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Apple does not have his shit together yet on PWA.

https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-...

Honestly, why wouldn't GitHub build a PWA version so the offline experience is fantastic. In fact, that's how Linus built Git. The saga is building app after app is getting ridiculous. It also frees developers to focus on building server-side functionality rather than 3x client app effort (web, iOS, android).

Well done!

I hear a lot of complaints about serverless for performance and cost but I think this is exactly what Serverless is meant to do - Reduce upfront cost for low traffic and remove the barrier of managing infrastructure.

Many app welcome the benefits despite the tradeoffs.

Alan Turing's achievements

* Designed the programming of world's first commercial computer (Ferranti Mark 1)

* Devised Turing Test, to test whether computer is capable of thinking like a huamn

* Got an OBE for his wartime services

* Inventor of Turing Machine. To this day, all stored-programme digital computers are modelled on this invention

* Built the machine that helped in the breaking of the Enigma code used by the German forces. This was used to decode 2 messages per minutes

* His work shortened the WW2 by atleast 2 years.

* Alan was a member of the team which decoded the 'Fish' cipher, which was used towards the end of the war by the German High Command to transmit messages between Hitler and senior officers in the field.

+1 for GitHub Issues as it is closely integrated with code.

If you are using GitLab, then GitLab also has its equivalent called Issues.

This is not to eliminate threats from new comers but to find an identity in the new era of cloud.

How is this not cyber terrorism?

Lynching of muslims in India - by spreading WhatsApp messages on false pretense that they are cow killers - is a direct result of the trolls.

Despite being a secular country, India is turning into a social-media driven Hindu/Modi agenda.

The trolling is also supplemented by Mainstream media in supporting the agenda by collusion.

https://thewire.in/media/times-group-vineet-jain-sting-opera...

I love tarsnap

Cool, very impressive!

SoS notebook as a name not so good

However the idea of multi-kernel is useful.

I am going to have to try this out.

Can you explain what is the architecture of SoS kernel?

[sic]He found that by entering the username "root", leaving the password field blank, and hitting "enter" a few times, he would be granted unrestricted access to the target machine.

... ...

a member of Apple's support forums had posted details of the flaw more than two weeks ago, though the tone of his message appeared to suggest he saw the vulnerability as a useful feature for troubleshooting rather than a critical security threat.[/sic]

This is not a problem just for Aadhaar but also for any enterprise.

Data has multiple challenges in quality - consistency, completeness, accuracy, precision, missing and unknowns, validity, timeliness, right linkages, conformity and reasonableness.

Once you have overcome those challenges, you will have ensure security, audit, management.

The problem with Aadhaar and anything that happens in India on such a huge scale (e.g. Demonetization) is that while a number of genuine people benefit from the programs, the side effects cannot be ignored - significant percentage of people suffer (sometimes immensely) and other times non-genuine people take advantage.

The solution for any such programs are for all data challenges, there should be a strategy led with right investments and executive support.

Politicians are mostly blamed for not doing enough and now a days blamed even more for doing things wrong. I think the intent of the Aadhaar program is right however there is more to be done by the Indian government on ensuring money support is given to the program to solve these problems.

Been there Done that :)

I was once on-call working for one the leading organizations. I got a call in the middle of the night that some critical job had failed and due to the significant data load, it was imperative to restart the processing.

I login to the system with a privileged account. Restart the job with new parameters and since I wanted not to see the ugly logs, I wanted to redirect the output to /dev/null.

I run the following command ./jobname 1>./db-file-name

and there is -THE DISASTER-

For some reason this kept popping in my head - "Bad things happen to Good people"

We recovered the data but there was some data loss still as the mirror backup had not run.

Of course, we have come long way since then. Now, there are constant sync between Prod/DR and multitude of offline backups and recovery is possible for last 7 days, the month or any month during the year and the year before.

Elsewhere in the world

Google's project Loon has done an amazing feat that they will achieve full internet coverage for the entire country Sri Lanka by end of next month using 4G LTE network.

There is a lot of bureaucracy in getting anything done with BT/OpenReach. Most of the contracts have to go through BT first who sub-contract to OpenReach even though they are the same company.

The partnership where OpenReach does everything for the infrastructure and BT adds absolutely no value. The split of the partnership would have been what the consumers wanted.

Th decision falls short of bringing much needed change in the industry. There is still huge number of people who have super-slow internet which is a HUGE shame for ofcom for not having been able to get this problem sorted.

In my area, I get internet speed of 2MBps. I cannot get even basic things done. To put things into perspective, to download 100 photos, it would take 10 minutes.

Ofcom - This is the twenty first century and you are still living under a rock.

Edit - Thanks Xophmeister for spotting the typo

I don't think, he is a hacker. People with poor technology skills also pirate whereas becoming a hacker, it is expected to have a decent amount of technology knowledge and skill-set.

Excerpt from the article

The firms, which included Microsoft, HBO Europe, Sony Music and Twentieth Century Fox, estimated that the financial damage amounted to thousands of pounds, with Microsoft alone valuing its losses at 5.7m Czech Crowns (£148,000).

But the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represented Microsoft, acknowledged that Jakub could not pay that sum.

