skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bank of England blog: HTTPS only

Bank of England primary website: HTTP only

They get bonus points for their Let's Encrypt cert and a solid 'A' on SSL Labs (some amusing alt names on the cert though - not their fault and no big deal).

Maybe someone at the bank will realize soon that HTTPS is for more than protecting log-ins, it guarantees the integrity of the page and makes sure the browser displays only and exactly what was sent, with no tampering in transit.
>Punishing doctors for making human errors will not result in perfection.

Yeah but it's not just about punishment. A small portion of medical professionals account for a disproportionately large amount of all medical malpractice claims. The worst 1% accounted for a third of all malpractice claims according to a recent study. I agree that we shouldn't be cracking down on individual mistakes, but we certainly do need to crack down on doctors who are significantly more likely to harm patients in the future.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/857885
Sounds like someone has just put together a collection of dumps into one master list as opposed to these being the result of a new breach. Still could be useful.
I've been saved most of the time by having lots of similar sounding people in my address book. The other night I was lying in bed and was setting a reminder and it almost called one of my coworkers (or someone I trained with a few years ago).

So the obvious solution is either to have duplicate contact entries or only associate with people who sound like those you already know, so that Siri has to go to the "do you mean Person A or Person B?" state :)
The only catch with this is that "Note that word experiment! We'll start small and figure it out as we go. But here are the initial conditions." can very easily be taken to mean "we'll start small this time, and adjust things for the next time, figuring it out as we go." That's how I, and seemingly some others, interpreted it.

"We'll change things next time based on the results of this experiment" and "We'll change things this time as we see fit and appropriate" are very different, though your initial statement can be read as implying either.

I don't even think one is better than the other - I would just be more careful about communicating which it really is, next time. You guys are free to do what you want, heh. This entire "debacle," if you can even call it that, is actually a great case study in how and why clear communication is so important. The problem wasn't the decision that was made, but rather how it was communicated.
Apparently this is now a designated safe space.
"Most home users" are never going to install OpenWRT on anything, RPi, or otherwise. Of those that do, it seems likely that they will max out the throughput of a RPi, especially now that >100Mbps internet is common place is some countries, and is becoming increasingly available in others (like the US).

There are some RPi like boards with a single GigE, but they suffer from having smaller developer communities, and still come up short on IO when compared to a networking platform, which will typically have 1-2GigE lanes to the SoC, integrated 2 or 3 stream 2.4 GHz WiFi and a 1-2x miniPCIe interfaces.

Right now, probably the cheapest most capable router is the Ubiqti EdgeRouterX for $50 (no wifi though). It has a 2 core/4 thread MIPS CPU that can do ~1Gbps NAT/ROuting with hardware offloads and ~500Mbps just using the CPU and DMA hardware.
Tesla's Wild New Forecast Changes the Trajectory of an Entire Industry
But don't Google also analyze how long you spent at a site when you click results. So you click into a site, it's not what you wanted so you back out and click another result. Google records that and sees that site wasn't useful to you at that time for that search word. So it drops in popularity.
What do you mean by "valid"?

If you mean "mathematically correct" then yes that is my premise.

If you mean "correct in reality" then no.

If you have a prior belief "god created humans" with a 99% confidence, it will take a lot of evidence to override that - especially since the evidence will be a long way down a causality chain (as any online argument about evolution will show). Additionally, the confidence in that belief will be erroneously increased by lots of things you see in nature (eg - humans cannot create other life forms, therefore it must have been done by something supernatural).
> I have a strong sense that you're vastly over-engineering something.

and you're 100% right it wouldn't be interesting otherwise :D (I'm not gonna use this on real work no worries)
This looks promising and different. I like that they say up front that some staff opinions will align with the views of the organization and some will not. I'm sure someone will come up with something shallow to complain about but this is actually cool.
Wanted: Web front end programmer (paid – MVP)
I have a long-term project that I'm working on, and I've reached the stage where I need a toy version to play with to see what I've got wrong and test early ideas. Yes, I could do this myself, but I honestly don't have the time to acquire the necessary specific skills for front-end programming.

So I'm looking to employ someone to create the MVP with me. This will be a paid task, and whoever ends up working with me on it will be able to influence the specification, content, scope, look and feel, and more. But it's a very short-term task in the first instance.

If you think you'd be interested, email me and I can send you more details. If you're worried that I'll be unreasonable, I'm even willing to discuss the idea of making all our negotiations and interactions visible on HN. Just a thought.

In the interests of full disclosure, I've put this request on HN before, had some expressions of interest, sent replies, and then had total silence, even after follow-up emails. No idea why.
You're missing the point others are trying to make. I'm all for experimentation - by all means. I experiment literally every single day, often failing, but occasionally succeeding.

