skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is proposing laws about who can hold given positions. There is no free speech angle here. What's happening on HN is exactly what our system wants to happen: answer speech you don't like with more speech!

There's a lot at stake here, which is why people are reacting so forcefully. What kind of values does the SV community have? What kind of values do Y Combinator and HN have? People are coming here because HN and Y Combinator very much helped make Dropbox what it is, and if that creation is now paying and giving prestige to a person who has gravely harmed the world, for bad reasons, a lot of people will object and are objecting to that.

A free society has the right to determine what it values. I hope our community decides to value ethics and humanitarianism. One way we can express those values is to speak out against companies that help criminals launder their reputations.
Better to be inconsistently principled than consistently unprincipled.

That's some Jim Crow logic right there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

Or perhaps its just psychopathy:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10737827/Psychopath...
I fully understand the intent, but it doesn't come across that way. Assume that I will learn it, and I will assume you aren't judging me.

If I'm not busy, it is cool. Very cool. But if I have to spend hours reading and experimenting just to get to the next phase of some task, not so much. When I'm working, I like to accomplish things and learning can be a speed bump. I love learning new things during learning times. This also helps the learning process as I'm not facing stressful deadlines.

Stated as is, it also sounds like you are offering me the privilege to get to learn something you already know. I get to join your club. I've even heard people claim responsibility for another's knowledge because they were the first person to mention the topic. Same for TV shows, music, and movies.
Apparently the factor has been recognized and analyzed.

http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climat...

"However, over the Northern Hemisphere land areas where urban heat islands are most apparent, both the trends of lower-tropospheric temperature and surface air temperature show no significant differences. In fact, the lower-tropospheric temperatures warm at a slightly greater rate over North America (about 0.28°C/decade using satellite data) than do the surface temperatures (0.27°C/decade), although again the difference is not statistically significant. "
I meant it in this sort of comparison: if you uproot the house, and drop it in Palo Alto on the same size plot of land it's worth more. If the programer gets up, and moves to San Francisco, his labor is also worth more. Same person, same house, different demand (and supply).
Nahh
But it's reality.
Hyper-Growth Done Right
To be fair, the Mozilla thing was much more the "Are you now, or have you ever supported a political issue we don't agree with?" in nature. I'm not saying I agree with it, but that's the same type of question...
Why would they choose her while there are so many other more qualified people for the board of a technology company!
I'm not in a position to know anything, but your question reminds me of the situation when I worked at Lucent in Asia years ago. There were various middle-manager/jr. exec types one would meet occasionally who were obviously useless and non-contributing, in that they had no direct reports and hadn't ever been on a project or sales effort. I was young and stupid so I would ask other people what was up. One time, I got an honest reply, from someone who looked over his shoulder first: "That guy? His uncle is the chair of some Senate committee. AT&T had him on the payroll so now we do. If you know what's good for you, don't ask about him again."
Do you want to see pricing up front, or would you prefer to just speak with a CPA who would determine this for you?

Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for that bit of data. That makes good sense, and I should give it another try.
Given that HG still calls it "bisect" rather than "find-changed" or something, I would be surprised if it didn't use binary search.
Another GitHub nuisance:
I'm a huge fan of pinboard.in and use the Firefox popup bookmarklet quite a bit but github repositories [1] won't let me bookmark them with the bookmarklet. GitHub repositories are literally the only pages I've found the I haven't been able to use the pinboard bookmarklet, and it's been that way with every single GitHub repository I've tried to pinboard.

[1] Strangely github.io pages bookmark just fine.
>> Politics, religion, and social worldviews divide people and have no place as limiting tests in a business environment.

Of course they do.

Voting with our wallets is almost the only democratic right remaining to us lowly consumers these days. Choosing which companies to support directly impacts the sort of society we build.

>> Do we really want a counterpart agenda now setting rules for who can be a founder, who can be an investor, who can be a director, who can be a CEO, or who can otherwise take a prominent role in the startup world? The answer should be an emphatic no.

Who's setting rules? People are saying 'if you take on this person, whose views I disagree with so very fundamentally, I can no longer have any trust in your organisation meeting my needs'.

There is nothing at all wrong with this.
That is correct. I, living in Dallas, am willing to sell my labor in Dallas for a lower price than I am willing to sell my labor in Palo Alto. Thus, a company in Palo Alto can save money by hiring me in Dallas to do the job. There is nothing inconsistent about this.
Yes, thank heavens, yes!
>> P.S. This is the second time in my life that I have written a letter to a U.S. government official. The first time was during the Vietnam war.

