skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The all NSA scandal is a quite sad revelation, but there a re so many business idea to built off it.
I think this sort of affirmative approach is going to become more common as tech is dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

When I was an engineer, I never worked under a woman in a technical role. Since I've been a lawyer, I've had a majority of female bosses and mentors. 50 years ago, this would have been unthinkable.

Doctors, accountants, and many other professionals can tell the same story. Today nobody thinks twice about the head of internal medicine at a hospital being a woman. Medical schools don't go out of their way to find qualified female candidates. Because of measures taken decades ago, these professions have achieved a level of normalcy that has totally eluded engineering as a profession.
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Coupled with the rest of the backed up data, it doesn't really matter if the SSID were not unique.
You are in no position to decide whether it's okay for your phone to share my WiFi password with a third party. It's not your choice to make.
It's good to be a king:

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/09/10/13326/ex-wall-stre...
Yes, and they too require root. Plenty of choices found by searching the Play store.
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Simple.

1. Invite straight white male
2. Invite straight white female
3. Invite gay white male
4. Invite gay white female
5. Invite straight black male
6. Invite straight black female
7. Invite gay black male
7. Invite gay black female

etc. etc.

I think the best way to be diverse with genders, ethnicity, sexual orientation, is to ignore genders, ethnicity, sexual orientation, not to invite male, female, male, female. Simply invite the best speaker, taking into account their sex isn't diverse, even if you do take turns.
On that note would a business reporter about bioengineering firms's stock movements be obligated to know about the specific terminology of bioengineering? Fox got it wrong to be sure however reporting on financials doesn't make it necessary to be an expert in the technical aspects. There are plenty of software engineers building business software that don't know the first thing about calls and puts, options and derivatives trading strategies despite the fact that they build software that drives those systems.

I won't cut Fox any slack, however lets ask ourselves -- did MSNBC or CNN ever cover this story at all? The gist of the Fox story was to talk about the value of the company, not the details of what a 'fork' is. Besides, how many VCs have we been in front of that don't have any clue about the tech in which they are prepared to invest millions of dollars?

Even worse is how many engineers at startups have no clue about the business aspects of investing, valuations, dilution, option pools and such. Many engineers who think of themselves as 'startup people' have no idea what convertible notes are nor even how to read a deal memo. And forget about talking about valuations -- nobody know about that, yet many people claim they're valued at $1 million or whatever without any clue about where those numbers come from. I'm generalizing of course, but the exceptions really prove the rule.

There's something in the Bible I think about casting the first stone.. It might apply here. Pointing out the inaccuracy is certainly relevant, but using that as a rationalization of pre-conceived notions about Fox isn't really fair. I remember when I was in the Army in 2003 and CNN reporters embedded with our unit had no idea about the chemical weapons about which they were supposedly reporting. How many times have I heard "machine gun" used when describing an M4 rifle.. Another example is when news outlets say 'CIA Agent' when they actually mean CIA Officer. An agent is a foreign asset, no actual CIA employee is ever an 'agent.' Yet the media gets it wrong almost constantly. Snowden, for example wasn't an 'NSA employee' as was reported by many outlets, but a Booz Hamilton employee. The reporting on Syria has been questionable as well -- not just from a bias standpoint, but from a pure ignorance of the political forces within Syria that are driving their civil war. So excuse me if I hardly give a shit about Fox getting the definition of "fork" wrong. I'm pretty sure a large number of us would get the definition wrong of the financial terms "Special Purpose Vehicle" or "Trust Preferred Security" if we suddenly switched places with a Fox Business reporter.

So sure Fox got some irrelevant details wrong, but every news outlet does that every day. Those details didn't affect the intent of the story or the material facts, so who cares? We could start an entire board on simply media misteps and it would be filled with content on a daily basis.
Interned at IBM for a year and a half and it was one of the most laid-back work environments I've ever been in.
Most applications & the OS require you to type in your old password correctly at the time before allowing you to change it. I don't see how a usb-stick which pretends to be a keyboard could do that.
What kind of software has Voyager inside? I am amazed it has been running for 36 years. Updates at 20 byte a second must be fun:-)
You (and the other posted) have conveniently ignored the word "almost" in my post.
That has nothing to do with this conversation. And don't you think that the fact that iOs doesn't allow you to do this without a jailbreak is a good thing?
It's possible, but I'm not sure how likely.

The USB stick would have to exploit some vulnerability in the handshake process to run attack code on the host. In order to prevent that, you'd need a "USB sanitizer" that proxies the communications over the data lines and prevents any traffic that it deems unsafe.

This device, off course, can also be the target of an attack.
You can also just cut wires 2 and 3 of your cable.
-- Sent from my MacBook Pro
Well, you should assume that everything out there would be malicious, and work from _that_; if you go to DefCon specifically, this is a reasonable expectation.

