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That assumes you want the benefit.

If living a 'natural' life is higher on your value scale than preventing a possible infection, then you wouldn't want the vaccine even if no one else was getting it either.

Let's say your neighbors want to build a $1M lake. They want you to chip in $50k. You're going to get the 'benefit' of the lake one way or the other. But you don't even like lakes. In fact, you'd prefer they didn't build a lake, as lakes attract mosquitoes, and you are (perhaps irrationally) concerned about infections from mosquitoes. Would it be selfish for you to not chip in? Would it be rightful for them to take the $50k from you by force since you're getting the 'benefit' of the lake?
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I'm all for capitalism and making money, but this is just wrong. Sure you can say, well people are dumb enough! Yeah, most people are dumb, but that doesn't mean you go ripping them off.
Nothing revolutionary here, in that this is what we've been expecting to come for a while. My main critique is that in the article and more explicitly in the video, they make the claim that in order to build a network of the fast-charging stations they would need some sort of government support. Really? Did Standard Oil et al need government support when the first "networks" of gas stations sprang up around the US?
Yeah, I've heard this comment quite a few times on here before, but the MBA was created around the turn of the century, not in the 1950s, and it was created because more companies wanted a scientific approach to management, not to teach "real actual engineers" management skills.
I'm not getting the H1N1 vaccine for the same reason I didn't sign up to go breathe the air at ground zero.

Apologies, but I'm not very good at guessing what people mean when they construct sentences of this general form. Could you say explicitly what your reason is?
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What he is pointing out is that C++ makes it harder to 'know the code you are working with'.
At this point it is all about belief, loss of face and admitting that you've been duped half a lifetime or more.

The world is changing due to more widespread Internet access.
AFAIK the IBEX isn't a photographic telescope, it develops its images through energetic neutral atoms and not photons. It takes over 10 hours for light to get from the sun to the heliosphere, so to retrieve particles that are travelling at sub-light velocities and are moving into the solar wind must take considerable time alone, and then it requires building an image from the particle densities retrieved.

Simply put, unless you ask a NASA scientist exactly how and why, the answer is and likely always will be; it just does.
So your argument is that "bad things are happening because the government wants them to happen, not because that is just the way of the world" is not more comforting? In the former case you have an intentioned actor, in which case all that is needed to stop the bad things is to stop the actor, which is possible. In the latter case there exists the possibility of no control (no way to stop it), a frightening proposition to most people.

Your position against the science vs pseudo-science statement seems to support that very statement.
There's something I don't understand : why is everything based on opposition ? I mean, why not create a connection website ? What connects "breathless" ("à bout de souffle") to "la scala" ?
I'll give you that, with the side note that if "living a 'natural life'" is that important to a person, it would be rather strange for them to spend all their time surrounded by machinery and copper wires and airplanes and roads and tall buildings and clothing.

Edit: I'm not saying people should be forced into taking the shots or anything. Just that I'll laugh at people who use reasoning that doesn't begin to make sense to me.
You're right, averages are nice, just like the ones you gave me. All I was doing was giving you a different set that I was able to dig up pretty quickly.

Anyways, if you can perform above average in your sleep, that's great. If you really think you'll benefit from being pushed to your level and reaching your full intellectual potential as quickly as possible, I'm sure there are still several schools that allow you to do that in Finland too, just like there are all over the rest of the world.

But if you don't think that, you can also benefit by learning to connect with your peers and build social capital in the process. Furthermore, normalizing out the rest of the room allows teachers to introduce more advanced topics much faster to the class on a continuous basis. And on top of that, by "helping teacher out", you'll free her up to take a closer look at each student on an individual level too.

And here's the selection bias part to the whole thing: if you're groomed in a society that values collective over individual advancement, you're much more likely to choose the latter than the former, which would help explain why you don't see as many high ranked math Olympiad contestants as you in a country like Singapore, where children are likely to be raised much more competitively.

I'm not saying that its stupid to have gifted classes in general. But you guys all seem to have a very strong resent towards your OWN education systems and your OWN experiences in elementary/middle/high school.

