skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Corporate infosec" policies on email are getting a lot more attention now that various leaks have made executives and other non-technical people realise exactly how vulnerable corporate data is.

Anecdotally I've seen IT teams having a much easier time explaining why you can't forward everything to GMail, for instance. That chimes with quite a few reports coming out claiming European-based cloud hosting is benefitting at the expense of US-based setups.

BYOD is still a real thing, for sure. But iOS talking to corporate Exchange can relatively easily be made compliant with infosec. A third-party app ingesting corporate email to servers hosted in China under vague licensing? Not so much.
Nobody thought BlackPhone was secure – just securer
No, it was born because of the structure of SodiPodi. Lauris was effectively the gatekeeper and others did not have commit access. He wasn't accepting patches he didn't want to, so a handful of our founders decided to fork and have a much more open approach. As it stands, if you have two patches accepted with the project (Inkscape) and want it, you can have commit access.
> private information instead of DNA.

The distinction gets blurrier every year.
"Innate biological differences exist" isn't, by itself, a compelling argument. The closest argument you can make that's compelling is "Innate biological differences exist, linked with competence in computer science, and they are vast enough that the fraction of people who can make it skews heavily male." That's an actually-scientific hypothesis, which is great, because we can do some studies to determine whether it's true.

http://www.slideshare.net/terriko/how-does-biology-explain-t...

On the other hand, if you make non-scientific claims, it's pretty easy to push "innate biological differences" to mean whatever you want it to mean. Like that women are more naturally suited for programming than men, because it's just like prepping dinner.

http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
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It is, however, the government's job to look after its citizens as a whole, and act with their best intentions. While there's always a debate to be had about whether government ACTUALLY acts for the greater good of its citizens, one area that it certainly does is mandating the vaccination of children.

These vaccines that all kids (at least in the US) are required to receive prevent some horrifying diseases. Horrifying. Like, tens of thousands of people a year would die from them (such as the Measles virus). When a viable vaccine became available for Measles, for example, people lined up around the block so they could receive it. They recognized that being vaccinated was the best thing to do, so they did it.

I absolutely hate the argument that people make about "not allowing the government to dictate how they raise their children". They're not. They're not telling you how to structure your day with your child, what books they need to read, what toys they're allowed to play with, etc. They're saying, "We don't want your child to die from these diseases, so we're going to have them vaccinated. You're welcome." Again, the government's job is to look after the well-being of ALL citizens, and preventing their widespread death falls under that jurisdiction.

As an aside, I'm not attacking you specifically. I'm attacking that argument, because it's absolutely stupid.
Although I don't read LessWrong much any more, people always seemed willing to talk about their actual beliefs in depth. It's about as male-heavy as HN, I guess. There was, a long time ago, some controversy over 'here's what you need to do to get more women', which, as you'd expect, enraged a few folks.
I don't think anyone outside certain religions[1] asserts that genders should not have equal opportunities. Could you link to such a person?

Some (fairly major) golf clubs don't let women play on their courses[1]. Plenty of people think women should not be allowed in combat roles in the armed forces[2]. I could continue...

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10186258/Go...

[2] http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-women-be-allowed-to...
You can collapse it. Then it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/owymIV4.png
You can also see this changing after Neo acquires his bullet stopping powers in the hallway. The walls go all bendy (they're cloth).
One of the big practical difficulties with the whole EU VAT mess is that different EU tax authorities can and do interpret the same rules in different ways. For example, in the UK, HMRC seem to have stated relatively clearly that incorporating this kind of manual step currently puts the transaction outside of the scope of the new rules, but I've seen reports that other states aren't accepting this. Even if you go via your home state's One Stop Shop service, you're still now subject to audit and potentially penalisation by any of the other tax authorities if they don't like your numbers.

Of course, the send-it-by-email strategy also only applies if you're talking about a one-off "digital download" style transaction. That seems to include a lot of tiny microbusinesses, but it's no use for people doing, say, X-as-a-service or library/subscription style web sites who happen to have a small number of customers from other nations in the EU.
"Its well established that no vaccine has an effect that lasts longer than seven years"

Wrong. Every vaccine has a different level of immunigenicity that effects how long it is protective for but some certainly last longer that seven years. Factors such as whether the vaccine is protein conjugated or has other adjuvants can determine this. This article is about measles and one study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2393239/) found that immunity lasts at least 15 years

"The reason we immunize children is because their hygiene practices are poorer than most adults and they are a marginalized class"
No, we immunize children because they are often more vulnerable to disease. It is an adult parent's duty to protect them and vaccines are part of that

"For a recent example look at Ebola. Many people simply can't get it because they are too healthy. This is why ebola never went anywhere in the USA and many other countries."
I don't even know where to begin. Two nurses who went to incredible lengths to wear protective gowns still contracted the virus in Texas. It was only due to a massive public health effort in keeping track of every contact that the virus was contained.

