skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's borderline. If 7% have 'personal belief exemptions', then the 'herd' is at 93%. And we have at least one example (the child in the article) of further members who aren't vaccinated outside of this 7%. So the actual number is likely to be a little lower than 93%.

Personally, I don't believe a model as simple as a % is likely to be workable in a school. If one of those 7% happens to sit beside him in every single class, the odds are going to defy the 'threshold' very quickly.
This is just a poor article. The author mentions armchair psychology at one point, and for me that is probably the best way to sum it up.

I've worn glasses for the last 12 years (full time for 10 of them) ever since my eye sight deteriorated at the age of 15. But to compare glasses to a wheel chair, for most glasses wearers, is just absurd.

When I go into get new glasses the main thing I do is see how they look like on my head. The lenses are a commodity; how the frame looks on my face (and the lens is fitted to the frame) is what I care about. It is no surprise that they have become fashion accessories, especially now you can get glasses in dozens of designer brand names.
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Mapmakers (and dictionary makers alike) often introduce small, purposeful errors so that they can track who steals their data. This could be Google's (not very subtle) attempt.
We have infants using computers more powerful than could even be imagined when their grandparents were born.

This is just the beginning.

How long until neural implants are installed at birth, the difference between man and machine is undefinable, and life is experienced as much in the 'real' world as it is in the virtual one?

There are already many successful projects allowing the blind to see and the paralyzed to walk with neural implants.

computers in 1965:computers in 2015 :: man machine interfaces in 2015 : man machine interfaces in 2065

What will the war between luddites and technologists look like?
Emotions probably are the right way to go.

Interesting that you picked abortion as an example. Those placards of gruesome images - do they change anyone's opinion? Or do they strengthen existing viewpoints? The people who are anti-abortion see the images and can't understand how anyone could want an abortion afterwards. People who are pro-choice see the placards and think the pro-life people are viciously anti-woman.

There is a group in the middle who might be swayed, but those people can be reached with calm language. In this analogy the placard-wielders are the "anti-vaxxers".

I guess I'm trying to say that mockery and ridicule are using emotion to try to change behaviours, but they create the wrong emotions and are counter-productive. We want people to feel welcomed, understood, supported, etc, while we're trying to change their mind.
How does this affect the mobile experience? Is viewing on an iPad / iPhone HTML5 by default? The article only really mentions the main desktop browsers.
most words seem to be rather fundamental concepts except: nit? I wonder why would that be so timeless a word.
Wes Kramer, this years skater of the year, was the first to do it...pretty stylishly too: http://youtu.be/PIY-qD8rUmw?t=4m27s
> There is a fundamental difference between a 30% subprime car loan, and the senior tranch of a portfolio of them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with building AAA securities from subprime loans.

Then what caused the 2008 crash?
Similarly, I'm looking for a way to use react with HAML. I just can't give it up, I have absolutely no interest in closing my tags ever again.

One of the things I like about angular is how it deals with standard HTML. HAML doesn't care about its wacky attributes. Whats the best way to achieve this with react? Does the JSX compiler have hooks for preprocessing of any kind?
About mixins: the blog post mentions that "In fact, several features to support mixins were dropped from ES6 today." Does anyone know where these features were proposed/discussed/rejected?
>If you remove the market for 20% loans, then those people will not get finance for anything, ever.

Good. Aid for the poor should be aid, not debt.
Also, Widevine.
User Experience (UX) vs. Usability from Domain7
Can someone post a picture? Looks fine on iOS.
Maybe it's just one of those "feelings" but i think it's way more flexible... :)
How does python's “Conda” work internally?
Taylor Swift's Twitter and Instagram Accounts Got Hacked
> - the probability that the disease for which the vaccine is available actually occurs in such a way that the voluntarily-nonvaccinated person contracts it and then passes it on to someone who is involuntarily nonvaccinated?

This part contains an error.

Herd immunity is important because not all vaccinations are 100% effective. So, when there is an outbreak some of the people who are vaccinated will be at risk.
That's because they are pretending that a document markup framework is a GUI framework. I mean DIVs, really?

Also "isomorphic" practically means that developers have to use the horrible legacy language on server as well (at least on client there is no choice).

It is some form of madness.
Sometimes and only on one eye (left). At the start the effect was very obvious, but now (1.5 month later) I've noticed that they've almost disappeared. Sometimes, I can still see them, then I blink and no more halos. My doctors said that this is to be expected: The brain learns to filter out such effects over time. Seems to work for me. :)
ctrl+f doesn't show mention of utf8mb4 except in comments.

