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blogs.wsj.com 11y ago

China’s Internet Censors Now Have Their Own Theme Song, and It Is Glorious

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www.telegraph.co.uk 11y ago

Bangladesh bans Bitcoin transactions

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medium.com 11y ago

Appeal against the Italian seismology manslaughter case begins in October

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www.chrishardie.com 13y ago

Margins on website development are shrinking

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bitcointalk.org 14y ago

Bitcoinica lost customer database, has no up to date record of trading balances

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boss.blogs.nytimes.com 14y ago

A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to sandbox untrusted code?

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www.documentcloud.org 15y ago

Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs

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www.theglobeandmail.com 15y ago

In cyberspy vs. cyberspy, China has the edge

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dailycaller.com 15y ago

US Sec. of Transport: We’re looking into tech to disable cell phones in vehicles

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Automation to monitor and control AWS usage?

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ridddlr.com 16y ago

Ask HN: What is ridddlr.com?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Alternatives to Skype To Go?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption?

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kindlepublishing.amazon.com 16y ago

Kindle development kit is now available.

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Looking for TTW music practice startups

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Major technical difficulties you've faced in smartphone development?

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It seems likely that the NSA is running a large fraction of tor nodes, and doing exactly what you suggest. It would cost a trivial fraction of their budget, and yield huge amounts of relevant information.

Squash your commits 10 years ago
  ultimately I lose a bunch of work.
Take a copy of the entire repository before attempting anything potentially destructive.
Wow, Perl 6 [video] 10 years ago
  > There are some people who appreciate games that are very abstract and with
  > simple rules from which complex behavior emerges, such as a game like Go.
I love Go, but I despise perl. Perl is not built on "very abstract and simple rules. For instance, this code is quite hard to reason about:
    1: my @to-infinity-and-beyond = 0, 2 … ∞;
    2: say @to-infinity-and-beyond[1008];
    
    # OUTPUT:
    # 2016
This is self-indulgent mucking around. An inference procedure which goes from "0, 2 … ∞" to "the even-nonnegative integers" is bound to lead to unpleasant and hard-to-debug surprises.
Wow, Perl 6 [video] 10 years ago
   say "Code took {now - INIT now} seconds to run";
   # Code took 0.01111143 seconds to run
Implicit string interpolation??? What if I just want to print out the string "now"?

You could probably whitelist with a .dockerignore like

    *           # exclude everything
    !README.md  # include the README.
    !run.sh     # include the initiation script
You would want to check exactly what the globbing rules are for the .dockerignore file, though. I don't know whether '*' will catch .dotfiles, for instance.
  https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#dockerignore-file
  https://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Match

Are there any CLI gmail clients which can handle 2FA? I'd like to have a way to read my work email in emacs, but I'm pretty sure work would be unhappy about me putting an app-specific credential on my hard-drive without 2FA.

How much are you really worried by this?

It's a very serious ethical issue. You might not have any exploitable weaknesses given the current technology, but other people do: alcoholism, pain medication, financial distress, loneliness, straight-up boredom...

Python 3 in 2016 10 years ago
  > What language has decorators, generators, comprehensions, modules, but isn't Python?
Clojure, Haskell. :-)
Why GNU Emacs? 10 years ago
  > Most of my time is spent outside of the editor
Emacs has a leg up, in this respect.
  > had to clock out even to use the bathroom (illegal practice that the company just broke the law on).
Assuming you're in the US, what's the relevant law?