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Given when such keys need to be used, a digital solution would also need to work in emergencies such as flooding, fire, and partial destruction (door and lock internals fine, outer lock and door severely damaged).

I imagine that it's easier just to stick with the good old master keys.

I've long believed that most locks are not there to stop professionals, they're just there to stop the opportunist.

If you're at peace with this then there's little advantage spending an extremely large amount of money putting in place a sub-standard digital solution.

The existing system is good enough.
Funny I actually prefer their system of texting to confirm new payees (on business banking it's only to setup new payees not ones you've used before).

I almost always have my mobile handy, even abroad, however trying to find & use that darn HSBC dongle every time I want to login or add a payee drives me nuts.

I can certainly understand that it's a bit silly if they don't have a workaround for when you don't have a mobile though.
There are enough companies making ARM processors that I'm not worried about the loss of competition; Barnes & Noble could easily switch to NVidia or Qualcomm or Samsung or...
Journalism isn't doxxing.
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Rewording of Engadget's rewording of The Next Web's translation of

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
You go on and on about Western intervention in the Middle East. My solution would eliminate Western intervention in the Middle East. Once we don't need crude oil, why would we even bother going there? There would be nothing of value. Wouldn't the Arabs be happy with that too?
Because that's a lot of extra work and our product manager at our small startup is competent enough to change e.g. the number of a constant in a knobs.py without wrecking things.
'The Olduvai imperative'. Especially the introduction and the first couple of chapters.
I remember/know (from back when Go was first announced) Uriel being a very helpful, insightful, and kind member of Go community. He will be missed. RIP, Uriel!
Yeah - particularly the mathematical/statistical side of things. But a big part of the profession is software development / computer science. An actuary might construct useful models and choose the proper techniques to analyze data, but choose inferior technologies or suboptimal implementations that won't work for large data sets.

A lot of actuaries spend most of their life inside of Excel. Excel won't cut it with Big Data.
why not simply starred repos?
These are future freedom fighters (already funded by the saudits, btw), you just don't get it!

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This is really useful, especially since I've been working on various responsive projects lately. Thanks!
US-EAST-1 seems to have more issues than their other data centers... anyone know if this is really true?
wowzer. I just checked for my business account with santander and found my password as you mention.

Edit: although when you get logged out for inactivity or you click log out it seems to get rid of this cookie.
erm.. but the 'spread' of the roman empire, was not peaceful. So you are really arguing the semantics of the order in which things were done.

Large group takes over world, then spreads religion.
vs
Large group spreads religion, and takes over world.

Yeah, REAL moral high ground there.
The site is identical in except for the name change to the previous Abbey site. (Which I have used for years)
They changed the log in process to the current username/number/passcode setup about 2 years ago if I remember correctly.
I assume the lock industry will be added to the list of industries that will lobby like hell against 3D printer technology. I'm putting the over/under on a 3D model of these keys showing up on the Net at about a day.
RA in the context of college is either "Resident Assistant" or "Research Assistant". Based on how it's used in the article, "Resident Assistant" sounds more likely as a Research Assistant is less likely to interact with students.
Slick! :)
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This would be a good move for Amazon. Look at the biggest phone/tablet sellers right now - both Samsung and Apple design their own chips and exercise a great deal of control on the manufacturing as well. At a certain scale, there is a big benefit to making your own hardware. If nothing else, it lets you optimize for your own requirements instead of for the requirements of other customers.
The user already has control of which emails they get. The problem is that these notifications actually are important to receive, since it would be bad for him if he never got an important announcement from his RA. If Tabule did not adequately notify him, his RA would have to just directly email him instead, which would result in the same number of emails in his inbox.
I'm very happy to see that those who got the games were able to keep them. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that maybe this was a marketing stunt, but Occam's Razor tells me it's just a mistake and they were a good sport about it.
While I agree with your post. Blasphemy is also there to encourage respect of ideas you don't necessarily agree with/believe. It's an overly blunt tool, but I think there is a part that is useful.
I would guess that the median New Yorker staff writer gets more like $150-200k, all in (when you add up magazine fees + book advances + speaking fees.) The mean is much higher, because a handful of outliers (heh, Gladwell) make $1 million plus.
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This. Unfortunately most of the people who are outraged are not easy to reason with, so this doesn't work.
> I'm amazed at the hubris shown towards a civilisation that has existed far longer than your own.

I don't understand why the age of a civilization should be a matter of pride. This is an entirely arbitrary point of distinction and has no real relevance to the conversation at hand.

