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> Condoleezza Rice is famously hated across the internet and in the press (especially on the Daily Show)

Her actions are hated; she's been on the Daily Show at least once and had a pretty decent conversation with Jon Stewart.
Those were my thoughts exactly, I think OpenSSL just needs a bit of care and refactoring (possibly a lot depending on which blogs you read) for which they need devs and resources, both of which google has.
This is the best post yet. The rest are just biased dribble.
> No. This is not an issue of partisanship.

Yes it is. Nearly every reason on there is partisan. Say what you want about "trustworthiness" and the fact that having an "untrustworthy" person on a cloud service provider's board is worrisome. Frankly, it's not. Even if Rice were untrustworthy, I don't think my data would be in any danger.

If you're going to make complaints on partisan grounds, at least don't veil them as some kind of assessment of character.
I'd guess Colbert got offered, his character and inherent satire allows him to distance all the polarizing issues a bit.
I'd be curious to see maximum and minimum temperatures modeled with an extreme value distribution. Might do it myself.
Interesting this all was probably happening while the '#cancelcolbert' saga was umfolding. Wonder if there were any anterior motives employed by the instigators.
I'm with the peanut gallery on this one. Fuck Dropbox.
I was confused after reading your comment, as I initially ran "git grep" in my $HOME and it worked fine. Then I remembered that my $HOME is managed using git!

Indeed, it doesn't work in a non git directory without the switch. Thanks for pointing it out.
It's quite simple.

Rice and Eich are not directly useful and their dismissal would have no effect on the protestors, so there is almost zero sacrifice. There is no sacrifice necessary on behalf of the protestors.

Dropping AWS on the other hand could be difficult and expensive for many, so protesting AWS requires either hypocrisy or sacrifice.
>It's not a question of denying people the right to be together,

"Being together"?

That isn't the right gay Americans are asking to have equal access to.
With more and more companies using your GitHub page as a resume of sorts, this kind of customization is becoming a necessary requirement.
And your point is what? That demonstrating outrage here is in some way invalid since similar outrage was not demonstrated in every other similar situation? Do I have no moral authority to speak up in this situation if I have not before?

Maybe we should boycott Amazon. Not boycotting Dropbox because we didn't do the same for Amazon doesn't get us anywhere.
It may help to put 2002 in the title, as this relates to the war in Iraq rather than Dropbox. (It's still interesting, and worth an upvote!)

When people go after her, I wonder, "What about Kissinger?" He was part of a lot of cold hard decisions in tough times on the world. That said, I would enjoy his counsel if I wanted to get involved in China. Similar with her, though her expertise may be more in Russia.

My (non-expert) observation is she was pushed and marginalized by the hawks. And although the war sounds bad now, the country was very much for it back then.
Because demand is less. The wage is still dictated by supply and demand. The supply is probably less, but the demand for that labor is far less. The demand for an engineer in the midwest is higher than the demand for an engineer in Thailand because there are less time barriers, language barriers, etc.

A house in Palo Alto, CA costs more than the exact same house in Dexter, Michigan. If they were made of the exact same materials on the exact same size of land, you wouldn't expect them to cost the same either.
Remember that another thing the bush admin did was get in bed with bankers.

She surely have goldman sachs and many others in her pocket.

It is a very smart 'hire' just before an IPO. they just overlooked that the internet would not take the war and wiretap part lightly. They should have just gave her tons of shares as a investor and consultant, and not made her position that publicly.
It's already been reported that he'll drop the persona.
Wholly disagree.

However I am always amazed how much effort so many here put into trying to take offense, show their claimed offense, instead of acting when similar if not worse is coming from the current administration.

Really guys, grow the fuck up.

We do not know all the facts that Rice and others in her position had let alone the options available. We did however have our time back them to rail against them yet the same railing against her are fawning over the drone assassin we have in office now.

So honest, take your fake angst, your damnable wannabe clique and shove it. You do nothing with the evil at your door today only to jump on the train of least resistance.

Oh, its easy to pillory Rice, Bush, or any of those evil Republicans, but damn if you stand up to those in power now. At least Snowden did, he has done more than the rest of this site will ever do.
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This is my primary criticism of modern representative democracy and why I lost faith in it. Every couple years we politically assassinate a few easy targets, mostly in the press, we all pat ourselves on the back for standing up for something, while the massive entrenched groups stay in power and everything stays exactly the same.
When I write a program, I don't want it to be just correct (true); I want it to be _provably_ correct; I want to be able to be convinced that it is correct, at least in principle, given enough time and whole specification of the system. Programs which are correct, but not provably so, should not pass code review and might as well be lumped together with those which are wrong. It doesn't matter if you are using a full-blown theorem prover or thinking about the code in your head; Gödel's theorems are not really relevant to programming, even when the code uses deep mathematics.

