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> (like everywhere else).

To my knowledge in Germany and the entire USA only uploading is illegal, not downloading. Because of this only people who use file-sharing software like bittorrent or similar get sued.

Acting against the downloading itself is a whole new ballgame.
It should be illegal for a government to make use of botnets this way.
The most positive aspect of Rice's appointment is that it is a clear signal as to how DropBox is likely to act when evaluating claims that a particular course of action will affect the United State's national security interests as those interests have been defined in recent years. It expresses that DropBox's operations are likely to be in accord with a particular interpretation of American patriotism.

Whether one as an American agrees with that interpretation of American patriotism or holds an orthogonal view, or whether a non-American sees that interpretation as right or not, individuals will now be able to make an informed choice about if, when, and how they use DropBox. There should be no wishful thinking, DropBox has declared itself part of the American military-industrial complex.

Such honesty is refreshing irrespective of my opinion regarding the nature of patriotism or what constitutes superior forms of its expression.
Ok, I agree with most of this. What is the best Dropbox alternative?
Why do we even care about France? Why does it make so much more noise than the UK and Germany, where tech is really flourishing? France has been in gentle decline since Napoleon. It hasn't won a war in 200 years. It has given up much of its power as a nation state to Brussels and Berlin. Its citizens are luddites and its elite have created an economy that crushes young people. I speak as someone who lived there for many years. France talks big, but little happens there.
I would say that Joel Spolsky answers this quite well:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

What would be interesting to see is a fork of OpenSSL with the intention of cleaning up the code, removing abstractions where they are unnecessary and adding them where they are, and adding a comprehensive test suite to ensure correct behaviour wherever possible.
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I'm sorry.... You're going to show discontent with the actions of Rice and Bush by boycotting Dropbox.

It's not that I disagree with you in terms of the consequences of the actions of the Bush government, but boycotting Dropbox is like hitting a "Like" button on Facebook to "cure cancer".
This is the legal position in New Zealand, not through an Act of Parliament, but as the result of various law court decisions. You cannot have a non-compete which prevents someone working for a living unless you pay compensation for that non-compete. Attempts to dodge the rules (claiming regular salary includes said compensation or a derisory amount) have been struck down.
It's a shame to see such a thing happening to a YC project, but I suppose they're all grown up now and responsible for their own decisions.
http://gun.io/ is pretty good!
I would have expected the same outrage if it were Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld
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Indeed, I have a large problem with giving my money to somebody with whom I hold partly responsible for the deaths and misery of hundreds of thousands.
I have a large problem with giving all my data to somebody with a track record of illegal wiretapping.
And I have the possibility to change this with little to no impact for myself.

Could you please elaborate on how that makes me childish? - Maybe I misread your comment.

Also I found your last sentence somewhat ironic, because yes, we live in a world were lots of people actually die from wars originated by disagreements. I'd say that's worse than tragically childish.
What? Is it really tasteless and hypocritical to target anonymously an insanely well-connected individual that was at some point a #4 in the USG chain of command?
It's an interesting pedagogical technique I've seen elsewhere too. What are the results of applying it?

I know that I was in a class where the teacher followed this procedure. I _dreaded_ the moment when I'd be picked even though the questions were usually simple enough if you read for the class and paid attention. It turned my insides to water every time. Absolute dread. Made an otherwise fun class scary.
I find it difficult to explain how it is permissible to fire someone for campaigning against gay marriage, but not permissible to fire them for being gay and married, or being from an opposing political party, or any other personal reason. Could you please explain the principled distinction for this dichotomy?
We define the values we hold as a society through our actions and choices and that is the way it should be. I didn't necessarily agree with the Eich ousting but it shows a shift in values that I agree with.

The perpetrators of the Iraq war and the Patriot act have been able to avoid repercussions for their actions. I find this very distasteful because of my strong feelings about what these actions have done to my country. I believe it should've been obvious that the Iraq war and the Patriot act went very much against the core values of my country. I like to think I am taking the long view in that I'm hoping this reaction might influence similar decisions in the future and shape the values of this country in a way that is more consistent with where they were before the Bush administration. This can only happen if elected representatives believe there will be repercussions to making very disastrous, anti-American decisions.
Could the font of 'Never Forget.' be changed to match the one of the timestamp?
How did these guys get distribution on an official Mozilla blog despite being a third-party project?
It is based on an open-sourced db called Dremel:

https://code.google.com/p/dremel/
This is the lamest, most ignorant comment I have ever read on HN.
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I don't know much about caching.

