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Let's see, is that better or worse than a drone strike?

I guess President Obama is trying to keep you alive so it's okay if he takes out a few miscreant citizens with drone strikes, right?

(And this is why these discussions belong somewhere else, not on Hacker News)
I like wuala but they are very expensive and have not adjusted their prices at all
Im going to'Dropbox'before I ever pick it up !
Yeah lets store everything on a service that has already evaporated once before!
this guy said it better than me -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7546768
>do you know all the board members stances on this issue?

We do now…
http://www.box.com
Unless you like privacy. Partially nude photos in your private folder on OneDrive can get your whole Microsoft account banned. [1]

[1] http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...
The Factcheck link http://archive.is/vAWQa completely disproves your claim. Are they lying too?
Ask HN: How much money have you lost on side projects/businesses?
HN is often filled with success stories, which can give a false representation of the overall success that people are having. Instead of your biggest success, what is your biggest failure? How much did you lose? How did you rebound (if applicable)?
In my humble opinion the best solution for layouts is CSS is the CSS Grid Layout Module[1]. Both powerful and easy to grasp. Sadly, it works only in IE (from version number 10, I believe)[2], but others[3][4][5] are getting there. And, of course, there's a polyfill[6].

1) http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/ - specification;

2) http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/hands-on-css3/han... - examples;

3) http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/03/Get-on-the-CSS-Grid - Chrome/Opera/Blink;

4) https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60731 - Safari/Webkit;

5) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616605 - Firefox;

6) https://github.com/codler/Grid-Layout-Polyfill - JS polyfill.
Privacy authorities across Europe approve Microsoft’s cloud commitments
I have a relatively large project in production that is using a ton of legacy c# code using mono for months ;/ with little issues. Could you maybe explain more about what you saw?
http://owncloud.org
Have you ever bought a product/service from an American company?
The problem with sarcasm is that, when I use it, I'm not putting my own opinion out there to be critiqued, I'm only attacking the other guy's. I can change my argument at will and claim "I was only being ironic" with prior claims.
Can someone explain to me how being involved with Chevron is unethical?
> By the way, Rice never "enabled" for the war because she couldn't vote in Congress. Similar to Al Gore.

I just... I can't fathom the idiocy of your post. My neighbor billy bob supported the war too. I guess he had the same degree of responsibility for it as Rice did, because he couldn't vote in congress.
What I like the most is the integration of OneDrive with Microsoft Office 2013. But Microsoft successfully "force" me to use OneDrive because I bought Surface RT, which the best Windows 8 application for syncing file so far is OneDrive.

Nowadays, I rarely use Dropbox anymore if it is not for group projects. I don't know why but OneDrive seems unpopular among my friends.
I've only ever had to sign non-competes when working for contracting companies -- those only prevented me from doing the same job for the same client for a competing contractor. Seeing as how cutthroat the contracting industry is around major tech companies, and the limited scope of the non-compete, it makes some sense to me.
No, I like it, sorry first time use of the phrase "to rough it" :)

Sublime though looked and felt really super polished, something to fall in love with. I guess I put that comment out to see if I was mistaken, and it could move back in...
Don't forget the Varnish 4.0 Release Party on April 29th - http://v4party.varnish-cache.org #v4rp
"Fucks up" implies an error that they've regretted. Is it really appropriate description in this case?
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Seems pretty obvious to me, since the above description could also apply to your typical declarative languages such as SQL, where you also rely on the database to do optimizations based on a description of the result you're looking for, rather than procedures for calculating it.
I have previously worked with MarkMonitor. One big factor is that at the time I had a single dedicated person who oversaw our domains. I knew him and his manager, and they knew me. Everything related to our domains went through them. It's not impossible to fool someone in that situation, of course, but it's a lot harder than fooling some random support person who knows nothing about the business or people involved. We talked on the phone regularly, and I have absolute certainty that if anything unusual came through, they wouldn't hesitate to call me and figure out if it was legitimate.
Ask HN: Is Heartbleed a good argument for using closed source?
We know that websites hosted on e.g. the MS tech stack are basically unaffected by Heartbleed due to their having their own implementation rather than OpenSSL. Even if such a vulnerability exists it is hard to find in source code that isn't publicly available - i'm not sure if thats an argument for or against - or perhaps part of both. The counter of course is that such vulnerabilities are less likely to be discovered (and therefore quickly fixed). Thoughts?
I was expecting to see this response for their lacking reaction to Heartbleed, not to having Rice join their board...
Before Hacker School, I never realized how unhelpful this was. The naive logic is, "well, I'm genuinely surprised that this person didn't know this". But in the grand reality of things, all of us know very little. Even experts in one area, don't know basic things in another area. By removing the shaming of admitting what you don't know, Hacker School encourages everyone to move past that and help each other learn.
What a brain-dead decision by Dropbox. I can't believe they actually thought of this themselves and decided what a great idea it would be to have someone like Condoleezza Rice on the board.

