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I love this idea. How hard would it be to adapt it to eprint.iacr.org?


Thanks! Are the papers on iacr.org different from what gets uploaded to Arxiv?

I need paper metadata to be available in a structured format. I currently support the "arXivRaw" metadata format of the OAI-PMH protocol [1]. Unfortunately I didn't support RSS yet. Are you one of the maintainers of iacr? What is the size of its userbase?

[1] - https://arxiv.org/help/oa


iacr.org is for cryptography-related papers, and a lot of pre-prints go there. I think a lot of them don't get to Arxiv.

Not one of the maintainers, just an avid follower :)


As someone who is not at all involved in that community, I'd love to hear what are the pits many projects fall into and what does Blender avoid.


Out of the top of my mind:

* Gets good enough, but not great. Then most contributor lose interest and the pace slows. It makes the original roadmap impractical and more devs lose interest, which spirals into a dormant project (Inkscape)

* Maintained flawlessly, but no new groundbreaking features get added and there is a slow exodus of users toward new-shiny until it is a perfectly bug-free irrelevant piece of code (most JS stuff, GnuPG, some crypto libs, OpenBSD).

* Maintained into the ground by aggressive/oppressive/elitist/cultist/dogmatic core team followed by a split of the community (pre re-merge of glibc/eglibc, GCC/EGCS, ffmpeg/libav, Gnome/MATE/Cinnamon/Unity, Vim/NeoVim, all of Suckless, most of GNU)

* Fancy/overkill roadmap made at a time when there is plenty of contributors, but so hard to achieve most of them give up before the finish line (KDE4, GIMP 2.10)

* Unresponsive/exclusive community toward new contributors and/or SJW attempts accidentally FUDding a previously functional community (lets not point fingers and start a flame war)

* Unwillingness to break things or pay up the tech debt in order to stay relevant (EMACS, pre-LLVM-era GCC)

* Break everything consistently and often and/or remove your contributions because of a dogma (Gnome)

* The Free-software people and the commercial contributors revolt against each other (OpenOffice/LibreOffice/StarOffice/CollaborraOnline, OwnCloud/NextCloud)

* Misguided attempts at making money by breaking things for your users (GhostScript, eLive, Mepis, Mandrake, every project who moved to AGPL)

* No attempt at ensuring the project can exist without its founder (CentOS, all single-person-army projects out there, all BDFL who refuse to let go when they lose interest)

* Sabotage (ion3, ffmpeg, Cyanogen)

* Suicide by committee (many Apache/Eclipse foundation projects like Apache OpenOffice)

* Make a major incompatible upgrade with no clear migration paths (Python, GTK, KDE, Gnome, AwesomeWM)

* Promise a major upgrade, tell your users to wait for it, then backtrack (Perl)

* Maintain multiple branches of your software forever until you fragment your user base so much you compete with yourself and lose to new-fancy (OpenSSL, pre-rolling Firefox, MySQL, most "enterprise grade stuff")

* crazy rebranding ideas leaving most of your users unaware of the new project (Apache OpenOffice, my own SFLPhone->Inutchuk->Ring.cx->GNU Ring->GNU Jami->Banji fiasco, KOffice).



I understand the embarrassment, I am sometimes embarrassed as well looking at quickly-put-together code

I do appreciate papers that give you either a reference implementation or at least enough details on how it was done. I spent too many hours on papers that didn't trying to reproduce their claimed results...


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QED-it | Software Engineer - Protocol | Tel Aviv

QED-it, a funded Tel-Aviv based startup, is looking for experienced software engineers to join its core team. We are tackling the hardest and most interesting problems in the Blockchain space - solving the consensus/privacy paradox, using zero-knowledge-proofs. ZKP is a new technology, that up until recently was solely explored in academia.

We are funded by smart money from top tier angels, and have assembled a team of experts in cryptography, computer science, security and distributed systems. We’re at the heart of the private Blockchain industry. The founders built and sold successful businesses in the space, and are focusing on privacy as the key to Blockchain deployment, impacting industries from banking to aerospace.

