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Wider issues in society always affect what we do in our work lives, for a number of reasons.

Very few of us work purely in the technology industry. That is, our customers or market are not technical in nature, technology is usually used in support of other goals.

More pertinent to this case, Alan Turing’s life and death shows us how issues such as sexuality affect technical work. Who knows what Alan may have done had he lived longer, or what he would have achieved if he wasn't side-lined when he was alive.

In particular terms of why it is newsworthy on HN, as per the guidelines "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
For me as a hacker, it falls right within this definition.
I've been with the Nationwide for years now, and never had a problem with them. Being a building society they're a bit less profit driven, though I don't know if anything can protect against offshore cost-cutting exercises in this day and age :/
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Ask HN: Why does it take "up to x days" to unsubscribe?
A lot of websites have newsletters or mailing lists, a lot of them are managed by internal systems and many are external.

Sometimes, regardless of whether it seems to be internal or external, when I unsubscribe from a newsletter I'll be told that my request will take "between 2 and 5 days" or "up to 48 hours" to be processed.

Why is this? Surely it's just a matter of deleting an email address from a table. Is it a ploy to keep me subscribing, in the hope that those 48 hours will be enough time for me to realise the mistake that I've made?
Specifically, it looks like a manual error during a deployment:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/25/how-natwest...

"It seems whoever made the update to CA-7 managed to delete or corrupt the files which hold the schedule for the overnight jobs, so they did not run, or ran incorrectly"
The Co-Op? (Although rumour has it that they're going to completely replace their computer systems either this year or early next year so that might be a case of jumping from one basket case to another!)

RBS appears to have fouled up the scheduling of their overnight batch run in a way that meant large tranches of transactions simply weren't going through the system. Fixing the problem has taken days (which may be down to poorly managed outsourcing) and it's then taking even more time to catch up with the backlog of unregistered transactions, because they can only fit so many extra into the overnight run.

If you've got a pay slip or something, then get yourself to an RBS branch and they'll give you cash to tide you over in the meantime. Don't starve yourself!
I've used a few and ultimately ended up at HSBC for my business and personal account. Haven't had any problems so far (touch wood) and been pretty impressed so far with the service.

If I remember correctly, they were one of the few banks to come out the back of the banking crisis largely unscathed. Convinced a few friends to move too and have had good feedback so far (but ymmv as usual).
The justification is simple, to allow for testing concerns the code uses. I see domain specific objects the same way I see domain specific languages - if I cannot grasp it by looking at it then it's broken, meaning I should not have to read documentation but simply understand the domain the object / language represents e.g sinatra get()... etc.
+1 for First Direct, but don't take my word for it: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/compare-best-bank-a...
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I think it's fairly similar, at least in philosophy. I always liked some parts of FogBugz - minimum number of required fields, always one owner and making it as easy as possible to get bugs in to the system from multiple places - and those all things I continue to think are important, and have tried to get in to Envoy. Ease of bug addition is critical, as without it you can't get management to use the system and it fails, so all accounts automatically have an email address they can use to send in bugs. I'm looking at ways to use the API to tie into other systems too to make the addition of bugs as easy as possible from other places.
> Selling tools to tool builders is a tricky proposition.

Indeed! We're a fussy lot :)

All good points about reliability - I'll see what I can do to add that reassurance to the setup.
but the salt is not known?

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Hashing_Java

"A salt is a random number of a fixed length. This salt must be different for each stored entry. It must be stored as clear text next to the hashed password."

the only difference I see it that the salt is different for each password, instead my "solution" uses a cleartext for all password...am I wrong?
If everything runs on one system in one location then yes your right. They don't and in that changes are propergated periodicaly. By saying it will take upto X days covers them on this front and in that protects there liability.

Also note that they don't do them instantly to prevent forms of account denial of service attacks by having bots create and delete accounts instantly.

But if you run your own mail server then you can just instantly add those email senders to your bounce list and get a much better effect.
Uhm you made an interesting point, would you mind expanding it? Where should he look for customers? He is on Hacker News now, don't you thin it's a nice place to find the people he need?
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I moved from Natwest to First Direct a couple of months ago, and have had a great experience so far.

Their online banking isn't quite so nice as Natwest's, but that's more than made up for by the amazing phone service. I've had to call a couple of times (once to replace a lost card), and almost instantly been put through to someone who can solve my problem.
One of the problems with a large-scale outage for a large financial institution is it will cascade down to other banks.

So if a bank the size of RBS/NatWest (comparable to Bank of America, or Chase) falls over and you don't have an account it might not affect you - unless your employer uses that bank to carry out their pay runs, in which case you're not going to get paid. Several newspapers were reporting people whose house purchases fell through because their solicitors were using NatWest as an intermediary.

(I actually bank with Nationwide as well, although their online service is a bit odd. Then again, when is that not true for a bank?)
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> But as long as they don't have the users, they are not better.

That's a truism. Crazygringo's point assumes that network effects are excluded from the measure of a "better" service. I think that's a fair basis for comparison, since the network effective advantage accrues from an earlier period in the marketplace's history: it's the prize won by being better/smarter than previous competitors. But it says nothing about the dominant service being better than current, newly launched competitors.