New-ish Androids pop up a "USB connected, do you want to use this" prompt as well; but many devices (esp. embedded ones) don't.
The Tech industry has many male asian speakers, I suspect there is still a strong white-male majority (I can't find any reliable figures) but asian (men) are the other race who seem to be well established in the world of IT .

We do have incredibly talented transgendered speakers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson

and at least one very talented asian transgendered speaker:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang

It is notable that both these are transgendered women I don't know of any transgendered men.

I find it interesting that you didn't add black speakers to your list. Our industry has a very notable deficit of anyone from an African, Afro-Carribean & African-American background. Personally I have worked with many more women programmers than I have with black programmers (although I have worked with two very talented black men, both ex-programmers in a senior management role, one military trained). I wonder why?

But you are right. Equality is equality. We'll get there in the end!
As long as you trust your external battery
For some idea of what it's possible to do when you plug something into a USB port, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im0_KUEf8

(Travis Goodspeed's "Writing a thumb drive from scratch" presentation. It's got some fascinating and potentially _very_ scarey ideas…)
Also; it won't be a vacuum.
It does vary by region. Russian serfdom was closer to a form of slavery, with serfs owned by the estates, while in Western Europe, serfs were usually formally free to leave but in practice unable to.

The usual explanation for the emergence of feudalism in Western Europe involves market forces as well. As people fled the starving cities at the collapse of the Roman Empire, they had little choice but to agree to whatever terms rural estate landowners offered, which were generally not favorable terms.

I think one reason a sort of libertarianism was popular in the early U.S. is that there was always an alternative option: go to the frontier and homestead. So people really felt that they had individual freedom, and could escape any onerous sharecropping arrangement by just heading west. But in Europe all land was already spoken for, so there was nowhere to go homestead.
It raises a good point that we cannot (and should not) prosecute people for the consequence of bad but legal business decision.

However that also means that "self-regulation" is a get out of jail free card. Which I sort of understand, you would not want to cripple a growing sector with unnecessary constraint, I understand _once_ ( and you may argue, that it was not the first time for the Banking sector to keep only greed as regulation)

So it is fine that nobody went to jail. But we should also acknowledge that this self-regulation has failed in a spectacular fashion. So spectacular that it has had no impact in the life of most bankers, except a delayed bonus for a year. And nothing has been done to change that in the last 5 years.

To put that in perspective it took a decade for the start-up sector to recover from the .Net bubble. A lot of developer from those time have lost money, and struggled to recover their past salary level. The days of setting your own rules in a company just because you are a developer are also gone.

Here is the City of London, nothing has changed for bankers.

Edit: should -> should not
I think the MAC Address of the router is known too, so there's no duplicates.
Agree. They probably cringe at the over-attention paid to being right about things that are beside the point; long-form citations for posts of less than 100 characters; the passive aggressive Snowden comments on articles about, like, Gmail addons.

Fox Business is just trying to explain GitHub to its audience, which is approximately the same as the CNBC audience or the audience of any other business network. I don't see anyone making fun of the GitHub CEO for explaining his product as the 'electricity' of today's tech-based companies.
Ah, but his crimes were against Wall Street, not the proletariat^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H general public.
Certainly should not be a criminal offense if bad biz decisions are made in good faith. But there ought to be severe, lasting civil consequences for grossly irresponsible risk taking in breach of fiduciary responsibilities. (More than an SEC settlement that just gets written down)
In addtion to other replies to your comment:
* So does the US and Saudi Arabia.
* Terrorists in Syria are supplied by Saudis and Qatar.
* If you are conducting a false-flag operation you would attack your own forces or your allies', no? Also there's been rumours (http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-sau...) that terrorists simply mishandled the chemicals.
As for the place being "current critical objective", it doesn't make sense for Assad to achieve a tactical victory and bring the strategic defeat (because that's what it will be if America intervenes).
* It's not the first attack, the previous smaller attacks had only brought UN inspectors.
* It's not a problem if you have the outside help (BTW: thanks, Saudi Arabia) and have absolutly no problem with killing (that's who the terrorists are)
* The same intelligence that presented the world the reason to attack Iraq? If they have the proof, why haven't it been submitted to the UN?

Having said all that, I must add that there is not enough proof for either point of view and it's exactly the reason why UNSC shouldn't authorize a military operation agains Syria.

As a side note, who benefits the most from the use of chemical weapons and what seemed to be emminent US attack? Looks like it's syrian terrorists, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the US.

And here is an interesting thought experiment for you: if tomorrow it turns out that it was the terrorist's false-flag op, will the US intervene and wipe out the terrorists in Syria? Because, you know, they crossed the red line by using chemical weapons that are banned throughout the world?
Honestly, I have no idea if the software I write runs on FreeBSD. I know it runs on Linux, and therefore I know I can package it with Docker.

