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Why OCaml? [video](blogs.janestreet.com)
134 points by arto 11y ago|76 comments
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Britain's doomsday nuke subs still run Windows XP(popularmechanics.com)
2 points by arto 11y ago|0 comments
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by arto 11y ago
To paraphrase an old saying about the Lisp programming language: Bitcoin is no deader than usual.
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FIT: A Distributed Database Performance Trade-Off(blog.acolyer.org)
2 points by arto 11y ago|0 comments
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Sneaky adware caught accessing users' Mac Keychain without permission(arstechnica.com)
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by arto 11y ago
Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/3iby4e/verified_co...
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Verified Compilers for a Multi-Language World [pdf](ccs.neu.edu)
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Parrot drones easily taken down or hijacked, researchers demonstrate(arstechnica.com)
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by arto 11y ago
> And the worst part in all of this is that people are still using it, please do something about it... This probably has to do with the ease of setting up or subscribing to a mailing list with Google Groups, even despite how its usabilit
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It's worse than Seinfeld says: PC undermining free speech, expression, liberties(salon.com)
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by arto 11y ago
That's a welcome feature indeed. (Too bad the 3.7 release is still a month away.)
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Why I had to buy my wife's inhaler on the dark web(motherboard.vice.com)
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Crazy performance deviations after replacing 32-bit loop counter with 64-bit(stackoverflow.com)
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by arto 11y ago
Another month, another exploit. Flash and Java are no more insecure than usual for them. The best advice is to disable these plugins as a matter of course, whenever possible.
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by arto 11y ago
> Speaking to Dezeen in New York last month, Bitonti said that the 3D-printing industry needed to open up its intellectual property so that the design and manufacturing community could help drive forward improvements. > "They&#x2
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3D printing has stagnated, says pioneering designer Francis Bitonti(dezeen.com)
1 points by arto 11y ago|1 comments
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by arto 11y ago
The copyright industry wants "new tools to discover the identities of website owners whom they want to accuse of copyright and trademark infringement, preferably without a court order."
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Domain name WHOIS anonymity hangs in the balance under ICANN proposal(arstechnica.com)
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Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth(privateinternetaccess.com)
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by arto 11y ago
Note that Stallman himself is quite comfortable with his notions about mandatory sharing being enforced through state violence: "Richard is against abolishing copyrights because, to his view, without copyright, enforcing copyleft would
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by arto 11y ago
As for lithium (the third-most abundant element after the Big Bang, at 0.00000001% of nuclei), it so happens I was just reading the James S. A. Corey novel Cibola Burn where it plays a role: "People used to think gold was worth fight
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China uses drones to catch students cheating in exams(telegraph.co.uk)
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by arto 11y ago
Looking forward to this. By "very far along" do you mean in terms of specification, implementation, or both?
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by arto 11y ago
CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...
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by arto 11y ago
http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
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Edward Snowden unpopular at home, a hero abroad, poll finds(msn.com)
7 points by arto 12y ago|3 comments
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by arto 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory#Controversy > The history of the FBI Lab hasn't been without controversy. Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, who joined the FBI in 1982 and served as a Supervisory Special Agen
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by arto 12y ago
Fellow Lispers may perhaps also find helpful these notes I put together recently on shebang lines for various open-source Common Lisp implementations: http://ar.to/notes/common-lisp#scripting-with-common-lisp
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by arto 12y ago
As Jacob Appelbaum observes in the documentary Citizenfour, "What we used to call liberty and freedom we now call privacy. And now people are saying privacy is dead."
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> The robust response generated by the vaccine, as well as its novel mechanism, has the researchers undertaking additional experiments in mice to determine whether it can be used to treat individuals already infected by HSV-1 and HSV-2.

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