For some reason I expected a little more from a YC star.
To me, this looks like it may have been directly inspired by the Eich case. The whole premise is a little nonsensical. How will kicking her off the board change anything, when the shareholders (or whoever) who appointed her will remain? No time to answer questions like that when there is demagogy to do. It is a personal vendetta in a very similar vein as the Mozilla incident, even if the justifications may be better this time around.
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Because Cheney would have gotten a free pass, right?
You sir, are a real social warrior. Let that self righteous outrage flow.
The idiocy of your straw man is quite telling. Rice and Gore had as much pull on the public. I would say Gore had more than Rice because he was far more well known.
I edited my comment several times and I think the message I was originally trying to convey got less clear as a result.

I don't for a moment believe the startup actually failed due solely to the designer. And yet, it's more likely that the designer just wasn't google-quality than libelling google by claiming it was sexism that caused them to hire a few engineers but not the designer from a failed startup.
The semantics are completely different which has to be reflected in the VCL.
I think keeping compatibility at the cost of sanity is pretty dangerous and disregarding compatibility has been one of the success factors for the Linux kernel.
I signed up for Wuala about a month ago.
Wasn't ready to make the switch but... It's time to make it happen.
Going to be contingent on where he's located. A rough way to start: Take a look at job openings in his area, see what are the desired technologies, and have him learn them as quick as he can. He's going to be in a junior role, there's no way around it, but if he takes the hard angle of being unsatisfied with his current career, and can demonstrate he's serious with this pivot by showing off something quick he's built with his newfound powers, then getting a job should be no problem.
>> "Dropping Mozilla because Eich is anti-gay-marriage made sense to me because Mozilla is the beacon of open source. Mozilla belongs to us in a very personal way, many of us have contributed code to Firefox personally."

I feel the opposite. Eich's opinion (which I don't agree with) was unlikely to impact his work. Rice was part of the administration that created PRISM. I don't want her anywhere near a company I'm supposed to trust with all my files.
The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know. Feigning surprise just reflects how much of a knowledge bubble one exists in.
The problem we have with our society today is that we gravitate towards absolute positions on every contentious issue. When you are absolutely certain about something it is a small leap to then believe that those who disagree are doing so maliciously.

To fix this we have to find a way to reward tempered opinions. The absolutism in our society is becoming stronger over time and it's further dividing us.
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Comments with the term "butt-hurt" should be immediately flagged and removed from all HN posts.
Ask HN: Any good (PHP) PaaS with UK datacentres?
Hi,
Has anyone had any experience or know of any good PHP PaaS with UK datacentres that they can recommend?
Thanks,
That people will leverage this to at least bring some sort of accountability, I completely applaud.
Objective-C programmers have been using refcounting at scale for at least 2 decades.

No problems here.
The personal attachment that comes with using a good brand in this field isn't trivial, and it should be expected that users project their sensibilities on the brand. Being politically neutral in the view of its users should have been a priority for DP, regardless of which powerful gatekeepers to world markets are on Rice's speed dial.
I did many years of serious C++ work without touching the STL because the shops I was at had their own versions of the STL (and for very good reasons given their particular domains).

C++ is huge.
Yeah, those are pretty fair given the situation and since most contracts include a hire clause that pays a finders fee to the contracting company. In that situation the non-compete basically keeps everyone on friendly terms.
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So were they uninformed about torture and widespread spying on general population, too?
Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say [0]

>> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended Bush's actions, telling "Fox News Sunday" the president had authorized the National Security Agency "to collect information on a limited number of people with connections to al Qaeda."
>> ...
>> Asked why the president authorized skipping the FISA court, Rice said the war on terrorism was a "different type of war" that gives the commander in chief "additional authorities." [1]

>> Wolf Blitzer Interview with Condoleezza Rice on Domestic Wiretap Controversy [2]

[0] http://rawstory.com/news/2005/After_domestic_spying_reports_...

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/18/bush.nsa/

[2] http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/26/sitroom.03.ht...
I'm not very passionate about either the Eich situation or this new Dropbox issue, but I have to say that this feels much more "political" and relevant than with Mozilla. Eich privately opposed gay marriage, but the public disclosure threatened to hurt the foundation's image and his effectiveness. Rice was a unabashed supporter and post 2006, an architect of the Iraq War.