I can't be certain, as I didn't care enough about that crap in my own educational career, I was always able to satisfy my interests on my own, but you probably wouldn't have nearly as much of that if things were set up differently.

It's not simple, but there's a huge array of factors that go into making the system in Finland what it is. Its a complex webbing of a lot of social and cultural factors, and to many researchers on the topic (its currently the subject of a lot of active study), it actually DOES seem a bit like magic (or at least when the article came out, that's what it painted the picture like).

It's a system that benefits the norm. And though the highly gifted still need their own solution, which this process isn't meant to address in the first place, I'm sure you'll find that it produces results that are FAR better than what you see in middle america, where there's a far greater NEED for highly gifted schools because the normal ones are such crap.

But wtf do I know. I'm not a scientist.
You're going to the wrong university/program. There are professors out there who exemplify the attitude you mention, though they also think getting it right is part of the fun.

I know you can find such professors at Indiana University, Bloomington from first hand knowledge. Northeastern's CS department seems another likely candidate.

Of course, I don't have a CS degree, I just took a fair number of courses while I was a math grad student.
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Does anyone have a nicer, more concise introduction to TOP? This one is too verbose and yet is constantly referring to things that are not explained (at least yet?). Thanks.
>such a contract must specifically remove any rights the GPLD gives Apress

I assume the contract commits Apress to pay royalties to Mark based on their sales of the book's print edition. If they contractually agreed to pay royalties, they would be in breach of contract regardless of the licence under which Mark released his copyrighted content.

Notwithstanding the licence, Apress must have decided that they could make enough money on sales to justify the money they're paying to Mark.

Look at it this way: he might have released the book under a free document licence that another party could exploit, but he arguably wouldn't have written the book if not for his contract with Apress. So if they didn't agree to pay royalties, there would be no book to sell.
What kind of video encoding software is on the device? Is it open source like ffmpeg (sans GPL components)?
You're describing the concept of "consideration" in contract law -- i.e., that each party to an agreement needs to exchange something of value in order for a valid contract to be formed. However, one doesn't need to pay money for something in order for there to be an exchange of value.

Here, the copyright holder (Mark) has clearly given you something of value -- a copy of the text of his book. In exchange, you give the him something of value, as well - your a promise to abide by the terms of the GNU FDL (as referenced on the book's copyright page). Your promise has value to Mark -- if it didn't, he (presumably) would have simply released his work into the public domain, rather than under a GNU license.

The enforceability of open source licenses turns on this issue. The implication of your statement is that an open source license is unenforceable whenever a work is distributed for free (and obviously, this kind of distribution happens all the time). While there were some in the legal community who took this view in the past, the courts have rejected it. Check out the 2008 Federal Circuit decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer (http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf), which turned on the enforceability of the open source Artistic License. Some of the more salient quotes:

- "Traditionally, copyright owners sold their copyrighted material in exchange for money. The lack of money changing hands in open source licensing should not be presumed to mean that there is no economic consideration, however. There are substantial benefits, including economic benefits, to the creation and distribution of copyrighted works under public licenses that range far beyond traditional license royalties."

- "The choice to exact consideration in the form of compliance with the open source requirements of disclosure and explanation of changes, rather than as a dollar-denominated fee, is entitled to no less legal recognition."
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Does the new MacBook sport the Mini-DisplayPort? Can't tell from the images
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Was anyone curious as to who this 'brazen' publisher was ?

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"CreateSpace is a DBA of On-Demand Publishing LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc."

Seems there are still priorities at Amazon if they suddenly stopped selling it.
Many games have incorporated a feature to where you can try the game, and then have the option to give them money.

This is called a demo.
Yep, it has one. http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html
I agree with others that there should be some kind of scoring. It's surprising how addicted people get to trying to improve their score, especially if there is some leaderboard present. Just give people points for the activities you hope they will do.

You could give points for correct guesses (maybe with time limit) and give even more points for creating their own fights, possibly depending on how "good" the combination of movies is (not sure how to determine that).

