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> 450 died

That's the solution, unfortunately. Kids dying, the kids of rich idiots who decide not to vaccinate. Maybe we can get back polio and it will be just like when my grandma was a kid and she would get told not to leave the yard at certain times of year.
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Some experts in the field think that we've improved our ability to diagnose autism and diagnose it early (as this article also mentions). That's been one explanation for the increase in autism diagnoses. I agree that genetics probably haven't changed enough to account for the entire increase in diagnoses, so there's a counter-explanation.
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This is a very educated estimate. Let's hope it rains less than 2 inches per day.
It would be a huge concern if people stopped vaccinating. I am definitely in favour of vaccination - but if my experiences are anything to go by, the government and healthcare establishment have done themselves and the public no favours in their approach to the issues.

At the peak of the autism-vaccination scare a few years ago, we were due to vaccinate our child. I researched as much as I could, but almost all the information out there was very basic and almost condescending. Rather than try face parents concerns head-on, the attitude was simply to say "vaccination" equals "good", with no hint of a balanced discussion to address real issues like side effects and harm from vaccinations. On the one side we were faced with almost hysterical rhetoric and supposed "facts" from the anti-vaccination groups and on the other, near apathy from the governmental organisations.

We did go ahead and get our child vaccinated, but after approximately 2 weeks she starting displaying very worrying symptoms, her eyes rolling backwards into her head, becoming floppy, making peculiar sounds. We rushed her to hospital, where the doctors steadfastly refused to admit even the possibility that her symptoms were related to the recent vaccinations. It was just "coincidence". At least one of my nephews suffered some sort of febrile convulsions after the measles vaccination - again coincidence apparently.

Even after all this, I still support vaccinations, because the disease is statistically far worse the than side effects from vaccinations.
Exactly...correlation does not imply causation. Better sanitation, access to clean water, access to better medication and healthcare could also be related
What exactly do you think grants you a right to herd immunity? You might really really want herd immunity, but you don't have a right to it. Your rights stop at theirs just as much as their rights stop at yours. They do have a right not to be subjected to medical procedures, you don't have a right to herd immunity. It's frustrating and regressive but herd immunity is something we have to decide on as a herd, and currently we're deciding against it.
Yes, only of 12 million children younger than 5 in the US, "only" 0.2%, that is, 2 of 1000 infected would make 25000 vaccine preventable children deaths in one epidemics, if nobody would have been vaccinated.

To answer to wmboy's question "how does it compare to malaria" -- malaria wasn't treatable with vaccines up to now, there are very recent successes to develop one which is still only 25%-50% effective (has a relatively low efficacy and it was only recently, 2015, approved for use outside trials). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria_vaccine I don't think you'd like mosquitoes biting you if you would travel, for example, to Africa, where malaria is common.
> Very historical, very strange by modern ANN standards.

That's what I gathered from a brief look at things, which is why I find it very interesting - both from a historical context, as well as the idea that maybe there are some nuggets of (possibly overlooked?) wisdom hidden within, that might be useful in today's world.

Then again, I am but an interested (and very amateur) hobbyist in this whole ML space, and not likely to come up with any breakthroughs - but you never know I suppose!
Hi Vonnik, thanks for the suggestions of tools for us to try out next and add to our list!
Programming touches both comprehension of the code and the world it interacts with. Any program which can write programs based on comprehending natural language ought to be able to rewrite itself. Can you please explain how what you are describing is distinct from AGI?
I wonder why the polar oceans don't freeze solid?
I'd expect the schedules to change (improve) over time. So what's the point you're trying to make?
Politeness too. There are some cultures which are extremely blunt, no diplomacy or being indirect. For instance just going into a meeting and saying that someone's idea is dumb and they should do it X way instead. Most americans I know perceive this as "being a dick", but this is pretty normal discourse where they come from.
There's an implication later that he might have been 10x because he was cutting other people down – turn everyone else into a 0.1x developer and the 1x developer starts looking good.

I'd take that claim skeptically. But another consideration is that more than half of a team's work isn't code. You have to write the right thing, not just something, and that requires time and communication. So he might have been a 10x coder and a 0.1x communicator – indeed since he seemed to have little interest in interpersonal relations, some amount of his performance may have been due to his own time allocation choices.

Two of those people together would perform very poorly on some projects. And very well on others, depending on the clarity of the project and the amount of technical challenge it presented.
The article says swift's original was this: "Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired"

Which does sound like Swift. The rewrite doesn't, and attributing it to him in that form is misleading.
Other people are saying he could be softer and I don't disagree.
I'm least clear about whether a clean break with Cocoa will be needed. Perhaps most parts of Cocoa that don't match well with Swift will just be given more natural-feeling replacements? Obviously this can be complicated by dependencies, though.
>> The story isn't spam, or off-topic. It's bad.

