skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She was also famously shopping for shoes and watching Spamalot in manhattan while Katrina was devistating the gulf coast.
Using Vaadin CDI with JAAS authentication
Which is why I don't understand why these companies appoint political figures unless they're trying to win accounts with the government.
She is? Has she been indicted by any international courts? Has she stood trial and been convicted? Or do you just have a hunch?
hubiC works as well as Dropbox, for what I can tell from a few weeks of usage.
To be fair, the author does not successfully make their case that "feigned" surprise (how does one know enough about the mental state of another person to make that assumption anyways?) is always negative or always bad.

Funny, in that an article about not making assumptions is packed with them, not the least of which is the assumption that someone who is visibly surprised when you don't know something is expressing some kind of superiority or belittling.
So I've been wanting to migrate away from Dropbox and onto a self-hosted solution for a while anyway, and I guess this would be a good opportunity to do so.

Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any good open-source solutions at the moment. I'm not looking for a fancy web interface or anything, just a simple sync between devices, with a usable API for building apps.

In particular, rsync etc. doesn't really offer this interface, and I'm really not convinced by the usability of e.g. OwnCloud. Any solutions I might be missing? Or is this something I have to build myself?
"The intelligence was as clear as any intelligence I've ever seen and I've been in this business a long time. ... When you had intelligence assessments that said Saddam Hussein has reconstituted his biological and chemical weapons and could reconstitute his nuclear weapon in a year if he got foreign assistance — by the end of the decade if he didn't — I've actually never seen clearer indications than that."
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I'd suggest the alternative http://mega.co.nz
There are millions of web bunglers in the indernet. Do you really want him to compete with them at entry job level?

You told he "has a technical master degree". and I would advise to focus coding goals towards solving problems within his domain. He might be a bad coder, but he can certainly compete to an average coder, who has no domain knowledge.
Right, then I fail to see the value of this submission at all. Maybe should hint in the title that nothing usable have been released yet.
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She is one of the smartest women in politics, there is. There is no going around it. She was probably placed on the board to move Dropbox into government storage.

Whatever your views might be, This was a smart move by Dropbox, but for her government ties, but also for her intelligence. If you think she is dumb, or stupid, then I call you ignorant.
When looking to grow our board, we sought out a leader who could help us expand our global footprint.

Condoleezza sure left a global footprint in the Middle East alright. Hate do this Dropbox, but time for me to move on.

Edit: Suggestions for a Dropbox substitute?
Compare with the attempted 2003 Linux kernel backdoor [1], which gave root when sys_wait4() is passed uncommon combination of flags. The bug looked inconspicuous and honest enough.

[1] http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.0/0635.html
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The problem is that GCs are considered harmful to crypto code, though that may be changing with Go. We won't know for about 5 years whether it's trustworthy, and even then, the side channel threat posed by GC may be worth worrying about.

Some big-name cryptographers have started implementing some useful crypto services in Go, so we'll see whether it catches on.

EDIT: Is the JVM generally trusted by cryptographers? I just realized that TextSecure is java code. Is the side channel threat posed by GC not too serious, then?
Yes, I think I'll move away from dropbox too before the end of month. Spideroak seems the best possible clone, or Wuala who has servers in Switzerland.
I can't imagine what this guy must be feeling right now. I find it embarrassing enough when I am outed in my small team for producing a bug that makes it into production. To be known around the entire internet to have caused the largest security bug in recent times must be quite a slammer.

I really hope it doesn't affect his career..
Please get your facts straight.

* The Iraq war ended in 2011, and the Afghanistan war is winding down.

* The Obama administration has attempted to close Guantanamo, only to be blocked by Congress.

* We are no longer in the financial crisis left by the previous administration.

* Obama ordered an end to torture on his first day in office.

* Global attitudes about the United States have improved dramatically since 2008, according to Pew Research (http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/1/survey/15/).

So, you're either woefully misinformed, or willfully ignorant.
I'm sure none of this is relevant but (a) her dad is ex POTUS of a global superpower; and/or (b) her mom was Secretary of state of that global superpower. They also have the son of the wife of the CEO but that's a little different, she was a fashion designer.

Condi was (b) so they are basically the same relation to the US gov't.

I think the generalization that US foreign policy has radically changed its ethics or its data-security between 2008-2011 to be a bit unsupported by the facts.

If anything, as tech has improved we have all become less secure...regardless of the POTUS...because the professionals working in the NSA and the CIA are just getting more powerful.

But YMMV
Stop doing that. You're being dishonest right now. This is not about sexism or racism. My co-founder and best friend of 8 years is a woman, and she had the same reaction of disgust by this move as me. This has to do with Rice's history of warmongering and condoning torture, not her sex or ethnicity.
Yes I saw. I still think it is a long period of time to commit per day, even with the break in the middle.