If you define "better" as having more users, then that's pretty much ex post facto reasoning and tells us little.

> And don't forget that recent history is filled with companies that were "virtually impossible to defeat" until they were beaten, and harshly.

1. The number of years that a company dominates is the measure of how much that company has won. The fact that a company eventually falls to a competitor doesn't mean that the company didn't profit handsomely for years or decades.

2. The fact that some large companies have fallen doesn't mean that the existing behemoths don't derive most of their advantage from network effects. Maybe we would have seen better, more open social networking startups emerge and win the market by now if Facebook's network effects were somehow nullified.

The ultimate point is that network effects are a very significant barrier to entry, and mitigating them would allow a more dynamic market for startups to compete in, and higher competition in the market (which is better for consumers). Imagine if all social networks were interoperable and people could choose which service they wanted to live on -- then there wouldn't be a tendency for a 1000-ton gorilla to emerge at the top of the heap.

(Funnily, I have nothing against Craigslist, since they're providing a very useful service at virtually no cost. They deserve their position, easily; their market's story is a happy one. Let's hope it happens in more places soon.)
How about not using facebook? I just don't see the value in it. The most people post any bullshit on facebook like "I'm in the train now. It's warm here." I think it's a waste of lifetime to read such things. There are a lot of other things to do and new things to explore, which are more fun and don't monitor your activities all the day.
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brute works (but slowly?)...rainbow should be created on cleartext basis...change the cleartext and trash the rainbow!
This is exactly the opposite of the advice recently given by Rich Hickey in his keynote at RailsConf 2012, where he strongly recommends using simple, transparent data structures without a lot of OO wrapping baggage.

Personally I'm on the fence but when you look at how much boilerplate this Virtus example needs to get rid of the code "smell" you have to wonder if maybe he has a point.
I can't use the Co-op. They won't let me have an account because I apparently have a bad credit rating. (The real reason, I expect, is because I have no credit rating as I've never applied for a credit card or loan, or been late on a bill.) They're probably overdue a computer system overhaul as they've recently taken over several other banks and building societies, notably the Britannia where I had a few friends working.

My pay now seems to have appeared, and my second account doesn't have £0.00 in it any more, so I've got my fingers crossed that I'll be able to go to Tesco tonight. I might go to the branch and get cash though, just in case I get the dreaded 'card declined'.
The aspect that they didn't export the job queue prior to update is something that cross's the border of neglegence with both feet.

Still can't understand why a bank that had people who made bad deals and lost money causing the bank to partialy fail are kept inplace and paid bonus's and the IT people who did there job well are replaced by cheap labour external to the country and this is at a time when there going on about TAX evasion, this too me makes no sence and is why I don't run banks :|.
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No it won't - I've yet to receive an interesting offer through LinkedIn. In fact, it's nothing but recruiter drivel.
Any interesting offers have always come via my inbox..
Ditto.

I had actually decided to move away from Natwest before this outage - as part of RBS acquiring some bank branches from one of the other bankrupt banks, the EU competition authorities forced them to sell some of their accounts to Santander, and they thought it would be a good idea to sell half of my accounts (business and personal credit card) whilst retaining the other half (personal, savings and joint account). Given that I would crawl over broken glass rather than use Santander, this prompted me to think about alternatives and duly switch my personal banking to First Direct (which took a matter of minutes and has worked perfectly), and my business banking will go to either HSBC or Barclays (under consideration because Barclays offer data feeds which I can pipe directly into FreeAgent).
That's a terrible disclaimer. You can't just disclaim your way out of statutory liability.

There's probably nothing to worry about with re-publishing an already public fact, but the cases where errors are made e.g "I'd hate to be my boss" filled under "People who hate their boss", the casual reader may be confused (some might say mislead).

The solution is just to keep people informed, so your disclaimer may say something like: "the information on this site is automatically collected from public posts to Facebook. Posts are classified automatically, and as such our classification of their sentiment may be inaccurate."

Also, just in case one of the Facebook posts says something defamatory, hate speech, etc. you can gently remind people that you didn't write, edit, or approve of the content so "are not responsible for the content of messages".
On their own code, a person can add what ever extra restrictions on top of the GPL they like. You might be able to argue that it is not really the GPL afterwards. If they want to use other GPL code in it, then they have to be careful. If someone else wants to use the code in some other GPL code, then they too have to be careful.
Income by definition is a flow of money, and buying a Mac is a one-time purchase with high barier of entry (hence need for higher income).
I'm also a programmer, and I know how it works but I got to admit you freaked me up for a while :-)
IT is seen as an overhead, and as something that doesn't contribute directly to profitability. When compared to dealers, dealers bring in the profit, IT slurps it away.
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"who made bad deals and lost money"

Quite an understatement that, the €71bn RBS acquisition of part of ABN Amro often makes it into the lists of "worst business deals ever":

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-feat...
The problem with turning something into a reality TV show is that it normally introduces the element of decisions being made based on their entertainment value. If people watch it, they expect drama, suspense, romance, action, etc. All the sorts of things a good story involves.

