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> Wiretapping members of the UN Security Council

You realize that is part of the reason we have the NSA, right? Only in a fantasy world do the other members not attempt to spy on the US. The reason why the NSA spying issue is wrong is because they were violating the consitutional rights of US Citizens. The German Chancellor is not a US Citizen and we have every reason to spy on her, the same goes for every other country in the world.
There are some severe problems with your point. Specifically:

(A) We know what information was available at the time and they clearly did not make the best decision they could. There was a consistent focus on information that supported the desired outcome and away from information that didn't.

(B) Good intentions and $5 will buy you a coffee at Starbucks. Hitler genuinely wanted to do a good job.

(C) Irrelevant. If our national leaders cannot think rationally years after a tragedy then they are unfit to be leaders and should resign. It's especially irrelevant given that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

(D) No disagreement there.

(E) Nonsense. Nuclear weapons are hard to build. It was blindingly obvious to anyone who was paying the least bit attention that Iraq had made no real progress on obtaining nuclear weapons. There was an outside possibility that, if left unchecked, Iraq might be able to build nuclear weapons a decade or two down the line, but even that was unlikely. It certainly wasn't an urgent problem that required a massive rush to invade the country.

(F) The downside of a false positive on that issue was also considerable. You can't just look at the negatives of one side and say "better safe than sorry" when the negatives on the other side are equally large. The invasion killed a huge number of people and went a good way toward bankrupting this country. Compare that against... what? Even if Iraq had managed to obtain nuclear weapons, they had no way to deliver them anywhere.

(G) It was obvious to a lot of people before the invasion that it was a crock of shit and that it would cost a huge amount of money and lives for no good reason. Those people were all correct. The implication that this is pure hindsight is completely wrong.
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Is there any actual data anywhere (ANYWHERE) that suggests this is the case? Or statistically more the case than any other CA with a more traditional payment model?

Or is this hand wringing about the stupid people who got the free certificate from the stupid company that likes to give away free certificates but under normal circumstances they might actually charge people for some other part of the service that almost no one ever uses?
I really hope that these top posts on HN influence at least some employees at Dropbox to resign publicly because Dropbox's core (meaty revenue generating) users aren't HN readers anymore, but the mass market & enterprises that aren't going to care.
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In Greensboro, NC, Greensboro Housing Coalition is a non-profit that wants everyone to have safe housing, regardless of income levels. A common problem with low-income housing is cockroaches, bad insulation, and other conditions which lead to a much higher rate of asthma in children who grow up in such homes.

They are putting together a study to test whether improving the condition of these home would reduce the incidence of asthma in affected children (and the costs associated with the resulting frequent hospital visits) so much as to be a more cost effective use of Medicaid funds.

If the study finds that this is the case, and their experience suggests that will, the end goal is to enable doctors to prescribe home inspections and improvements, and for those actions to be paid for by medicaid/insurance. It would be a clear win/win: healthier children and lower costs across the board.

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I only had 4 small encrypted files on my Dropbox account, so the decision to close my account was a no brainer.

I'm not even angry at them for selecting a war criminal as a board member but she supports the NSA and warrantless wiretappings. This is such a stupid decision for so many reasons. But I'm not surprised, because we deserve companies like Dropbox who doesn't care about their users private data, because we've been prioritizing convenience over security for years. Well, not anymore. Good riddance.

My problem with this is that even though Condi Rice is a war criminal, no one will say so in the media (some will, those that public don't really listen/read). But it was easy to bash Eich (and rightfully so) because marriage equality sells. Don't expect Dropbox to back off from their decision because only a small group of people will boycott them.
If wonder if companies with mandatory non-competes have lower salaries. They should.
People who beat drums of war have so many dollars stuffed in their ears that they can't hear the cries of people killed by bombs and bullets.
yeah typo. I guess Hacker News needs static compiler for comments.
I am also fairly disappointed by this news. Rice was complicit in the Bush administration's war crimes and crimes against humanity. She also led the propaganda effort to dehumanize the Iraqi people in the minds of intellectuals.

It's a very strange feeling of disappointment... as if something precious, Silicon Valley innovation, talent, success, can somehow not succeed without the blessing/involvement/connections of government officials.

This definitely makes me question the ethics of Dropbox as a company.

