skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If schools, as the primary concern, were to be lofted into a position of being "disease free" we should see an interesting dynamic in the tragedy of severe infections, but maybe also in what most people consider milder infections, like cold and flu. When your coworkers are sick, they are often are far more considerate than children can be.

Full vaccination, with only exceptions for medical needs like in the article, would be a forgone conclusion if schools also required any child showing signs of mild illness to be kept out of the general population, likely at home.

People can't deny their children the care and proximity necessary to comfort when the child is ill. This means that children, who are disinclined or too naive to understand how to minimize illness are sent to mix with many other children every day. Every night, they come home and can carry an infection into an entire house.

If society were to shift its thinking on rhinovirus, flu, and other "common" illnesses you could likely see a large decline in those. With stronger herd illness-prevention standards of thought and behavior, you could, over time, increase the well-being and productivity of society.

We could learn something from the manners of Japanese and other Asian societies that consider it selfish and inconsiderate to not wear masks and take inordinate precaution in helping not get the people around them sick when they are functional, but not well.

If that were the standard for common illness, then more severe illnesses with moderate to strong vaccines would be more effective (better compliance) and this situation would be less contentious.

Asking the school to be the legal wedge is, sadly, a last ditch effort to do something in an extreme case that should be something that individuals take responsibility for. It shouldn't come to this. Vaccinate responsibly and level-up your herd protection game.

shrug "Kids just get sick all the time. Can't do anything about it." is a horrible cop-out, selfish, lazy, and potentially dangerous to tragic in scale.

I've offered to pay hourly coworkers to go home and NOT stay at work. If I miss a day or few of work being miserable, it's more valuable to my company/employers than the money "handed out." Pay for performance and let sick people rest... or force them to. Sick kids and adults perform poorly and can take down others with them.
By far the best book written on the topic. I would argue it has all the content of Computer Engineering degree in one book.
Anyone watched 'Enemy of the State'?

Yeah... people have known the NSA and other intelligence outfits to be doing everything they can to get information since forever.

Think of ECHELON[1]. That's been recording a LOT of data for a long time. I think it's basically a wiretap, simply speaking (please correct me if I'm wrong). So they've been 'hacking' (more like intercepting) communications for a damn long time. You'd be stupid or very naive to think otherwise.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Eben Moglen on Facebook, Google and Government Surveillance
I believe nearly every university requires proof of vaccination/immunity for a variety of standard immunizations for attendance. It's pretty standard. I don't know if it's some federal law, or just good public health practice.

Are you upset about this? I'm not sure why the anti-vaccination crowd isn't more upset about this -- but bite my tongue, I'm sure it'll be coming next.

You can always make a slippery slope argument, but public educational institutions seem like a pretty appropriate place to require vaccinations.

Then again, why not legislate that every kid period is vaccinated (unless health conditions prevent it), really, why not?
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Indeed. I had an original iPad, and in Oct '13, went for an iPad Air. By that point, the improvements were great enough to make an argument, to me, for a replacement.

But then, this is HN - we're not typical of the rest of the world. Much as many folk seem to enjoy keeping up with the latest and greatest phones, I only reluctantly moved from a well-used iPhone 3G to a 5s. (A great improvement in internal tech, absolutely, but I miss that smaller screen, where everything was reachable with the thumb, in one hand - even the 5s' tall screen means having to shift its position for some applications, even aside from the current series. So it goes)
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Predicting the weather is tricky work
your Chuck Rossi was awesome! If you have other amazing videos like this to share I'm all hear!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity

Public health is inherently a community thing, cause contagious diseases are transmitted socially, that's just how it works. If everyone who can be vaccinated is, then those who can't are much safer.
Yeah, monitoring your heart rate and breathing is a short step away from cataloging your sex life, or at least the part of it that takes place in bed, which is where most people like to get it on.

I am not that enthused about this whole 'quantified self' movement; it strikes me as Taylorism applied to leisure activities and now sleep. I have no confidence that the data will remain fully under user control; rather, incentives will appear that encourage people to grant non-revocable access for consumerist 'rewards,' which in turn will be employed to create consumer anxiety about suboptimal life patterns, which can be assuaged for the low, low cost of only $x/month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management

I like technology a lot, but I don't care for the idea of being cocooned by it 24/7.
I wonder if the acid helped or it's just SV rich folks sometimes do stuff recreationally. I've heard it said Burning Man is a big part of SV culturally and that it's pretty trippy as it were.
That actually doesn't sound that bad. It's interesting invoking the phrase "laws and regulations" is meant to indicate on its face something terrible. :) Maybe it is just simply irresponsible and negligent not to vaccinate your child. Makes a lot of sense to me. But then I like polio's status today, perhaps some would like to see it make a comeback.
God, this is just like "If gay people don't have kids how are there gay people?"