I'm not sure I agree with "theorems that must be verified at compile time can never account for data that are provided only after compilation". At compile time, you prove the assertion "for every x, the program outputs correct answer for x". Now, you don't know that the user will enter say x=5 at runtime, but since you proved a theorem about _every_ x, this includes x=5. You cannot predict the future (the path that will be taken by the program), but once you prepare for all possible futures, you're safe.
Could be a weird bug. I have a lot of files in my drive and don't have any issues so far. My drive is set up to sync on windows and mac. Also use it on my android and web.
I like your quote. It reminds me of a buddy of mine who says I am a hypocrite for buying local fruits and vegetable, because I buy toilet paper made by a Koch-owned company.

For some people, unless you live in a cave and refuse all modern technology, you are not allowed to have any moral authority.
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You lost me at almost blindly supports Israel's increasingly unjustifiable occupation.

Why is it that people who know so much about one thing feel compelled to open their big mouths about something else they clearly know so little about?
Of course you're being hypocritical. It's because you feel a lot stronger about the Iraq War than you do about gay marriage.

Now put the shoe on the other foot. Think about all those people that feel as strongly about gay marriage as you do about the Iraq War. Their belief that they should protest against Mozilla doesn't feel that much different than your own protest, does it?
St. Louis too, although I am Chicago
Dear everyone,

I think we should not forget about this slide:
http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PRISM-...

so basically this move, in my opinion, just means that dropbox has been added to that very list and there is no point in using other providers shown as an alternative (e.g. google) or even just hope that dropbox will care more about privacy after she steps down eventually.
One might say "This is different" because trust in US products and services and tens to hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.

As for the "politics" of it, "Are you, or have you ever been part of the surveillance state?" is not a question about one's political views. It is more like the question in Germany "Were you a Stasi officer or informant?"
On one hand Rumsfeld et. al. implied / declared WMD were OK for Hussein to use on the Kurds, but later on removed him for allegedly hiding WMD.

Since DC made the argument that Hussein should have been removed because of his WMD use, you could make the same argument about the folks in the US govt who sponsored Hussein's original use of WMD against the Kurds.
This is a great way to refactor abstractions that have developed leaks under the pressure of delivery. I'm actually in the process of doing something similar with a server-side implementation that has gotten too intimate with the client code. Building a completely new client for a different problem domain shakes out the dependencies quickly.
Very shameless plug: we just launched a t-shirt campaign with teespring.com. All proceeds will be donated to the OpenSSL Software Foundation:

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I have my doubts about that being a successful transition. If he keeps his Colbert Report persona, I think we will lose the Late Show demographic. Will enough Colbert Report audience follow him to make the show a success? If he is himself, I fear he won't be as interesting and will lose his old audience. He will already have an uphill battle just taking over for a legend that has been in that seat for so many years. He only gets one shot to do this right.

I don't think I want to watch him as himself. I'd rather watch "Stephen Colbert". I doubt he'll get me away from Fallon in that time slot.
"Everyone else does it so it's ok". Well we know where your moral compass points at least.
I don't think this is a good move. Who will fill the role of the Steven Colbert the character. We desperately need his current show to continue.
Agreed. As a cloud service provider, they seem to have forgotten or not cared about the fact that they aren't just selling space, they are selling trust.
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Yay, good work! Loving it!
Publishing classified information is legal. Otherwise the editorial team of NYTimes would have gone to jail lots of times. It is the leaking of the information that is illegal IIRC
Unless Google is going to clean OpenSSL up along the way, I don't see any immediate benefit.
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I just closed my DropBox account with the reason "Condoleezza Rice". I want those people to know there are consequences to their actions.

Now if I was rational about it and it was as easy as living without DropBox, I would stop using Microsoft softwares.
> Can a dependent type system catch all type errors at compile time?

I'm probably not clever enough, but someone could probably prove that'd be equivalent to solving the halting problem. It seems impossible.

> because the value of getKeyboardInput could be anything

That makes my brain hurt. I think implicitly narrowing the type is stylistically better. Maybe just adding a dependent type declaration:

x = (parseInt(getKey) :: Int(>=0, <=10))

Then you type-annotate everything you can, marking every non-annotated expression as wild:

w = ... :: Int(>=0, <=10)
x = ... :: Int(>=0, <=2)
z :: Int(>=0, <=20)
y = w * x -- :: Wild
z = y -- compiler should Scream!

Asking the compiler to infer arbitrary type declarations seems hard. I think y probably shouldn't be inferred as :: Int(0<=..<=20) unless there is a rule somewhere that Int(a<=..<=b) * Int(c<=..<=d) = .. :: Int(f<=..<=g).