This is not about politics at all, war crimes are clearly defined. FWIW Obama has also committed many and I'd be equally disappointed if he or one of his top warmongers was added to the Dropbox board.
This is the long-form piece that brok the news blowing up on /news
"Figurehead" doesn't exactly apply in this case given her role specifically entailed the orchestration, coordination, and authorization of unconscionable (at worst) and morally repugnant (at best) acts.
This is good news for and from Massachusetts.

I read a very interesting thing about how non-compete agreements signed in other states are treated in California...

http://lawzilla.com/content/noncompete.shtml

"Who wins often depends upon a race to the courthouse. For multi-state employers it is often a rush to the courthouse to determine if a non-compete agreement is valid. The employer's strategy is to get an order outside of California in their favor. The employee or California prospective employer's strategy is to get an order within California in their favor. In the face of dueling, and opposing orders, the first to the courthouse may win because states often must give effect to orders from other courts."

The whole thing is actually very interesting, worth a read.
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Don't forget Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Batavia, IL). I worked there a year (LHC CMS detector), and it was so terrible I jumped right back to the private sector with ~5 other co-workers.
I just experienced the other side of this problem yesterday. I was checking out a job applicant who had a lot of repositories and I couldn't easily figure out which ones really mattered. Fortunately, he also had his own portfolio site. The github profile was effectively useless.
I think it's important to ask not only whether somebody is a good ideological representative for a company, but also whether ousting them does us any good.

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;

* but she is not the only one in the government of that day, and many other (non-bullied) politicians are complicit as well;

* and the current president has not shown much anti-torture sympathies either, yet him being branded a Democrat makes him much less of a target.

I believe channeling energy to make Ms. Rice leave Dropbox solves nothing. Channeling the same outrage to make the elective system into a non-money-based race, to make the politicians accountable for what they promise before elections -- that may solve something.

As a non-American, stating an opinion is about all I can help you with. Good luck!
And easy switching between filters. "Their default view", "your default view" etc.
Basically, the argument is to Drop Dropbox because Condi was a part of the Bush administration and is a Republican.
There is absolutely an opportunity to hire talented people at affordable rates outside major urban areas. I just finished an eight year adventure growing a startup from nothing, and I did it remotely from South Dakota. In a few months I'll be looking for another remote opportunity with a company like Expensify that "gets it"; I'll get to work from my beautiful hometown and they'll likely get talent cheaper than they could in an expensive major metro area.
It has everything to do with her political beliefs and conservative background. Just admit it. You can still disagree with her and boycott Dropbox. Just say that you disagree with her political beliefs. The things the article referenced are all political.
To put it briefly: no.

A little less briefly, then. ;) It is absolutely possible to create code that these tools in general, and Coverity in particular, will have difficulty analyzing . . . but you really have to work at it. Seriously, these guys are good. It's a bit like the "arms race" in building vs. breaking crypto. These guys have been there, they've seen all the moves, they know all the countermoves. Sure, if you load up your code with runtime-assigned function pointers and code that only executes if the last five iterations of a loop each went through specific code paths themselves, then that's going to cause some problems, but most programmers are unlikely to "win" that battle.

However, this particular bug looks like it's in the absolute easiest category. Any static analyzer should have caught it. As others have pointed out, the real problem is false positives. If it was caught, but the report was buried in hundreds or thousands of crappy reports about things that actually aren't problems, then it might as well not have been caught. That's why the pros at this spend as much time writing code to eliminate false positives as they do writing code to find new things. In every project I've worked on that used static analysis, the weak link in the chain has been between reporting and remedy, not in the analysis itself.
Mutable fields are really hard to use correctly in Clojure, but it's good to see an appropriate use case for `:volatile-mutable` in the implementation of these data structures.
Does it have to be the Midwest though? I'm in Chicago, and moving to Florida due to the weather and less-brutal state income/property tax (and I can own a sailboat).

TL;DR Don't overlook low-cost locales for talent.
He sounds like my project manager, when adding a new feature just by mentioning it during a demo, and sees our faces:

"What I'm asking wouldn't be hard at all"

:))

Unless you're intimately involved with the project or a guru in similar projects, you've got no idea whether any feature would be hard / simple, time-consuming/interesting.
Vote with your bits[and dollars] if you disagree.

Nerd rage alone is fruitless without tangible follow-thru.
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Boom. Downgraded my account to free. Now I have 8 months to accept OneDrive into my life.

It feels quite empowering to have the ability to protest the Iraq war with my wallet, more so than not voting Labour did.
Yes

int x (>= 0, <=10)
x = parseInt(getKeyboardInput)

Dependent Type systems don't have to know what is possible keyboard input. They have to know what type the getKeyboardType function returns (and the parseInt), and if it's possible for that type to be out of the range of your constraint.