When using this site, it beat my expectations in that I actually found some movies I intend to watch after using it. Stuff I had forgotten exists, like I had watched Evil Dead 3 but skipped 1 and 2. Thanks for reminding.
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The problem here is not if people would change their minds after reading those books, the problem is that when someone is not 'open' to new ideas they'll treat books that might change their mind (and people, for that matter) like they're radioactive.

As to the vaccine thing, there is a correlation between religiousness and refusal of taking things like vaccines, but it is definitely not an exclusive relationship.
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Interestingly, the generated story read like 90% of the sports stories I have ever read. As a person who is only mildly interested in sports (I read maybe 1 story per month) I am certainly missing some nuances, but I think this speaks poorly of sports journalists more than anything else.

I think this tech could be used to great advantage in finance news reporting as well, which is equally formulaic.
Absolutely, I think the addition of a quad core chip in the iMac is a good move too. I know quite a few people that hovered in that area between iMac and Mac Pro, this seems like a great push in the right direction to close that gap.
That iMac is basically a work station with the Nehalem processor and that much ram. Still ridiculous that they charge $1400 for 16GB RAM though.
If it's perpendicular to the solar systems trajectory, then it could potentially be an aerodynamics issue not taken into account.

AFAIK the solar system is moving at essentially supersonic speeds through the solar medium, which causes the bowshock, so couldn't this just be an eddy current we've been unable to distinguish either because it's not present in smaller scales, or simply because it's normally small enough to be a statistical anomaly?

The physics of our solar systems action are essentially similar to small body physics, the problem is that they're blown up on scale unimaginable to us. Essentially our comparison of physics is akin to comparing getting up to turn the tv on with a trip to Alpha Centauri and back.
Yes. It's listed on the specs page. No FireWire or SD, however.
Thus proving it's possible to write crap code in any language.
Sure.

If you were to publish neutral research showing that, were the US were to draft all men 18-35, then the US armed forces would grow by X% and we could fight Y major wars at once while occupying Z square miles of foreign territory, then it would seem mostly senseless to direct anger or criticism at you if your claims were factually sensible.

If on the other hand, though, you were to promote the idea that the draft was needed, that it would produce a socially useful outcome, and that people who oppose your view are being irrational and selfish, then you've entered into a moral debate.

And further, if you own a large defense contracting firm, then your claims and your moral position about the necessity of forcing people to join the military would be subjected to additional, admittedly ad hominem, scrutiny.
Well, yes. The point here is that C++ makes it much easier to generate crap code.
It surely can't explain the basic complexity of the laws of physics, or the complexity of mathematical structures like the integers. There are plenty of complex things which have no explanation in terms of natural selection.
He misses important aspects of clojure (based on some of the comments on his site) and Python as well. In short, he should probably not be getting exposure this wide with these troll articles.
I was freaked out for a second when I saw the oddball screen sizes on the iMacs and the "16:9!" blurb -- usually that means that you just get a shittier lower-res panel in a larger size.

Instead, they switched back to S-IPS panels, and increased the resolutions substantially -- 21.5 is 1920:1080, the 27 is 2560:1440.
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FWIW, I think you meant to say "what she is pointing out"...
I'm saying that I don't trust what the government says about health, because they lie about health all the time. That has nothing to do with pseudo-science, that's just being an intelligent and rational person.

For example, after September 11th the EPA and NYC government said that the air at ground zero was perfectly safe to breathe. What's more, no one is being held accountable even though dozens or hundreds are dying horrible deaths because of these lies. This is just one example, there are literally hundreds of cases like this that we can point to in the last fifty years.

Therefor, it's

A) Reasonable to assume that the government may be lying about the safety of this vaccine.