Does this work when serving dynamic content? I mean in a situation where your user absolutely need to see an up-to-date version of your data.
(Fanout guy here)

We're not sure! We're not working with OneBusAway, but I think the author of the article was trying to convey a sense of realtime with that image.

Sorry for the confusion!
Hey Josh, congratulations on baremetrics.

I remember commenting on your Temper.io introduction on reddit a few months back. Both these solutions look very professional and have compelling business cases. I'd love to hear more about your process. Are you in front of a team? Do you outsource a lot? Or sleep little? Cheers!
That makes me feel less dumb - I thought I was missing something obvious. Thx!
> So why is this any different?

I don't know, I guess it's that free citizens voting with their wallets is not at all similar to powerful governmental figures conducting an oppressive inquisition?
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Ask HN: Why is the RiceDropbox article penalized in the ranking?
It has 1200+ upvotes in 3 hours and surely should be #1 on the page right now..
I think you could have made this point without subtly referring to my post as a "diatribe." I'm more than aware of what the intended interpretation is. Posting what I felt was a very minor and amusing observation hardly constitutes a "diatribe."

> After all, if English was a formal strict language where only one right way existed to express something, we wouldn't need programmers, would we?

This is very off-topic, but I'm not sure I agree with it. You're assuming that it would be easy to find the one unique way to express a given computation such that anybody could write it down. Even if English had this uniqueness property, I don't think that would be true at all.
When the ratio of comments to article-upvotes reaches a certain point, threads are punished as 'flamewars'.
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That's a slippery slope. By that logic no company can be critiqued for security failures. Linode was storing their shell passwords in clear text. To me that's where I draw the line.

On the other hand, if there were good alternatives to OpenSSL the community probably would be talking about considering them right now.
> Principle is more important here than a particular outcome. What happens with Ms. Rice is not the issue here. What matters is upholding the abiding principle (precious in a free society) that people can hold divergent views on such topics as politics, religion, and society without being punished for their views in a business context.

The "free market" can punish whomever they please for any reason. That's capitalism.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to do it again, though. You're arguing that it's a bad thing to hold a public figure accountable for what they do, in a democracy, through purely nonviolent means. You are, in fact, arguing that in a democracy, it's detrimental to an official's ability to perform their job to be held accountable, even something minor like an internet boycott. Does that not imply that things like Congressional oversight and journalistic investigation while they're still in office is even worse? So I need to say it again: idiotic.

Is it tasteless? Maybe. Shortsighted? I don't see how, but I won't argue it strenuously. Hypocritical? Maybe, but I don't really find hypocrisy objectionable in general. Even if I grant all of those, that is a far far far cry from "this is not how we settle political disputes in a civil society." "Civil society" does not mean that we must go around being absolutely and completely polite to each other at all times. It means that we solve our disputes nonviolently. Far from being an abrogation of civil society, this action is a shining example of it.

I'm honestly puzzled at what you're saying because it just doesn't make sense to me. I assume you're not against things like public street protests against a sitting president, but the only difference I can see is purely quantitative. Is it that you think it should stop once they leave office, or what?
Why are we so OBSESSED with getting more women into the programming business, and creating an artificial population balance when the natural tendency shows otherwise?

We just need to make sure that there aren't active forces PREVENTING a group of the population from getting into the field.

Providing extra rewards and incentives for minorities to do the same job as the majority is fundamentally discriminatory towards the majority, and at the same time, further promotes gender, racial and other biases towards the minority (which I believe these rewards and incentives intended to diminish in the first place). Thoughts like "oh, she only got this job because she is a woman" will inevitably surface in the minds of other workers, even if they don't say it out loud.

Here is the only solution: drop all rewards that are based on race, gender, or other non-merit based makers. Level the playing field. Make it exactly the same for everyone to ensure a fair assessment of their skills. Then we can have real equality.
I would hardly call a plugin that automates and highlights a fancy editor. Most editors do something similar, github and emacs markdown mode come to mind.
You act like someone else in her position would have done something different. Everyone hated Bush. Spending too much money, unnecessary war, over reaching surveillance. Obama will be our hope and change! Yay! Hmm, spending significantly more money, continuing unnecessary wars, and reaching significantly further into surveillance. When the war started 64% of Americans were in favor of it. Sure it turns out they didn't have a nuke, but they had already used bio weapons. While it cost way more in terms of lives and money than anyone would have liked, the world is likely a better place without Saddam Hussein.

If you want to boycott any company that has politicians on their board, that's one thing. To boycott Dropbox because of Rice is absurd. She is an incredibly smart, talented, and connected person capable of doing a good job on their board.
I love that light gray text on a light gray background. Can't get enough of it. Super readable.

