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Re:A Primer on DarkNet Marketplaces on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:29PM (#12955148)
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.
You only need to change a few words:

"In other words, they simply didn't test their (global!) custom route announcement management software. An edge case was triggered in production, and unsurprisingly they automatically went offline."

Re:Squash your commits on Friday April 01, 2016 @09:00PM (#11409691)

  ultimately I lose a bunch of work.
Take a copy of the entire repository before attempting anything potentially destructive.
Re:Squash your commits on Friday April 01, 2016 @07:58PM (#11409455)

  man git stash
Re:Wow, Perl 6 [video] on Friday April 01, 2016 @07:22PM (#11409282)
I have no problem with lazy lists. It's the "0, 2 ... \infty" expression which offends me.
Re:Wow, Perl 6 [video] on Friday April 01, 2016 @10:11AM (#11404856)

  > 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.
Re:Wow, Perl 6 [video] on Friday April 01, 2016 @12:45AM (#11402704)
Ah, right. Thanks.
Re:Wow, Perl 6 [video] on Friday April 01, 2016 @12:30AM (#11402626)

   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"?
Re:Google launches Public Datasets program on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @09:06PM (#11386265)
Your best is different from his/her best.
Re:A Decade of Container Control at Google on Monday March 28, 2016 @10:14PM (#11379059)
When did the internal projects start using Kubernetes? I heard that its uptake within Google has been very anemic.
Side question: what is NPMJS Inc's business model?
Re:Live with me; and I'll teach you how to program on Saturday March 26, 2016 @02:35PM (#11366805)
Being enthusiastic for wholesome things is a skill in its own right.
Re:Docker for Mac and Windows Beta on Friday March 25, 2016 @12:55AM (#11358550)
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
Re:On the Impending Crypto Monoculture on Friday March 25, 2016 @12:35AM (#11358501)
f(X)=sha1(concat(md5(X), X)), then.
Re:NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? on Thursday March 24, 2016 @09:47AM (#11352684)
If it was a good implementation, I'd agree with you, but it's not: https://github.com/azer/left-pad/pulls
Re:NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? on Thursday March 24, 2016 @09:37AM (#11352593)

  >  I can use multiple debuggers
What does this look like, and how does it improve the experience over using a single debugger?
Re:What ISPs can see on Sunday March 13, 2016 @10:25PM (#11280686)
iVPN. Mainly based on their excellent privacy tutorials: https://www.ivpn.net/blog/privacy-guides

Steer clear of PIA. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982095

Re:The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp on Sunday March 13, 2016 @10:15PM (#11280645)
The whole world is flooded with fiction about using guns to stop bad people with guns. The narrative around crypto is tiny by comparison.
Re:Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones on Sunday March 13, 2016 @09:56PM (#11280562)
Classic HN response.
Re:Wmail – Desktop client for Gmail and Google Inbox on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:10PM (#11155957)
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.
Re:The Ad Blocking Wars on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:41PM (#11148070)
> 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...

Re:Python 3 in 2016 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @09:53AM (#11126104)

  > What language has decorators, generators, comprehensions, modules, but isn't Python?
Clojure, Haskell. :-)
Is there an emacs package for this?

Is the server code open-source as well?

Re:Why GNU Emacs? on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:22PM (#11115015)

  > Most of my time is spent outside of the editor
Emacs has a leg up, in this respect.
Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @08:51AM (#11072666)
It cost $750 to become a citizen, last time I checked.
Re:The Research Pirates of the Dark Web on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @08:49AM (#11072655)
Has anyone successfully found something useful which they couldn't find elsewhere using this tool? I tried it on a few things yesterday and was disappointed.
Re:AI That Annoys Telemarketers on Saturday February 06, 2016 @02:18PM (#11049253)

  > 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?
Re:Bill Gates: My parents took me to a child psychologist on Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:41PM (#11007668)
He's humble-bragging.
Oh, look, another genome-wide association study found a suggestive correlation. Didn't we learn our lesson about this kind of bullshit in the Zeros?

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