The work still needs to be done (no magic bullet here), but we should be able to use the computer to generate well-defined type combinations.
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Knuth, you stinky shit, I hope you die after 999 months suffering! You dirty racist!
People are increasingly incapable of living and working with people with whom they deeply disagree. Quite frankly I consider that behavior childish and immature. Unfortunately it appears that we are living in a world full of children.

I am not looking forward to the future where no one shares any opinion they may or may not have due to this type of blacklisting.
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I agree that tone and context are everything, but I don't agree that it's "usually" passive-aggressive. On my team, if someone says "oh, man, you haven't heard about X?" it's usually said with a relish that translates to "dude, you're gonna love this. Check it out: ..."

I guess that means I don't work with dicks.
there's a few fundamental differences between condi, amazon, and eich.

I'm sure I'll get a few downvotes, but basically the former two are plain business decisions. A lot of the people complaining about dropbox's service are either free tier customers or lower end business users.

Having Condi on board means immediate trust of huge multinational concerns likes Chevron. It doesn't matter if the people in there trust dropbox as long as the board does.

I didn't know Amazon builds the data center, I thought SAIC did, but I guess there is more than one contract. Amazon has huge experience in building data centers. They also have a govcloud. They probably bid on one of the contract offerings, and won. Well that, and some dude from the Amazon probably went golfing with some NSA dude. But it really doesn't matter, since in a way these are morally correct decisions.

Of course there is no such thing as a universal moral standard. By that standard though, you would have to boycott a lot of the tech universities in the US that get their money from DARPA contracts(a view I used to share when I was a bit younger, and still "kinda"(notreally) do).

For the record, it's important to know that I'm against both of these things, but generically speaking my argumentation speaks against what I might be morally thinking, but they're both legally correct, and from a business perspective correct.

OTOH Eich was just a personal tirade. condi, and amazon are just plain old money decisions.
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There's money in both places to be made. They're not exclusive.
I wish there was a massive push to drop it, though...
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Which part are you objecting about, the implication that the US blindly supports Israel, or the implication that Israel's occupations are unjustifiable?
> "the US government" over the course of two decades isn't a single coherent unified force.

That's significantly less true of the executive branch foreign-policy decision makers at the time of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and those at the time of the 2003 US-Iraq than it is either of the government as a whole at those two times or of the executive branch foreign policy apparatus over the whole intervening period.
>The parties on both sides of the Rice/Dropbox debate have good arguments:
Ms. Rice has been a very important representative of a US administration that caused a lot of people to die in Iraq and elsewhere;*

I actually think this part is besides the point. The problem for me is her leading role in an administration that performed extensive and expanding illegal surveillance of Americans. A cloud storage company welcoming her on to their board makes my hair stand on end.
Companies are not benevolent or useful for society per se. The positive or negative externalities of their actions are defined by their business models, business strategies, top management and board of directors.

If Dropbox board of directors is fine to sit in the same room with the person who was connected with patriot act, iraq war, massive surveillance and torture, I, personally, don't want to have anything in common with such board and such top management and the products they make.
When I graduated Purdue, 9 years ago, there was very little in the way of software jobs at least (And I got the impression that the top companeis hiring Mech E and EE students could be as selective as they wanted). I had to go to one of the coasts to get a sane offer.

The only real job offer I got in Indiana was a one year contract for $30k/year in Fort Wayne, which was less than half the salary for the non-contract position I took in California. There is no sane cost of living adjustment that will cause those to be comparable.
What I find more revealing that, while similar politically loaded, this topic remains untouched by the moderators.

Interfering with the "community" system is such a slippery slope and we are apparently watching another one of these revealing moments.
I disagree. Rails also has huge productivity gains in the beginning. Unfortunately with every major release they keep radically changing how things are done. Leading you to either stagnate with an older version or forcing you to do a semi painful upgrade that gets worse the longer you wait. You're not going to realize this in two months. Fortunately Grails doesn't suffer this problem but my point stands: 2 months isn't enough. 1-2 years is more like it.
>I commend your intellectual rigor for examining your previous belief system in what I am certain was a painful lesson (as changing beliefs is always painful[1]).

It was.

Coincidentally, I read Koestler's essays when I was a teenager, along with some of Orwell's writings with the same theme (Homage to Catalonia for one). Wish I'd paid a bit more attention to the underlying message.

But I think some things you have to experience to learn.

