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   by yc1010 12y ago

   Of course you are correct (not sure why my comment was downvoted) but in the context of having a unique enough hash TAKEN QUICKLY 99.999% of time in set of millions of files its good enough, if one needs better hashing they can hash the who
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   by yc1010 12y ago

   I love games from Paradoxplaza some of the best strategy games such as Hearts of Iron 3 and of course my all time favorite Europa Universalis 4 which sucked away hours and days of my life are made by them
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   by yc1010 12y ago

   Not really, one could get a unique enough hash by reading the first lets say 10,000 bytes of each file, and it would be faster than hashing the whole file edit: here i was bored enough > http://pastebin.com/NJEvnG1d
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   by yc1010 12y ago

   They dont have to steal the bitcoins Collecting "metadata" such as Address X stored on Computer Y on ip address Z could be worth quite alot to likes of NSA who I am sure have plenty of incentive to monitor crypto-currencies and wo
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   by yc1010 12y ago

   They could look for bitcoin wallet files, thats what typical malware does nowadays. Could theorethically only takes the infection of one computer to strike it rich.
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   by yc1010 12y ago

   Hmm there is a business model right there! Fingerprint popular torrent movie/tv/games etc files and then monitor (via dropbox) their spread and how many computers around the world they end up on, I bet movie studios would love to
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   by yc1010 12y ago

   It does BUT it doesnt have zero fees nor does it have next business day settlement like bitpay does
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   by yc1010 12y ago

   Instead of a walled garden approach, why cant they do a "Verified by Mozilla" badge for each plugin, with warnings if one doesn't have it BUT still giving the user control and choice of whether to use a plugin. I a made a qui
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   by yc1010 12y ago

   I must be onto something true since my earlier comment got downvoted to -2 As a bitcoiner who uses bitcoin daily its sad seeing this happen
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    1. Create exchange 2. Realize its not going anywhere 3. Close citing a hack 4. Profit! go laughing all the way to the bank with the "stolen" ahem ahem bitcoins
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    How do you compare to Transerwise who my business uses for invoices in USD paying here from EUR account? (unfortunately this supplier doesnt accept bitcoin, otherwise there be no need even for transferwise)
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Do you know if its possible to somehow get the 66 to "split" a connection somehow, For example lets say i have a 100mbit symmetric connection coming in with the 66 siting on the end of it as the home office router, can i somehow d
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Asus released updated firmware it seems, that was quick! http://www.asus.com/ie/Networking/RTAC66U/HelpDesk_Download/
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    I would love to use hhvm, unfortunately my IDE of choice PHPStorm doesn't support it yet :( despite a big long list of customers requesting it. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-21737 What editor do Facebo
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    I think the title of this thread should be edited since its highly misleading and first thing people thing is their bank account was closed which would be a huge kick in balls to bitcoin. edit: quite possibly this is a false rumor being spr
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Yes that too :) I remember doing this more than a dozen years ago in university to a local research unix machine we could make accounts on in order to bypass the stupid firewall. In hindsight i think the network admins knew about our trick
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Same would apply for a VPN company or a company selling a proxy (like the person i replied asked for) if you paid with credit card/paypal, governments can and do hit these with requests If are worried about privacy you should be using
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    See my reply here in same thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8834476 Basically having a http proxy (im not talking about web proxies but forward and reverse ones such as tinyproxy & haproxy) has its uses for ex
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    One reason would be if you have coded a robot to scrape http(s) content of other sites, its easier to configure wget/curl/own_code to use your proxy (or even a list of own proxies) than seting up vpn, see my post above in this th
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    1. Buy/spinup a cheap vps (aws or digitalocean) 2. Install tinyproxy (apt-get install tinyproxy) 3. Configure it to bind to the vps public ip, set a high port, limit access to your home/work ip address or range(s) 4. Set your brow
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    I wasnt talking about making money, but cleaning dirty money, different things.
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    I am using it, now does anyone know what will happen to gmail users once this is switched off when it comes to persona?
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    What high costs? the miner fee is like 4 cents whether you send 1$ or 1$ million, and you don't have to pay it if you are cheapskate at expense of waiting longer for confirms.
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Maybe I am being over critical/skeptical but tech companies could be a great way to launder money for organized crime in that part of the world.
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Why should bitcoin "replace traditional currencies" ? Why cant bitcoin exist alongside them?
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Can the bitcoin blockchain be used to somehow store this data?
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    I was happy that "The Martian" won sci-fi book of the year on goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian It is well worth a read and I think HNers and fellow geeks will find it in
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Delighted to see Ebay losing out to Amazon, their terrible site design/layout + all sorts of Paypal horror stories must have driven millions of users away
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    So its not really "unlimited" storage they offer, there is a ceiling that matches the size of a users primary hard drive (max 6-8 TB at present?) with most users probably using laptops with small drives. For example I would love t
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    by yc1010 12y ago

    Does anyone know if there is a set of command line tools (linux) or an api for uploading, downloading and listing files on your account or do they specifically forbid this type of use and obfuscate?