> Your "solution" to this problem is just to oversimplify everything and solve these simple problems. A clear flag, that you lack the education to actually contribute something meaningful to the discussion.

And your inability to literal make any meaningful statements other than ad hominem attacks against me suggests that you need to go back to high school and study logic and debate.
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True [1]. I reckon someone gets fired over this. Exploits never end up good for all.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652129
Sometimes it's not about racism but being practical - here, slowing down the progress of a dangerous ideology.

Take a parallel with communism and the Rosenberg execution. Many declared that as just plain barbary, antisemitism, etc. "Between the trial and the executions there were widespread protests and claims of antisemitism; the charges of antisemitism were widely believed abroad" (wikipedia)

But they were spies, and they gave secrets to help an enemy build atomic weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

Was this racism?

Sometimes big problems require hash actions. It might look like a bad move morally, but tactically it might be justifiable.

Example in hand - Quebec in Canada is selecting its own french speaking immigrants. After noticing on studies that immigrants from a specific part of the world were much more likely to be jobless or receiving public help, they discussed reducing the ratio of immigrants from this part of the world. The part of the world was north-Africa.

Is this racist? (while they keep welcoming immigrants from the rest of the world and north-Africa - but just adding a ratio)
Funny how standards differ, really; there'd be a lot of eyebrows raised if Apple or Google (or Microsoft, on their mobile platform) started denying use of their network services to jailbroken/rooted users.
This story from months ago has been submitted several times before with the original article title.

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First Direct consistently scores highly on customer service, you might want to try them.
(you don't even have version control for the code in stored db procedures and things like that!!)

You should absolutely be storing your scripts to create your database schema, including stored procedures, in version control.
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Slightly on-topic. I have been trying with some banks in the UK trying to find the best online banking system and I am not happy with the results so far.

HSBC works quite well but the login system (with a RSA key) is annoying. I can accept it for actions like transfers but most times I just login to check my balance and transactions, requiring a token seems to much for me. Their design, even if not great, works.

MetroBank seems great from the outside but their system has some issues. First, to login you need your account number, a password and three digits from a 8 digits PIN. After logging in, you can do everything without any other measure. The systems fails to login most times unless you realise you can just click on the link in the error message and logged in you are. A friend told me to use the incognito mode in Chrome and it seems to fix this issue, probably with sessions. Their design is not the best. On the transactionspage you can only see 3 or 4 transactions on the screen at a time (without scrolling, that is).

I am waiting to try Santander (which I will avoid now) and Northern Rock.

Any good experiences?
And I'm a bit miffed that my order's just arrived a few days ago, 7 months RS late. So obviously there's a teaching moment there I would do well to learn from. Ooh, fate, you nasty.

I wonder how many orphaned 256MB Model Bs are there floating around with RS and Farnell.
Jailbreaking/rooting is not a crime and does not deny anyone their rights. It's not at all comparable.
How would you improve it?
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Seems interesting, definitely not using it unless the access to "Update your public and private repositories (Commits, Issues, etc)" is remove from the OAuth, though, that's insane.
I was wondering about the same thing regarding those TSA locks.

My fancy new luggage comes with combination locks and in addition with one of those TSA locks.

The thing is, how many different lock combinations are they? (My guess: less then a dozen)
How widely must the master keys be distributed? Well, in multiple instance to every airport in the US and then some
How long until a bunch of dodgy luggage handlers own a set of those locks?

While the consideration not having to break your luggage is nice the implementation seems not very secure to begin with (yeah: I know: neither are luggage locks, but still)
No the conversion of the Emperor was peaceful.

As for the pagan citizens of the Empire who didn't convert after that, the Parabalani made short work of them...
> Right, but how do you know there aren't any bad apples in the people who are already here?

Part of ICE's job is to deport any foreign nationals who are a danger to the country, and I think this would be acceptable action. For example, ICE failed to detect and deport/imprison the 9/11 attackers before 9/11, even though they were in the US legally.

> Also bear in mind that of all Muslim terrorists who have committed an act of terrorism on American soil, many were visitors to the US, not immigrants. Do you believe we should also restrict Muslim visitation of the USA?

Restrictions should have nothing to do with religion. It's a matter of doing the proper legwork to ensure that those who are a danger to the country, Muslim or otherwise, are not allowed in.

> Your idea is fun to think about, but IMO it's not realistic. There are too many moving pieces for "no more Muslims in the US" to be a realistic policy choice.

You're attempting to use reductio ad absurdum. I never suggested that there shouldn't be any more Muslims in the US.

