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zfran··on Largest Bitcoin mixer, Bitmixer.io, closes down
getting the information from a tightly regulated bank could be a different story to getting it from an anonymous service on Tor though. They probably don't even store it.
zfran··on Largest Bitcoin mixer, Bitmixer.io, closes down
completely unrelated as in if you follow the transaction graph they haven't crossed paths, so you'd need the mixer log to break the mixing.

It's difficult to know what they do with the coins, but they could be selling them on an exchange to move onto a different currency and then buy bitcoin again.

zfran··on Largest Bitcoin mixer, Bitmixer.io, closes down
good mixers do that. They give you coins that are completely unrelated to yours
zfran··on 153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
actually the best practice is not writing your own code and using thoroughly audited industry standards. Writing your own smart contracts for things that other people have already done and secured is akin to rolling out your own cryptography. Obviously, just like it's happened with openssl in the cryptography equivalency, this can also go wrong, but it's less likely.

If you write your own you should get your code audited by a specialist, or many, before deploying.

zfran··on Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for?
do you worry about the weights of your net being stolen off the app through reverse engineering?
zfran··on Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop
chances are that once it comes out someone will hack it/reverse it to "run" on a standard Linux setup
zfran··on Ask HN: Which is harder Front end or Back end?
I'd say back-end. The front-end of any software no matter how complex it is it will always run on a single device, while a scalable back-end could imply a complex architecture composed of multiple components running across multiple servers, all working together to serve the front-end.
zfran··on Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs
That's weird. They did lots of publicity with Nokia and Movistar in Argentina.
zfran··on Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop
who's gonna pay in bitcoin when they can do it in shitty soon-to-devaluate pesos?
zfran··on Software in 2014
yeah. I know of a startup doing significant data analysis with long-running (months without restarting) php processes.
zfran··on Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work?
could you briefly describe the benefits of each?
zfran··on Argentina's Currency Black Market
You can. In limiting countries you have a ridiculously low limit, and in further countries it's a bit higher. I was able to withdraw about €850 in Europe two weeks ago.
zfran··on HackerPit: challenge your inner hacker
Got to level 2 and gave up on the Twitter app one, since I'm running Linux and I don't have an Apple computer handy.
zfran··on Show HN: Laravel 4 - This framework is revolutionizing PHP.
what's so revolutionizing about it?
zfran··on Ask HN: Have you settled on a Google Reader replacement?
Yes, Feedly. I tried it out when Google announced the shutdown, and I wasn't completely satisfied, but then 2 or 3 weeks after that I started using it more and it felt a lot better. I don't know exactly what changes they made, or if they made any at all, but the experience feels fairly polished now. I like to think that they worked on the feedback the Google Reader refugees gave them. I'm quite happy with it, and I've stopped using Reader completely.
zfran··on Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help
Take a "founder leave of absence" and start doing consulting. Tell them that as soon as they raise money you're back on (they probably won't).
zfran··on Argentines are now allowed to know the real rate of inflation
meh. Nice to see some rationality but the real rate of inflation measured by private entities never stopped being published by senators in congress taking advantage of their immunity.
zfran··on Steam for Linux Beta Now Available
no, I just extracted the .deb file and put its contents where they should be for the client to run.

   ar x steam.deb
   tar xf data.tar.gz
   cp -r usr/ /
zfran··on Steam for Linux Beta Now Available
To then install TF2:

    steam steam://install/440
zfran··on Steam for Linux Beta Now Available
Working perfect on Archlinux i368 with XFCE. Way more responsive than in Windows for me.
zfran··on Google Earnings Come Early; Shares Drop
Android?
zfran··on Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek
> We hired a (very smart) Argentine national friend

Any chance we could know who that was? I'm argentinian too and I'm curious.

zfran··on Autodesk Buys Socialcam for $60M
Autodesk sounds like a weird acquirer, but I'm happy for them. I had heard that they had been diluted to nothing in justin.tv so I'm glad they got the reward they deserve.
zfran··on Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings
You did confirm it. He said the economy has been growing since 2002 and that's true even if the growth rate has slowed down. Going from 7% to 3% annual growth rate is still a growing economy.
zfran··on Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings
Online newspapers post the rates daily. Buying from the black master is just a matter of heading downtown and looking for people offering exchange in the streets. It's accessible for anyone.
zfran··on There is no retirement
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, it's 80% in Spanish but now and then some foreigner comes asking questions in English and that gives place to lengthy threads in English, mostly written by argentines.
zfran··on There is no retirement
that's weird. Come around reddit.com/r/argentina and you'll see the same kind of writing quality.
zfran··on Michael Arrington should totally hire this idiot?
Seems a bit desperate. Not the best way to promote yourself.
zfran··on Skype 4.0 for Linux
Can't run two instances at the same time. Complete deal breaker for those of us that use a personal account and a professional one.
zfran··on F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business
except that Google's algorithms are being constantly tweaked and improved. Crap code is only left alone as is when it won't be touched anymore. If the code being crap makes your day to day hard, the best bet would be to refactor (given that you have the money and time, which Google has).
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