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> Appliances that are relatively easy to replace is one thing

But if the hardware still works fine, replacing it because of software issues isn't really justified. It's far less wasteful to do software upgrades.
One thing at a time. I like this idea because it encourages activity, not just exercise but just being out. With all the various aid programs we have institutionalized poverty.

For far too many we have nearly found the least cost to society to idle a large portion of it. To give them just enough to exist, just enough to not want to resort taking from others, but too much so that they don't have a need or desire to live. Its a drug.

Here, watch some tv, enjoy that boxed dinner in your microwave, we will even help you with a place to stay. All you have to is stay out of sight, be quiet and it will all be okay
Would there have been a campaign to run without donors?
The company I work for hires at the entry-level pretty much constantly.
How Dropbox could possibly not expect a shitstorm like this is beyond me.
What would happen if you lost all of your research data?
strange coincidence, temperatures started going up after the EPA declared war on sulfur.
Basically, yes. If you want your type checker to be decidable, you're going to have to restrict the type language to be much smaller. In general, dependent types are undecidable to type check.
Craigslist often has some great deals on older bikes in lightly used condition. But it also has ads from professional bike thieves. If an ad is form someone selling lots of cheap, more heavily used bikes that they made no effort to fix up, chances are good they were stolen from a college campus some distance away and taken to a different campus to resell. If your seller has a pickup truck load of such bikes, see if the truck has out of state plates.
You should try Pandemic. I'd almost consider it team therapy. Yes it's a board game but feels like a condensed team exercise weekend where you end up building bridges (metaphorically and physically).
Well I have been planning to host my own dropbox like service on my own server for myself and I think now is the high time that I do!!
Bye bye Dropbox!!
I currently live in Michigan and telecommute fulltime for a company on the East Coast. I highly recommend it! It works well as our entire team is distributed.
actually, I don't care if git uses binary search or any other algorithm. I care that it helps me find bugs fast. There could be a "if you're interested in the tech" part in the git manpages that adds the information for the people that want or have to know, but I, as a user, couldn't care less - I can't change it anyways.
Who's next on their Board of Directors, Linda Tripp?
Or even worse, backdoored. Considering how strong the government went down on the old mega, I'm surprised they would allow Kim Dotcom to create another service, especially one that was designed with encryption in mind.
I believe this is different precisely because we aren't necessarily using "political, social, or religious tests as criteria". In this case it's pretty nearly the polar opposite: we're using her past public performance in past professional roles. No one is digging into her private history, quite the opposite; people are looking into past statements that she's made to the public (at hearings, in newspaper interviews, etc.)

Rice has clearly demonstrated that she favors sharing information with the government and law enforcement if they claim that they need that information, by any means necessary. It seems both reasonable and proper that those who would prefer Dropbox to hold a stronger position on the privacy of their customers would see this as an ominous sign.
I don't think the house comparison is a good example - a house in Palo Alto can only be utilised in Palo Alto. A remote worker could work from anywhere and produce the same output, regardless of location.

Pay levels based on location seem like a good way for companies to "save" money by providing a convenient excuse to pay someone less for the same work.
How does one "be illegal"? I think it doesn't make sense (or is at least ambiguous and confusing) unless you replace it with "being here illegally".
It's not about an opinion or belonging to a certain group such as Jews, Christians or communists here.

It's about preventing people to rise to power who are in favour of crimes against humanity such as hate and suppression against certain demographics (gays) or killings of hundreds of thousands thousands of people, just as if they were in favour of other crimes against humanity such as racism, slavery or freedom of speech.
Don't you mean a human litmus test?
No, my finding a better service is unrelated to Condoleezza Rice. Sorry if I wasn't crystal clear.
Free speech is not the same as murdering civilians and torturing prisoners.
This wouldn't surprise me one bit. Governments employing hackers to exploit whatever they can get their hands on is not something new.

Also, makes one think what other exploits are out that are being used, yet, we're not aware of it?
I don't think the point is to fix the would-be 'teachers', but to remove a major geek-shaming avenue and making it a more accepting place to ask questions and generally not know things.

You know, like as if you were in school? And were there to learn?
Hey there is http://weworkremotely.com, and there's always automattic, if you're into wordpress
What drives so much variation in the cultures do you recon/? More isolation type (galapagos syndrome) or is it the parent/funding culture (beauracracy etc)?
It was specifically this library: http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=1403.
"that almost blindly supports Israel's increasingly unjustifiable occupation"... I wonder why that one hasn't been called out yet. Where are the Israel fanatics?
Saw this in another thread on HN today: https://github.com/github-issues/github-issues. Similar goal as Isaac's repo.
Then let's ban for-pay lobbying.
You're conflating views with actions.