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=As a Software Engineer working on Protocol, you will:=

* Apply zkSNARKs and design protocols in a variety of use-cases

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* You have a few years of work experience in software engineering roles, preferably with some experience in using experimental technologies, cutting-edge environments, languages and algorithms

* Looking to be a part of a product bridging multiple levels of complexity in its first stages

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QED-it, a funded Tel-Aviv based startup, is looking for experienced software engineers to join its core team. We are tackling the hardest and most interesting problems in the Blockchain space - solving the consensus/privacy paradox, using zero-knowledge-proofs. ZKP is a new technology, that up until recently was solely explored in academia.

We are funded by smart money from top tier angels, and have assembled a team of experts in cryptography, computer science, security and distributed systems. We’re at the heart of the private Blockchain industry. The founders built and sold successful businesses in the space, and are focusing on privacy as the key to Blockchain deployment, impacting industries from banking to aerospace.

QED-it is building a unique product combining cutting-edge technology, design and implementation of cryptographic protocols and user/developer-facing APIs. We’re looking to expand our team with more great individuals!

=As a Software Engineer working on Protocol, you will:=

* Apply zkSNARKs and design protocols in a variety of use-cases * Collaborate with research scientists to implement cutting-edge cryptography efficiently * Develop tools to make cryptographic constructions deployable in a multitude of environments

=About you=

* You have a few years of work experience in software engineering roles, preferably with some experience in using experimental technologies, cutting-edge environments, languages and algorithms * Have a strong sense of long-term/delivery trade-off * Looking to be a part of a product bridging multiple levels of complexity in its first stages * Having an academic background in advanced mathematics or equivalent knowledge is an advantage * Good communication skills and able to quickly adapt to new challenges when needed * Without using Google, you know what Q.E.D. means, possibly even 2 different meanings

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QED-it, a funded Tel Aviv based startup, is looking for experienced software engineers to join its core team. We are tackling the hardest and most interesting problems in the Blockchain space - solving the consensus/privacy paradox, using zero-knowledge-proofs. ZKP is a new technology, that up until recently was solely explored in academia.

We are funded by smart money from top tier angels, and have assembled a team of experts in cryptography, computer science, security and distributed systems. We’re at the heart of the private Blockchain industry. The founders built and sold successful businesses in the space, and are focusing on privacy as the key to Blockchain deployment, impacting industries from banking to aerospace. QED-it is building a unique product combining cutting-edge technology, design and implementation of cryptographic protocols and user/developer-facing APIs. We’re looking to expand our team with more great individuals!

-About you-

* You have a few years of work experience in tech roles

* Have a strong sense of long-term/delivery trade-off

* Generalist who likes diving deep into challenging subjects

* Looking to be a part of a product bridging multiple levels of complexity in its first stages

* Enjoys being part of the whole product life-cycle up until the end-user

* Entrepreneurial spirit and a maker mentality

* Previously worked in a startup and/or in a dynamic environment

* Without using Google, you know what Q.E.D. means, possibly even 2 different meanings

-Contact-

Send an e-mail to jobs@qed-it.com!


QED-it | Full-time | Tel Aviv | Onsite and remote

QED-it, a funded Tel Aviv based startup, is looking for experienced software engineers to join its core team. We are tackling the hardest and most interesting problems in the Blockchain space - solving the consensus/privacy paradox, using zero-knowledge-proofs. ZKP is a new technology, that up until recently was solely explored in academia.

We are funded by smart money from top tier angels, and have assembled a team of experts in cryptography, computer science, security and distributed systems. We’re at the heart of the private Blockchain industry. The founders built and sold successful businesses in the space, and are focusing on privacy as the key to Blockchain deployment, impacting industries from banking to aerospace.

QED-it is building a unique product combining cutting-edge technology, design and implementation of cryptographic protocols and user/developer-facing APIs. We’re looking to expand our team with more great individuals!

-About you-

* You have a few years of work experience in tech roles

* Have a strong sense of long-term/delivery trade-off

* Generalist who likes diving deep into challenging subjects

* Looking to be a part of a product bridging multiple levels of complexity in its first stages

* Enjoys being part of the whole product life-cycle up until the end-user

* Entrepreneurial spirit and a maker mentality

* Previously worked in a startup and/or in a dynamic environment

* Without using Google, you know what Q.E.D. means, possibly even 2 different meanings

-Contact-

Send an e-mail to jobs@qed-it.com!


I wish. I don't know how to get this service in Israel, for any amount of money.


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