Yes, I realize there's other themes, but they're terrible too. I find light text on a dark background fine for code, but terrible for writing prose.

For a good Markdown editor, I recommend Mou. It's been my choice for a while now. http://mouapp.com
There is a lot more information from North Korean defectors here http://www.nknews.org/category/nk-voices/ask-a-north-korean/
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This isn't the same issue as Mozilla's Brendan Eich stepping down because he held views against gay marriage. That is a free speech issue that has 0 consequence to his capacity to contribute to a better free and open web.

Your last paragraph rings true. But this is so far removed from simply allowing a business person to contribute to businesses, in spite of their political, religious, and societal beliefs. This is a person who was instrumental to the patriot act. More than that, Dropbox, which at its core, is a decentralized store of information, now has a member of the board who was instrumental in implementing the capacity for governments to peep into information without warrant.

This goes much further than simply allowing a person to hold different beliefs than ours. This is about a person, who has implemented legislation that has taken away fundamental rights of individuals, and who is now a member of the board of a go-to app for plenty of individuals and businesses.
Have been using this plugin for a long time. I have since been trying out draftin.com but this plugin is the way to go.
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Dropbox board and CEO decided this was a good move. They know it will alienate the original userbase, the tech savy, the first movers. In exchange they'll access old money, the old school corporations and government agencies.

They decided to screw the current userbase for a new userbase. It's over, just get over it. The maximum you can do now is refuse to use Dropbox.

It's sad how tech is getting to a cycle of befriend-and-switch on the community. This will surely make people more cynical and will make it much harder for upcoming startups. This is the highest cost we'll pay about this new trend.
People are saying exactly that about Eich, Prop 8, and Mozilla though. Saying that it's a category error to equate Eich and Rice is fair. Saying that "no one is saying..." is a bit off.
Cost of living is wildly different in different areas. People in NYC need to earn more money than somebody in Idaho Falls to live even close to a comparable lifestyle. A million dollars will buy you an "ok" 2 bed room apartment in Manhattan in an "ok" neighborhood, while a million dollars near Houston will buy you multiple acres with a brand new 7 thousand sq foot 6 bedroom 9 bath home on the waterfront with a guest house and a swimming pool next to a pro-level 18 hole golf course.

If you don't understand it further, feel free to take the midwest salary and try and live in San Francisco or NYC.
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I wonder; have mathematicians found something that they know with every fibre of their being is true, but that they can't prove? And do they then try to prove it in another formal system instead?

Or do these unprovable-but-true facts mostly elude them, since they are operating in a formal system that 'hides' them?
> That's growth.

Exactly right. Everything we build has a political dimension. Every dollar or euro we spend is a vote.

We have the knowledge, we have the skills, we have the power. But as long as we compartmentalize life and work, others use our talents for evil.

The HN community has always held strong beliefs about political issues, but what did we do about it?

It's time to exercise our power and ensure our money and our skills are used for worthy purposes.
Thanks for the clarification, the write up isn't clear. Have you benchmarked against postGIS or stock mysql? And tried any larger-than-memory databases?

We were using mongo in a suit of web applications that display the results of ML and statistical analysis of cancer data and we've found its query performance lacking in a number of cases...I think the mongo geospatial index is a pretty simple geohash setup on top of their normal query engine and I would expect it to have the same issues.

I do think this project is very interesting, just providing my feedback based on doing similar work.

Memory overhead of both mongo and hadoop would actually be my biggest worry since, especially on desktop workstations it is quite common for machine learning tools in R or python to need most of the available memory when tackling even small problems.
Part of what they do is set up registry locks.

This is different than a registrar lock in that a registrar lock is managed by the registrar (GoDaddy, Tucows, etc) but a registry lock is managed by the registry themselves. It requires personal contact with specific individuals to enable and disable the lock, making attempts to steal domains more difficult (but not impossible since social engineering is still feasible).

I've never used MarkMonitor before, but I did handle the registration for a hugely popular domain at one time. They decided to move to MarkMonitor but in the meantime they requested a registry lock set up on their main domain. This turned out to be very good idea since the registrar at the time was social engineered into changing the credentials for the account (with forged letter head similar to the fastmail.fm attack). The attackers were able to change the nameservers for little used domains but their main domain could not be modified.
I was fooled by Obama during his first campaign but learned quickly during his first term that he is no different. I might be a bit partisan in thinking if we had a democratic president during 9/11 we might not've gone to war with Iraq but we'll never really know.