B) Reasonable to assume that if they are lying about the safety, no one will be held accountable.
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I wonder how many people are thinking of ordering the Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server? I have used a normal Mac mini with server as a secondary server and it seems to do ok.
I'll rephrase, I guess. The impression I'm getting from the commenter's reasoning is more-or-less a "The government is trying to kill us all" type of thing. I assume I'm wrong, because I like to pretend that people are rational, and because this is HN, where most people generally are. On the assumption that I'm wrong, I've asked for an explicit clarification. I respect your attempt, but (unfortunately) providing me with another ambiguous metaphor doesn't really help my confusion.
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Only thing missing in the iMac is an option for an SSD boot drive. I wonder how much of a bad idea it would be to boot off an external firewire SSD?
The best part is the claim that most people _still_ won't call, which I'm quite prepared to believe, although there are other hypotheses that would explain his experience. I wonder if one could devise a way to break out the number of people who choose a company based on their contactability, but never call on the phone, from those who don't care and/or would always use email anyway. Maybe get two rival businesses (in the same market) to do a post-purchase user-satisfaction survey? But there's still a boatload of confounds even if you can get two rivals to agree to it. It's so hard to do good science on messy real-life human interactions. :)
Interesting that the nicer iMacs have the ATI Radeon HD 4670 and 4850 instead of a NVidia chip.
And for the cynics in this thread: you only get to complain about MBA's if you can do their job better than they can. I'm not saying you can't, I'm just trying to be fair.

I don't think that's fair. Someone definitely has the right to complain if I write a shoddy program, even if they can't program to save their life.
Your counterargument boils down to "use C instead". That is exactly what I am currently advocating.

I don't blame C++ for screwing up - I blame it for being an ill-designed language that makes it easy to screw up.

Any of the high-level features of C++ are well-implemented in any number of decent languages that don't obfuscate your code and incur horrible link times. And my argument (for game development) is that C++ is indeed the wrong language for the domain. In fact, I'd argue it's wrong for most, if not all domains. And I'm not exactly alone - I can't recall any prominent figure that actually thinks C++ is a decent language, except Bjarne Stroustrup. (Correct me if I'm wrong - I'd love to hear about it!)

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If you want them attributed to the callee, it's pretty simple. Do the coercions in the callee, just like you would have in C.
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The issue is that in many instances, I own the caller, but not the callee. And the person owning the callee can unintentionally make my code perform worse by simply changing the API. Or adding a destructor.
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I think they missed making that more clear, suggested rewrite:

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They are also still selling the $899 20" to educational institutions.
Yes, there are many things I could do. Once I'm done with writing all that boilerplate, I'm more or less down to C code with nice namespaces.
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It's DDR3 memory and 16GB of it. Crucial has similiar prices for that.
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I don't know if the iMac is as upgradable, but when I bought my Mac Pro I just got the default amount and upgraded it with third-party RAM at a sane price.
Thanks. From that perspective, what you said makes sense.

That said, I'm taking the opposite position. My story is roughly as follows: I'm a twenty year old Canadian who has had open heart surgery twice, maybe half a dozen day surgeries of various natures, and gotten the government-distributed flu vaccine every year for as long as I can remember. All of this was organized and (mostly) paid for by the government, since that's the way the health care system works up here. I haven't died a horrible death yet. Why would this particular case be any different?
> Also, reasoning about the performance of C is all well and good right up until you realize that your compiler is better at translating C to assembler than you are

The difference being that in this case, the code performs better than I assumed. Nobody minds that. In C++, the usual results are that it performs worse than assumed. Significantly worse.

> some jackass wrote a preprocessor macro called "foo" which does 18 different things

Yes. There is that. Thankfully, they are rare. (I'd rate the preprocessor as by far the worst part of C. Amongst other things, it costs us any number of tools that could help us reason about code)
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In that case, it would not be selfish of you not to chip in, and it would be wrong for them to take it by force. In this case, it is selfish to not get vaccinated, and it is still wrong for anyone to do it by force. One is a pretty view, one is not dying a disease-ridden death.
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OK, first, I am not convinced that socially responsible is strictly a moral position. Disease vector analysis is just an analysis on a directed graph. In this case there is a strong mathematical model, with scientific evidence, that not vaccinating children can harm other children. Because of this I am questioning your analogy, since in the case of the draft there is not a non-opinion social component.

Instead I analogize with drunk driving -- significantly fewere drunk drivers equates to significantly fewer 3rd party injuries and deaths as a result of drunk drivers. Similarly in the vaccination case, there are 3rd parties who stand to suffer from the actions of those who do not receive vaccines.

Edit: I forgot to put my second point, which is:

I agree with your analogy in that those who stand to benefit should be closely scrutinized when advocating a position.