Hacker News: hackerboos

New comment by hackerboos in "How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices"

hackerboos — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:57:31 +0000

The UK doesn't benefit from protecting these dependencies and we're a change of government away from seeing them all brought to heel.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/05/uk-could-impose...

New comment by hackerboos in "Bitfinex never ‘repaid’ their tokens, they started a ponzi scheme"

hackerboos — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:50:27 +0000

"The new firmware 1.3.3 is immune against this attack since it (1) requires a PIN to compute the public key and (2) uses branch-free computations for deriving the public key from the private key."

New comment by hackerboos in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)"

hackerboos — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:41:30 +0000

Out of interest, is there any movement between your offices? For example - if I started with you in London, would it be possible to transfer to the SF office using an L1 visa?

New comment by hackerboos in "OVH increases pricing with the rise of their next generation DDoS Protection"

hackerboos — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 01:24:56 +0000

Hetzner used to have a bad rep for simply disabling accounts of people getting DDoSd. The have recently claimed to have improved on this https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ddos-schutz

New comment by hackerboos in "Building a Home Lab for Offensive Security and Security Research"

hackerboos — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:04:44 +0000

Price has jumped a bit from your presentation.

New comment by hackerboos in "Edward Snowden: Zcash Is 'Most Interesting Bitcoin Alternative'"

hackerboos — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:36:23 +0000

I don't know much about Zcoin. Looks promising if the description is to be believed.

New comment by hackerboos in "How foreigners Register USA company and USA local business account"

hackerboos — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:36:17 +0000

Stripe Atlas does this. Geared towards internet businesses but still could be useful - https://stripe.com/atlas

New comment by hackerboos in "Edward Snowden: Zcash Is 'Most Interesting Bitcoin Alternative'"

hackerboos — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:48:52 +0000

Every crypto-currency has it's zealots but that's not to detract from what Snowden said about Monero, labelling it "amateur crypto".

Ring signatures have been around longer than zk-snarks so time will tell on that comment.

I do however believe Zcash could be doing a better job for privacy, notably by mandating private transactions once the new "JUBJUB"optimizations have been merged [0].

[0] - https://z.cash/blog/cultivating-sapling-faster-zksnarks.html

New comment by hackerboos in "Bitcoin exchanges are fraught with risks"

hackerboos — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:43:40 +0000

Classic whataboutism.

New comment by hackerboos in "Ethereum Adoption of Zk-SNARK Technology"

hackerboos — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:39:21 +0000

There's also the famous tweet were Zooko said he'd consider bypassing anonymity of ZCash in order to help authorities catch the WannaCry hackers [0] [lol j/k]

I like ZCash but I think Z-transactions (anonymous) should be the default as there has been advances in the performance and memory requirements [1]

[0] - https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856

[lol j/k] - https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863543600663101440

[1] - https://twitter.com/ebfull/status/907997752709091329

New comment by hackerboos in "BlackBerry Inventor Says Canada's Challenge Is Keeping Techies"

hackerboos — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:55:01 +0000

My salary in the UK was £27.5k (North West England), I moved to Toronto and now I get paid £60,000 (about £70,000 including bonus and pension).

Best offer just prior to moving was £45k but that involved a move to London which would have hit my bottom line more than just staying put.

Toronto rents are about half London and other living costs are lower (electricity, transit etc).

New comment by hackerboos in "Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA"

hackerboos — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 03:59:24 +0000

Faster payments is one of the best systems I've used having lived in several countries. Paypal funds to a UK bank usually takes a few minutes.

Here in Canada they have the Interac E-Transfer which is money by email and not usually free $1-$2 per transfer.

It also has a question/answer security component which can be annoying if you simply want to send someone money.

New comment by hackerboos in "Mercury Protocol: Communication Platform Built on the Ethereum Blockchain"

hackerboos — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:02:29 +0000

How is this different than Bitmessage?

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page

New comment by hackerboos in "Four-year professional visas get green light in Thailand"

hackerboos — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:13:24 +0000

Statements from officials are not case law.

Just because the immigration chief in Chiang Mai over 3 years ago said remote work is ok, doesn't mean it will always be this way.

You are at the mercy of the officer in front of you.

New comment by hackerboos in "Four-year professional visas get green light in Thailand"

hackerboos — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:44:27 +0000

South East Asia != East Asia

New comment by hackerboos in "Evercoin: A cryptocurrency exchange platform"

hackerboos — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:39:16 +0000

Any plans to support Monero?

New comment by hackerboos in "VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs"

hackerboos — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 02:27:34 +0000

Set up your own VPN with https://github.com/jlund/streisand

New comment by hackerboos in "Why does Google list North Korea as an option when you sign up?"

hackerboos — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 15:16:10 +0000

Sanctions.

New comment by hackerboos in "Trump Pushes Bill to Cut Number of Green Cards Issued by Half"

hackerboos — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:10:15 +0000

HTTP referrer header is set to allow those incoming from social media to get X articles free a month.

New comment by hackerboos in "Trump Pushes Bill to Cut Number of Green Cards Issued by Half"

hackerboos — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:40:03 +0000

Sad to see the DV lottery is being canned. I've been applying for the last few years.