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"Bottom line - if you want to stop anti-vaxers, you need better prevention (pretty much elimination) of vaccine injuries."

This will never, ever, happen (prior to e.g. development of serious nanotech). For any given thing, if you expose enough people to it, you'll have some bad and generally fatal reactions. My sister caries some EpiPens in her purse because if her eldest son is exposed to tree nuts, he will die absent treatment. Every time you take a new drug, and the 2nd time since the first might sensitize you to it, you're taking a definite risk it will kill you dead.

ADDED REPLY: Since this has been flag killed as of now, to reply to your reply while I'm still in the edit window:

Emotionally charged arguments from these people ("your kids are putting my kids at risk!") are what I consider the least productive. That argument will never convince an anti-vaxer, who is usually only concerned about their families direct risk of vaccine injury.

The extreme of this is amoral familism (https://www.google.com/search?q=amoral+familism). That's a very bad direction for a society to turn, and should be resisted by any means that are necessary. E.g. echoing toomuchtodo's comment, but taking it to the extreme necessary to make it actually work, throwing these families into concentration camps into which food etc. is sent in and nothing comes out without being sterilized. Or exile, if any country is foolish enough to accept them.
I installed OpenBSD on an old Dell B130 last week, but it choked on the Broadcom BCM4318 wireless controller. I got it to connect with little difficulty after installing the driver, but speeds were slower than molasses (it took minutes to establish SSH connections between machines on the same LAN). Attempts to use the wired Broadcom BCM4401-B0 ethernet controller prevented it from booting. I finally gave up and installed Slackware Linux on it again, which also requires extra work for the wireless controller but yields great performance.

I don't blame OpenBSD and am still looking for an appropriate machine to install it on. I'm no stranger to the OS, having used it to build transparent bridging firewalls in the 3.x days. The installer has really improved a lot since then.

But I am concerned with the state of networking hardware, now that more and more machines are produced with WiFi only. The number of points for failure seem to be multiplying and the dependence on an Internet connection is a given these days (sometimes even during OS installation). I look forward to the day when all OS installations handle network connections as simply as OS X does (which I realize is by virtue of its control over hardware & software integration).
He's probably making some crack about perceived race
Yeah, even with OS X, after doing an update my webcam stopped working. I had to find an older driver for it and overwrite the new one with it.
I had some sort of violent dopamine release just reading the headline.

I'm working on a project to make (EU-) law more accessible. So if anybody here knows good methods to visualise/summarise long legal texts (30-300 pages) you could do something for humanity by posting a reply.

(Word clouds just don't cut it in these cases.)
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No, the problem is that if these tools are incorrect then they are falsely discriminating. If they are correct, then they are freaky. And then there is the problem that you don't know when they are correct.

There's just too many things fundamentally wrong with this kind of application of technology.
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>they provide a website that allows people to aggregate, filter, enrich, etc., content.

Well let me put it this way. If they had a site with exactly the same interface for viewing torrent info, but no comments, no votes, no filtering, no searching. You think that would win in court?
Many machines do come with wireless only, but they also come with USB and there are many USB to Ethernet adaptors that are well supported (at least by Linux, I don't know about OpenBSD).
One thing that i want to add is that this whole exercise is actually a straw man. You yourself start your post with

"Problem Statement : Design an algorithm that fills in a buffer of pixel data"

If that is the problem, then do that. Do not fill an array with Pixel object references. It is not the same problem.

I am not denying that Swift has performance issues. I do think your test and proof is artificial: nobody would use the 'Swift Safe' method to manipulate pixel data. This is exactly why the unsafe features exists.

I think what you need to discover is how to use structs, classes and raw buffers. None of those is a golden hammer. If you have performance problems with one of those then that does not mean that it is flawed. It is likely simply a bad choice for the problem at hand.
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Nothing fancy. Wine 1.7, glsl, gdi & fbo.
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If you create basic CRUD apps it is probably not so common.

But for anything more advanced it would be wise to have the option of using the software in other projects to save time and money.
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Per my other comment, I'd use the word "stupid".

In that you're asking for the literally impossible given the current and foreseeable state of the art.

And comparing a often serious and deadly disease to the much less serious and deadly "common cold".

With no sign of knowledge of the principle of herd immunity, and how that's an argument to make to anti-vaxers. Right now, a particularly strong one: immunize your children or very appropriately get shunned.

Let me ask you this: how old are you? Are you young enough that neither you nor your parents remember the era when we didn't have vaccines against most of these diseases? I was born a couple of years before the first polio vaccine was approved, and my parents, my mother a RN, were very very glad they could immunize me and my younger siblings against many of the scourges of their lives.