I wonder if he wrote it to Lyndon B. Johnson asking why he started the war in the first place or perhaps querying how much involvement he had in the Kennedy assassination.
And his US-born US citizen 16-year old son was killed in a separate strike. Nobody claims he was a terrorist.
The CIA is a big massive blob that represents thousands of people. Rice is an individual. Much easier to critique.
I know it's a pain to get data into it, but how about Big Query?
I am tired of this stuff on hacker news. I am Czech and we have really bad history with Russians, but this is just ridiculous.
Considering how widely it's used, if Google could use some of their resources to better it, I'm all for it!
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has on numerous occasions gone on Sunday morning talk shows to assert that being a duck is the only way to preserve America's place as a leader in the free world...

...it's a duck.
What do you find unserious in that statement about Israel?
I'm in the same boat. Other people have pointed out how she's done things far worse than Eich. But here is my reasoning.

If you disagree with the board of a company and you want to stop using them, thats fine. Doesn't matter if it's Eich or Rice. Don't like them, stop using their products/services.

What isn't right is personally attacking either of them. Don't like Rice, that fine, you can post a blog or say whatever you want. Crossing the line is harassing them and sending death threats.

If the whole Eich thing would have stayed with people talking about how they don't like him, I wouldn't have a problem. When people started harassing him and it became popular to harass him it crossed the line. So far I haven't heard of anyone harassing Rice. (Maybe people do and they "disappear", I don't know.)
I helped write this post. Note that we're very interested in anyone who has been keeping raw packet logs from before the Heartbleed vuln. was public. If you find 18 03 (01 | 02 | 03) 00 03 01 in them, please let me know or post pcap files. Contact info: https://www.eff.org/about/staff/yan-zhu
The ban also removes some of the reward for this behavior. Some of the people are doing it to make themselves look superior and the target inferior. With the ban, they can instantly be pulled up short ("Hey! We don't do that here at Hacker School.") thus instantly removing some of the superiority they thought they had gained.
Not when they have a history of not seeing your side of it as important in the slightest, no.
Politicians should be held to extremely high moral standards, hence the outrage.

If you read the link you'll see that Knuth himself only wrote two letters to government officials. Most people do not have time to become full time activists, so a certain degree of inconsistency seems inevitable.
Ironically, the one tactic that might be more effective than the ballot in deterring bad leadership is hitting bad leaders in the pocket by.... making them into pariahs that corporations don't want to associated with.
Political connections create multiple conflict of interests in various domains, namely providing access to power and information as long as the person in question doesn't act against those connections. It is very improbable that Rice would be working against her past political allies for democracy ideals, taking into consideration her track record.
To be fair aw3c2 never said they use Dropbox and while uptown's question was most certainly in respect to "Dropbox alternatives" their question is only asking about "the security and privacy of BTSync" to which aw3c2 responded.
What you're describing was my first reaction as well, but in the Hacker School Manual [1] they bring up a smart point that I hadn't considered: 'almost nobody sets out to be a jerk or annoying, so telling people not to be jerks isn't a very productive strategy'. Which is why they need the sort of lightweight rules/guidelines for specific types of behavior.
Who do I volunteer with and donate to? There are no political parties I can stomach. Even if you go beyond the two big ones and posit that it's useful to contribute to a third party (and I'm already skeptical of that), they're all completely bonkers.

Run for office? That's too much of a sacrifice to ask. It's not a job I want, by far. If I ever managed to get nominated, I'd do my best to sabotage my own campaign so as not to get elected. No wonder politicians are all weird, no normal person could ever want to be one.

Is not "accept when we lose" completely contradictory to the rest of what you're saying? You say that we should get out and do things to fight for what we believe, and then you turn around and say we should just let it go. This isn't some pointless notion of vengeance, it's a real concern over what her involvement with Dropbox could mean for the company and our data in the future.

Personally, if you claim to value democracy and then call it anti-democratic when there's a completely non-violent grassroots campaign against a political figure, then you're completely off your rocker. Nothing could possibly be more democratic. Even if you disagree with the campaign, how can you call the very idea a bad thing? What could possibly be a better way to exercise your political views than to vote with your wallet and encourage others to do the same? Are we supposed to just shut up and ignore it all? Are we supposed to vote with our own wallet but never talk to other people about it? How does that fit in with "volunteer, donate, run for office, the world runs on PACs"?
This seems like an "avoid the appearance of impropriety" situation. The HN mods don't want it to devolve into a political board, but killing a controversial story about the model YC company would certainly generate accusations of favoritism.
Seems every woman who becomes involved in tech becomes a villain on the Internet.
I've used everything you mentioned except the Emacs one.

They definitely help. I just find it inconvenient to need to scroll, and sometimes arrows don't fit my usage case..