I find doing this sort of thing over a few weeks really starts to grind the psyche down. Not enough time spent on a mix of things is problem, I think. How people could do it as the norm is beyond me.
Does static code analysis or something like that would have caught the bug?
I'd be on board with this if it weren't for the fact that Mega as it exists is a gigantic middle finger in the general direction of the copyright industry.

While admirable, that is not conducive to their continued well being.
The fb share link has href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<url>". It still functions though, js triggered.
Spider Oak is great, and cares about your privacy. Everything's encrypted client-side.
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Well, that's great, except, according to the article at the top of this thread, that's maybe not so great, depending on what kind of questions they asked you.

So, what kind of questions did they ask you?
Last year this time I was a middle school science teacher with little to no technical background. Now I'm a JavaScript software engineer and I teach others how to become software engineers in my free time. Some common trends I notice among my clients who are successful:

1) Grit - the ability the struggle through problems and dig through many rabbit holes/frustrations

2) Passion - true passion for technology and trends to keep up with latest frameworks/languages/etc and patterns- generally (but not necessarily) is the first step for grit

3) Problem Solving Frameworks - the ability to create frameworks for yourself to solve programming issues including debugging, asking questions, talking to a duck, etc.

Feel free to e-mail (in profile) me and I can set up an intro advice call with your friend.
Unless a company is actively hurting people, I'm going to choose what I use based on the quality of the product, not on a board member's past. Maybe they determined that a hardened political voice would balance them out in the boardroom. Maybe they need someone there to play the devil's advocate in an industry that can be extraordinarily narcissistic.
Yeah... or I could continue using Dropbox as I have done for the past couple of years safe in the knowledge that a director's political background has little-to-nothing to do with the day-to-day running of a tech company.
They didn't seem to know how to do cryptography right though.
I didn't know they were on the board of directors of Dropbox. Very interesting.

Yes: a large percentage of the politicians in power today are responsible for the heinous crimes against humanity being committed, even yet daily, in the name of the American people - and YES, you SHOULD hold them accountable, since - as an American - you, yourself, are also responsible for the heinous actions of your nation state.
I think the way that's usually handled is to say that George Bush tricked them into it. George Bush. Tricked them.
We have been using https://copy.com without any issue.
It's not because we simply disagree politically, that's obviously fine with me, but not with anyone else in the tech community apparently. This is now the second instance in as many weeks where the tech mob is actively running out anyone who disagrees with their political views and boycotting entire companies for having the gall to hire useful people who happen to be conservative.
We've just started using Floobits, which works via editor plugins, and overall enjoy it. Currently supports vim, emacs, Sublime Text, and IntelliJ.

Still a little rough around the edges, but it's real nice having everyone using the editor of their choice.
its not only dropbox. She is also on board of multiple class-A valley startups including thomas siebel's c3 energy
http://www.c3energy.com/about-board-of-directors
Non-competes are anti-business, anti-innovation and feudal. I have never signed one.

I can't tell you how many times I have been asked to sign one that locks up your skills, which you are bringing to the company that they might not have yet, solely for them for years even though the project might only be 3-6 months.

I applaud this effort immensely in MA, there is no place for non-competes in the US. It is entirely anti-business, funny that fighting against this anti-business and anti-small business process comes from the liberal NE.

The game industry also has a big problem with this, you can't even work on games outside of work while at a major studio (why almost every game developer has to break out on their own rather than stay at a company -- game devs in MA will cheer this). Treating skilled workers badly and shutting them down the moment they aren't working for you. How is that not feudal in nature?

NDAs/confidentiality, contracts while being paid for work, that is understandable, non-competes should never be signed unless you are paid during that tenure at a premium, opportunity cost is huge. MA legislation is actually doing some good work for the individuals, smalls and mids here, the engine of America.

Next up, remove taxes for small companies until they reach a certain revenue threshold.
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Funny you mention Amsterdam, where a large portion of the original inhabitants moved to Almere which accidentally happens to be one of the hotspots of the PVV. People tend to vote with their feet if nobody listens to them. Same happened in Suriname.

Not that I don't agree to the fact that Amsterdam still is one of the coolest places in the world also because of all the different people living there together. But sometimes you could acknowledge that not everybody that comes to Amsterdam comes with the idea to make it a better place together. Wouldn't you agree a true citizen of Amsterdam would be tolerant toward people of the same sex walking hand in hand?

But the famous red light district has been closed for a large part, new ridiculous rules for coffeeshops, ban on magic mushrooms (together with a rush of half or non true news items that seemed a throwback to the time the US wanted to ban marijuana in the 1920's and needed popular support for that).