ADDED REPLY: This is a dead (for now) topic, so I'll just point out you're ignoring the morbidity rate, especially the severe but non-fatal outcomes, which were seriously feared back the days. And unless Wikipedia is wrong, your fatality rate is off by 300, it's 3 per 1,000 cases in the years 1987-2000 in the US. In another part of the article, it says 1-2 deaths per 1,000 cases in developed countries.
People go to Paris to see a radio tower that's rather short by modern standards. Hint: Tower.

I don't think there are any gas holders that are going to become that iconic but a lot of tourism focuses on interesting infrastructure like dam's, buildings, towers, walls, bridges, etc.
And God forbid you make anything that might actually be easy for non-programmers to learn. It will be more or less met with instant and persistent scorn, and its users derided and outcast, simply because they didn't use a 'Real Programming Language' like C.

Prejudice doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. Functional programmers think differently, and what's obvious to the Functionals isn't to the Statefuls. And the Statefuls are currently most of the world. I've flip-flopped myself, because while I love the elegance of being a Fucntional, being a Stateful is just so much more productive. There are a few reasons for this: If I want to make a game, there's no good functional framework. If I want to write a script to get something done, like download a webpage, my goto language is Python because I know for a fact that their libraries work and that their documentation is almost always stellar. Contrast that with Lisp where you can spend at least a day just getting the environment set up in a way that asdf doesn't hate. Especially on Windows. (Yes, if you want to make games, Windows needs to support your dev environment.) My info about asdf is a couple years out of date, because to be honest I haven't felt inclined to look into it again after some bad experiences.

Haskell could be wonderful. Never tried it. Will someday. Until then, I'd love some sort of competition where a Haskell programmer and myself are given a task, like "write a script to X," where X is some real-world relevant task and not an academic puzzle, and see who finishes it first. It would be illuminating, since I'd give myself about a 30% chance of finishing first, but it would reveal what I'm lacking.

Arc had potential. It really did. Everyone just gave up on it, and it never attracted the kind of heroic programmers that Clojure did.

So the wildcard seems to be Clojure. It's a decent mix of performant, practical, and documented.

I'm out of time to pursue this comment further, but the main point is just that FP's problems have very little to do with societal acceptance or scorn. If you're running into that, you're probably running with a bad crowd anyway. It's mostly because imperative languages are popular, so network effects mean they'll just get better and better. If FP wants to chip away at that, it'll need to start off better and stay better. "Better" is many things, but it includes performance, cross-platformability (yes, Windows is necessary), documentation, and practicality (the ability to quickly accomplish random tasks without a huge prior time investment, Python seems to be the best at this so far).
AEC usually means Architecture, Engineering, Construction.

I usually take it to mean the process of building buildings and making sure they won't fall down, but that may be oversimplified from someone who actually works in that industry.
That’s simply crazy. Are you a programmer?

I, as a programmer, spend my days trying to express things as clearly as possible. Programming, as a whole field, is trying hard all the time to come up with safer and simpler ways to express precise thoughts.

Smalltalk is probably neat, but it’s not a magic bullet. There are no magic bullets. Anyone can’t be a programmer not because programming languages are hard. Anyone can’t be a programmer because you have to be able to think precisely, abstract, deal with complexity.
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Personally, I just want a way to sort bookmarks by date, a grep-like search of titles, and a similar grep-like search of the page contents. And then perhaps a more intelligent search.
I expect HN people to get their vocabulary straight and use the word "hacker" only for the people that build things. This story is obviously about a cracker.
Here's what I used last time:

https://gist.github.com/malarkey/4031110

I like the plain language of it. For me, contracts are a necessity. The way I see it is that people who want to not pay, won't pay. You'd need an army of lawyers to craft a bulletproof general purpose contract. Instead, I go by a mutual understanding sealed by a simple contract.

From what I understand, the best tool/weapon you have is a clause that says that copyright assignment from you to them happens upon receipt of full payment. That way you hold their work until you get paid. YMMV and IANAL.
No I don't really think so. Otherwise python and ruby would trigger similar fears.

And I work with Objective-C a lot. There is a downside to theExtremelyLong:message passingStyle:functionNames

You could say similar things about applescript too, yet I've never met anyone who actually uses it:
http://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/mac-os-x/applescript-lis...

Smalltalk was good and it inspired a lot of future things but it didn't succeed because it had a bad $ price / performance ratio in the 80s and the image system created too much coupling compared to files.
Couple of questions about the post (since the link above doesn't seem to allow comments):

1. Were the numbers for the chart "Willingness to wait in a city 2013 v/s 2014" generated based on estimates from the Uber app or real wait times that were logged once the customer was picked up?

2. Also, looking at the same graph, it seems some of the rides that were not completed because the ETA was < 4.5 minutes (Probability=1) could have trivially been completed had Uber just dispatched the driver a little later (or had the driver delayed him/her-self a bit).