And I think that's the crux of it--do you think anyone would use Heroku if its container environment were FreeBSD-based? I'm guessing not; nobody develops on FreeBSD, so they'd have to test on a separate FreeBSD VM before deploying.
"nothing has changed for bankers"

Well, Fred Goodwin lost his knightwood for the allmighty omnishambles at RBS - serious stuff!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Goodwin

[Not long after he was kicked out of RBS I was crossing the road in George Streed Edinburgh and there was a chap sitting in a convertible Ferrari waiting for me to cross and I thought "he looks familiar" - 95% sure it was ex-Sir Fred the Shred]
Practically all news reporting does a terrible job of covering complex fields. Ask a doctor what they think of a medical story, or scientist about a story on their field of study. It is always the same - terrible.

A lot of that is because the reporters, not being experts themselves, just don't have the contextual knowledge to grasp the implications of what they come across in their investigation. Unimportant details get played up, subtleties are completely lost, and things with similar names get conflated.
I think the part people take issue with is the idea that water supplies should be privatised. In the video you linked he says that "declaring water as a public right [...] that's an extreme solution". He doesn't say we should steal 3rd world contries' water, but he is clearly in favour of the water supply becoming property of a multi-national like Nestle, rather than managed by the government (i.e. property of the people).

From the Nestle website you linked and subsequent articles and interviews Brabeck seems to have backtracked and now states he believes a minimum amount of water is a human right. He still wants water privatisation though, and must have his shareholders first in mind as CEO of Nestle, not public interest.
Do you really want there to be a law on the books which means people can be prosecuted for making bad decisions, decisions which the people making them thought were perfectly reasonable and legal at the time ?

The reason that CEOs haven't been prosecuted is that it's not clear there's any basis for which there to be a prosecution. There's no law criminalizing CEOs from making bad decisions, and it'd be incredibly stupid for there to be one.
When you click on a .doc file in the Dropbox web interface, you get a preview of the file in PDF format. To do this, Dropbox must open and convert the file. LibreOffice is popular for this, as it can be run in a headless API mode, reads a wide range of files and can output PDF format. So this is what happens here.

The wisdom of executing "active" content embedded in such files is of course doubtful and something Dropbox should investigate. But if you want your files to be safe, you should instead use a service that encrypts them client side, which has the downside of losing the web interface that Dropbox offers (as this requires it to be able to access the decrypted files in order to serve them to you).
When I feel my batteries are low, I like to get my juice flowing by plugging in to the nearest socket available. Sometimes, I even get a surface to sleep on, and when that happens, often I get to load up on media. Sometimes when the media's done there's some funny business. Occasionally, I even get a special powerup for breakfast. There's nothing like waking up in the morning after a new encounter, wealthier for the memories, fully charged and ready to go. - Anonymous mobile device, 50 Bistreams of "Hey!"
I'm not saying a wealthy person is hoarding money, I'm saying that 1. they reintroduce that money for the purpose of further profit generation (meaing that over time the goal is to accumulate more ownership of productive goods or businesses) rather than exchange that money for goods and services directly.

This means you favor 1. non risky ventures and 2. likely growth centers. If in an entire economy you only have this one way wealth ciphon effect, that means that money can be caught in an independent economic loop (especially after legislative manipulation makes some markets no-risk, like mortgages in the early 2000s, or military contracts, or telecom monopolies) of the majority of the population.

The wealthy aren't buying your small town trinkets from the general store, or even hiring anyone living in most rural areas. They interact with a small subset of society directly, and in most cases the money they exchange won't end up at your mom and pop shop, it is much more likely to end up back at walmart peppering the rich guys pocket again.

It is more about recogition of the game of economics we are all enveloped in. Most wealthy people actively engage and play the game to make a profit. Most people are ignorant to their participation and don't understand that every purchase they make is a power transfer from themselves to someone else. On topic, advertising helps manipulate that exchange in the marketers favor because most ads attempt to illicit an emotional response drive to purchase.
It's also not Fox News - it's Fox Business, which has a partially separate staff.

Don't you know? If a Fox-related outlet does something funny, it's special because we don't agree with their political leanings. cd groupthink && ./mock && ./ridicule.
"Repository" isn't a technical word. It's a basic spelling mistake and the proof-reader should, at the very least, pick that up.
Thank you for making the valley a better place (and hope you make a good return on your investment in the process)
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Another reason to (really) go open-source/independent.
when did settings and data become vague terms precisely? sure people might not make the connection that their wifi password is both a setting and some data... do we really need to be alerted to this? although maybe a little info box or something with details of exactly what is sent might be appreciated by the power user...
Also the velocity with which those stories are produced is very high. This isn't exactly "breaking" news, however they also don't have days to prepare the stories. If this was an in depth story for a long-form show, the standards would necessarily be much different.. although the news often gets those wrong as well.
DTS comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS_(sound_system)
I find it mind boggling that people start raving about the overly expansive criminal justice regime when a hacker does something, but turn around and demand jail time for Wall Street CEOs, none of whom provably did anything wrong.

