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"That said, some forms of electronic payment more closely mirror physical currency. In particular, crypto-currencies and other digital currencies are generally unregulated and do n…

No, use golang:1.10-alpine for the build, keep the second stage the same.

You can remove CGO_ENABLED=0 by using the Go Alpine image (golang:1.10-alpine). The issue is caused by Alpine images being musl libc based.

This is really common in Australia - I've found the biggest giveaway of a fake-craft brand is that the alcohol content is generally 4.8% (which just happens to be the governments d…

Why would you use this over LLVM? e.g. pyston (LLVM Python) and then using llc -march=rustc/c/cpp/whatever to convert?

I've witnessed this first hand - we recently started rolling out measured goals in our warehouses. This involved staff getting set daily goal counts for certain tasks (products shi…

Not in the long term obviously, but you can't make a product extremely difficult to buy and then complain that everyone is taking the easy route.

The OSVDB website contains no signup page for commercial access. No pricing either, purely sign up via contacting someone. From my experience whenever I see this, I just refuse to …

Paywall free: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eIDjXrk...

During University one of the projects we were given was to write a regular expression parser and evaluator. From the moment that project was complete I have never had trouble under…

Having out of date packages on production servers is also dangerous. It really depends what you consider your biggest risk to be: downtime vs getting hacked due to an out-of-date p…

"The message will be accompanied by a short video message by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and images required for the re-creation of fundraiser banners." The thought that a fe…

Could also just name your hosts appropriately and use something like puppet to create and update DNS records for your hosts automatically.

Curious, if Path is acquired does the purchaser also acquire the 20 year privacy assessment requirements? Does this make acquisition unlikely?

I've always viewed TDD as a process that works for some people. It's always important to remember that people learn, develop and think differently. If TDD works for you, great. But…

> That is: users hate ads. But someone has to pay for all this stuff. Curious if this is actually the case. I certainly don't hate ads, except when they are obnoxiously annoying bu…

I work in ecommerce and this guy and others like him have been creating this stuff for 3-4 years. It's a massive annoyance for us as the only real identifier we got from suppliers …

I actually like these health articles appearing on HN - I understand it's not on-topic, but the majority of people here sit on computers all day so the occasional tip is useful. I …

China is a super power. I don't believe poor living standards preclude it from being so. The Chinese exert huge influence over the Asia region. It's why your starting to see USA pl…

This looks like a really awesome idea, but I can't help but wonder if they are walking into a patent minefield?