In short: you should only use utf8mb4 in mysql as charset, cause utf8 in mysql is a broken invented 3-byte charset that will explode when you input 4-byte characters (i.e. an emoji).

utf8mb4 is what the rest of the world actually calls utf8.
ONEJS – WebGL UI Toolkit and JavaScript Superset
I agree, but I also think this falls into the category of "good problems to have". The unfortunate reality is that all software has the tendency to accumulate "features" like a katamari. Apple knows this, and so I think they are being deliberately slow about introducing new features to iOS. Remember how long it took to get copy/paste? The introduction of extensions, notification center widgets, custom keyboards, etc. in iOS 8 shows that Apple knows they still are light on features and are willing to add them, even if the pace of addition is glacial...
You know, a lot of people genuinely believe in simply reducing the reach of finance. Usury laws are only a means. The ends are to make it possible to carry out economic life without debt for most of society, and to reduce the ability of the financial industry to generate virtual/paper debts that the real economy cannot pay.
What a bizarre and compelling story. Glad to have read it.

Meanwhile I think the hiring problem/solution is staring us right in the face.

What would the world be like if contract/freelance/part time/short term work were the default?

Isn't it perhaps weird that there is an assumption companies and employees should bind their fates together, and, if it doesn't work out, one or both parties is pretty screwed because of an investment of time and money which will likely result in a person being unemployed and/or a company paying a person far beyond when they are providing value.

This is like getting married after one date. Every time.

If employees were assumed to be exploring many things simultaneously, both sides would have plenty of chances to gather meaningful data about the employer/employee relationship, and if it is really a great fit, a long term employment arrangement could be worked out, with a contract that reflects mutual responsibilities revolving around this shift to an all-eggs-in-one-basket situation for the employee - and likely a corresponding move to much more critical functions being performed for the company.

I cynically suspect the current concept of full-time work evolved to suit employers, it allows them to manipulate and scare employees, especially when (for example) health insurance is at stake. Employers naturally have more data about salaries and so forth, in general most employers have many employees, while most employees only have one employer. That is inherently asymmetrical. Now that certain skill sets are harder to hire for, it is hurting everyone.

But the situation was never that great from the beginning, let's figure out a way to make it better for everyone.
It is interesting that this is the most Linux sided Linux vs OSX discussion I've seen on HN.

I personally just got a iMac which has boosted my productivity compared to working on a Macbook. Could have been the effect of cleaning my desk though.
What's the matter? Open-source did not turn out to be such a silver bullet?
The modern tech industry's obsession with psychedelics will always baffle me.
> locked up the market, injected their own lobbyists into Washington

Ergo, it was not a free market and it was not laissez-faire capitalism.

In a free market, i.e. laissez-faire capitalism, anybody is free to do whatever they want as long as they don't initiate the use of force, including the government, so you could not get into the situation you describe in the first place.
29. My doctors warned me that I have to expect presbyopia from the age of 45-50 (like everyone else), so no idea if you think 5-10 years without glasses are worth the cost.
Would you happen to have a pointer to confirm the unbundling happened in 1990 rather than 1987? That seems to be the crux of your disagreement.

Edit: never mind, between bodyfour's comment on this page and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29#..., it looks like Solaris 2 only came out in 1991. Thanks.
Really curious what your job is?
As others have said, a lot of people already own iPads and there's nothing about the current concept/design that encourages especially upgrade cycles. Not that there's anything wrong with that from a consumer perspective. It does what it does pretty well and doesn't really call out for incremental improvements to battery life/resolution/processor power/etc. although those do naturally come about with each iteration. And, of course, the carriers don't subsidize upgrade cycles as they do with phones.

Being able to share data plans with phones at nominal cost would be one interesting upgrade driver but that's really in the hands of the carriers and is unlikely.

The other interesting possibility across both Macbook and iPad lines would be some sort of reconvergence of tablet and laptop experience but Apple got to where it is by doing the precise opposite so I'm not sure Apple feels a big impetus to shift up the playing field right now. (Microsoft OTOH has been trying to parlay its desktop strength with tablets that are more tightly coupled but with somewhat limited success--to say nothing of the fact that Windows 8 was largely a product of this thinking.)
nginx on most supporting platforms (`NGX_HAVE_GETADDRINFO && NGX_HAVE_INET6`) uses `getaddrinfo(3)`.
> They would have to get all their pieces from you

Unless you are sharing some packed and/or encrypted media, it's probably streamable and even sharing a part of it is enough to break the copyright laws.
Ask HN: Resources for starting with digital circuits, cubieboard, gpio, etc.
Hi HN, I wanted to ask (seeing the news about “The Art of Electronics, 3rd Edition” on the front page today) which resources electrical engineers and similar could recommend.

I'm looking to start doing GPIO stuff in C on Linux using a CubieBoard, but failing to get started with any practical electronics learning.