If that's so, it throws an error. At that point you simply have to compose your types and functions so they match the constraint, and you know you are safe.
Bittorrent share is actually an amazing dropbox replacement, and actually has a number of really good privacy implementations built in from the start. I'd highly recommend it, if anyone sees this comment.
Right over his head and out of the park.
A non-compete when you are fired? That's odd. It seems very simple for companies to lock up tons of talent just by hiring and firing them.
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Simply removing Condi as a board member doesn't solve anything. The move to make her a board member puts the motivations of the entire Dropbox leadership team in question.

Today, Dropbox hurt its reputation very badly, regardless how this ultimately plays out.
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Which state park? I'm guessing Utah?
Bittorrent sync is actually an amazing dropbox replacement, and actually has a number of really good privacy implementations built in from the start. I'd highly recommend it, if anyone sees this comment.
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And, if understood in that way, it is an instance where the term "pro-business" is a political ideology rather than an economic perspective.

Historically the rationale for pro-business policies is that greater production creates more wealth for everyone in a society. As a result it could be argued that a labor union might hurt an economy if less output comes from the same input, while those labor unions' arguments would be that they disagree about how different working conditions maximize the society's actual utility.

A non-compete on the other hand is a contract to decrease worker productivity. It is the opposite of union agreements that forced companies to employ people whose work is no longer needed, it is an agreement not to work. Furthermore, it isn't even entirely about benefiting business owners over their employees, but about benefiting established companies for their past success rather than whether or not they can compete in the current business environment.
I think it's safe to say that when a tech company reaches a certain size, especially ones that have a substantial amount of user data, it's impossible to be politically neutral on the war on data. If a company doesn't outright say where there position lies, it will come out in the leadership actions that are taken. I agree with this opposition against Dropbox because a company like Dropbox has to adamantly say, both with words and actions, that they are in favor of data privacy. Without this strong declaration, I can't do anything but assume that their integrity in regards to data privacy is weak or that they are outright in favor of exposing sensitive data in exchange for powerful partnerships.
Amazon is building a $600 million datacenter for the CIA. The CIA did all of the bad things listed in Dropbox article as directed by Bush and Condoleezza, and they are still actively trying to cover up torture. I've never heard anyone here not using EC2 over it?

The tech scenes pitchfork mobs are wildly inconsistent.

I have a feeling this one hit a nerve because Condoleezza Rice is famously hated across the internet and in the press (especially on the Daily Show) and this isn't really about upholding some strong high-moral consistency that we all have.
How are those two things at all comparable? Changing the elective system might require nothing short of a constitutional amendment. At least voicing outrage about Rice/Dropbox raises awareness of privacy issues. You can't just say, "this one thing your doing isn't going to make a radical paradigm shifting difference, so you should just sit around until someone drops one of those in your lap."
http://goto.ucsd.edu:8090/index.html ?
In this case, "them coming" just means a consumer boycott, at worst. It is in absolutely no way comparable to goons dragging people off to death chambers and you demean this debate by implying it is.
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What he is saying that ANY high level ex-politician will have the same issues. You can probably dig up similar dirt on Al Gore and boycott his seat on the apple board for example. In my foggy childhood memory, I remember a few wars, PGP & Clipper chip fiascos and so on when he was VP in the 90s.
Interesting. I'd somehow missed that.
i usually don't jump into these debates, but your comment strikes me as at best impossibly naive and at worst inexcusably ignorant. take a look at the various laws being passed to disenfranchise minority/elderly voters. look at the misinformation being spread via special interest-controlled media. read up on Edward Snowden. "victim blaming" is 100% what you're doing here.

i agree with your stance that action needs to be taken, but completely disagree that we have "no one to blame but ourselves".
Correct. We work with folks anywhere. :-)
Oh, I heartily agree that I was a total moron to fall for Obama's sweet talk. Glad you had the smarts and life experience to avoid that trap. To exculpate myself a tad, I didn't vote for him in 2012 (or anyone else).

But back to the question at hand: if we, the people, are somehow supposed to right out ship by doing more than just voting, how exactly do we choose our candidates? In Obama's case, we went on his statements, biography (community organizer, law professor) and (admittedly limited) past voting record. Do you have any recommendations for those us us who don't have your finely-attuned bullshit detector on how we can pick a good candidate?

