dangero

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by dangero 13y ago
Why the snark? Is it not a legitimate question?
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Is the NSA on Hacker News?
9 points by dangero 13y ago|12 comments
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by dangero 13y ago
I'm aware that programs can be disassembled and I have written x86 assembly myself. If closed source is not a significant barrier to completely understanding s_rand then I ask for one reference to someone who has completely audited the
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by dangero 13y ago
Hmm I've been having similar concerns about the Windows rand_s function. Every Windows application including every modern browser relies on rand_s for secure random number generation but obviously the function is completely closed sour
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by dangero 13y ago
It is interesting to see policies made in regards to Bitcoin vs. making a policy for all virtual currencies of similar type. I guess the main reason for focusing on Bitoin is that without naming Bitcoin you are forced to create a well defin
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by dangero 13y ago
Would like to hear more detail about how it knows exactly where to drop the package. Best case I can think of would be using your phone to set a GPS location that you want it delivered to. The cool part about that is that I could have them
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by dangero 13y ago
The system is now straining at the seams. Its computational underpinnings have collectively reached 100 times the performance of the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined: more than 50,000 petaflops. Bitcoin’s success has revealed three
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by dangero 13y ago
Well, he was able to transfer out 643.27 coins which was not worth that much at the time and certainly not the windfall that he was hoping for. True, that portion could not be rolled back. I wonder if he kept those or transferred them back
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by dangero 13y ago
Exchange was rolled back to before the hack, so all transactions after that point were voided. In the end nothing happened except that people had their trades reverted during that time.
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by dangero 13y ago
An exchange is nothing more than a marketplace for buyers and sellers. They could in theory not buy the coins till you wanted to cash out, that would be a Ponzi scheme. That happened recently with a small exchange site. See this article: h
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by dangero 13y ago
https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20110630.html "On June 20th at approximately 3:00am JST (Japan Time), an unknown person logged in to the compromised admin account, and with the permissions of that account was able
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by dangero 13y ago
The important point about this incident was that there were no real Bitcoins involved. What happened was that someone added coins to an account balance on mtgox and then sold them. When you are using mtgox you are not actually buying and se
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by dangero 13y ago
I think it depends on why people are buying the coins. If they are buying them to hold them, then it does not really matter. I think there are a lot of people out there who just want to quickly grab some Bitcoins and hold them for the long
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by dangero 13y ago
What's wrong with: vircurex.com cryptsy.com
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by dangero 13y ago
I think the way you could probably do this is that you could let people buy using credit cards, but then not actually give them the bitcoins until the credit card chargeback timeline expired. The risk is obviously that as the exchange opera
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by dangero 13y ago
That was exactly what had changed for me that day. I had already liked the company on my Facebook page out of choice and was perfectly happy to genuinely show support in my own way. Telling me at what hour I needed to post a particular link
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by dangero 13y ago
This happened to me at a startup I worked for and I felt very violated. Since I'm a software engineer I consider my agreed contribution to be focused on software architecture and code writing. One day at our staff meeting the founders
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by dangero 13y ago
Has 23andMe told their side of the story yet? The FDA's press release made it sound like 23andMe was very negligent, but there has to be more to it than that. I can't imagine a company just ignoring the FDA's requests.
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by dangero 13y ago
My only surprise is that the winning team didn't keep their product quiet beforehand and do a good acting job on how hard they had to work to get it done within the deadline. A million dollar prize is very likely to create controversy
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by dangero 13y ago
I'm talking more long term. Right now bitcoin is not a threat or a legitimate replacement for dollars. If and when bitcoins become a normal every day option for purchases, that story could really change. For example, one of the major p
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by dangero 13y ago
Another good question is at what point will the US government and other countries declare bitcoin illegal? If bitcoin becomes widely used it will threaten the power of major governments. I cannot see a scenario where the US or any other maj
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by dangero 13y ago
I was thinking about this article in a meta sense. Why was it written? From my perspective there is nothing special about their process. Then it dawned on me: Payroll is critical business software. When I think of a startup, I think of a co
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by dangero 13y ago
Can you recommend any good books on this topic? You just blew my mind.
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by dangero 13y ago
Good points. I would enjoy reading about companies that went from single contributor to agency smoothly.
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by dangero 13y ago
In the case of a heavily annotated song, I agree that's a decent comparison.
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by dangero 13y ago
I think a pretty close comparison would be a complete transcript of a movie or television program.
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by dangero 13y ago
The key difference here is that Rap Genius does not use clips, but rather the entire lyrical work. Also it's important to note that often times the lyrics on Rap Genius contain no annotation, so in that case, it is not the same situati
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by dangero 13y ago
Twitter isn't on NASDAQ. It's on NYSE.
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by dangero 13y ago
Serious question: Why does the Hacker News crowd seem to be so cynical about big tech IPOs? Considering for most startups this is the dream, why aren't there more congratulatory high fives? Is it just a case of jealousy? This IPO is go
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by dangero 13y ago
I think the main reason you're not finding anything with your approach is that in the event that a team needs someone to work a few extra hours a week in the evening, they hire someone they know personally, like former staff since they

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