"It was known by pharma companies that the live attenuated virus would become a full strength virus in the child's stool. Look it up, I remember at least one American woman catching it from changing a diaper and it was in the news. Now we use dead virus because of people like her"
There is distorting the use of the Salk live vaccine and the Sabin killed vaccine. In very high incidence areas a live vaccine is used since it is transmissible so that even without perfect vaccine coverage, the vaccine strain will spread further in the population. This does very rarely cause clinical disease but the feeling is that this is much safer than letting the wild-type strain circulate. Once a population is polio free and the wild-type strain is no longer circulating, the killed vaccine is then used to stop spread of the attenuated live vaccine. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Oral_vaccine)

"Vaccines are a great tool. Like any tool they should be voluntary."
Would you argue that parents should also have a voluntary choice whether to place their children in car seats?

"please note that no one died"
The ones at risk of dying are infants and thanks to a robust public health effort they were able to be quarantined. It would have saved a ton of time and effort if people had simply been immunized. Prior to the measles vaccine there were dozens of deaths each year to measles. No one has ever died from measles vaccine.
Should companies use hackathons to find and hire tech talent?
Heh, I like the effect too. It's more like "So, there's that." or "So, there's that, then." then the more questioning "So..." . I find "So." to be more effectively sardonic without using the tired trendy "So, there's that."
Thank you for clarification, I get your point now.

To be fair though, React never allowed inheritance (even in its own class system) so it's a bit misleading to compare it to other frameworks where (pseudo-)inheritance is one of the valid ways to reuse UI code.

Of all OOP, in my experience it's inheritance that doesn't play well with UI code at all—and React never allowed it in the first place.
I am so glad other people are thinking about this. I think the potential use of ML and AI for helping with legal matters is absolutely huge, and I think it is one of those things that would add incredibly to a large number of people's lives. I've been financially intimidated by the threat of frivolous lawsuits far too often over the last five years, and I know the problem isn't unique to me. Even if you are undeniably right, you can easily drop $100k proving it. It's the same problem that is at the root of patent trolls. This is a fantastic idea, and it's good to see the Watson team working on such fantastic stuff. I honestly hope I get a chance to help them with their efforts at some point.
Upvoted. For explaining your downvote instead of just throwing it out there and mentioning a perfectly valid sentiment, even if I don't fully agree.
you also have to pay VAT on physical products when you import them. When I receive a package from the US, I have to pay VAT and customs fees on delivery (unless the sender declares it as a "present", but that's illegal)
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These particular Amish are deliberately not vaccinated because of a specific incident where two children supposedly had a bad reaction to a vaccine. It's nothing to do with their access to information, and as far as I can tell nothing to do with their religion either.

I really wish people would read the article before making these assumptions. Half the people in here seem to have just seen "Amish" and leapt to the conclusion that Amish people reject vaccinations in the same way that they reject cars and computers.
Do you have a specific guide you followed for trying that? I've been using gentoo for a while, and this sounds like a good way to try guix or nix.
That's probably it. I guess some CYA is needed since the entire modification contract was given to Boeing.
Not intentionally, would you mind pointing out how you got that impression?
The 1984 version of 1984 had an intentional "washed out" appearance to reflect the grimness of the world it was showing - apparently done by a bleach bypass done to each print:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_%28film%29...

I suspect Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves did something similar as well - it had quite a distinct look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_the_Waves
Just to take it a step further though, in a world where every browser can run Javascript and make AJAX requests, which of your requirements can't be handled by the client communicating with an API directly? Considering sessions for example, local storage is supported by virtually every browser you can name: http://caniuse.com/#feat=namevalue-storage

In my experience, it's significantly easier to scale an API than a traditional (PHP-style) web server.
>forcing it upon them will do nobody any good

I'm not saying it would be a net good or a net bad, but it would presumably save a number of lives. This might still be a net bad with the increased distrust and loss of choice and all that, but I don't think it's at all fair to say that "nobody" would benefit. For example, those with weakened immune systems who for some reason cannot be vaccinated would probably benefit greatly. Again, I'm not saying the answer is or isn't to force them, but it's not because nobody would benefit.
You're right about the admin part. There are hybrids out there like http://siteleaf.com and http://webhook.com. As far as no-db goes I like to use Kirby (http://getkirby.com). My favorite setup is middleman though. We built our documentation site using middleman and github sub modules (https://resources.catalyze.io)
Overweight people aren't really a danger to other people. Smokers aren't a danger to other people as long as they keep their smoke away from other people.
To play devil's advocate, just because some people used to line up for vaccines doesn't mean everyone did.
Yeah, and I could have Googled it, too, but I asked here instead. But you got me. I went back to work after the section where they talk about not having a car, internet, or computer.
First word I tried wasn't even present in the list (equivocate). How do you score that?
I think you're mistaken. While the first part is certainly true - I remain doubtful about the implication for addictive potential of a drug - the second part is a rather bad example:

Both in your nose and in your mouth the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream via a mucous membrane. The reason you don't see a lot of people putting large doses of cocaine on their gums is largely practical... same thing for mdma for example, just the other way around.

/edit The coke-numbs-your-gums part is supposed to be a test for the quality of the product, easily faked though.
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And the etymology of dis-aster is astrological: a negative event caused by an unfavourable planetary configuration, by "bad stars".
I started freelancing 6 months ago and I'm doing ok. I've made the same amount of money I would have made working a regular job but I only have worked 1/8th the time (billable work anyways).

To answer your questions

1. Popular opinion here on HN is to charge by day or per project (considering what value you bring to the table). I found it hard to implement so I found a rate that was reasonable for the kind of lifestyle I wanted. This is an exercise you have to do it yourself. For me I figured out what was my necessary expenditure (bills + insurance, what was enough for me to keep myself happy (books,movies,outdoor day/weekend trips etc.). However as soon as I get my head around actually implementing popular HN advice I'm going to follow it.

2. I started with oDesk and so far have only got 1 project out of it. It was only 3 weeks effort. There is too much competition there and it is hard to stand out AND get good rate. Rest of the work I found through my network. I let everyone know I was freelancing, reached out to everyone I knew and asked if they have any project or any of their friends needed any help.

3. Following things helped

a. My spouse was working until recently so it was comforting to know we will at least have food on the table and pay mortgage. If you don't have any support I suggest build at least 6 months savings first before jumping in or get a contract first.

b. When I was not working I was either constantly searching for work or working on side projects.

c. I had a pretty good previous work experience to bank on but if you don't have any make sure you have some sort of portfolio to showcase your skillset.
Have we created an anti-social monster in our device bubbles?
From intern to owner of our Android app–in one month
Given that this "change" consists mostly of cookie-cutter email footers instead of drastic environmental change, I think we see the power of awareness laid bare.

It also shows that arguments about how printing costs more money than email-only were better-received than what preceded them.
> I therefore have to keep looking for tutorials, programs and tools that are accessible, and cannot simply pick up any off-the-shelf IDE.

Another advantage of the ruby community's general commitment to produce a language that can be written in any old text editor. I think Java long past that point, you really need an effective IDE with certain features that it knows about Java to be effective in Java.

Making sure things are still doable with a plain text editor gives developers a lot more options (including for developing new editing environment improvements), instead of locking them in to certain IDEs. A lot more options for accessibility reasons or any reasons.
I said extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

You just made two different extraordinary claims: that women (as a demographic) intrinsically lack quantitative ability, so much so that they're at a disadvantage in industry (not merely at a disadvantage in the competition for Fields Medals), and that computer science as an industry is uniquely dependent on quantitative ability, moreso than actuaries (where there is significantly greater female participation.)

Your extraordinary evidence for this is a blog post with regression lines.

Sometimes your rhetorical strategy on HN is bracing and useful. Like all message boards, HN is prone to flights to abstraction and goalpost moving, and the introduction of facts can cut through that and ground the discussion.

Other times, it seems like you simply have far too much confidence in the significance of the facts you choose, and your overconfidence hamstrings you.

I don't have to care whether male quantitative ability has more variance than female ability. I can sort of enjoy reading about it on Marginal Revolution without incorporating any of those conclusions into my identity or philosophy.

I do care about the idea that results about variance in quantitative ability speak to CS ability. For the great majority of specialties in CS, they do not, at all. I think you may be blinded to this by the specialty you've chosen to work in, which is math-intensive. I'm a systems programmer --- in fact, a crypto-intensive systems programmer! --- and I will go to the mat against the idea that computer science requires atypical quantitative ability.

At any rate: it is self-evident that professional software development doesn't require the quantitative aptitude required to compete for university math tenure.
Unfortunately you'd have to at least modify most WP plugins to get them to work with this new system. At some point it becomes easier just to try to move everyone over to a born-static platform like Ghost.
A stenography keyboard can be even faster:

http://stenoboard.com/
180 phones and tablets, One 42U rack
Per your downvote question, you need a certain amount of karma (used to be 500pts?) and the little downvote icon will appear.
Curious - how will conventions handle this? Isn't it common for a convention to block out other wi-fi signals and offer a free one of their own so that channels aren't overloaded and people can actually get on?
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>> I downvoted.