> If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link
Check Vaccination schedule. 1st dose of MMR is given between 12 and 15 months.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...

Unless you regress into severe Autism, it's very difficult for parents or even doctors to recognize Autism until they are atleast 2 years.

Also according to the schedule, there is no big dose around 2 years. After 18 months, there are not many doses on schedule until children are again 4 years.

Most parents complain about MMR vaccination that is scheduled at 15 months. My son regressed into Autism after MMR. It is true. I hope the world realizes it before more children get effected.
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Are brilliant & nice people really as rare as y'all seem to be suggesting? That's not my experience at all.
Well, how much statistical risk of death do you need to impose on someone to be guilty of involuntary manslaughter?
I'm picking stocks with a small fund (started with $1500), and I'm up 300% in the past 12 months. I'm just doing it for fun, though.
So the pros are innocent people don't up hurt

the cons are "BUT MUH FREEDUMB".

> Plus all the claims of other unhealthy complications of vaccines, some of which are probably true to a degree.

This is the type of thing that gives anti-vaxxers fuel. Don't give them the benefit of the doubt, don't say more research is needed before deciding.

Fine, you can choose not vaccinate your kids. They should be banned from public schools, and pretty much anywhere else. If you don't want to vaccinate them then they should have to live a shitty isolated life, because you sure as hell shouldn't get to make them or others sick with your idiocy.
Stupid question but, isn't this a self-solving problem?

People that get vaccines won't get sick, only the anti-vaxxers will get sick. Anti-vaxxers will either die or be convinced to get vaccines.

What am I missing here?
I don't think it's a dangerous precedent, in the sense that precedent happened a long, long time ago. These sorts of diseases are horrific, and quarantine is usually applied with extreme predjudice. Quarantine is no joke, and is a last line of defense.

That said, quarantine might be overkill. But isolation really is a valid solution. It's just awful. But refusing vaccination is also awful, since it can lead to far more brutal suffering than the inconvenience of uprooting one's home.

Honestly it's just a crap situation, where each solution that isn't vaccination is just a measure of weighing the ultimate amount of suffering and choosing the least bad.
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He may flame on mailing lists from time to time, but I prefer an honest character to CoC thumping Machiavellis who talk and behave like politburo members.

The latter actually harm and exclude people while acting politely; Linus does not.
They're not wrong, Walter Sobchak, they're assholes.
1998 called and told it's a mistake. Those are not 2005's arguments, those are 1995/96 ones - before MISE4 knocked on the door with Active Desktop.

Before the .NET age, Microsoft was very active with ideas about bringing Web on desktop.
I agree, but how else should I attribute it? That particular variation just came off the top of my head.
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I may need to click through more, but isn't this inetd/xinetd?
Pictures of dead/maimed children.
> a mistake as its almost certainly clear from, for example, another difference I list in the immediately following sentence...

I didn't reply to that sentence because I didn't want to have to point out your understanding of Objective-C was incorrect, it is not weakly typed, only some Foundation objects are weakly typed.

As the other comment here mentions, syntax is trivial (although being informed by 20 years of language design is not so trivial to me day to day), the key differences in overall safety, expressiveness and features in the language is far bigger than trivial method syntax.
If the HR, the robot and the entertainment systems are AGPL licensed chances are that their source is already on github.

Spot on for PHP and MySQL. PHP has its own license (kind of BSD?) and MySQL is GPL2 or commercial. I bet Facebook could buy the rights of any AGPL product, unless the owner is really firm about principles.
Even if they did cause autism, the risk is less than the historically-verifiable risk of contracting measles, isn't it? If you take whatever the observed increase in autism is, blame it 100% on vaccines, and compare it to the number of historical measles deaths, are vaccinations still a good idea?
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There were already contracts signed.
One way to look at it is:

In a manually managed language, the performance of the application's memory management code is limited by the skill of the application developer. In a managed language, it's limited by the skill of the GC developer.

GCs have gotten a lot better in the past twenty years, in large part because they have the luxury of amortizing their work across a million applications. That makes it financially viable to throw a ton of person-years at your GC. That's not the case for the malloc()s and free()s in a single application.

So just through economies of scale, we should expect to see, and indeed have seen, managed languages catch up the the memory performance of the average manually managed app.
To be fair, at companies when people interview and deny a candidate for "cultural fit", they mean "this candidate doesn't interact and know the same cultural references as my in-group", so this type of exclusion is pretty common.
pboutros didn't make any claims about the validity of your opinion, only about its correctness.
When I grew up, cases of the measles were common. I had them, my sister had them and many of my friends came down with them. I didn't come from a community of anti-vaxxers, either. It was just something that happened to kids, like the flu.

