinced the advantages will pan out.
He's an expert in privacy and security and has gobs of time to research and think about these things. Plus he's famous, so there's that.
I noticed that you're an IPFS dev living in Catalunya -- did you have a hand in persuading the government to use IPFS? Pretty cool if so.
Try calling your female Japanese friends "manko" and see if you still have female Japanese friends.
It's like CERN, why did they waste all those resources on this World Wide Web thing? Couldn't they just linotype their papers like everyone else?
Elon Musk proposes city-to-city travel by rocket
>The level of child travel independence alone in the Netherlands is almost alien to other countries.

This was so evident when I was there. Just the number of kids biking to school together, not with a parent, and at such a young age... it was really cool.
Aha! I didn't know about `about:profiles`, thank you
The Catalan government is the government of the autonomous region of Catalonia. So, I'd say "neither". They are a public institution, but their authority comes from the people, not from the central state.
Perhaps auction it off tokens to not have it in your backyard. All the proceeds of the auction goes to that place. Keep auctioning off the tokens until some place decides it'll be worth the money.
Τον πρώτο λόγο ΠΑΟΚ και Παναθηναϊκός
> There's gotta be a way to do consensus about zero-knowledge proofs that's a little more... you know ... decentralized.

Not really, no. There is no known scheme that has similar properties but non-trusted setup. There's not a proof that it's impossible either, so something might get invented. But at the moment, no.

That said I share the criticism. Even with trusted setup it could have been done much better.
The race to another planet might not be economical but a race to the asteroid belt will certainly be. All those resources..
Nokia 3310 with 3G Connectivity Launched
I haven't had that issue but please report it on bugzilla.mozilla.org if you can.

Also I would encourage you to try Firefox Beta, currently on version 57, to see if the issue is present there (also that is the version of Firefox the article is talking about).
As of November, 2016, Snowden's opinions have altogether stopped being relevant, and I no longer have any confidence that he acts in good faith. The guy almost certainly lives in an FSB safe-house in Moscow, the very same FSB that just helped to launch a brazen attack on our electoral process. This is not a coincidence. Snowden and like-minded people (Assange, Greenwald, Manning) were very deliberately used as Russian pawns to help divide the left and libertarians against themselves, making them unable to form a functional democratic coalition. They've also helped the FSB demonize - and attempted to neuter - the US Intelligence Community charged with defending us against this aggression while cozying up to one of the most autocratic and corrupt regimes in the world. Why anyone here takes Snowden seriously is beyond me. You can be privacy-conscious without cozying up to someone who continues to betray his country to the benefit of a corrupt dictator.
I remember that. The only bit I have no sympathy with was that he chose to send his whole day quietly browsing the web.
You should probably get the facts[1] from Apple, before parroting Internet knee-jerk hysteria.

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086
SEC Exposes Initial Coin Offerings Purportedly Backed by Real Estate, Diamonds
I guess the section on Retries is closest, but we're looking at moving from a system with straight in-process hooks to one using webhooks, and a complication is we now have to provision a webhook endpoint with very high reliability to accept the callback and (effectively) call the old hook.

The thing is, all the hook does is put a message on a queue…
How do IPFS links work, such that modification of what they point to modifies the hash of the document where the link is?
Well education is how you solve this but we chronically underfund it and every kid is a blank new mind so progress is lost when we don’t teach.

In the West we have two general views on the nature of humans; intrinsically good or fundamentally bad. The rest of modern politics is shaped from this.

The internet and Facebook helps to find a diversity of thought but also in general does not promote critical thinking skills (which you’re suppose to learn in high school)...

since as we’ve seen facebook just degenerates into an echo chamber where blatant propaganda is unquestioned and in fact promoted. Critics are fake news and we refuse to critically debate. You see this in Congress where they blatantly lie about tax cuts, health care etc...
I completely agree with your assessment, but the problem is a bit worse in my opinion. We already have a pretty firm grasp of how different ML systems learn and converge towards a solution in the average case. It's not that we need to understand our neural networks better, it's that we need to understand our problem domain better. We can't determine how well some ML architecture will perform at an object recognition problem without some math describing object recognition. This makes things a lot more complicated, because it means we have to do a lot more work to understand every single application where we want to use ML.

And, of course, if we had some really good mathematical framework for describing and reasoning about object recognition, we probably wouldn't need to turn to ML to solve it ;)
Swiss crack down on ICOs, say some might be guilty of 'terrorist financing'
> show me a single Persona that doesn't look like shit

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/herbal-guitar... — especially with the new Photon UI (57)
Yes, as interesting a development as zcash is, you need more trust in the 9 people at that one-off ceremony than you do in a central bank.