3. What is the volume of rides as a % for each range of waiting times for the ETA?

4. What is the revenue per ride as a % of total revenue for each range of waiting times for the ETA?
OpenBSD packages firmware and handles it automatically on first boot with fw_update(1). There is no "manual tweaking", it just means that some wireless adapters won't function using the ramdisk kernel for installation.
I tried to find an american article for you, but the Buffalo Bills made that impossible. Anyway, I found a german article (I'm german) from our NPR-equivalent, quoting a law maker during last year's world cup. He said that he believes they could pass the most obscene bills as long as it's during a soccer match. The article then goes on and shows some of the bills they did pass during the world cup (selling tanks to Algeria, what have you). You can read it yourself if you like.

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ablenkungsmanoever-was-der-bun...

Talking to you is a huge pain in the ass by the way, so I'm gonna stop doing that now. Take it easy.
Thanx for sharing!
Can it also do 3D delaunay tetrahedralizations?

Also, the most difficult aspect (imho) of computational geometry is in decision-making, for instance, to determine if a point lies within an object, and it should give the same outcome even if the problem is viewed from a permutated set of points (which represents essentially the same question).

Does the library offer any solutions in this direction?
Is there any substantial difference between coerced confessions and plea bargaining as practiced in the US?
> it's still borrowing to keep itself afloat

That's not actually true. After the severe austerity, Greece is now running a "primary surplus". Excluding interest payments on the debt, revenues are greater than expenses[1].

The issue is not whether you can shut down a government. The issue is that the debt burden is too large to ever be repaid based on the revenue-generating capacity of the economy.

And austerity only makes that worse. Banks and bondholders freely made loans to Greece that now cannot be repaid. The people of Greece didn't benefit much from these loans, as the vast majority was siphoned off by corrupt officials.

Why were rich banks and bondholders bailed out, while generations of ordinary Greeks must suffer in poverty and unemployment?

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2014/04/23/greek-primary-surpl...
Did they finally implemented command history in shell? Last time I used OpenBSD it was considered as possible attack vector.
I don't understand programmers who say that Linux has so and so unsolvable problem.

A certain program running on Linux has a problem on your particular hardware? You wanted a Unix environment, so surely you've investigated the market for compatibility with Linux, when you purchased your hardware.

Second, I've been running arch linux with standard packages on several random laptops and desktops and never had any problem whatsover. It's been my main OS for years. Actually my only OS.

Third, a certain program crashes/ has a bug on your hardware? Then switch that program with something else. If what you care about is a Unix environment for programming, and Gnome is having some problem with your hardware, than switch to Xfce, or Xmonad, or i3 ... That the rational thing to do.

If you still want that particular program that's having problems with your hardware, because, maybe you really like the UI, then by all means fix that bug. It shouldn't take you more than a few minutes, at most a couple of hours in 90% of the times. This assuming you're a C programmer, of course, and maybe some experience with device drivers.

If you're not a hacker, don't like playing with the internals of various userland programs or OS components, then don't compare Linux with Mac or other commercial crap. Set up a bounty for fixing your problem, or donate to the Linux foundation, or the software you would want improved.

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This being said, I'm currently in the process of switching to FreeBSD (later maybe some other BSDs), because of the cleaner, lighter code-base.

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LE: apparently, as seen by recent down-voting patterns on some of my latest comments, there aren't a lot of hackers on this site. I don't see why a reply that expresses an opinion that is not hurtful to anyone would warrant downvotes, but who cares.
"I installed OpenBSD 5.6 on my old Thinkpad x201 and much to my surprise, it just worked. [...] WiFi required a firmware update [...] I won't cover how to burn an ISO to a CD. [...] the various tweaks to config files in OpenBSD in my 'configs' github repo [... etc...]"

Is this a joke?

"Just worked". I don't think those words mean what you think they mean, even with the backtracking at the end of the post.

Marcellus Wallace would have something to say about how near "just worked" that is.
Unfortunately nobody cares. So re-claiming the word hacker for the good guys is an exercise in futility.
"...[Steve] Jobs (who could not be reached for comment)..."

I did a double-take after reading that line before I noticed the publish date.
GDC 2013 Myst Postmortem:

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018048/Classic-Game-Postmortem

Their Hypercard experience is at the 38 minute mark.
Snooker is very much a working class game. Just go to any snooker club around the UK.
If you want to accomplish something, what you need is discipline and motivation to be one and the same, or at least so interrelated that they are inseparable.

To others it looks like you have discipline, because they can't imagine anyone working so hard at something. But to you, it's just what you love.
Hacker News is trying to preserve the original wording on the article (which, to be honest, is more in line with the readership's understanding than "cracker").