It would be closer to Mozilla hiring Mike Huckabee or similar as CEO.
Open Source, not non-profits. I'd have to think about the non-profit thing, but Open Source is a very particular thing - you're asking the public to work for you for FREE. People at Mozilla make good money, non-profit just means they don't have shareholders, and yet we work for them FOR FREE. And we like to! We have no problem doing it and we shouldn't - but yes, it does mean we get to hold them to our standard, whether that be higher or whatever.
I have, but it's significantly less than the amount of taxes I pay, and it's even less than the US government is getting in the end.
Let the programmer who has never written a bug cast the first stone.
It's pretty firmly established that Bush lied and had been gunning for Iraq long before WMD became his casus belli and you have a wonderful resource called the world wide web if you have any interest at all in confirming that.
Hasn't exactly rolled back? In some cases they were expanded, including to the point of shoot first and ask questions later. As for your hypothetical, since she's apparently going to run for President and would have a decent shot at winning, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Well they responded to all criticisms fairly reasonable and also introduced a vulnerability reward program. If you find a flaw you get up to 10000 €.
There is a colossal difference between making a shitty decision that doesn't directly affect the lives of thousands of people, and ones that do.

I don't care what her intention was at the time. Just read http://www.drop-dropbox.com/. It's certainly enough for me.
How do you and your moronic cronies (unless it's all just you) not see that this is a completely different analogy? Gore didn't have privileged intelligence; he was deceived like the rest of us. A lot of us like Gore because he seems to have qualities that we would like to see in a government official: reasoned, intelligent, and a supporter of science. I have very little problem saying that 2000-2008 would have been a very different time had he been in the White House, rather than a bunch of neo-cons with the baggage of an Iraq obsession.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Advisor_(Unit...
Would Heartbleed have been prevented if OpenSSL was written in Go/D/Vala?
I don't know enough about it to say anything more than "I noticed some big-name cryptographers have begun writing crypto services in Go, so maybe it's safe." Trusting expert cryptographers to make safe decisions and then waiting five years for cryptanalysis to catch up is probably a safe course of action. (Moreso the "wait five years for cryptographers to poke holes in it" part.)

I remember some discussion on HN where someone mentioned that GCs pose a problem for secure code due to the non-deterministic nature of GC. There's apparently a nonzero chance of introducing a side-channel attack via GC. Until we're certain that chance is far closer to "zero" than "non-zero," we should either study that threat vector in detail or find a safer option.

It would be horrible to switch to something which is then proven to be broken in some fundamental and unfixable way, such as a GC side channel attack.
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While I'm a novice, at best, on such issues, I personally believe that the more eyes on the code, the better. A team of developers can't possibly account for any and all mistakes, bugs, etc. The code should be secure enough that allowing people to see it wouldn't undermine its security efforts.
I had precisely the opposite view. I felt that Eich's politics weren't aligned with my beliefs but were personal and legal. Condi is in a whole other league - having to help prosecute an illegal war and intentionally mislead our citizenry.
The time on a work-day spent on work and work-related activities in the U.S. is 8.8 hours (http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/chart1.txt).

While I'm here, I'll just leave this: http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/chart17.txt and this: http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/chart11.txt.
> Heck, there have been automatically-generated conference papers that have been accepted and went through peer review

Those papers were used to prove that those conferences weren
t actually peer reviewed.
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Her 9 page CV is here:

http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/sta...

From that she is currently on the corporate boards of KiOR, C3 Energy, and Makena Capital. She previously was on the boards of Schwab, Chevron, Transamerica, and HP.
I snooped the traffic and it does not seem to send traffic to proxies if you configure it correctly to not do so.

I've moved from Dropbox to BTSync for 1Password sync and am comfortable with it. Of course, if an open source alternative comes up, I'm willing to consider it.

There's AeroFS, but I hate Java apps so that's a non-starter for me.
No. For the same reason that being a white supremacist hasn't really ever been "okay."

Eich was not anti-gay, he was anti-civil rights. Legal marraige and religious marriage are unfortunately poorly named, but two very different things. If Eich doesn't understand that, he's got bigger issues than being dumped by Mozilla.

I have plenty of good friends who do not agree with the idea of homosexual religious marriage and yet support civil rights and the right of homosexuals to be legally married.

That said, cable news, groupthink and information overload have a nasty habit of making us fall back on baser instincts (gay=bad, Christian=bad, war=bad or any other black/white arguments).

Instead we should probably turn to our communities where we are able to have long-form and less-aggressive arguments about fundamental issues. If you perceive the person you're arguing with as a human and a friend, you're less inclined towards unmitigated anger and senseless aggression. But that would require us to put down our computers and walk into town hall and actually speak with humans, so I'm not holding my breath.
That is one of the communist legacies that we should be thankful about. In Serbia I always worked 8 hours a day brutto, and that included ~1h of breaks for lunch, coffee chitchat and so.