In addition to the financial settlement, the 30-year-old was also given a three-year suspended sentence.

Summary of key discussions:

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If you're just an average user concerned about your privacy

1) Use Tor when browsing.You don't have to use Tor all the time (it does slow things down considerably and some sites will also block Tor traffic). But if you are looking at or for something that you feel is sensitive, then either set up your browser to work with Tor or use the Tor browser.

2) Use an ad-blocker. Says Snowden: "As long as service providers are serving ads with active content that require the use of Javascript to display, that have some kind of active content like Flash embedded in it, anything that can be a vector for attack in your web browser – you should be actively trying to block these."

3) Use a password manager. It doesn't matter how many surveys and reports come out that tell people to use different passwords and complex passwords, a huge percentage of us maintain borderline idiotic approaches. The simple answer is: get a password manager. It will protect you.

4) Use two-factor authentication. Many services such as Gmail, Twitter, Dropbox, Hotmail, and Facebook offer this now for no charge. So even if your password does get exposed, you still have a backup such as a text message to your phone to secure your information.

5) Use apps that protect your information. Snowden suggests the smartphone app Signal, which encrypts both your phone calls and texts. It's free and easy to use. Although of course, following a high-profile argument with the FBI, it would appear that Apple's messaging service is also pretty secure (although Snowden would probably have doubts).

6) Use the HTTPS Everywhere browser plug-in. This comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and will try to force all browser communication to be encrypted.

7) Encrypt your hard drive. This is comparatively easy these days but you have to be careful to do two things: one, have a longish phrase to make it worthwhile; and two, make damn sure you remember that phrase. There will be a slowdown in performance but nothing too bad if you have a modern machine.

8) Be smart with your security questions. Stop using your mother's maiden name for everything. Likewise your first school. The key is to mix things up as much as possible so if someone does get into one of your accounts, they can't use the same information to get in everywhere else.

Security is of paramount importance however never at the cost of digitization.

Imagine two scenarios

1. Patient diagnosis delayed or incorrect, if doctors cannot view the blood reports for next 21 days or doctor makes mistake since he cannot process data like a computer would.

2. The icu system got hacked on which someone's life depended.

I don't think you could choose one over the other.

A lot of the time, we trade off between convenience and security. However that is a prudent and deliberate choice.

What I see more and more happening is a reckless and inadvertent choice.

Martin Fowler presented this in his technical debt quadrant. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html

Medical services is one of the worst sectors with very poor 'right' investments in technology.

There are many gaps while some significantly standout compared to others.

* As highlighted in this article, Security is a huge issue. Given the sensitivity of the data, the sad state of infrastructure does not do any justice.

* A lot of the infrastructure is still paper based. The digital revolution is way behind its time in this sector.

* Medical sciences which is supposed to revolutionize has most of its spend in regulations rather than technology. The advancements in science are excruciatingly slow. Drug discovery has slowed down tremendously.

Not to mention, the poor patient-experience and lack of reach of medicine to the poorest of society.

We essentially have

1. Upvotes & Downvotes on articles and comments (This is what HN wants - insights by crowdsourcing)

2. Reputation (this is the fruit the users want)

3. Gaming (HN gaming the users by rewarding/denying the fruit) - Reward (unlocking site features)

Hackers used targeted social engineering to gain access to accounts of legitimate users, then emailed bosses promoting certain stocks.

There was at least one instance when one firm noticed something was a bit amiss - but wasn't able to stop it.

When info-security staff at the firm noticed the odd sign-in location, it locked Mr Aaron's account. Good security practice.

@DanDC I appreciate the comments. I agree that my original comments look venting rather than a contribution.

I also standby the fact that duplicates (and not re-posts) are a problem on HN.

By duplicate, I mean the following: 1. Identical domain (such bbc.co.uk vs. bbc.com) 2. Identical url (cnbc.com/ vs. cnbc.com/?click=homepage) 3. Identical age - Submitted within the span of active discussions happening on the HN.

In case of re-posts, despite (1) and (2) points above either the discussions have ceased or mods have permitted re-posting.

Currently, on an exact url match of a previous story, HN notifies the user.

It would be great for HN to detect duplicate stories (not just an exact match). Let the user know of another ongoing discussion. Give an option to resubmit with that knowledge.

Please refrain from calling names.

Most recently I have been trying to highlight the fact that the site has been not keeping quality and multiple submissions cause discussions to scatter.

I tried to open a discussion on this topic a while ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225569

The problem of multiple submissions is not difficult to fix. Reposts are ok to re-kindle the discussions however it is a dysfunction when multiple submissions are happening within a span of few minutes.

I do not wish to earn karma by taking credit away from anyone's post and I take keen interests in quality discussions.

Google and Amazon account for 57% of all online revenue.

This story was originally posted here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10525159

The same story submitted here a few days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381464

This is such a great websites. Very impressed as a chess amateur/medium skills that how well the site fits the purpose.

Very well done!

While this is a massive ruling, there are valid exceptions that allow companies who have agreed with their clients to transmit their data from EU to US while keeping data separation and with respect to the data protection law.

This is not a blanket-panic for all US/EU companies as the media are projecting.

I call this funny-because-true