Hacker News: zackya89

Google Play refuses to take down a fake crypto wallet used to harvest coins

zackya89 — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 22:48:16 +0000

Someone recently lost over $34k of ADA coins as it successfully masqueraded as mobile version of Daedalus Wallet, here is the fake app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adaCardano.daedaluswallet

with what seem to be massive amounts of fake positive reviews, and somehow +5000 downloads looks super legit, despite several attempts by community members and the cardano team, it has fallen on deaf ears

sources:

https://old.reddit.com/r/cardano/comments/ltv3df/this_fake_daedalus_wallet_is_a_real_problem_and/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26288889

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New comment by zackya89 in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

zackya89 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:35:41 +0000

You dont pay 2 Billion, and leave it untouched, they see an earnings potential in the company given the right management and shareholders expect ROI that is higher then the average market return

New comment by zackya89 in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

zackya89 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:33:06 +0000

the history of Microsoft is the reason why we all reacting this way. But encouraged by the move they made lately coming into Linux, even though other players have forced their hand

New comment by zackya89 in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

zackya89 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:30:40 +0000

Alternatives and no not bitbucket

New comment by zackya89 in "Who Killed the Junior Developer?"

zackya89 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:25:38 +0000

This I can nod agreed with, Im forced into open office, with a lot of marketing people, and I cant be productive, often times I end up spending my time at home fixing the hard problems, and just doing the easy ones at work. btw. I'm a junior dev. without mentor working with non tech people.

New comment by zackya89 in "Who Killed the Junior Developer?"

zackya89 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:21:41 +0000

Im hired as junior dev. at a relatively large non-tech company, to provide them with software tools, I built all these tools by myself with no mentoring and no help, My fear is this, my code looks clunky (probably not written according to good software design ?), and hard to read for others, I also have no skills in collaboration, how would I be able to grow these skills without a mentor ?.

New comment by zackya89 in "Ask HN: What's the next big advance in AI you're looking forward to most?"

zackya89 — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 21:17:28 +0000

advances in general intelligence

New comment by zackya89 in "The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect"

zackya89 — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:57:09 +0000

Does Tesla still use Lidar ?

New comment by zackya89 in "African Startups Are Increasingly Attractive to Investors"

zackya89 — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 08:22:45 +0000

pm'ed you, also a software developer who increasingly been thinking of doing something in Africa

New comment by zackya89 in "Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech""

zackya89 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:34:50 +0000

https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/893184595239329793

New comment by zackya89 in "Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer robots"

zackya89 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:09:21 +0000

As far as i understand it, you dont have be math wiz, but have good grasp of the more common statistical analysis, regression etc..

New comment by zackya89 in "Successful Solo Founders"

zackya89 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 02:06:17 +0000

but what if you cant find anyone, or you too introverted to find anyone to work with, I'm very technical, but find it extremely difficult to speak with them, often im asked by others to just make something for them and thats it.

New comment by zackya89 in "Dismantled Tesla Model S found in truck"

zackya89 — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 23:11:02 +0000

great question... patiently waiting for the answer

New comment by zackya89 in "The Guardian Pulls Out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News"

zackya89 — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 23:30:01 +0000

As the commenter above me stated, in 2015 Alan Rusbridger left and got replaced with Katharine Viner

New comment by zackya89 in "Shopify is processing over $260k per minute right now"

zackya89 — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:27:04 +0000

for context, sorry if ignorant question but what else do they write with when full scale, I thought twittter was written on rails as well

New comment by zackya89 in "Ecuador acknowledges it has "temporarily restricted" Assange's communications"

zackya89 — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:39:44 +0000

Yes, The US Govt. would never have an agenda. I dont regard Russia as some democratic bastion, quite the contrary, but let's not pretend that the U.S is a democratic bastion, its more of an oligarchy compared to most industrialized countries with legalized bribery.

New comment by zackya89 in "Ecuador acknowledges it has "temporarily restricted" Assange's communications"

zackya89 — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:33:23 +0000

wonder what he thinks of Trump ? Julian Assange: Choosing Between Trump or Clinton is Like Picking Between Cholera or Gonorrhea.

I guess a simple google search was way too difficult ?

New comment by zackya89 in "Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt"

zackya89 — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 10:16:24 +0000

of course no one should stick their neck out, In this ungrateful nation, filled with the individualism and everyone looking for their own career enhancement, real whistleblowers get treated very very harshly from Chelsea Manning, to Tim Drake to Ed Snowden.

Whats worse is that the media im talking (CNN,MSNBC,FOX,ABC..Wash Post, NY Times) could have helped argue their case but they dont instead they are fed information from the government and report that as facts, of course this is nothing new, if anyone remembers the NY Times story about Saddam Hussein having WMDs)

New comment by zackya89 in "The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true"

zackya89 — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 18:18:02 +0000

what is clickbait, is the comment section where people only read the headline, and think of black hole as the nightmare scenario. Just read through the blogpost, must be one of the rare ones, as the commenter above me as well explained so eloquently this is nightmare scenario, there is no new guidance and particle physicists are not going in other directions they still waiting to see some sort of super symmetry or some kind of evidence of string theory, the field is lacking new ideas.

New comment by zackya89 in "Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate"

zackya89 — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 18:09:47 +0000

that headline though ?, online journalism at its worst, the chase for clicks, there really needs to be some solution to this problem journalism is dying and clickbait is where is at.