Now in Germany I work 8:45 because the company automatically deducts 0:30 for lunch and 0:15 for breakfast. So you see people staring at the walls in cantine and waiting for 30m to pass although they would rather eat for 10m and go home 20m earlier every day.

And it's not like I do more now in 8d netto than I did before in 7h, it's just more exhausting and pointless. I guess without these German "employee protection rules" I would be allowed to clock out exact time spend eating and go home earlier, which would in turn make me same half an hour every day and in general make happier and more productive employee.
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Has anyone attended the ML course at Hakka Labs NYC? Is it worth the $2k?
Here's the URL: http://mlcourse2.splashthat.com/
Someone needs to inform netflix that resolution is not the same thing as quality. I understand that there are streaming limitations and you can't have good quality downloading fast enough, but the consumers all seem to think that 4k would somehow be better than 1080p at twice the bitrate.
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Yeah, that is a downside, but for me it's OK, since I only use Linux on my web servers.
Dropping Mozilla because Eich is anti-gay-marriage made sense to me because Mozilla is the beacon of open source.

The leap from open source to pro-gay sounds like a complete non sequitur to me. What is the reasoning there?

I like the way Torvalds put it.

For example, the GPLv2 in no way limits your use of the software. If you're a mad scientist, you can use GPLv2'd software for your evil plans to take over the world ("Sharks with lasers on their heads!!"), and the GPLv2 just says that you have to give source code back. And that's OK by me. I like sharks with lasers. I just want the mad scientists of the world to pay me back in kind. I made source code available to them, they have to make their changes to it available to me. After that, they can fry me with their shark-mounted lasers all they want.

Open source means just that.
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* President Barack Obama selects Joe Biden as his vice president, the same person who voted for the Iraq War
If you have your own server, I'd recommend BTSync. Sync any folder on your computer easily, without having to move them into a specific folder. You could probably set something up to also sync everything to Google Drive with a script, for redundancy.
Maybe the silver lining here is that it puts the final nail in the coffin for "many eyes make all bugs shallow" - which was always total BS from the day it was uttered. There's so much code out there, much of it highly specialized and even project-specific, that there are very few eyes looking at any particular piece of code, and not all eyes are connected to the greatest of brains.

Most static code analyzers could have caught this particular bug, as it requires only a fairly simple kind of reasoning about allocated vs. used length. In fact I believe it probably was found by static analysis before being reported by a human, which is a shame because it misses an opportunity to highlight the value of such tools. Maybe next time people will spend a little less time designing a logo and a little more time doing things that actually help (though that's a wish and what I expect is the exact opposite).

The real lesson here is that we should apply as many different tools and processes as we can at improving code quality for critical infrastructure. Code reviews are nice. Static analysis is nice. Detailed tests are nice. However, none of these alone is sufficient even when pursued with fanatical devotion.
I think it's the historic actions of the person rather than their ideas that are bothering people. But I can't speak for them, of course.
The biggest impact of these sorts of changes are future users who are trying to get their first configuration going, following various web tutorials. Many of those tutorials are now misleading, but via the nature of accumulated web content it won't be changed any time soon.

Varnish is a nice project, but the lack of SSL significantly restricts its usefulness, especially in the "SSL everywhere" era. I've simply resorted to using nginx' proxy pass as the cache/load balancer.
>the greatest economic disaster in 70 years

The housing crisis started well before the Bush administration. The affordable housing act was what enabled banks to start issuing loans without worrying about risk.
Try hubic (https://hubic.com/en/), they are a French company.
I would say it was more like "weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was HOPED TO possess". The Bush administration had a bit of circumstantial evidence that they sold to the world as definitive evidence, but they didn't actually know that there were no WMDs.
Ok. Do we get a discovery process where we can sift through all of the correspondence and information they had in the run up to the Iraq war?

No? It will be released 25 years after the fact /if/ they are not ordered to remained sealed.

I guess we'll have to wait a little while for your admissible evidence. How convenient.
I bought a pizza shop. Invested 100k from credit cards in it to prove I was committed. I work full time as a developer so, I needed someone to run it. Got sales to over 40k a month in sales and still couldn't turn any kind of profit. Bought a second shop pretty sure I was robbed blind. Sold both never got paid for either shop. Not sure how to proceed now. Getting garnished so huge chunk of my pay is lost to paying back debt. Learned many valuable lessons. I consider it my ivy league of the real world education. I flipped a house paid 85k with a loan fixed it up sold it for 128k, still broke even took to long to fix up. Bought a rental property tenants destroyed couldn't get it re-rented. Owned a mortgage company market collapsed.
I think the solution for such issue is not at the MacroEconomical level, but at micro-behavioral level of our culture and life habits, if we solve it, all the macro factors will adapt accordingly