Not the editor's fault in either instance, of course. :-)
That's kind of my point. Rice is not getting a pushback from HN because she's Republican, or because she worked in the government under Bush or anything else. It's not about a single group.

It's what the move symbolizes. If there is someone on board who pushed for warrantless searches/taps/etc and someone who probably would be in favor of PRISM and was in favor of past other programs, then I don't want to be affiliated with that company. And Rice was a public figure who spoke about the Patriot Act, searches, doing things in the name of "national security", wars, blacklisting etc.

That makes me question the person's morals, and shakes my belief in how the company will be run if someone on the board has these kinds of morals and will be making decisions that may affect my data and my person.
Note that there are potential privacy concerns with Wuala and similar services, as they use de-duplication techniques, meaning if somebody makes a file public, and you have the same copy in storage, they can see these files in your account.

It's not a serious privacy violation, as it only identifies what are otherwise public files anyway - but if you want complete privacy, including being able to hide what you are uploading, not just the content - then you're better with something self-hosted perhaps.
Drchrono raises $2.69 Million to drag doctors into digital age
Anybody who holds a simple one-sided opinion on Israel/Palestine is wrong, full-stop.

Criticizing US government officials for their excessive support of Israel is reasonable. Blanketing all of Israel's various incursions into Palestinian territory as "unjustifiable" is bad for the discussion and makes an otherwise-reasonable person look extremist.
I believe outsourcing to the midwest would fix the housing shortage here in the valley as well. Less people would need to move here and thus, hopefully, help rebalance the housing supply.
This is also true in management science. Some top journals require Word submissions (to my dismay). Word works okay with limited authors & citations, but our research lab ran into a ton of problems when we had 10+ collaborators working on a single document with hundreds of citations. It would have been no problem with source control and Latex.
Pricing up front makes sense if you're competing on price. If you're competing on value, then demonstrate that value instead.

Note: You can still mention pricing in your value prop, but couple it to the value gained with your service and the time lost with others.
The older I get the more I realize that adults don't exist. The world has always been run by children pretending to be adults.
Barcelona Ruby Conference is back
@see http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22nhb2/six_prog...

for some valid critique.
Indeed, making it a common think that a company suffers when they donate to causes that their customers disagree with would be a great way to curb the huge increase in the influence of money in politics.
Ask HN: What are you telling your friends and family about Heartbleed?
Heartbleed is remarkably widespread. A huge number of sites were affected. On the other hand, it is not necessarily obvious that any one individual's personal info has been compromised.<p>What are you telling your close friends and family about this issue? Are you recommending that they change all of their passwords? How are you doing this without causing a panic?
Wow, I wish posts like yours weren't so rare. There is way too much undeserved hate heaped on C++ due to (imo) C programmers that pretend to code C++.
I think you are greatly exaggerating how hard it is to find invalid memory use in openssl.

According to Ted Unangst, all you have to do is turn off the custom allocator in openssl to immediately hit a use-after-free bug.

He writes:

"This bug would have been utterly trivial to detect when introduced had the OpenSSL developers bothered testing with a normal malloc (not even a security focused malloc, just one that frees memory every now and again). Instead, it lay dormant for years until I went looking for a way to disable their Heartbleed accelerating custom allocator."

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/analysis-of-openssl-free...
The economy is increasingly moving away from a market model and into a social model. This requires conformity and homogeneity since the economy is driven by morals and ethics instead of voluntary mutual benefit. This means that every world view you possess will be as important as the skills you offer.
Dropbox has made it pretty clear in the past that security and privacy isn't a major priority for them and this appointment makes it even more obvious.

That said, any US company doesn't have much choice when it comes to handing over information so I don't know how big of an impact this will have in practice.
Ideological purity tests, references to communist witch hunts and a plea to unite? Interesting framing of this. Noticed another commenter mention you're mixing views & actions. It's like naming a fast food CEO to the Department of Health or someone who worked to undermine safety standards to OSHA. I really don't care whether it's a man or woman, black or white, republican or democrat, christian or atheist - it's about the product and the message this sends to users isn't good.
For real, I mean I'd even be open to taking a paycut for something like that too.

There are quite a few companies I'd love to work for as a Product Manager, Solution Architect, or Community Manager (I've done a lot). But I can't even entertain the idea because I can't leave MN.

I'd even consider a part time commute story as well (fly there once a month or something).