I certainly don't trust my own political judgment anymore. So I no longer vote in national elections.

I'm not sure I agree with your characterization of victimhood, however. Am I understanding correctly your assertion, which is that if a target of a conman or aggressor is sufficiently naive, that person is no longer a victim?
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> And you need to do any maintenance, which may not be your cup of tea.

And on a <$100 bike (or for that matter any bike under about $400) that'll be frequent. Department store "bike-shaped objects" are not known for their reliability
Sure, you can pick up C# in a few weeks, but there's no way to become a competent .Net developer in 3 weeks. It's not that it's difficult to learn, but there is so much to learn. In 3 weeks you may be able to drag and drop and autogenerate enough stuff but serious development would take much longer for someone with no experience.

The same could be said about Ruby, Python, Node, etc.
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That's the system working as intended. This site isn't meant to be about rapid back-n-forth banter or quick retorts and small points.

If after an hour, what you meant to say isn't worth saying then it's clear it isn't worth having on the site.
"But I don't know that I can go on the same kind of crusade for which I faulted the Eich lynch mob."

This is so insanely hyperbolic I don't even know where to begin. We're now using the term "lynch mob" for a situation where people a) boycotted the product and b) wrote a lot of things about how what Brandon did was wrong and how he is the wrong choice for CEO. So, lynch mob, which means, "a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority" is used for a situation where there was zero violence, zero murder and everyone was perfectly within their legal rights. Want to reconsider?

Furthermore, your use of "crusade" makes no sense either. The thing you described was you deleting your dropbox account. How is this anything other than a normal rational thing. I'm really worried that people now seem to view "people opposing an idea in a nonviolent way" as a lynch mob and deleting your account for a web service is a crusade. Isn't this just you exercising the same freedom of expression that you believe Brandon deserves but his opponents don't?
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Any thoughts on what makes an awesome A/B test report / case study?
I'd be worried about Mega being shut down by the government.
Can't they use Sodium instead?

http://labs.umbrella.com/2013/03/06/announcing-sodium-a-new-...
I saw a similar tee elsewhere, but I like that in this case the proceeds go to OpenSSL.

Also, the fact that a t-shirt can be made out of this supports Patrick McKenzie's article [1] yesterday, commenting on how this bug (or rather, its announcement) has been a case of successful marketing.

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/09/what-heartbleed-can-teac...
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I don't use EC2 over it. I host a site with a million+ pageviews per month with >250GiB of user data and I host it with Voxility. It used to be on AWS.

Edit: FWIW, I also don't use dropbox. I use rsync and a VPS.
Allow me to actually change this in the code. I don't really get github. They hold everyone's code and encourage everyone to share code, but they don't share their own.

This is why I left bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/3054/make-bitbucket-...
I'm a little suspicious about this whole thing. I want to know who authored this website. Otherwise I hate to say it but I have to assume it is a hit-piece produced by "Box.com" to get people to leave Dropbox.
Are you using it? If so, how's it going?
Maybe open an issue here:
https://github.com/isaacs/github

Visit this link after the one above to find a github easter egg :)
https://github.com/contact
Rice did something of material, substantial consequence. People got killed because what she did.

Eich had opinions based on mythology. And his impact on people's lives, in terms of health, security and happiness, was orders of magnitude less.
Nope. In my world, morals matter more than political affiliation. Conservative or not, neither of those is inherently bad. What matters is how it's executed.

Oh, and by the way,I have observed this trend in the US where people who are liberals automatically disagree with conservatives just because. Sorry, I do like me some critical thinking, you know? You have that, right? I explained my case loud and clear. War is bad, regardless of whether you're conservative or liberal.
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The intent of that sentence is not to repeat to you that you don't know something. That's already established.

It's to signal that the other person is not judging you negatively for that fact.
You have that backwards. Plenty of corporate managers will look at this addition to the board of directors and think "A serious adult non-tech leader just joined, I can now take this company seriously."
To throw into the discussion, France chronically has a very high depression rate [0]. I don't have the exact numbers but there is correlation with high income, and generally speaking work related mental illness are not uncommon.

The image of French people as lazy asses is about a half of the population perhaps. The other half[1] is in a different boat altogether.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-26/france-u-s-have-hig...
[1] wild guess
In the U.S many states (at least on the books) enforce non-competes even if fired without cause.

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f1eab2d5-0fda-...

edit: added link
You can find the videos of the Programming Languages class together with the slides and handouts here:

http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/13sp/