The linked page talks nothing about Rice's views, it talks about the way that she has used her power in this world, and what the outcomes have been.

If you're advocating that the business context should be somehow special, a place where people should be free of the consequences of their actions in other realms, I'm going to have to disagree with you.
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"Once taught is twice learned."
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I think this is exactly why they added this rule: some people didn't realize the negative effects of acting surprised when someone doesn't know something. The jerks are probably still going to be jerks of course, but for the others it's a chance to learn about how to better interact with the people around them.
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Must be a zionist :)
> Speaking to your point though, I have a friend who - no joke - hates bowling. Like, he gets violently angry when we suggested going bowling and said he'd rather sit in the car by himself if we went. Some people...

What a shitlord. You should have gone bowling and let him sit in the car like an angry 5 year old. If he can't "take one for the team" and at least just have a beer and talk while everyone else bowls, fuck him.
Is it possible for you to allocate those funds to (specifically) funding a security audit and code refactor of OpenSSL? Cryptography researcher Matthew Green has stated interest in starting a campaign: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/45386223750218547...
Wuala is run by LaCie and based in Switzerland.

http://wuala.com/en/

Its servers are in CH, FR and DE.

It encrypts the data on your client before it is uploaded.

The free plan offers 5GB.
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It's only right if you believe there's no cost to your spying being uncovered.

If you don't think there's any cost to being caught spying, I welcome you to try spying on someone, anyone. Then you can answer the question of "Is it worth it?" which leads directly into "Is it a good idea?"
Looks nice, I added it to this list of languages that compile to JavaScript (in the "C#, F#, .NET related languages" section): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
Sumologic and Heartbleed
Thanks for your feedback. I can see that I'm not effectively articulating the value proposition:

This is about value, not cost. How much is your time worth? TurboTax and other DIY software will take you hours (our customers tell us 1-3 hours). Our intake process is averaging under 15 minutes. The CPA or EA then goes offline to prepare your return and will send it to you later that day. Since they're experts they know what questions to ask so back-and-forth is not common, beyond the first intake appointment.

Does the ability to videoconference provide value to you? Or would you rather just communicate via chat or phone?
I suppose if you interpret my words literally, you're correct.

Sorry if I was unclear, but I meant that the presence of war and torture images (which in turn themselves automatically represent something, which is in this case, actual war and torture) is grossly out of proportion to the message being presented in the parent link. Out of proportion, that is, to the very mundane event of someone becoming one of Dropbox's board of directors.

There's an implication here that Dr. Rice, by being a board member, will guide Dropbox into committing acts of war and torture. This implication is most strongly suggested by the presence of those images.

I could make a webpage which looped a video montage of people being beaten and murdered by police officers and upon it superimpose the message "DON'T ARGUE WITH POLICEMEN". Certainly there are more civil and dignified ways to convince people to not argue with police officers?
AFAIK Heartbleed was found during one of Googles code-reviews of OpenSSL.
If they don't want to do it, why do we need to encourage them to change their mind?
I would say that your 'team lead' is not "very good" because part of being team lead is ... leading a team.

Creating a toxic environment where people are afraid of him, alas is not in the job description.

This is where strong management can fix things, but if you are at google where tech leads often have no management oversight, you just have to change teams or leave the company.
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You can recover the source code of all chrome extensions you install....
Holman has one too: https://github.com/holman/feedback
I don't think they are that good as well, but as I mentioned, if the whole point was just to get an entry level dev job for the money, it maybe a good option.
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I think that depends on the reading of "inconsistently principled". If the principles are inconsistent, then I tentatively think your equality holds. If the principles are consistent, and the stridency in application is inconsistent, then I don't think they are equal.

With the second reading, a tangential concern is what drives the inconsistency. If it is purely stochastic, then I think the above saying holds ("better to be..."). If it is manipulated by unprincipled agents, then it's much more questionable.
Is any realistic alternative to violence against the system if you are going to disengage?

I think this whole thing has to come to a head at some point- and I just see too many americans who don't even put a fraction of the effort into politics that you have.
An example of a "tax store" is H&R Block. This is where I was paid about $8 bucks, even though I was billing $200 so that they could afford to have retail store that was closed 8 months of the year.
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Why not? UCB caught quite a bit of flak over John Yoo. If a med school were to employ one of the psychologists who helped design torture at Gitmo I wouldn't expect that to remain quiet.
Exactly, no one is saying "If you are a Republican you shouldn't be on the DB board" they are saying "If you support warrantless wiretapping and were an accomplice in lying to the American public in order to start a war then you shouldn't be on the DB board". This isn't because of her political affiliation but because of what she did.
I really, really fail to see the problem with this.