It's rough!
Rice brings Enterprise and Government contracts. In terms of Dropbox's valuation, I don't really see consumer dollars justifying any business model they have. Just look to Palantir if you want to see an example of a service that does very well with no consumer dollars at all.
This is a cover up to hide the real motivation: she is a woman and black, and none of you want her involved in a tech company. Disguise this all you want as opposition to the war or Bush or whatever. It is really opposition to her gender and race. This is how you do in silicon valley where blacks and women are considered token employees hire to look good. So make up stuff about her and move her out. Now you have your high-tech lynching hiding behind phony moral outrage.
What we're founding out now though is that cleaning up the engine while building a new little game was the easy part.

Making the main game work properly again with the refactored engine is taking way longer than we thought it would...
Eich was in a much wobblier position from the beginning, with board members resigning over his appointment, public denials about that, and eventual confirmation. That alone might have doomed him and the rest is noise.
Already is, I forgot to write bike AND equipment. The limit is about 1000 euro every 6 months.
Shunning is a healthy, grassroots, social expression of disapproval. It is right and fair that people should express their opinions via economic choices. It is not enough to vote only once every few years. You must tolerate grassroots action like this or you will help to entrench totalitarianism.

Nobody is saying there ought to be a law. They are exercising their freedom peacefully and lawfully. You should celebrate that even when you disagree.

Dropbox is free to hire Ms. Rice. Everyone else is free to shun them for it.

Dropbox news is HN fodder. The political nature of Ms. Rice's reputation does not make the topic any less relevant to HN.
Have you asked Maciej about that? He may be able to fix it and he's super active on twitter https://twitter.com/pinboard/
I could see how you'd think this is purely political, but it isn't necessarily. Everything the post brought up is pretty antithetical to the ethics of most of Silicon Valley and startup culture in general. Sure, many Republicans might agree with her but many Republicans also think that gay people should be put to death.

Bad ethics should be called out as so, in this case I think hiding behind "politics" is a bit of a cop-out. It's not inherently liberal at all to make a case against Rice, in fact many conservatives would do the same.
Can you please explain how I should use this to:
1) Sync the 1Password iPhone app with the desktop app
2) Share cute cat photos with my wife (who uses Windows, and who is not computer-clueless, but is rather commandline-adverse.)
This conversation circles back to Theo de Raadt's argument that developers are caring too much about performance in security-critical applications.
While I personally think Eich shouldn't have been CEO, you sum up Internet protests nicely: People will scream and moan, but only a fraction of those people would continue to do so if it required they actually do anything--even something as simple as moderate physical exertion.
That would take a long time :) But seriously, I thought it would be helpful to note a widely-held belief, and I was wondering if someone could post evidence (either way) more quickly than I could.
New solar plane is as big as a 747, will circumnavigate the globe
Can the same be done for chrome?
Clojure also has a built-in persistent red-black tree.

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...
http://seafile.com/en/home/

Similar to ownCloud, has client support for all the major platforms.

For the record, it's written by a Chinese company - not that this should matter, but it's often rejected because all those Chinese are cyber criminals, y'know?
I haven't worked with geospatial databases as much (so verify this with someone who has), but Postgres is a good bet for an alternative to mongo in this scenario.
When the PRISM story broke, the Guardian reported that Dropbox was listed as planned to be added http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...

There are two perspectives for this one --

#1 Dropbox wants an insider to help them be on the receiving end of better decisions related to non-consensual government surveillance

#2 Dropbox wants better information themselves on non-consensual government surveillance

From a PR perspective, this looks bad both to both Americans and international Dropbox users. It does not instill confidence in Dropbox.

Dropbox is a dominant platform right now but it certainly does not have to be the dominant platform. Any non-US company doing sensitive work is being negligent to their investors using platforms which enable easy spying (remember, the controversy in the US is about the NSA spying on American citizens, there is no legal barrier nor likely will there ever be one for spying on foreigners. The NSA has a blank check to do what they want if you are from abroad.)
Yes. Selectively demonstrating a ridiculous amount of outrage at the hate target of the day is absurd. The fact that you couldn't possibly do it in every similar situation shows why it is absurd.
Dropbox has such a security non-policy that there is no need to sign any deals.
Well, she voted for unwarranted government surveillance. So there's that.

Not that anybody sane should be using dropbox to store any sensitive/private information.
Because most of them do not think it is an option. They aren't told they can succeed in STEM careers.
You sound really sure of yourself, yet cite nothing.

http://gigaom.com/2010/12/07/has-wikileaks-actually-done-any...
A similar thing happened to me. Someone was repeatedly trying to access a gmail account of mine, which is strange because that account had not been active for over 5 years. They supplied the correct credentials every time, and the IP originated from some small village in China. I had also recently changed my password, so I don't think it was merely a coincidence. It is possible that I have been keylogged for 10 years without knowing it, but the timing is uncanny.

Edit: Keylogged for the past 10 years without knowing it, across 5 different machines, with different architectures and operating systems. :-)