The issue was that it wasn't clear there would be rule-changing or experimentation /during/ the experiment, rather than after the experiment.
reminds me docs.google.com

I thought it as a canonical pointer for Office 365 docs.
App Store search is broken
lots of apps can't be searched right now
I can't think of a single reason why Apple would want to delete the files from the user's computer apart from an intent to lock the user in to the service by making it tremendously hard to leave. That's the black hole of UI dark patterns.
Yeah easy. Unfortunately vector drawables are API21+ on Android. A large chunk of my users aren't on API21+. Google helpfully provides app compatibility with older versions by rasterizing to all possible dpi sizes during the gradle build process which makes your apk huge of course and defeats the purpose of vector drawables. So you probably want to try a third party library instead of vector drawables. The most popular one seems to be badaboom/androidsvg. It requires setup code on every imageview to load. So you probably want to use a custom view to make it easier and avoid repeating code everywhere. Of course then you use other libraries that aren't setup to use those custom views and your back to manually rasterizing in code. Easy!
"Our goal is to bring more of our thinking into the public domain..."

Like any other bank: Rob the small people, give to the rich, make the government your bitch
What are some of the biological reasons humans have higher death rates in childbirth?
Popular scheme implementations benchmarked
>I believe individuals caught doing that with movies have been faced with some hefty fines.

I doubt it. The only hefty fines were for redistribution, not mere copying/download.
Developers wanted for Osmocom GSM related work
If anyone found this useful I've put up a Github repo with a docker-compose.yml file and a tiny Jenkins agent image of around (150mb) down from 650mb.

https://github.com/alexellis/jenkins2docker/
Just because the pilot is identified as the cause does not mean that anyone is blaming the pilot for being negligent. If a pilot sneezed while landing he's still the cause but that certainly doesn't make him negligent just because he made a mistake. Aviation (and computer science for that matter) is built around mitigating faults and mistakes at every level, that's the biggest part of why air travel is so safe is that it's designed around failure being acceptable. There are contingencies for anything that can foreseeably go wrong because in reality nothing is perfect, and certainly not the pilots.

We need to be treating doctors how we treat pilots.
Until those companies tanks. Hopefully it wouldn't happen too fast, but the blockchain isn't dependent on a gatekeeper.
I'm doing something similar, consider it as hackernews with tags ( and child tags), if there is any interest you can add your email to the beta waiting list here: http://goo.gl/forms/gXjdU9he2r

And a non finished version for a client can be found here http://tagly.azurewebsites.net (= username: demo & password: 123456 ) - the user submitted content is in Dutch :)

Example: http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/Home/ByTag?Name=paul-graham

It's great as document management system.

Eg. Computer company : trending anti-virus measures

Accountancy : trending kmo tax changes

Software firm : organize relevant learning resources for beginners ( eg. React tutorials ) and a tag : internal, which links to gitlab, Jenkins, your wiki, client remote credentials, company contacts, PBX install software,...
> (Though non-trivial programs can't be reasoned about mathematically much more than biological systems can).

I wouldn't be so sure. I once applied for a company that was about proving various safety properties of control and signalling applications (for trains). Sizeable applications. They have problems with the halting problem and combinatorial explosions, but they get around those and do it anyway.
Rejection Letters of the Philosophers
Who Invented Homework?
Im so happy that I never ever in my front-end career had to implement some designers PSDs.

The only images I got where mocks with stuff I already implemented but needed some changes...

On the other hand, I consider myself a software and usability engineer, maybe giving greater focus to nontechnical aspects of software has safed me from having to do what a designer tells me to...
It's not a cost reason, most likely it's management doing the mockups. Powerpoint it's all they know.
I was surprised 'a book' wasn't an option.
This is why I'm a "createc".

Front to back end. Involved throughout the project process.
Gets the job done. Everyone happy.
Fully managed (and often exceeded) expectations.
This is completely propaganda. "Zeitgeist", "Crystal Ball" -- These are all lagging indicators and gives no authority to YC as having some predictive capacity to the world of technology.
What happened to app store search?
Try searching for "uber" or "tinder", not even in the search results.
>I don't understand why they didn't at least add a few commands for YouTube. At least "play Band", "play Song by Band", "play Music-Genre", "play something like X", "I feel sad/happy/lonely/bored play some music".

Because YouTube ain't a music player? [1] And besides they have their own music app.

[1] Seriously, even though some people use it as such, this is far from most. According to YouTube itself, the average user only spends 1 hour per month listening to music on YouTube -- consumption is mostly non-music videos.
the video became private, anyone know the title of the video or is there another copy of it somewhere else?
It's hard for the layman to see any science happening with climate science. All we hear is predictions that have already come true before they were made, vague unfalsifiable predictions for the near future and the more concrete predictions for so far in the future that we haven't had a chance to test them yet. Maybe we can trust that climate scientists somehow blinded themselves to recent data while making their models, then wrote up or even published their predictions before unblinding themselves and saying "Wow, it turned out to be right!". But we don't hear much about those important methodological details in the popular press. We don't hear about the track record of correct vs incorrect predictions. Each side of the debate only skews it to serve its own interests.