I have a handful of books, but they all dwell unendingly on linear circuits, the number of electrons per second per number of molecules of conductive wire, etc, and generally delve into the physics of electronics at a fundamental level (I even tried the Georgia Tech Coursera course on Linear Circuits). These resources bury me quickly as I have no formal background in Math (and my high school, in the UK never covered calculus).

I'm looking essentially to build trivial circuits using the GPIO on Linux SOCs, maybe some battery management (ok, then I need to learn about how electricity really works), and generally interface with accelerometers, GSP and GPS cards, etc over either SPI or I²C.

I'm not afraid of learning, and starting in a few days I'll have 40 minutes a day to kill on the train, so I'm looking forward to sitting with a pencil and a notebook, and getting deeply stuck into some dense learning materials.
Native apps...
International waters makes less difference than people tend to believe. In international waters, your vessel is held to the laws of it's flag country.

It's not lawless - it's just confusing because different vessels are held to different laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
Not to worry, "the agency will ensure balance".

NIST, as much as it wants to project an air of "scientific rigor" and independence, is a part of the Executive branch.
WhatsApp and Apple need to agree how to share data with British spies
Well JSX is just compiled to JS so I guess you could have something that looks like HAML that substitutes the JSX code which in turn is compiled into JS.

Best place to start I guess would be to look into the JSX compiler to see how complicated that would be.
I expected AR glasses at first, probably because of the combination of glasses and psmag, which I thought would be "playstation magazine". So .. vacation sounds good?
You are right but it's deeper than that. "Anti-competitive" is not even a valid concept.

Companies are supposed to do everything they can to beat their competition. That is simply called "being competitive."

It's kind of like the word "progressive" as in "the Progressive movement." It's a linguistic deception that started out as a kind of dishonest propoganda.
You answered your own question partly. It's simple, exercise and don't sit in front of a computer screen all night. Yet most people won't do this and complain that they have "insomnia" (the word has been overused to the point that going to bed past midnight now makes you an insomniac) and seem to think they now need pill/technology.
Many companies hire contractors and then turn them into permanent employees.
REST API Server can deliver better performances than accessing MongoDB directly
Honestly can't tell if sarcastic or serious.
Only a specific kind.
C Runtime Overhead
http://cl.natw.me/ZUiV/d
http://nextshark.com/why-steve-jobs-didnt-let-his-kids-use-i...
That's so weird, why would the comments of all things require flash!?
If you don't mind answering ill second the other comment, also, do you use a stylus? If so which one? I thought I'd try that out but I haven't found one with a fine enough tip that works well yet :-s
Why the modern world is bad for your brain
And what hardware it does not support? And what applications it does not support? I'm tired of this meme. OpenBSD runs on virtually everything you throw it at, and virtually all open source is supported.

In some cases OpenBSD hardware support is better. E.g. I have a few laptops where suspend only works in OpenBSD, but not Linux. Also a few years back my WiFi cards were supported natively only in OpenBSD, not Linux. For other hardware, it might be the other way around, but overall it's pretty unlikely to find something OpenBSD does not run on.

And for software, it's exactly the same. Sure there's some Linux-specific software out there, but the bulk of it, is not.
Not only that, but the creator of pfsense seems to believe that it's just as secure as OBSD, and talks shit on Twitter all the time.

These two things have turned me off of using pfsense for good, as he obviously understands very little about security, which is kind of important in this area.
I think it's too late for non null ref types. But pattern matching, traits and built in code contract would be awesome !
That's just one of the average countries. What about the whole world?
Interesting to see the business side of things at Sun, it's rarely under the spotlight compared to other companies such as Microsoft or Apple.
Anecdotal data point: I'm typing this reply on an original iPad I bought on release day, and haven't yet felt the need to upgrade.

And in response to the last snarky line in the article - who buys magazines that pile up on the coffee table any more? I used to have a $60 or $70 a month magazine habit - its been years since I bought a magazine. About a grand for this iPad (Australian price ing), plus maybe another $900 in 3G connection, I reckon I saved all that in under two years of iPad ownership in savings from not needing to buy 5 or 10 magazines a month to have something to read over lunch.
You can also roll back lvm snapshots using the merge option

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...
There's a talk online by a Youtube engineer that covers them rolling out VP9.

Apparently the stats on user engagement show improvement. It seems that initially they showed a lot of improvement, but then they realised they were comparing the average video against only the most popular videos in VP9 (since those made the most sense to transcode first) and obviously people are more likely to keep watching something really popular.

Once they took that into account they did identify that some older machines would have a degraded performance and therefore lower engagement with VP9, but the heuristic for avoiding them is "Running XP" so it seems that most modern machines have a better experience with CPU decoding of VP9.