>I invest my energies in divesting the government of power, to reduce the impact of abuse and poor decisions;

I do the same now. I'm a very different person politically than I was back in 2007. And lack of trust in my own political instincts is only one of the reasons why I no longer vote in national elections. As proof, I'd show you all my commits to open source projects that at least partially aim to reduce government power by promoting privacy and peer-to-peer interactions, but I wish to remain at least somewhat anonymous.
Is there a point to the piano name? I know that Bösendorfer is a high-end piano maker, but it looks like Danziger has altered it to Boshendorfer, or Buchendorfer, or something like that. Intentional, or just a mistake?

EDIT: I'm an idiot. It's "Bushendorfer".
This isn't the UK; it is not a violation of US law to publish classified information; the violation is when a person with legitimate access to classified information disseminates it to an unauthorized person (see, e.g., 18 USC § 798).

To date, the closest the US government has come to prosecuting a publisher was the attempt in the Pentagon Papers case to enjoin publication; SCOTUS struck down the effort, calling prior restraint "the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights." USG has not been anxious to go after publishers since then.

For example, State counsel Harold Koh, in a letter to Wikileaks demanding the removal of unredacted classified information, noted that the materials "were provided in violation of U.S. law ... As long as WikiLeaks holds such material, the violation of the law is ongoing." (Emph original.)

Koh did not state that WikiLeaks was violating US law, but that the person who provided the documents (Manning) had done so, and that the offense was a continuing one. He did not charge Wikileaks, or any of its members, with having broken the law, only that their source was continuing to do so.

There is no case law regarding whether USG can convict a publisher for obtaining classified material, but similar cases (e.g., Bartnicki v. Vopper) suggest that this would be difficult.

Having said that, the Obama administration has been historically aggressive in prosecuting leakers, including naming a journalist (FOX News reporter James Rosen) as an unindicted co-conspirator for receiving classified information from a State source.

If AMZN was talked into dropping Wikileaks, it wasn't because of criminal activity by the publisher; it was because of political pressure from the administration. Not the same thing.
That's the perfect meme to consolidate power at the top. First we get the Citizens United v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC rulings, making money "free expression" for the rich. And now we associate the Little Guy's "free expression" with their meager consumer dollars with "bullying", "witch hunts", etc...

Bravo, I say. Machiavellian!
Everything? Aren't file associations on OS X still stored in the resource fork?

I remember trying to move some designers to a NFS share off of a netatalk fileserver and they flipped out when neither they nor their Mac knew what to open files in.
Market forces. Just like anything else - supply and demand.

Don't think of it in terms of gross dollars. Think of it in terms of standard of living. A skilled engineer is going to have an upper-middle-class standard of living, regardless of location.
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I want a company to actively fight the government's intrusion into my data, to ensure that my rights are defended.

With this appointment, I have no faith that the Dropbox Board of Directors see their role this way.
How about, she's in a remarkable position to help Dropbox become the leading provider with respect to privacy?
It's not because she was part of the Bush Administration, but what she did while she was there. There's a difference.
I don't care if people are of a different belief system than I am as long as they don't directly lead to the deaths of thousands of people.

I think the Eich situation was crazy for sure, but I didn't boycott Mozilla (.. although I don't really use anything from them to begin with). I did delete dropbox, however. I don't want anything to do with Rice.
I've kind of been waiting for a reason to switch to Google Drive because of (mainly) price and a few other factors. While not the main reason, this is the tip of the iceberg.
I think we need to actively engage. So that means we actually do need to volunteer. We do need to donate. We even need to run for office. I don't know if my experience is a corner case- but every politician I've ever met has been weird. They don't seem like normal americans.

We need to recognize that the world runs on PACs and that if we don't have a PAC to advocate our position, we're not going to get the outcomes we want.

I think we've been raised to believe there's some holy power in our vote- but this is a distraction. Unless we fund our efforts & win in politics, this is all for naught.

I also think that we have to accept when we lose in politics. This campaign is absolutely the opposite of that value. I share many of the opinions about this woman, but I find the campaign to be shameful in light of my previous opinions.

If you claim to value democracy and then execute this kind of witch hunt when democracy doesn't deliver the outcome you hoped for, there is a problem.

"Democracy for me but not for thee"
Ask HN: What are the current best frameworks for CRUD app auto generation?
I've dabbled with Rails, Grails, and Spring Roo a little in the past.

I'm wondering what is the current state of the art in generating a CRUD app from a data model. What out there builds scaffolding that's the easiest to work with and extend with modern JS technologies and frameworks?

If you were going to use something today, what would you pick and why?
IMHO actively helping launch an unnecessary war that killed tens of thousands (a very conservative estimate) of civilians while costing hundreds of billions of dollars that could have been spent in ways that benefit the American taxpayer is much worse than supporting PRISM or working for the NSA.

I'm kind of floored that anyone in our industry would appoint a former Bushevik at all.