We live in a world where income inequality has been growing for the past 40 years, where people in power of the economic institutions grow closer and close to the power of political institutions, and where the common citizen is unable to take any sort of action to voice their opinion on significant matters.

Over half of the US population was in disagreement with the Iraq war, not to mention the absolute majority of its allies and the rest of the world. It is about as unanimous a disagreement on a military conflict as it gets, which ended in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

Did you forget that this woman fabricated evidence? That she openly lied to its people to get this on?

There is a difference between voting for plain "political disagreement" and for considering that the person in question, in another era, would have unquestionably been tried as a war criminal.

What kind of simplistic argument are you trying to bring about where all political action is equally important?
Sweden, Denmark and Holland have no army and no international interests or responsibility at stake.

The US took the responsibility to protect western countries since they won world war 2. That means protect their interests as well as ours (i'm European), which sometimes means remove a vicious dictator from power instead of flooding him with oil money. The fact that the public opinion has a word to say about it every 4 years is what makes a democratie.

It makes absolutely no sense to compare their foreign policy to the one of Sweden or Finland.

I'm really curious to know which company is going to be next at this horrible witch hunt. Twitter ?
What's the "critical distinction" between voting with your own wallet and trying to convince other people to vote with theirs too? Seems like it's just "vote with your wallet" plus "free speech".
> compare notes on how they voted in the last election

This is mildly insulting. You know of course that the problem isn't who Ms Rice voted for in the last election "or some similar matter"; the matter is very dissimilar.

This downplaying of stakes isn't fooling anyone; it's unclear to me why you're even trying.
You have to draw the line somewhere. Instructing your minions to torture a prisoner is way, way over the line for a lot of people, myself included.

Sure, the Iraq war was a trillion dollar mistake, but that's just money. Live by the sword die by the sword and all that. A lot of Americans have a Christian upbringing, whether or not they ultimately believe in God. Torture is what Satan does -- that's the Satan, the personification of evil. This is the rock bottom of the moral scale.
My first and only encounter with "Concatenative Languages" was programming the HP48GX[1] graphing calculator in highschool. Thinking back to it, I'm amazed by what you could do with it. It was very powerful even by today's standards. Whereas other kids had Gameboys, I had an "HP". I even got in trouble playing tetris on it during my German language class. My calculus teacher never knew that you could do symbolic integrals and derivatives with it (using a free computer algebra library). Sadly, the only program of note that I wrote for it was an implementation of the The Game of Life[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-48_series
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
You are correct, just got done reading Theo's rants on the subject and realized I was mistaken, so apologies. The same style of potential subversion may be at hand, regardless.
Ok, not saying that Obama has been 100% perfect in his presidency so far, but are you really implying that he's been an awful president?

He's kept a lot of his promises:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

Not to mention major wins in healthcare, Iraq, and avoiding the major impending economic collapse that was in place when he took office.

He's no saint, and I'm as pissed as anyone about the illegal wiretapping that happened under his administration. But keep in mind that no major politician will agree 100% with your views. And no president can or will keep 100% of his promises considering this shifting political climate and his limited powers in our government.
A lot of what Linus says only really applies to linux kernel development.

And some of that only applies when you're Linus.
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So you're invoking antisemitism and McCarthyism (but not quite getting to Nazism) in discussing people reacting badly to the appointment of someone widely considered a war criminal to a board position (type "condaleeza rice war" into Google and it will autocomplete for you -- handy).

"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."

In a free society, is business the most important thing?
> I'm probably not clever enough, but someone could probably prove that'd be equivalent to solving the halting problem. It seems impossible.

Guessing you're plenty clever...just didn't think about it enough :)

Simply transform a program into one which halts on a type error rather than whatever else it might be doing. Done.
I'd like like to redirect you back to adnam's comment.

> Unlike Eich, Rice went far beyond simply holding beliefs and making donations. She held real power and used it in unconscionable ways.