Monero's ring signatures have their drawbacks, but they don't require trust. It is hard to see his rationale for referring to it as an "amateur effort".
http://www.howiechong.com/journal/2014/2/bike-helmets

It's not enough for me; I wear a helmet each and every time I ride (well, except on recent bike-shares in Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, and Munich, where none were available). But I've crashed bicycles a number of times in my life, even once crashing into a car as a teenager (flipped, bounced off the car, hit the ground) and still never hit my head.

Anyway, it's just interesting to read about what causes head injuries and what makes a cyclist prone (or not) to them.
Welcome to the California housing market. It's very difficult to buy anything under $400k in any of the larger cities, even something like a two bedroom condo.
That's true -- but "the program" is also any code using yours as a middle-step, which is the case of a network service is a huge number of people. So anything that requires total program control rather than subroutine enforced safety is a nonstarter.

The timing may occur outside of your control, and then statistical profiling used. If the timing of a reponse to a network request has a time component that depends on shared load, then you have a side-channel.
CDC Officially Admits People with HIV Who Are Undetectable Can't Transmit HIV
Yeah, I agree with that!
I guess the Romans didn’t have any engineers building siege engines and fortifications, then.
There are certain legacy extensions I simply cannot live without. Tab Tree is one. Are there any routes to move forward with legacy extensions?
The reason that isn't done in any election is because, to prevent people from voting twice, each voting station needs a list of the people that are supposed to vote there.
And known to contain questionable things.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
A driverless car with some common sense
Zcash's zk-SNARKs are totally private even if that ceremony failed and even if the cryptographic assumptions underlying zk-SNARKs fall apart.

I find the comparison with Bitcoin perfect. The same people trusting PoW cartels to keep their system operational are complaining that zk-SNARKs require a parameter setup for proof soundness? That doesn't really make sense to me.
I believe there's a hardfork planned to add more features (like light client support) that will need another ceremony and the Zcash team is planning on there being hundreds of participants.
If it's too hard, ask someone who cares about you to help you find someone.
Get well soon.
Yet ignores the founders of zCash saying they can make a backdoor for police and make it too traceable for criminals.

>Green says that he and his fellow researchers are not interested in facilitating criminal activity with Zerocoin. "Zerocoin would give you this incredible privacy guarantee, then we could add on some features which let the police, for instance, to be able to track money laundering. A back door."

https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/bitcoi...

That alone scares me off of it, and why we're suggesting people use Monero to invest with us. I know that was a while ago, and zerocoin isn't zCash but combined with Zooko's tweets about making zCash too traceable for criminals, no thanks. The crypto is too new, so who knows how they could go about hiding a backdoor.

It's so odd anyone would ever work with these guys given their attitude and statements.
Show HN: 3D-Printed LM555 “Synth”
From a technical position that may be true, but one cannot discount the speedup you subsequently get if you run an ad/script/tracker blocker on mobile...
I thought it was reasonably widely believed that he took the job at the NSA specifically so he could figure out what they were doing wrong and leak it.
Or in so many words: "They don't even pay federal taxes. Fuck 'em."

Meanwhile:

The mayor of San Juan lashed out at Trump administration on Friday, decrying its relief effort in the wake of hurricanes Jose and Maria and saying if it doesn’t solve the logistics “what we we are going to see is something close to a genocide”.

“We are dying here,” Carmen Yulín Cruz said at a press conference, speaking with tears in her eyes. “I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles. So, mayday we are in trouble.”

Cruz appealed directly to the president, saying: “So, Mr Trump, I am begging you to take charge and save lives. After all, that is one of the founding principles of the United States of … America. If not, the world will see how we are treated not as second-class citizens but as animals that can be disposed of. Enough is enough.”

And:

Earlier in the day, Cruz was strongly critical after acting homeland security secretary Elaine Duke said the relief effort in Puerto Rico was a “good news story”. “Dammit, this is not a good news story,” Yulín Cruz told CNN. “This is a people are dying story. This is a life-or-death story.”

Cruz implored Duke to visit the ravaged island. “This is a story of a devastation that continues to worsen because people are not getting food and water,” she said. “When you’re drinking from a creek, it’s not a good news story. When you don’t have food for a baby, it’s not a good news story … I’m sorry. That really upsets me and frustrates me.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/29/san-juan-mayor...
I'm really sorry to hear that. 10 months is a long time, but it's not long for pain like this. If you take the wait-it-out approach, it will probably be more like 7 years.

On the plus side, it does get better.
> There is no known scheme that has similar properties but non-trusted setup. There's not a proof that it's impossible either, so something might get invented. But at the moment, no.

Already invented. It's called MimbleWimble.
Self-discipline. Leaders naturally stand out from the pack. Becoming the best version of yourself, in fitness, mental acuity, and grace under pressure is the first step in earning the respect of your team. It's also a consequence of taking your newfound responsibilities seriously. Cultivate that striving for excellence in all aspects of your living.