It just goes on and on and on and all measures really only seem to affect people's liberties never the true criminals.
Ok, if I cancel my Dropbox subscriptions, I'd like to maintain some level of consistency.

Assuming that I have a great disdain for the architects of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which other tech companies should I consider boycotting?

To avoid a combinatorial explosion, I'd limit myself to executives or boards pulled from state, military, and intelligence roles in the last three administrations. Oh, and McNamara. Fuck that guy.
Uhh, Al Gore supported the war too and he's a partner of Kleiner Perkins and a board member of Apple, a firm that has funded several Silicon Valley companies. Will you stop using those companies too?
> Supporters of warrentless wire tapping, and bulk anonymous data collection are in-charge of a company that wants me to trust them with my data

This is IMHO the big, relevant one. Her role in the Iraq war may be vile ( to most of us), but this is directly in conflict with the expectations of Dropbox users. What were the Dropbox decision-makers thinking?
> Has she been indicted by any international courts? Has she stood trial and been convicted?

No, but that's not really the standard for an individual human making a personal moral judgement.
I always try to remember that the most expressive (e.g. loudest) person isn't necessarily the smartest, even though my brain is built to associate the two.
Mega is not a drop-in replacement for dropbox. Unless they drastically changed how they worked since the last time I checked.
"In reality, most styles don't actually cascade" If thats the case, you're probably doing something wrong.
How is Authorea different from Google Docs?
The pictures on drop-dropbox sites are self-explanary and exponentally stronger, than common comments on why tech X shall be avoided I come across every day.

That is first time a "stop using tech X" site made me change my opinion.

Fully supporting. Those who are searching for alternatives - try out BitTorrent Sync. I have been using it for a while, will pull a plug on Dropbox acc.
I have generally been using Google Drive anyway, but after what this person did to my country as well, I am not going to support a company that supports her.

Time to move all of my files from Dropbox to GDrive.
>Tell Drew Houston: drop Condoleezza Rice or we will

So if they drop Condoleezza Rice you'll be fine with their decision making process and keep your dropbox account?
The armchair crypto brigade aren't helping much, either, by passing around these completely unfounded accusations of malfeasance.

I'm all for being aware of the possibility that shenanigans are involved, but until proof comes out, it is nothing but a possibility, and a remote one at that.
We lack perfection and we are not always programming at peak form even when are programming at near peak (personal) efficiency we are still not perfect. This bug even made it through a code review.

Makes me wonder how many serious bugs I have pushed to production in the last year or two. Yikes.
Will you stop using Apple products, a company that has Al Gore as a board member, and someone who supported the Iraq war?
Iraq war has not yet ended.
With the new price point, Google Drive is really attractive
I think the point the author is trying to make is that you don't know what she will do to the quality of the product, but your best guess would be basing her future decisions on her past.

That said, I don't agree with the author. She may have made bad decisions in politics, but I don't see the relevance to a tech company.
Thanks for making me feel good :'(
It we start naming and shaming the coder for each flaw instead of working on fixing the process that allowed it to sneak through, we'll see a chilling effect on open source software. There's a reason we have tests and code reviews and security audits...
As well as a politician whose xenophobic and racist remarks tests the patience of the long-standing Dutch tolerance and liberal values
Well, this certainly puts all the hysteria about Brendan Eich in perspective.
Sadly, most Americans don't hold themselves responsible for the actions of our duly elected leaders. It's how we sleep at night.

brb, dropping Dropbox...
It's a totally reasonable style guide to adopt with a new project / team. And in fact it's what I chose the last time I started a team doing systems programming. It's well reasoned, and hits my personal sweet spot for the power vs. complexity tradeoff.

C++ has a pretty bad reputation. Possibly deservedly. So unless everyone has already bought fully into C++, the full language is a very hard sell. But C with a few extra conveniences and safety features (strings, unique_ptr, some limited polymorphism) is a much easier one.
Yeah, like those liars the Russians, the Chinese, the British, the French, ... Damn how was Bush able to brainwash the whole UN!
Come on everyone, if we work together we can get Condy fired just like we did Brendan Eich!
Literally nobody in this thread called her dumb, so this is a classic red herring. Everyone is concerned about her ethics, not her cognitive capacity.
> If you think she is dumb, or stupid, then I call you ignorant.

You're attacking a straw man. I haven't seen anyone claiming anything of the sort.
agreed. perhaps crowdfunded open security is the only way to go.
Well, the Netherlands had a problematic court case some time back, and this fixes it. Well, if you're a copyright owner it was problematic.

You see copyright law technically doesn't restrict illegal downloading. It only limits distribution, and technically that means uploading, not downloading. So there was a series of court cases that said as much [1].

So now that case has been invalidated, and downloading material without a licence is now judged illegal in the Netherlands (like everywhere else).

