Hacker News: Estragon

New comment by Estragon in "A Primer on DarkNet Marketplaces"

Estragon — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:29:30 +0000

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.

New comment by Estragon in "Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11"

Estragon — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 05:53:43 +0000

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."

New comment by Estragon in "Executable code snippets in Bing"

Estragon — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 03:31:59 +0000

No code returned. :(

https://www.bing.com/search?q=solution+to+halting+problem

New comment by Estragon in "Squash your commits"

Estragon — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 01:00:13 +0000

  ultimately I lose a bunch of work.

Take a copy of the entire repository before attempting anything potentially destructive.

New comment by Estragon in "Squash your commits"

Estragon — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:58:09 +0000

  man git stash

New comment by Estragon in "Wow, Perl 6 [video]"

Estragon — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:22:42 +0000

I have no problem with lazy lists. It's the "0, 2 ... \infty" expression which offends me.

New comment by Estragon in "Wow, Perl 6 [video]"

Estragon — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:11:40 +0000

  > 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.

New comment by Estragon in "Wow, Perl 6 [video]"

Estragon — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:45:37 +0000

Ah, right. Thanks.

New comment by Estragon in "Wow, Perl 6 [video]"

Estragon — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 04:30:01 +0000

   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"?

New comment by Estragon in "Google launches Public Datasets program"

Estragon — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:06:40 +0000

Your best is different from his/her best.

New comment by Estragon in "A Decade of Container Control at Google"

Estragon — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 02:14:26 +0000

When did the internal projects start using Kubernetes? I heard that its uptake within Google has been very anemic.

New comment by Estragon in "Show HN: EverythingStays – Immutable and Distributed Node.js Modules with IPFS"

Estragon — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:39:48 +0000

Side question: what is NPMJS Inc's business model?

New comment by Estragon in "Live with me; and I'll teach you how to program"

Estragon — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:35:17 +0000

Being enthusiastic for wholesome things is a skill in its own right.

New comment by Estragon in "Docker for Mac and Windows Beta"

Estragon — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 04:55:30 +0000

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

New comment by Estragon in "On the Impending Crypto Monoculture"

Estragon — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 04:35:05 +0000

f(X)=sha1(concat(md5(X), X)), then.

New comment by Estragon in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

Estragon — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:47:10 +0000

If it was a good implementation, I'd agree with you, but it's not: https://github.com/azer/left-pad/pulls

New comment by Estragon in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

Estragon — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:20 +0000

  >  I can use multiple debuggers

What does this look like, and how does it improve the experience over using a single debugger?

New comment by Estragon in "What ISPs can see"

Estragon — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:25:36 +0000

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

New comment by Estragon in "The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp"

Estragon — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:15:19 +0000

The whole world is flooded with fiction about using guns to stop bad people with guns. The narrative around crypto is tiny by comparison.

New comment by Estragon in "Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones"

Estragon — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 01:56:29 +0000

Classic HN response.