Case method. The vast repository of business history and strategic decision making forms the archival data set from which most academic management theory draws. It's also the basis of the shared language that elite managers speak. You can get access via HBX Online:

http://hbx.hbs.edu/

I recall when I was just getting started in gamedev. I got my IGDA membership and a free (print!) subscription to the monthly magazine. In each issue was a feature called the "Postmortem" in which a company exec was tasked with listing 5 things that went right with their launch, and five things that went wrong. I learned so much from the "wrongs" lists its uncanny. The importance of the digital asset pipeline. How to remove bottlenecks between the nodes. IP licensing snafus. Negotiating contract minutiae with publishers. How to cultivate unorthodox revenue streams. As well as a thousand (failing) methods for avoiding the (inevitable) crunch time.

Network. How great would it be if you could just call up Patrick Collison, Brian Chesky or Justin Kan any time you you found yourself stumped by a seemingly intractable problem? No one is doing it alone. Conferences are one way to branch out. But the power of a "warm email" should not be overlooked.

You can do it, Carrok. I believe in you ;)
That article says exactly what coleca was saying?
I don't think that's tough if a country has said you need to be able to filter traffic. Assuming it is a simple pattern (e.g. whatever their NAT busting bootstrap is), set of ports, etc they could easily push filter rules to their downstream network devices if the law makes them.
The point is how it compares to Firefox though.
> Does it want to be an associate state, or a completely independent state (that would also need to enter the Europena Union by its own)? This is something it is still not clear for me,

Hmm, maybe if you want to know what the people of Cataluña want, maybe we should ask them? Perhaps by holding a referendum to get their views on the matter?

(Note that a similar situation in Scotland was addressed by doing exactly this. The referendum was done begrudgingly, and certainly was not popular in Westminster, but it did happen, as it should have -- even though I'm personally glad they voted to remain.)
Perhaps you missed it when IPFS was used to make the Turkish version of Wikipedia available after the Turkish government blocked access the Wikipedia website: http://observer.com/2017/05/turkey-wikipedia-ipfs/
In SF, some of the affordable housing units are from $600K - $825K.

http://cityobservatory.org/the-high-high-price-of-affordable...
There is a tradeoff here that keeps being missed.

Ring signatures with small anonymity sets have very serious privacy drawbacks, but they have more sensible assumptions for protecting the monetary base integrity.

zk-SNARKs are the opposite: they don't compromise on privacy at all, but require stronger assumptions to protect the monetary base.
I don't know how this relates to the creator of Rust or its actual origin story, but Mozilla has been trying to get many of the same results out of C++ for a long time. You can look at the evolution of smart pointers in the codebase, along with more formal ways of representing error return codes (borrowed from MS COM), and general good practices.

It seems at some point they became aware of how unsuited C++ is for parallel processing, and how important it would be for browsers in the future. Even compartmentalization or running tabs in their own process is a form of parallelization. This requires an efficient way of sharing memory and preventing race conditions and errant writes, as well as a way to protect these processes from cross-site scripting attacks, buffer over- and underruns, etc.

Computing hardware has also moved on from the CPU-centric world and the gains in battery life from dedicated GPU hardware being used even for rendering tasks, and now for font processing and other things were too good to pass up.

I'm a long time follower of Mozilla's development, and extremely excited about what's happening with Firefox.

(I'm also currently a Chrome user, leaving in large part due to profile corruption issues and inferior built-in development tools. I hope to be able to run Firefox and WebRender on both Ubuntu and Windows.)
How do I get my son or daughter interested in computer programming?
Because you don't want to just house them. You want to get them to a place where they no longer need assistance. That means they need jobs. Housing them in Newberry Springs or some such place doesn't give them any opportunity.
That's a very weird statement, and I wish there were some more context behind it in the article - is this a cryptographic or protocol-level back door, or is this just the idea that you can start with an anonymous system and add tracing (but you can't start with a visible system and add anonymity)? It could be either, and I'm not sure how to read it.
I'm starting to test it in co-processor mode. The main limit is.. Intel is dragging their feet on PCIe bandwidth (probably to curtail GPGPU a bit), and you need a lot of BW for co-processor up and down and then back out the pipe. But it's enough for my needs at the moment.

https://www.chelsio.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/T6-100G...
Use the netinst image, which is still being maintained.
The Confederate flag was essentially banished until the 1960's in response to the Civil Rights movement.
I have just had my C64 restored by a friend. SID n VID needed replacing along with a few other bits. The video out is now SCART and it now sports an eight GB SD Card and Fastboot.

Just got it back and fired it up. Nostalgia in spades.
As a note: Podemos isn't a Catalan-only party, it's national.
I hadn't considered this, but I wonder if in a few years AMD will have more leverage against Intel because everyone uses AMD64?