All I can say is that personally I find Eich and Condoleezza to be worlds apart. Nor do I think it is hypocritical to feel stronger about the Iraq War than about gay marriage. People will have different priorities.
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I've seen a lot of comments here pontificate about being above "political litmus tests." Torture is political? Death on mass scale is political now? Wiretapping is political? Violation of international law is a political stance? Noam Chomsky thanks you for proving his points for him.
Starting an unnecessary war is a big deal. Denying due process and torturing detainees is a big deal. The Patriot Act was one of the most un-American acts of Congress. Rice had a significant role in destroying the values I once thought were vitally important in claiming American exceptionalism. We can never get that back. We are now a country that starts unnecessary wars, tortures detainees and denies due process and spends vast resources on surveilling every citizen and she had a role in that. We will never be the country we once were before Rice and the Bush administration. I am proud to have always been vocally against the war, torture and the Patriot Act. I will continue to oppose the people who led these efforts and oppose anything they are involved with, staying true to my own personal values requires this.
ownCloud is free software licensed under the AGPL. This means that you can run the software on one of your own machines or find a hosting provider. The company behind ownCloud offers enterprise installations, which is probably what confused you.

Personally, I haven't gotten around to self-hosting yet and use a small free account at https://owndrive.com/

Hope this helps.
I don't understand what people are admiring here. This "letter" is nothing more than a meaningless rant by a person whose field of expertise has nothing to do with politics, economy, international relations or terrorism. Donald Knuth is a great computer scientist, but hearing him talking about international politics is like hearing any other random person on the street.

Also:
"...and that almost blindly supports Israel's increasingly unjustifiable occupation".

Seriously?

Let the downvotes begin.
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Actually I think the Heartbleed vulnerability was most probably found because of this migration, as it was found by Neel Mehta of Google (and the Codenomicon guys). The date of this draft is 2014-01-26, so it makes sense, that the OpenSSL code is evaluated by the security team before the migration.
absolutely fantastic !
Thanks
I don't have citations off hand, but from memory:

1. Cheney strongly pressured the CIA to discover a smoking gun for Iraq WMDs

2. CIA produced a document that they themselves questioned the authenticity of (the "yellow cake" purchase document)

3. Bush/Cheney ran with that, ignoring the caveats of the intelligence and trumpeting it as the smoking gun

4. Later discovered that the document was fabricated

So while I haven't seen any evidence that they were personally involved in fabricating the evidence, they fabricated the narrative that justified the war by interfering with the intelligence gathering and vetting process and ignoring their recommendations.

Claims that senators that voted for war are just as responsible because "they saw the same evidence" does not account for reality. 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.
Politics aside, I don't see what she can contribute to a technology company like Dropbox!
"so insanely hyperbolic"
Where is Aspect Oriented Programming and all the other offspring of the Inversion of Control pattern (Dependency Injection, Dependency Inversion, ...)?

Is this line of evolution in languages considered dead?
Downing street memos, Rumsfeld memos, the Project for a New American Century Report, Hans Blix assertions that there were no WMDs, historical acts of aggression in other countries, subsequent acts of aggression in other countries, and post-hoc assertions that WMDs were not the main reason for invasion, among other evidence all show that the invasion of Iraq was geo-strategic and not primarily based on disarming Iraq of WMDs, though some senior officials were led to believe that.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/secret-memo-by-donald-rumsfeld-...
Some schools in the UK recognisd that some children do not want to look stupid by givin the wrong answer or appearing not to know something.

They realised that this stops those children from asking questions, not jist from answering questions.

One technique used to overcome this is for the teacher to nominate a pupil to attempt an answer. It doesn't matter iftheu don't know - that's part of the process.

A side benefit is the teacher gets more inderstanding of any mosconceptions the pupils have.

There are lots of subtle things happening with teaching and it's a bit worrying that we don't have much research or we don't ise the research we have.
You just need to make the bike clothing/armor tax deductible too!
Sorry, I took the comment on its own. I do not use Dropbox. I have not found a usable free sync solution so I am stuck with unison.
If you want that from a company, isn't having someone who used to be deeply involved in the other side a great way to do it?

I'm not saying that's what they'll do, but we don't know either way do we?
ownCloud is free/open source software - you have no obligation to use ownCloud's servers or pay them anything - you can download both the client and server source code, host the server on your own machine, and connect to that with the client.

ownCloud run a business where they can host a copy of the server software for you, if you don't have your own machine or a usable connection - but there's no requirement to use that - you could spin up an instance in Amazon's cloud or elsewhere too.
On Debian Chromium 33.0.1750.152-1 seems to be using GnuTLS, I didn't know that the official Chrome used NSS:

$ ldd /usr/lib/chromium/chromium|grep -E tls\|ssl
libgnutls.so.28 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.28 (0x00007fbae0878000)

In fact on Debian most client software is using either NSS or GnuTLS, OpenSSL is more popular server-side of course.
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