> Go to any of the top US schools and look at both the grad student and professor rosters, count the people of Middle Eastern decent or of Muslim faith. These are all huge wins for American society - both in talent addition and talent denial to rival regimes. Do you really want all of these people to, say, go work for the Chinese? Or Iran?

Strawman. I never suggested that educated people with a significant contribution to make to the country shouldn't be allowed in. My statement was mostly applicable to Europe actually, where they allowed in a lot of poor and uneducated Muslims who ended up living in Muslim ghettos and failing to assimilate into mainstream European society. They're now well known for killing their daughters for talking with a guy not related to them and keeping them from getting a higher education.
I think you guys should work on algorithms. Results (at least for me) do not seem relevant at all.
This is kind of against the idea that they wanted to make an affordable device. Letting some people who have the money push the price up will rob others who don't have the money for it. It's pretty much exactly the opposite of their stated goals and they've already kind of broken them anyway since the RPi doesn't even sell for 35$ anyway.

Bonus points to you for the circular logic of increasing the price and donating it to charity.. itself. That's just increasing the price.
Well that's not real transactions - that's ACID compliance...
Link? I'm all out of buttons.
I guess the professor isn't kidding when he says in the videos. "After you finish this course, you will know as much or more than the silicon valley programmers doing machine learning" The material he presents is quite distilled. He gives a lot of real examples, but the programming exercises are sort of fill in the blanks. A lot of the hard work is done. You can still learn a lot though.
We need more efficient ways to get tech news than via chains of rewordings, indeed.
for what it's worth, i use sovereign bank who was recently acquired by santander. the sovereign online banking contains the NewUniversalCookie, which contains an XML document (LOL) with 3 nodes: name, username, and userID. seemingly no intensely sensitive data in my cookies, but also seems to be some crossover with Santander's security system.
I particularly like the reliance on crc to help in situations where a numeric identifier might not be possible / desired. It's organic.

This gave me enough of an 'aha!' to move forward with an experiment I was conducting.

Thanks!
Their online banking interface is a bit old and crummy. I don't believe they take security seriously either.

They force a 640px popup window that deliberately hides addressbar, so you can't easily check if it's HTTPS.

My browser warns me that their site still has SSL renegotiation vulnerability unpatched.
HSBC are also (or at least were very recently) in the habit of calling customers and launching immediately into security questions without even identifying themselves first, which is wrong for all sorts of reasons.
No. It's horrible. Its like growing wings and immediately locking your brain into a mental birdcage. Why would you do that to yourself?
What do you mean by old guard? Uriel was young, with a healthy respect for the old school, at least those ideas that deserved respect.
If you've been banned your console is useless -- you can't make a new gold account anymore.
Change the name... I like the design, but the name is just... well... silly.
It's not irrelevant. Without math we wouldn't have a modern society.

But if you insist that it's irrelevant than Arabs being desert nomads is irrelevant to modern geopolitics too.
Yeah there's threshold for downvoting. Maybe 500? Not sure.
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What's really annoyed me about Santander's website is when you click 'log-out' you might think you have logged out - but no - you are taken to the 'are you sure you want to log-out' page.

With banking websites I just want to click that link and be sure I am logged out. I don't mind logging in again if I clicked by accident.
> I don't understand why the age of a civilization should be a matter of pride. This is an entirely arbitrary point of distinction and has no real relevance to the conversation at hand.

> And your inability to literal make any meaningful statements other than ad hominem attacks against me suggests that you need to go back to high school and study logic and debate.

It is arrogant to assume a single countries path is correct vs a much older civilisation, given that single country has not stood the same test of time.

It was not intended as an ad hominem. Only that a meaningful debate could only be made with you, were you open to learning the full history and reasons behind the current problems. After reading your comments so far it is apparent you aren't open to learning these things. I'm sorry if you took offense.
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You can still receive texts when you're abroad for free from your bank (I rely on this..) . As for not having a cellphone.. I'm kinda puzzled they didn't give you other option.
I don't bank with Santander, but I was in Barcelona a few weeks ago and I passed by a Santander ATM that was rebooting IBM OS/2 Warp.
A big part of the profession, and zero part of the training in the profession. Actuaries write worse code than electrical engineers.
FirstDirect is better than HSBC, while still being part of the HSBC group. Their phone service is a lot better, with lower time-to-human, and Scottish accents instead of Indian ones. Their web usability is still pretty bad, though.