For example, I recently read a story on a pro climate change website listing many failures of previous climate predictions. However every single failure was one where it turned out the effect was greater than predicted, never smaller. Thus serving the goal of scaring people. That's probably not really a fair showing of all predictions.
Setting Up CloudFlare's Universal SSL and Origin CA on Plan 28
OK, so?

Outages happen. News at 11.
Don't confuse "important" with "fundamental". He probably meant foundational to begin with.

The web for instance is an unholy mess. We can do better for mass electronic publishing. We don't because that huge pile of crap is already there, and it's so damn useful.
I suspect they are salting and using timestamp so that two similar documents don't get the same hash?
I'd like to read exactly what those critics say because I'm curious to see if they are accounting for the difference in driving culture between the US and Japan. Specifically, in Japan:

1. Owning a car in Japan is no where near as simple as in the US. One of the requirements that makes the private charging stations criticism sound ignorant is that you must have a legal verified parking spot to own a car. So the majority of people who own electric cars will only need to use a charging station when they are away from home for longer than a single charge. This is probably not applicable in most daily use.

2. Charging stations can be left unattended for 24 hour use. That's a huge plus as electric cars start spreading. Why? Because in Japan, many gas stations close and are unavailable during most night hours. Finding 24 hour stations (usually self pump ones) after 7-8pm can be difficult in some areas. So the gap between accessible fill-up/charge-up spots isn't as big as most Americans are imagining. Of course a gap exists, but that will only close over time. (edit: people also are much more conscious about having a full tank before departing on long trips. It's just one of those things you have to think about when driving in Japan.)

3. Last is the daiko/taxi system in Japan. Read about the 0% alcohol tolerance system and how this car service system works to make people's lives easier here. Heck, you can't even ride your bike while drunk in Japan. The way people approach transportation here is just different.

The driving culture in Japan is very different and it's hard to take that criticism seriously unless some hard numbers and studies are done to take into account the massive difference in driving culture.
Send me a pm or email me 315mgmt at gmail
No More Home Keys with Nuki
Never. I just took backup of my contacts twice in my lifetime when I was formatting my mobile.
"he was Britain first Muslim cabinet minister under Corbin Frank"
What do you think about http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/ (= username: demo & password: 123456 ) ( self plug)
"Dumbed Down" != "Refined". I see value in his Refined GitHub, but Refined Twitter I had to disable and will have to revisit.
Respectfully, I still have to disagree here. Of course it's an explicit rule of HN - that has always been clear. However, the reasoning for that is that we want the HN community to decide on what's interesting and gets on the front page. Yes, that's simplified, but true at a high level.

But this was not just another HN submission. This had nothing to do with 'keeping the front page interesting'. This had to do with allowing HN to "democratically" elect companies they thought were best to fund. A candidate company asking its supporters to...support them does not only seem obvious, but very different from HN trying to keep the front page clean.

If you disagree that they are different forms of using HN and not the same spirit of submission, I'm not sure we'll be able to agree here, which is also totally fine, of course. :)
Designed to help StartUps focus on their growth
Hmmm.. this must be making the rounds on social media again, because someone just (re)posted this a few hours earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631118
FYI, to own a car in Japan, you must have a legal verified parking spot that you own. For most people, that probably means land in the same area as your home. So even without a garage, they should still be able to install an outlet on their own property.

edit: There's a culture difference with regards to driving that I explained in another comment just now. Reading some of the other comments further down makes me think that very few people commenting here understand the laws and culture behind driving in Japan.
There is no PM system on HN - I'll email you. Thx.

Edit: Email sent
There's a different model in this case. You pay for support, and then the original developers go away and fix it for you.

When this works well, it's great. You've got the experts on the problem. Not all support is good though, obviously, and if you have a mission critical problem that you need to fix overnight, nothing beats the 'self-support' that you can do with open source software.
Hey! Relax creator here. Thanks for your input :)

Saying PostgreSQL is a better fit in terms of performance is a bit controversial in my opinion, there are quite a lot of tests between the two and most say it is the exact opposite https://blog.michaelckennedy.net/2010/04/29/mongodb-vs-sql-s...

Despite that, can't say for a fact that's the case for Relax since I haven't test both on it. Mongo is behaving really well though, our demo instance has been getting a pound lately (dozens of users at a time) and it's running smoothly even though our machine is not really powerful.