People act as if the fact that there was a global financial collapse is proof that someone must have been criminally culpable. But who should be prosecuted for the last dot com bubble bursting? Or the next one?

Re: jail time, I think non-violent crimes should not get jail time period, whether you're a banker or a stoner or a malicious hacker.
I'm having a hard time imagining an easier text-based interface to an RDBMS than the command line client. For things I do frequently -- backup a database, dump just the schema, export a view as CSV -- I write shell scripts around psql or the mysql CLI. You can use command-line parameters and hide the psql options and commands that you don't want to look up over and over. Obviously you could do the same thing with other tools if you don't like sh/bash scripting.
One thing that occurs to me: containers don't get their own network stacks, so you can't use a transport-level protocol (e.g. SCTP) in a Docker "guest" if it isn't programmed into the Docker host kernel. Whereas VMs are routed to at the network level, so they can do whatever they want with the packets they receive.
802.11x/EAP-TLS have been around for ages and are well supported on most hardware... As long as Google aren't collecting private keys _and_ usernames/passwords.
Could you explain what you have in mind? $67 million doesn't sound like a slap on the wrist (it's to a person, not the company, mind), and I'm curious what kind of "lasting" consequences you think are appropriate for civil penalties if not fines.
Such devices are supposedly in the wild; although actually meeting one at random would be pretty rare (as most of the usages seem to be spear-phishing: operations targetted to acquire data from specific people).
This means that I will never allow a phone with a proprietary system into my WIFI.
I'm disappointed by the hypocrisy of most of these negative HN comments.

How can you be so quick to rubbish what McCandless achieved, calling him stupid and unprepared, then go straight back to reading the next "Why I sold my home to Bootstrap my dating App" blog post to grace the front page or "How I finally achieved my dream" and then be full of praise and admiration.

Don't you see, McCandless was a young guy with a dream and a philosophy and actually had the balls to go and try it for himself. He's become a bit of a cult icon because he showed exactly the same disregard for the rules and society norms that make Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Richard Branson such heroes.

To everyone commenting along these lines, I look forward to not-reading your next blog post; "How I could have done x, if only I'd tried"
I think they should delay the display by 12 hours. So it shows daylight of the previous day, during the night and vice versa. Even if it will be annoyingly lit up. At least they won't have any issues with aircraft.
Ignore everything about the way the Docker daemon is currently implemented; it's irrelevant to what Docker is. Docker is a container file-format standard (and a container registry-service protocol), allowing you to build single VM-like images on one computer, and then run them on another, with the only thing in common being that they both support "Docker container format."

Right now, the only thing that supports Docker container format is Linux's dockerd implementation, which happens to use LXC+AUFS. Later on, Docker containers could be deployed "baked" into Xen images, or (if all the code inside them is architecture-neutral) deployed onto a FreeBSD dockerd that uses jails, etc.

Docker is about the tools to construct and manage containers, not the specific technology behind the deploy-target; the deploy-target is effectively commoditized by having a common container format!
The author is worried about WiFi passwords? If you trust that your WiFi is secure in general, you're in trouble. WPS is horribly insecure, for example, and that's what most home users use. Most user-chosen passwords are incredibly easy to guess for another. The better thing to do is to assume that your network traffic is always under surveillance (since the NSA is tapping Tier1 network providers), and to encrypt everything, or use network protocols which encrypt everything.

The only thing WiFi passwords are good for is to prevent your neighbors from using your network and using up all of your bandwidth (which would slow down your network access) and preventing drive-by spammers/hackers from doing things which you might then get blamed for.
It sure helps that its colder in Alaska than in Florida. However, I don't know if that compensates the smaller gravity.
The US may not but some jurisdictions do but still have not prosecuted anyone.

The UK is an example where company directors can be prosecuted for corporate mismanagement (failing in fiduciary duties http://legal.practitioner.com/regulation/standards_9_3_6.htm) and there are new offences planned specifically for banking.

But in fact Fred Goodwin received a handsome pay-off and has 24x7 police protection as a result of protestors arriving at his house when details of his huge bonus pay-off became public. He even obtained a super-injunction making it illegal for UK newspapers to reveal he worked as a banker ! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Goodwin#Superinjunction)

edit: as someone else pointed out he did lose his knighthood but that hardly seems as severe as prison time.