I'm not supporting the anti-vaccination movement, just pointing out that this world of pretty much no one getting the disease is the new normal and that we survived as a civilization before it became so. Obviously it would be better if everyone were vaccinated. I'm just trying to put it in perspective.
> I've never worked with anyone who's as much of a jerk as described in the article

Maybe it's just that jerks don't affect you as much as they do other people. And that's great- for you. But for the rest of the team around you, those people are awful. Those people are the reason your best teammates decide to move on to new opportunities.

You should also consider the old saying 'every team has an idiot, and if you don't know who the idiot is, it's you', and double check that this doesn't also apply to jerks. Maybe the reason you haven't worked with a jerk before (and in fact believe brilliant jerks are just the best) is because you are the jerk.

I don't mean to say that as an insult. I was the jerk. I still am the jerk sometimes. It's hard to see, hard to deal with. Maybe you aren't, but it's worth careful examination just in case, no? Otherwise, you're literally making people around you miserable.
If I sum it up:

1. They did not manage to improve themselves a bit thanks to "the jerk"'s remarks, since the number of remarks (that he calls justified remarks) did not decrease.

2. They are now happy to deliver quickly. They don't give a fuck about the fact that they now deliver shit, and they are happy with the fact they didn't learn anything.
If brilliant means not mediocre, or above average, they are as rare as they are common. Depends how your budget stretches; If it doesn't, you have to make do.
Thank you for proving the point of the original post.

You fell for a propaganda talking point:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-context-behind-nancy-pelosis-...

People knew quite well what was in the bill and it was on record. The issue was whether there might be unintended consequences and what they would be after the bill was enacted.

Now, will you admit you are wrong and change your stance? Or will you double down to a different talking point?

If someone on HN can fall for this kind of disinformation campaign, what chance does someone with far less access have?
Anybody else find it mildly annoying when articles like this spend a paragraph saying "as a/an X, Y, and Z ... blah ..."

In this case the follow-up is "I’m worried that our nation’s health will soon be threatened because we have not stood up to the pseudoscience and fake conspiracy claims of this movement."

You have to be a scientist and have daughter with autism to worry about this? Really? As a person who's not a scientist and doesn't have an autistic/disabled daughter am I allowed to be worried too?

I mean it's nice that you're an expert and have experiences, but they're mostly superfluous prefix to your main sentence there...

(That said, I would support a law allowing for the parents of unvaccinated children to be charged with manslaughter or attempted manslaughter when pre-vaccination infants, those on chemotherapy, or similar come down with a disease like measles and live in the same vicinity, go to the same schools, etc.)
What are you using for 2fa?
Technically, those already immune will survive...
I don't believe in 10x developers, but I've seen a lot of 0.1x developers.
This discussion is a little bit too abstract. So I am going to take advice from Richard Feynman (who famously asked philosophers about a brick), and ask:

Was Richard Feynman a jerk?
The thesis being argued here isn't supported by the poor anecdata.

> Every time one of us would post our code for review, he would slaughter it. Where a normal review would often contain a handful of comments and suggestions, he would regularly end up in the hundreds. Most of the comments were opinion and personal preference. He had good reasons, and he was more often right than not, but he never even tried to be kind. He never took the opportunity to teach or mentor. He just stated his opinions as fact.

> [...] At first the rest of us tried to have constructive conversations, then we often just gave in, then I realized that we were actively avoiding him altogether and skirting our process. [...] He was so good. Was it worth even arguing or talking to our manager about him? Surely if we just put up with his attitude, we’d accomplish more because of the sheer volume of his contributions.

The solution here is indeed to talk to the manager. A brilliant jerk with strongly held opinions about code should be pretty easily convinced based on efficiency grounds. Repeatedly leaving hundreds of detailed review comments is not a good use of time, while writing up something that could be referred to that explains the reasons for the coding standards would prevent such comments from needing to be made in the first place (and could be used by others to distinguish stylistic preferences and opinions from truly necessary standards). Repeatedly having the same "constructive conversations" is an even worse use of time.

While I'd question the "brilliance" of somebody stating "opinion as fact", someone leaving hundreds of comments in a code review clearly cares and thus can be reached by an argument grounded in the things he cares about.
Anecdotally: Wave, Flipp, and Wealthsimple come highly reviewed from some acquaintances.
> I'm curious; what would be an example of something you would describe as an "average garbage collected language using a virtual machine"?