The Washington Post is owned by a tech guy (Jeff Bezos), so maybe you could try to get him to use a different word :)
Yeah, the simple explanation as to why the programming community at large doesn't agree on languages or methodologies is that no one knows what they are doing. This is still a very new field. We're all just bashing rocks together. To declare some language or methodology as universally "better" just reveals a fundamental lack of insight into just how difficult the problem being solved really is.
Indeed, but that sentence applies equally to either side of the contract!

Which is why I wonder what the "accepted standard" & "cost of giving up IP" is. I assume it varies greatly across domains -- OP's is "web development".
Probably not, but that's a different story entirely. I got you though.
> I believe there is legal precedent that you can't be prosecuted for downloading something from a site like TPB, only from uploading to others

I did not know that's the case. Do you have a source to confirm this?
I'd say. My friend who stayed didn't look for a new job after his employer went under (like many mobile gaming companies did when their games got rejected from the appstore), so he moved into his parents house to finish the projects. In all, he created 10 apps, using a lot of the technology I originally built. His "partner" sued him for 98% ownership of essentially nothing. It turned out sad for everyone involved.
Why I hate Google, or some thoughts about “open” technologies
Hi. I am not the writer, and english is not my primary language, so sorry if there are some errors in my text.
I just want to tell you a little story about me and google.

I am living in Crimea. Maybe you know where it is, and the events of the last year, may be not, but this post is not about it.
It is not about politics, it's about technology.

Due to the sunctions of the usa government - usa companies must to stop import and export of tech products and services with Crimea.
Blocked Apple app store, blocked Google play market, blocked Odesk - it hurts, but I was ok with it.

But google has really pissed me.

Google has blocked:
Android documentation - www.android-developers.com - 403.
Golang - https://golang.org/ - 403.
Angular.js - Web page is not available. But works while I am using Tor.
Google app engine - 403, now I can't use Udacity, and other services that uses GAE. Maybe some companies do not even know that their users cant get to websites.
Chromium - 403, Google Code with documentation and all the projects unrelated to Google - 403.
And so on.

Yes, I know how to use Tor and i2p. But I don't see any reason to use google powered technologies and invest my time, as developer, in them any more.

So, I have a question - why do we need such an OPEN technologies, that can be BLOCKED tomorrow?
Today - it's me, but who knows what will happen tomorrow, and which countries or companies will decide to block their, so called open, tools that you use.

I'm sorry that this is happening and I really believe that the Internet and technology should be above politics.
At least technologies, which are presented as open.
I made a conclusion for myself about corporations, technologies and tools I will choose to learn and work with tomorrow.
I hope my message will cause someone else to think about it.

Thank you.
"There is a downside to theExtremelyLong:message passingStyle:functionNames"

I actually like the selector syntax. I have type ahead and don't have to constantly look at code to figure out what parameter number something is.
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> Bottom line - if you want to stop anti-vaxers, you need better prevention (pretty much elimination) of vaccine injuries. The anecdotal evidence against vaccines can't be on Youtube or people will continue to avoid them. Science is working on it, but we're not there yet. For now, I think we need to be realistic that measles and other "eradicated" diseases will have a growth in occurrences. Chances are we'll see very few deaths or long-term effects, though.

Nope. You just legislate vaccines as mandatory for public venues (public school, workplaces, etc). You can opt-out, but pack your bags and leave the first world.

Humans are irrational creatures. Act accordingly.
I've long suspected that Super Metroid is my favorite--and I think this logic applies for many other video game series--because it's not only the first one that I played, but the first one that I beat. I find myself nodding along to every criticism of the game, but there is just something special about that first play through. That incredible sense of simultaneous delight, fear, wonder, confusion, and suspense is still a really vivid memory for me two decades later.

Believe it or not, I have never played any of the Primes.
I guess I grew up always thinking about the math aspects of the game (dad was a bond trader), so even hockey for me, which is probably the least deterministic of the professional sports, is fun to watch. American Football has always been my least favorite...but probably because that sport's been immune to the kind of deep-level analysis (at least until recently) that a sport like baseball (and even basketball) are subjected to. So, I guess I agree with your perspective insomuch as it involves how "deep" someone can get emotionally involved with a game. Soccer though to me is just mind-numbingly boring - so the "tribal" nature and violence associated with European soccer fans is a complete mystery to me.
Counter point:

I find Arch Linux to be the opposite. I've spend more time tweaking it than any other distro. However, that may be because it is so tweakable. Also, things like to break in ArchLinux on normal updates more than other distros, so be prepared for some .pacnew tweaks if old config files aren't compatible.

That being said, I run Arch on my secondary machine, and it's the best fit I've found in the *nix world.
Does Is there a desktop Carlisle of being secure enough for OpenBSD? Last time I installed it X and window managers were in ports and therefore didn't get the same kind of scrutiny as the rest of the OS. If you're wrecking security by installing an insecure GUI you may as well run Linux.