I have simplified my life, reduced my consumption, don't own a car, grow my own food, try to avoid using Wall Street whenever possible when I do make purchases. I'm trying to create a very local life, this has allowed me to believe I'm being consistent with my core values. Oh yeah, I'm much less political than I was 10 years ago.
Ask HN mods: Why are you killing Dropbox submissions?
As depicted here: http://i.imgur.com/qymKtS3.png (see http://hnrankings.info/ for actual page)

The submissions all have tons of comments (including by many of HN most prolific and high rated users). Sure the conversation is messy, but that is often the nature of important conversations. We have to talk about things which make us uncomfortable. We have to talk about events that involve gay right, human rights, etc. when they involve new technology companies. If we don't, we are not being responsible humans.
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GCHQ have been known to attack IRC networks: https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/eff-cyber-attack...
Incredibly smart, talented, connected and absolutely unethical person.

I am boycotting Dropbox not because Rice is on the board, but because the board voted in favor of her joining. After this I simply don't trust any high ranking official at Dropbox to be the user of their products.
> Senators are shown evidence, they are not involved in the process of gathering and vetting that evidence. If this process is interfered with then the conclusions are worthless.

Senators can request additional information on the processes that is shares in closed doors. There is also the intelligence oversight committee that can investigate those actions and bring all the parties involved to actually testify.
The fact that not many members of Congress questioned what was presented ultimately rests solely on their shoulders, since they can choose to request more information and open inquiries.
>> Attacking companies for working with leaders who happen to have a conservative political viewpoint is simply unacceptable.

Yes it would be if her "viewpoint" was all that was brought into question but it's not. She assisted in lying to the American public to start a war and she has come out multiple times in support for warrantless wiretapping. This isn't about what she thinks or which political party she belongs to it's about what she DID.
"Enslaved"? Hyperbole. Though it is a problem.

Every single developed nation has done (and still does) some pretty horrible stuff.

Healthcare? Disagree, citizens of other nations find themselves coming here. Cost is an issue (another thing we're working on as of late), but quality certainly isn't.

Welfare has always been a sticking point. We're making progress.

And the rest of your post is utter hyperbole.
> I thought I heard somewhere that they are shooting for 2.0 in July.

This CNET article says testing is "due to begin in late July":

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/new-features-and-appearance-for-...
My comment only stated that responding to a long term analysis of this issue with a short term analysis is wrong because, if this is a slippery slope, it can only be detected with a long term view.

I can't see your point. Which is natural, as you haven't explained it.
I think it's more of an appeal for validation for your [more] consistently unprincipled friend's part.

They've decided that the effort is futile, so why can't you?
Yes! Let's not fall for the false equivalence of competing ideologies. Unnecessarily killing and injuring innocents is evil, full stop.
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Consider the case of a simple type system, where any statement in the language is of either type "true" or type "false"....
Very Kantian. But there are other things for which the argument is successful. Take feeding a starving man, for instance. You cannot feed them all. That's absurd. Therefore, it is also absurd that you can feed the man starving in front of you.

That argument follows the same structure.

For what it's worth, I'm not talking about Ms. Rice here. It's the argument that bothers me. Seems shaky.
How will this help? OpenSSL is broken by design (the process, the code standards, the philosophy). Money won't make it better.
Hail is not the same as snow. When I lived in the mid-atlantic region, we got hail almost exclusively in the summer, as it was typically caused by thunderstorms.
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What the fuck is this left-wing McCarthyism!

Fuck this shit. I hope Hacker News doesn't fall for this garbage ass new trend. The Mozilla affair was bad enough. This bullshit is going too far.

I'm a libertarian leaning Democrat BTW, if you need to peg me in a hole.
Except that question was asked by free citizens, not by a government.
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Ya. And at least the ones I get expect me to want to jump ship for the same salary I'm paid now...

I don't think they think things through very well when it comes to labor relations in general.
I hope she didn't use her real name; it will likely go hard with her family still in NK if she did.
The official response (so far) is "We’ve examined our servers and are updating them to protect against the vulnerability. Customer data appears unaffected."

Is this adequately reassuring to other Mint users?
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What you cite and what you said are different. Wikileaks did not break the LAW by publishing classified documents.
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I use this as my main sync software. However the code is still closed and backdoors could easily exist.
If those 50 clients would be better served getting a different product from a different vendor, then why would you want to stop that?

If your product is superior in value, the salesman won't be able to move the customers away from your products.

Make better products.

Anyway, you'll attract better salesmen.