Don't down vote people simply because you disagree with them. Just because you don't agree with their opinion doesn't mean it should be hidden from others. Use the down vote to hide comments that don't add to the discussion.
I'm the founder of Accredible - happy to answer any questions!
Never mind the FCC; your local fire marshall might be interested in that giant strawman you're building there.

How did we go from jamming to assault?
Productivity isn't really the benchmark for LibreOffice, at least not until they're close to 100% compatible with the latest version of Office. Compatibility with everybody else's bizarre, overcomplicated, crappy files is the benchmark, and they use a hell of a lot more features than WordStar ever had.

I'd prefer to have a product with a crappy UI that can interoperate with everybody else seamlessly, than one with a great, simple UI that can't.
Justin Searls' recent talk "The Social Coding Contract" has a nice take on why expectations get so out-of-sync: http://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2014-12-02-the-social-codin...

Nobody is "the bad guy", but creators and late adopters have very different understandings of what OSS is for, why it exists, and what to expect.
Hit Alt the numbers and letters are the shortcuts for moving around the ribbon. That's actually one of my favorite parts of the ribbon, you are able to see what the shortcuts are very easily. The alt trick works on just about anything in windows.
Kaggle Chief Data Scientist, Word2Vec “is a really, really, really big deal”
Hey, JP here from Taxamo. A few points. These new EU rules are effectively seen as the template for the taxation of the digital economy. The OECD has stated that a simplified online registration scheme (such as MOSS), is "the only viable option for applying taxes to e-commerce sales by non-resident traders to private consumers (so-called B2C)." Tax authorities around the globe are looking at how these new rules work out as numerous countries (e.g. Japan, South Africa, Australia, Canada) are either planning to introduce similar rules, or have already revealed plans. The VAT is now due in the country where the digital service is supplied. It is that country's tax, the companies are vehicles for the collection of this tax from their end users. But there's so much more to these new rules than evidence collection or invoicing. That's why we have created a solution that covers all elements of the new rules. Take a look for yourself: http://www.taxamo.com/how-it-works/
It's funny that you keep mentioning highly quantitative fields like aerospace and actuary, and then try and contrast them with computing.

http://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/students/683-more-women-ase

Undermines your point a bit.
The teal-and-orange plague followed from DI[0]. Amélie predates the widespread use of DI, and DI's later compromission by the TaO plague. So it probably isn't the contrast, most of the movies from the time (and before it) would have similar non-TaO palettes (unless they were specifically going for it, as in Blade Runner)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_intermediate
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Is this a joke? Jobs pay what they pay. You don't fix things for other people based on your personal version of fairness, although you're free to pay employees in your own company whatever you like and they'll accept.

You're also advancing a "behind every great tech dick is a great female fluffer" narrative, which isn't helpful.
>Its such a great concept that using LO is like stepping back into the Office 97 days.

Maybe there's a reason why ribbon-style components haven't really taken off outside of core Microsoft products. I don't think the ribbon is actually that great-looking and I don't think it's that functional.

I'm also a fan of a LO forging it's own identity. For far to long Open Office strove to mimic MS Office in look-and-feel.
Thanks to HN community. One bug found and already fixed. It was though reported out of HN (not via HN comment) therefore not visible here.
Right. A subtle point came up elsewhere in these comments noting that there's an exception for security. The fine point appears to be securing the wired LAN - if you plug in a rogue access point, you can rightly disable it. If someone's wi-fi access point is merely shouting on the airwaves, well, that's what the airwaves are there for and you've no right to block it.

Think of it as the positive side of the Tragedy of the Commons. Normally we complain about someone peeing in the swimming pool, but the FCC holds that such an analogy doesn't make sense for our airwaves.

I actually have no idea where the FCC stands on things like EM anechoic chambers (like Faraday cages). It may or may not be ok to set those up around buildings; likely it requires certification and - if not a lab - some way for 911 and police/fire/rescue to do their jobs unimpeded.

EDIT: Specifically about the newness of the law: turns out a lot of this references The Communications Act of 1934. It could be interesting to see how the philosophy of the radio communication acts are different from our modern interpretation of how to use the higher frequency radio spectrum.
TIL "fucking" is the 214th most popular word in the English language.
I took exactly this approach to learning passable German when I lived there a couple months. Unfortunately, most Germans would much rather practice their English on you than let you practice German on them. So I gave up and let them.
Don't OSS project has professional designer? I mean like Apple-quality designers?