Look at The Apprentice. It's a reality TV show/competition focused on the lives of business people as they try to impress an investor (Alan Sugar/Donald Trump) and there's a lot of big talk, a lot of back-stabbing and general crapness. But it is still entertainment, and it really isn't about the business acumen or creativity of the contestants, it's about how many stupid things they can say and do for our amusement.

What I'm saying is, turning YC into a reality TV show would cheapen it. Nuff said.
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There was the sexist aspect and then there was an aspect of just attacking/disrespecting someone on twitter.

I care very little for the PR actions you've taken to rescue the geekli.st image, and more about the lessons you both learned.

Did you both apologise to Shanley in private? Because it matters more to me what you do when people aren't watching.
Bankers do sometimes forget that these days, their entire business is an elaborate front end for a general ledger program.

I predict that banks which see IT as a key source of competitive advantage will prosper in the coming decades. Banks which see it as a cost centre will eventually be slugged with debacles like these.

Of course, such self-serving aggrandisement as this is not without its own problems. Banking software is enormously complex and is meant to be utterly reliable. Two things that rarely mix well.

Add in the storied difficulties of running enormous software projects and you begin to understand why most banks just don't want to hear about how the transactions occur, just that they occur.
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I have been with First Direct for a few years and I really like it, wouldn't move. It's good for people like me who want to interact with their bank firstly online, and secondly on the phone, and in person at a branch at a distant third.

First Direct is entirely owned by HSBC - it's essentially a branch of HSBC on the internet not the high street. If you need to deposit a paper cheque or the like you will be directed to a HSBC branch.
When it comes down to end users permission systems never work. Let's take Android as example. It allows you to view fine-grained permission list for each application which you are going to install -- that's good, right? For end users -- not so much. They click "OK" just to remove all this useless information and install their application right away.
Agreed. The only real value I find in LinkedIn is keeping in contact with old colleagues.
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> Let's pretend he said integer since floats for money is outright broken.

This reminds me of a story I read on Reddit that someone told about his dog. The first time his dog saw a horse, the dog was excited, and ran up to sniff the horse through the fence.

It was an electric fence, and the dog touched it with his nose. The dog found this extremely unpleasant.

Now the dog is deathly afraid of horses, and runs and hides whenever he sees a horse.
Interesting concept. The ticketing platform should work as a stock exchange for tickets, adapting pricing depending on the demand.
Firefox used to have their own API for such things. If I'm not mistaken it's still used in tiddlywiki [1] to persist changes on a local filesystem.

[1] http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
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The Co-Op run Smile, the internet bank. They've got a great premium current account.

However, I've applied six times online (the only way you can). I'd wade through all my details, previous addresses, employers details, passwords, pin numbers - the works. Took at least 20mins a time - then I'd go to the final page and get a generic "There has been an error with your request, please return to your previous page." And that's it - my entire application lost. So I have been unable to open an account for months. I've given up.

I phoned them, but with no reference number, the woman said they weren't aware of any IT issues and that was that.
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I have dedicated Facebook and Twitter accounts for the sole purpose of third party authentication.

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LOL reminds me of Minecraft http://www.minecraft.net/

I wonder if Lego approved this and/or it's part of an advertising campaign with Lego?
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I think it's a fear on the part of HR and others that you are working at your ability. They don't see evidence of your ability even if it's there.
If it's true that this is a manual error, then I have two questions:

1) Why did it take until the early hours of Wednesday to find out? Why not run a manual check after the change went in?

2) If they found out on Wednesday morning, why did it take until Friday - after three failed batch runs - to fix it?
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Easy: half of it took place within their borders. When you interact with other countries you do so on their terms, because they are sovereign.

Of course, if a crime is only half-committed in one country, then it is also only half-committed in the other country (presuming it is a crime in both). So either of the countries must be free to prosecute.
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As a completely off-topic side note: Since I was introduced to statistics, I always forgot which error was type 1 and which was type 2. I had to read your link to find out.

In code, "int errorType = 1;" would be a badly chosen variable :)

The expressions "false positive" and "false negative" reveal more semantics than "type 1" and "type 2", and are therefore much easier to remember.
> most people have taken Econ 101

Er. Um. No, most people have not taken Econ 101. Most graduates have not taken Econ 101. Most graduates in quantitative disciplines have not taken Econ 101.

Most people with economics degrees have taken Econ 101. A modest number of other people have. Some more have learned the basic concepts by means other than taking Econ 101. These are probably not the people complaining about price discrimination.

In any case, being surprised when people are upset because they think they're getting inferior treatment and saying "oh, but they should think of the gain in overall economic efficiency" seems like a sign of, well, not having taken Psych 101.
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...and while we're on the subject HTTPD's should return your IP address in their headers.

This would make IP discovery easy peasy!
Very true sadly. Don't see many outsourced HR and accounts sections though.

Sad part is that when it goes wrong it does effect the balance sheet. Even sadder is how they internaly cost IT and do it wrong. Remove the IT and see how many people/time is needed to do the same job and that is the true cost/potentual impact of IT. Sadly though that is never done and only comes to light when things fail and then they blame IT and not the effects of seagul managment, budget cuts etc.
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