There's no ridiculous calculator-shaped hardware token. To log in, FD requires 3 characters from your password, and a "secret answer" — effectively, another password. Infuriatingly, they disable the Enter key in the log in form, so a mouse click is necessary.

FD's web UI is stuck firmly in the 90s, with nested menus, cramped screens, and plentiful transitions. Even the log out button redirects to another screen, in order to ask for confirmation.

Finally, FD give you £100 as an incentive to switch, and an additional £100 if you switch back out.
I can't imagine how hard it would be to force myself to take that one step between life and death. Bravo!
Thanks for the advice. I've slowly been moving to the more technical side of the house since I graduated school, because I got hired on as an "Systems Engineer" that wrote power points. It was great in that I learned to deal with customers and push my comfort zone, but it also left my coding experience woefully insufficient for a time.

Luckily, I'm a step closer to what I want to do now, and I can fill my time with Udacity/Coursera classes when there is an abundant amount of downtime. I do have my eyes on the prize (which would be working in a faced paced and supportive environment) but I'm still building my skill set. It's just good to know that other people have been where I am and approached the problem logically to finally get somewhere that there was a better fit for them.

I plan on moving away from government contracting in general soon. I find that while they do pay well the constraints they put on the work just isn't worth it. If the company doesn't own the system that they work on then they don't tend to care about it in the same way.
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Thanks, yes, we're already working on that and have some domains reserved. So, the overall appearance is good? Would you join it?

Our team is preparing to launch a new trading platform offering small design service. Its goail is to operate as a medium between the buyer and the designer. If you are a student who wants to earn some extra money or a small business who can't afford to hire a professional this would be the place for you. What do you think?
I'm sure you could get different behaviours with some fancy use of pointers and reference notation.
You've completely missed the point. There are not Us vs Them. There are simply people. If you would like to label people as uneducated or muslims or whatever else, then you have engaged in that fallacy that pre-space age humankind engaged. You should really watch that link I gave as well as the Pale Blue Dot and let it really sink in.
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hostility and philosophical differences that scare us. Overcoming that fear and reaffirming our values is the basis

The Wikipedia entry for "Song of Roland" ends with the actions of Roland's avengers:

"The traitor is torn limb from limb by galloping horses and thirty of his relatives are hung for good measure."

What differences in philosophy and hostility were you referring to again?
We should be careful to not limit other rights in protecting the right of free speech. I defend the right of people to express their opinions, views, thoughts, etc in society, but I also believe you must have balance and allow people to choose whether they want to listen to someone's opinion or thoughts.

It is one thing to go listen to someone from the KKK speak about their thoughts or to read their opinions in a pamphlet or book (this type of free speech I support), it is another to force the public to be exposed to their hateful messaging by forcing billboard/television companies to allow their messaging be shown in a public place.

We should support the rights of companies or individuals to censor content they don't agree with or want to be affiliated with. Government should (at least in some cases) be able to limit certain types of speech where the public would be forced to see something they don't want themselves (or their children) to be subjected to. Government should be less involved with censoring types of speech that someone chooses to be exposed to.

What are your thoughts? How do we find the right balance with free speech and other rights?
I switched to FD over a decade ago after many cock-ups by NatWest (my previous bank for ~6 years), been happy since. A few minor problems, but they have always been fixed quickly to my satisfaction.
These hacks better be glad this industry isn't regulated like other professions where the individual professional is liable for his work. If these developers were doctors or engineers they personally would be liable for damages. Right now we have laid blame at the feet of the company, but this company doesn't seem to understand they don't have the technical know how to be building websites for their customer base.
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The Halo series actually has a large and very immersing universe surrounding its games. There is also a successful novels series follow/extending the Halo Universe. The notion that Halo 4 might have a bad story should be more a shock then it having a good story. Ofc this is all up to opinion, but the novel's extensive success should speak for themselves.
I knew about the space missions, just don't know much about the vessels they used to get the men into space!

I guess I showed my ignorance, but I did learn something. It's been many years since I saw the movie, to be honest... and that's about the extent of my knowledge of the mission.

P.S. they happened in the '60s and '70s. I'm in my 30s with two kids. You're not that old :-)
What if Ethernet failed?
Change your auth requests please, as been posted here before http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619541 I'm not giving you access to my private repos, no matter how much I want to try this out. (and I do)
Once the window's wide enough to display full lines of text, you only benefit from having more rows.
I've used quite a few over the years, Lloyds TSB was probably the best in terms of usability (but others will likely disagree). If I were choosing a bank though, I would be more interested in their ethics, hidden charges - which usually means avoiding PLCs.