One caveat that this case has for copyright holders is that it was judged to be a civil offence, not a criminal one. So illegal downloading cannot use police resources, and the copyright owner must sue (or appoint someone to sue on their behalf) before any action can be taken by the courts. Such action can only include financial sanctions [2], no jail time or impounding.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/113968/article.html
[2] keep in mind that not paying a court-ordered restitution IS a criminal offence. So turning a civil offence into a criminal one is possible. It has historically not been done (meaning in the last century, before that it was actually common).
It's an American company (Barracuda Inc.)
I have been using hubiC in Windows and Linux without issues.

They give 25 GB, and respect your privacy (they are based on France).
>Sadly, most Americans don't hold themselves responsible for the actions of our duly elected leaders.

Something is going to have to change, sooner or later. I hope its for the better, but I doubt it will be.
Hey, as a starting point and a simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work, how about making use of the publicity and pain of Heartbleed by launching a timely crowdfunding project to greatly increase the Internet Bug Bounty money for OpenSSL, and maybe (as a stretch goal?) start similar bounty pools for GnuTLS and other core crypto programs? Just stick it up on Kickstarter or wherever. There have to be plenty of unhappy sysadmins and IT managers who would readily chip in right at the moment, and the publicity should also help attract support from a much broader group of people who normally wouldn't even think about these things. The hoopla should also hopefully embarrass some big companies into making useful contributions to the pot. (Due credit to FB and Google for funding the IBB in the first place.) Strike while the iron is hot.

Yes, bug bounties on their own aren't a sufficient solution: more systematic, less ad hoc approaches are needed too, no doubt. But nonetheless I think it makes sense to double down on bug bounties, for two reasons. First, bug bounties are an approach that seems to be fairly successful, though the IBB money probably wasn't part of Neel Mehta's motivation to start inspecting OpenSSL at all. There may be better, though more ambitious, approaches, but if there's one thing that seems evident from the recent SSL/TLS bug fiasco it's that making the perfect, or even the great, the enemy of the pretty good is counterproductive here. Second, probably nothing will motivate the maintainers of OpenSSL etc. to actually implement (and keep implementing) systematic, proactive changes better than the constant, realistic threat of being pantsed again by bounty-hunting outsiders. (Remember: all technical problems are social problems in disguise, just as all social problems are technical problems in disguise. ;) ) Or failing that, fairly frequent bounty-funded bug finds would at least serve as a warning to the rest of us that the maintainers aren't doing very well.
Client-side encryption doesn't help much with privacy concerns because the client and the server are both wholly produced by Google, so you have to assume that Google can pierce that encryption if they want to. That's exactly what happened with DropBox.

It helps protect against unauthorized access, but doesn't really address privacy concerns with Google itself.
even better; name your mountpoint /cache! Problem solved.
> having the gall to hire useful people who happen to be conservative

BS. To me it's really simple, and not about party affiliation: A strong supporter of warrantless wire tapping and bulk anonymous data collection is a terrible choice for the board of a consumer file-storage service.
Ah, the further politicization of everything in America continues unabated.
How to govern a project on the scale of OpenStack
This really shouldn't need to be pointed out: but the difference is that none of these people have been appointed to the board of any tech company.

In 10 years time if Facebook put James Clapper or Eric Holder on their board it'd likely be more controversial.
The problem with this interpretation is that in the vast majority of cases, one cannot know whether downloading is authorized or not.

Virtually every video, audio or text file of works created in the past century, more or less, is copyrighted. That alone is not the relevant criterion. The criterion of infringement is whether the particular action is authorized by the copyright holder. But this, no one can routinely know in the course of internet activities.

There is no central or public database of works that would reveal even who the copyright owner is - and even if there were, it would have to also record the authorization status of everyone in relation to every work.

So you are looking around online and someone is offering a file - if you are subject to lawsuits, fines or whatever other interference for downloading, then in principle it's not safe to even look at a web page. What the new rule amounts to in practice is something like "well if you infer that the web page is intended to be retrieved, you're probably safe, but you can be penalized for guessing incorrectly about music or videos". (Note that movie companies have actually sued youtube/Google over files including some that the movie companies themselves published on youtube.)

It simultaneously keeps everyone continually vulnerable to selective enforcement by private companies (specifically, big copyright accumulators), and casts a chilling effect on the relationship of fans with artists who would like to release works on more liberal terms than Hollywood companies (can you trust a statement on a web page that something is authorized???).
So, then you do understand why they appoint political figures?
Really? The poster above posted these facts.

http://archive.is/vAWQa

Will you look at those too or just conveniently ignore them like the other posters who downvoted the FactCheck link above?
I tried them but they did not offer any kind of access to previous versions of files which was a show stopper for me.
Kind of wish there was a picture of dead kids warning before I clicked the link.