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awesome! :)

This is great! SOOO useful to be able to do mounts w/o fuse, w/o kernel extension, w/o root. This is a HUGE UX thing, specially for macs. Fuse is a really great idea & project, but…

Datasaur looks awesome! Can't wait to try it out. Congrats on the launch! Curious about data security and privacy? How do you guarantee privacy? Is there some cryptography or secur…

Hello! o/ We've responded to a number of points here. You can check out our roadmap > IPFS is unworkable... making it usable in the next few years Absolutely not. The OP brings up …

Decentralizing how we link, address, and move content is the basis of IPFS and Filecoin both. Both are solving different parts of moving our digital infrastructure to infrastructur…

Exactly. P2P systems historically have dealt with the problem altruistically, or with limited tit-for-tat, which both work in many cases, but have so far failed to work for large s…

This is excellent feedback! Thanks! > We even created a plugin ( https://github.com/almonit/almonit-plugin - unreleased officially yet!) for websites that combine IPFS with ENS (a …

Hey HN, this is jbenet -- an author of Filecoin. We think it's great that people ask hard questions, and get involved. It's great to see others studying our work and we really appr…

It's coming shortly (days), it's a WIP that needs significant polish, but the core result is there.

Thanks Craig and YC. Ton of fun.

That's precisely one of the innovations in the new Filecoin paper :) -- we call it Proof-of-Replication. Papers coming soon.

There are people in turkey replicating this snapshot right now. people browsing locally get it there. Even if all connections to outside the country get shut down it can be distrib…

the table is so small you don't actually need to decode varints. any serious application needing speed would build a lookup table for all the common values -- in fact we will. size…

sounds interesting. we're definitely interested in figuring out ways for these protocols and formats to be as useful to others as they can be

Yeah you're right, we've been meaning to add MD5. Filed issue: https://github.com/multiformats/multihash/issues/71

yep, exactly :)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13740369 -- does that make sense? the idea is to treat those parameters as "part of the hash digest value", and write wrappers for siphash …

@hobofan Yeah, exactly. We've explored this by making the value of such hashes (when generated and checked with multihash libs) literally be the ` ` pair. This avoids complicating …

Yeah this is a good point, which we discussed somewhere (not finding the issue atm). The resolution was to treat those as different hash function codes, because the normal usage of…