Also in terms of scaling, Mongo also has a great solution for horizontal scaling https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/sharding/

Having this said, not entirely against having different database layers supported in Relax. Since we're using GraphQL would be a matter of creating an abstraction when accessing the data on the queries and mutations resolves. Not on our priorities for now but we're always open for contributions :)
Client-to-client, simple as that. Pushed in encrypted form like regular messages.
Call me. I'll book your flights for a premium.
Dude, the guy got 300+ votes from HN regulars in the first round, before he'd even hit twitter. That's not steroids. It's like "this Olympic athlete won fair and square once, then we decided to change the competition to make it fairer to others, and he won even more, lapping everyone else, but the judge doesn't really like him so he won't get a medal."
This is not a "war". This is people saying "fsck you" to web advertising
industry and everybody else relying with their business model on this
parasite.
> London may elect it's first Muslim mayor

The original headline is "Londoners Could Elect City's First Muslim Mayor" If you're going to change it, may I suggest "its" not it's" as in http://grammarist.com/spelling/its-its/

(edit I see that's the verbatim subheading of the original article. Still not a great choice)

Sadiq Khan (Labour) is leading in the polls, with Zac Goldsmith (Conservative) running second.
Is There Life on React Planet? React Ecosystem Overview
> Internet is not considered a utility in the same way that power and phone lines are.

I would not mind that the Internet be classified as a utility. Regardless of if it is or not, a co-ordinated effort should be made to bring high speed broadband access to all, including rural areas.

What I do take exception to is claims that bringing high speed Internet access to rural areas does not make sense or should not be done.

> If this is the change you are suggesting, the ongoing debates about net neutrality, as well as rather confusing bandwidth monetization by telecom companies, are big issues in the way of commoditizing the Internet.

Excuse my ignorance, but how does network neutrality stand in the way of commoditizing the Internet?

I'm much more inclined to say that mandating network neutrality, open access, transparent pricing and verifiable metering and billing would go a long way to solve any problems.
The git bugs were announced around March 15th (with some funny business going on with 2.7.1 and 2.7.3, before 2.7.4 came about). Debian released patches for git in DSA-3521-1 on March 19th, Xcode didn't fix this before 7.3.1 yesterday. That's about a month and a half. Beta versions of Xcode can't be used to submit to the app store, so they aren't useful because any serious developer will still need to have the latest stable xcode installed and probably set as default to not risk appstore submission problems.

Debian: 4 days to patch. Xcode: 50 days.

The openssh bugs were announced around January 14th. Debian released patches for OpenSSH in DSA-3446-1 on the same day. I guess Apple finally fixed it in OSX 10.11.4 which was released on March 21st. That's more than two months. Thanks for the heads-up, though, after two months with no patch I kind of assumed there would never be a patch.

Debian: 0 days to patch. OSX: 67 days
HHKB user checking in. I'm not dominant enough in the office :(
Nearly 80 percent of Reddit threads with more than 1000 comments mention Hitler
This might be the case, but I think we should wait to make a final decision if it is a good way to catch startups that fall through the cracks. We really need a random selection to know if HN (and YC) are adding alpha.
> If your encryption is deterministic, the second client can check with the server that Hash(Enc(chunk)) is the same on the client and server

but the chunk on the server was encrypted using a different public-key, so how can hash(pub-key-1(chunk)) == hash(pub-key-2(chunk)) ?
Periscope Annouces a New Feature to Compete with Facebook Live
This isn't really the same thing as Refined Github though. It's just redirecting to the new Mobile Twitter. I've yet to notice a missing feature (although there are things missing that I don't consider "features", like trending topics and moments). It also works far more reliably for me: for example, try scrolling several dozen tweets down the feed in both Mobile and Desktop Twitter, clicking on a tweet, then clicking back. I've yet to see Mobile lose my place, whereas Desktop does more often than not, and when it doesn't it has to spend a minute triggering its own infinite scroll.
That's a very odd article. Not least because "it's" means "it is" - not "belonging to it."

For those outside the UK, it is important to note that the Evening Standard is ideologically opposed to the Labour party - to the point where their election coverage is discredited to the point of parody.

No idea who "Corbin Frank" is meant to be. The audio clearly says "Gordon Brown."

I'm proud to live in a country where someone can rise from humble beginnings to high office. I'm just sad he's the exception rather than the norm.

Oh, an most people couldn't give a toss which religion he is. Despite having an official state religion, we're far less fussed with religious acceptability that the (supposedly secular) US.
It's an interesting part of the paradigm shift to EVs that one of the best things (refueling at home, cheaply, safely and greenly) is often discounted or even portrayed as a downside.

Similarly, in a parallel world where people only ate at restaurants, I can imagine suspicion about this new fangled home cooking, and how it's not a "real" restaurant, while the home cookers are like "it's cheap, convenient and healthy!"