I believe they were up to 60% of all desktop views in VP9 by the end of last summer, so I'd guess if it was going to melt anyones's computer it would have happened by now.
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Buy CDs, rip them, and listen to it on any player you like. Or when an artist does not release CDs, they usually at least have a Bandcamp where they offer FLAC downloads, DRM-free.
Or they're sitting on the table in their living room and they still work perfectly fine on a daily basis. Personally I carry both my computer and a full-size tablet (though sometimes just an e-reader) and a phone when I travel on business. OTOH, I just take the tablet and phone on vacation. Each has their uses even if the tablet is the least necessary of the three.
Think about this in terms of a startup vs incumbent problem. The newcomer often needs to be 10x better than the incumbent in order to change the customer's habits.

Fiber is just that.
I think you were doing something wrong, it is supposed to take less than a minute.
I disagree with the below and would recommend this book.

See my other comment on this thread for more details. But basically I took Physics 123 at Harvard, and AoE sprang from the professor's lecture notes. When I took the class in the late 90's, It was taught by Horowiz and Hayes, as Hill had left previously to do his own thing.

The class had many people from non-hard-science disciplines who didn't know anything about electronics. I specifically remember a couple of psych students. They all did great, see comment above on what we build at the ends of the analog and digital halves of a one-semester course.

The student lab manual written by Horowiz and Hayes, from which we did our class labs, also gives great context and a hands-on plan to learning the material.

I also knew a few artists in the Boston scene that used this book to build actual electronic items for performance art shows, including robo-mechanical drum machines and analog synths.
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https://www.opengl.org/wiki/Texturing_a_Sphere

But now in a scripting language!
That was added in 5.5 IIRC, which wasn't released until the end of 2010 - so if would be understandable if the writer of this article did not have know about it back in mid 2009, or knew about it (if it was a much talked about plan the a release that was happening "soon") but chose to ignore it in favour of concentrating on what is available for production systems.
Does anyone remember "The Search for Animal Chin"? Classic Bones Brigade video. It's always good to see someone with such disparate interests.
> probably because my brain somehow expects that the handkerchief cannot hit the eye "there will be a barrier" .. well, there's no barrier anymore

Why didn't I ever think of this? This perfectly explains why I poke myself in the eye so often when washing my face or something ... it makes so much sense!

That said, I've been wearing glasses since I was 9. By now they're a part of my face and I literally look weird without them.

But I also don't have super terribly poor eyesight. If the glasses fail, I can still lead a somewhat normal existence. It's just a strain and tires my eyes quickly. For instance, I always do sport without glasses. Which makes me terrible at ball sports, but I'm fine at everything else.

I have even driven without glasses when they broke. That was a terrible idea. Do not recommend ...

What was the surgery like? The idea of something going in my eyes always terrified me.
You don't need a refrigerator when your apartment is so darn cool.
Organize hierarchical data in your web apps by means of Webix File Manager
If you've ever used one you'd immediately notice the build quality, responsiveness, usability and a zillion other factors which are hard to quantify.

Comparing spec sheets doesn't do justice to the actual experience of using one. If you're serious, borrow one from a friend for a few days.
That's an interesting one - I like the idea of technology allowing a more inclusive society; enhancing mobility to some people to get them to the shops, allow other people to use steps; maybe one day those who wish to regain their sight or maybe get it for the first time. However -- as with everything in nature -- it also has a dark side.

First, which is far more a philosophical addition to my previous point - it's defining a norm. To some extent this is unavoidable; it is essentially saying that to be at a normal functional level you need sight, be able to walk, etc. So the question is - is a more inclusive society one that is setup for a whole spectrum of people or one that enables people's bodies to bring them to a functionally 'equal' footing? It's probably somewhere in the middle.

The other part, which I know I've experienced, is that the more unnecessarily engaged I was with technology -- more so with hi-tech -- the more detached I was with the actual world around me. So, for instance, walking around outside listening to music in headphones; walking around outside with a mobile phone (especially a smart phone). Nowadays, unless I have a damn good reason to take it with me (The only one that comes to mind is playing a set), I go around outside with clothes and maybe bags and leave everything else at home. On the rare occasion I've found that a mobile phone might have been useful, but those occasions are mainly when I've relied on a car to take me beyond walking distance. The cycle of reliance.

Since placing this limit on myself, It's challenged me to be more engaged with the environment around me, more mindful in myself and I've found this has made me much happier and my environment more colourful. Trying to strike the balance is good, and I enjoy walking the tight rope. However cyborg bodies starts entering a whole new domain - the idea of being chained to technology because it's a part of my body seems horrible to me; there would be no relief from it.

If people want society to go that way, fair enough. However, I personally won't encourage unnecessary integration with bodies because that's not the world I want to live in.
Could be really good for getting some tech love in the southeast.