Ruby 1.8, Lua, or CPython.
Fire and courtesy are hardly incompatible. But it's more than twice as hard to achieve both as to manage one or the other.

It's also a question of circumstance. Right now, for example, I'm working to mitigate, and eventually to resolve, a morale crisis on my team, which exists for good and cogent reasons that don't merit discussion here. Now is not the time for fire - and fire alone in any case works only when the vision is so powerful that smart, capable people will tolerate being driven painfully hard to achieve it. Without offering something to make that worthwhile, fire can't drive them onward - it can only drive them away.
Ask HN: What to make of UI/UX designers with bad resumes?
Recently I've been interviewing UI/UX designers, and there have been some poorly done resumes. Some examples:

- poor alignment between sections

- changing of verb tense within a role description

- difficult to find portfolio URLs

I've asked them about it, and the general vibe I get is that they apply their design sensibilities to digital things, and it never occurs to them to do likewise to their resume.

It seems possible to be an excellent designer but just sort of brick (because of domain specificity perhaps) on the resume, but it also shows some lack of attention to detail.

So if someone has a fantastic portfolio but a horrible resume, how do you treat that?
There are those who cannot take vaccinations due to medical conditions and there are those who opt-out from vaccinations due to beliefs. Guess who suffers damage for no fault of their own ( not blaming the children of the parents who are making the choice ).
you genuinely believe that noone understood the NSA's existence and mission in 2007?

holy shit, is this the work of the US education system? no knowledge of history, from OSS to the cold war?

please tell me you're 12 years old.
I don't agree.

Editing for content or style?

Style editing is usually detrimental IME. Especially when the style editor doesn't understand the content and is just applying typographical rules.

And content editing is usually done by fellow professors or students. Which if the book is open source will happen anyways as new professors use the book in their courses and notice errors.
Interesting project? The IMDb message boards were a good way to get some additional insight after watching a movie. Or at least give me a good laugh at the trolls. :)

Who owns this post data? IMDb? The users? Do you have any plans or ideas for existing IMDb users to somehow claim their username on MovieChat, linking to their archived posts?
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I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
Unfortunately, Mesosphere is no longer focusing on Marathon as an Apache Mesos framework and is instead integrating it into DC/OS, their commercial offering. Open-source Mesos+Marathon no longer appears to be an option.
Ok, but my statement is correct. The US has educated despots and their cabinets for decades. Would you enjoy an articulated list?
If freedoms means so little to you, feel free to give them up on a whim. Stay the hell away from mine, though.
It's still a public health risk and a serious one if left unchecked.
Wordpress is more like the 'old outdated android' of blogging software.

Medium is more like the iPhone of blogging.
> 2. Society is incurring some level of risk if the individual's risk of getting the disease is increased (although shouldn't this not affect people who are vaccinated anyway?)

No, that's not how it works. A vaccine that is not 100% effective can still be the difference between "exponential growth" and "peters out quickly". I'm not trying to be rude, but that is kind of epidemiology 101 - meaning, take that as an indication that you are not fully informed on this topic.
The real question is, what have you done recently to improve your skillset? If you regularly improve your skills, you won't be in that situation for long.
It's not an idea that needs putting to rest. There is no legitimate research that supports such causation. "Validation" would invalidate the existing body of research, which is improbable.
If they want the benefit of herd immunity they need to make sure the herd is vaccinated.

But they don't do that. They push quite hard for everyone to stop vaccinating.
That doesn't sound so much like a brilliant jerk as a midwit egomaniac, which are pretty common on the ground in programming. I've worked with people like that too, and what they're really doing under the guise of making your code better is rewriting modules because it's less trouble than figuring out how the existing code works. Invariably they break something in the rewrite, too, because they didn't understand the full scope of the problem domain (which, circling back, is why they didn't understand the original code).

And of course when you assign them to solo projects they fail. Because they're not very good at software development.
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Exactly. You have to pick: either the jerks, or the people who the jerks drive away. And that doesn't take into account the people who aren't quite driven away but find work that much more unpleasant as a result.

If you encounter many skilled jerks, consider why that might be, and why in the same environment you don't also encounter skilled people who are fun to work with. In such an environment, the skilled people who are fun to work with can afford to leave, while some of the non-skilled people may not have that option. So, it's natural that within such an environment (company, project, etc), it'll look like a correlation between jerkiness and skill. People then start assuming a causation, and thus contribute to that same cycle.

The opposite environment, with many skilled people who are fun to work with, will tend to reject jerks regardless of skill. I've also noticed that such an environment tends to have a much higher degree of mentorship and collaboration, in addition to being more fun to work in, and boosting energy rather than draining it.

See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZSli7QW4rg and http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/assholes-are-killing-you... .