Do people that ask this really think they're a secret genius? Do they not know how to Google? The article even links out to "herd immunity".
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>years of avoiding products from Google

I found this passage quite confusing as TextSecure is wholly reliant on proprietary Google services. Is there any chance that will be resolved soon, Moxie?
Possibly, but we've seen a developer gold rush in the past and it doesn't last. Those who do shine through.
Sample Pivotal CF apps
wow, nice, what documentaries show him working on his Amiga??
Wait, "not circumsizing" is the norm. Did you mean the other way? Ugh.
You can have a small net income in an otherwise hugely profitable year if you reinvest most/all of it back into the company for growth.
Yes, they should - this is a well-understood use case in recommender systems.
Current state of economic thinking: technically not risk-free, but we'll call it that anyway...what could go wrong!?
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Because going to school is a legal requirement until a specific age. Going to the library or another public place is not.

People shouldn't be afforded leeway because of their own ignorance. Not vaccinating your child is ignorant and dangerous. I don't think there should be a religious exemption either, but I'm a raging atheist so shrug.
Thank you, this decision was a great read, and I now have a better understanding how the school and legal systems in New York will challenge religious exemption to a level California seemingly does not.

I think I found the judicial vernacular of "lol, no":

Plaintiffs finally seek succor in the Ninth Amendment.
But, we have held, “[t]he Ninth Amendment is not an
independent source of individual rights.”
Because plaintiffs fail plausibly to allege a violation
of any other constitutional right, their effort to
recast their unsuccessful claims as a violation of the
Ninth Amendment also fails.
But how do you quantify it? How much harm is caused to herd immunity by 1 more child not getting vaccinated? What is the expected value of that -- 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?

How does the expected value of that harm (probability assessment) compare to the expected value of harm from secondhand smoke? What about the harm from wood fireplaces? What about swimming pools and trampoline and the probability of injury or death from both?

All I'm saying is, some of the commenters in this thread are (in my opinion) being just as irrational and hyperbolic as the anti-vaccine crowd. (Especially the people replying to me playing devil's advocate). For example the one comparing it to drunk driving. And it's a shame.
Spoken like someone who has never had to maintain a large production system.

This notion is handily disproved by the market, though. Red Hat and Canonical enjoy commercial success and mindshare precisely because they provide stable long-term support platforms on which others can build software. Most of Canonical's worth is actually embodied in their commitment to LTS releases, which provide a sweet spot between stability and the glacial pace of RHEL.
The very real concept of herd immunity means that a small percentage of the population can be vulnerable, but the "herd" is still immune because when the disease is introduced, then doesn't get enough chances to spread and dies out with minimal impact.

All the reasons you list usually account for something like 1-2% of population, and this is enough to have everyone be safe from measles and such. However, in the OP case, "His son attends Reed Elementary in Tiburon, a school with a 7 percent personal belief exemption rate" and that seems to be representative for that part of California. The gap - some 5% of kids - is the result of deliberate, intentional decisions that can be changed.

If most of those intentionally unvaccinated kids would get vaccinated, we could have effective herd immunity for all the kids even if people don't "religiously stay up to date on your boosters" and the borders aren't shut down. Attempting to do the impossible (zero chance of measles brought across border) is not productive, but attempting to vaccinate kids is possible to protect those who can't be vaccinated, such as the kids on cancer chemotherapy or immunosuppresants after organ transplants.
> If vaccination works, why do we care that a small minority aren't vaccinated?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity

By choosing not to be vaccinated, you put those at risk who cannot receive a vaccination for legitimate reasons.
Although I love this idea for load times, it doesn't necessarily solve the issue of SEO. I don't think that's an impossible issue to solve, though.
If all the ISPs have to meet the same build-out requirements then I agree that that is not regulatory capture. Thanks.
Checking the libc version doesn't really tell you if you've fixed the problem, since most vulnerable distributions will be fixing it by patching their older version of libc, so the version number will remain the same.
I wonder if you could simply ask them to sell the shares back to you at a fair price? Diluting a stakeholder purposefully can have unintended consequences (on your reputation, on employee and investor morale, etc). Maybe best to handle it gentlemanly, so that nobody else starts fearing that they're next.

As a personal example, Ive walked away from job offers when I found out the founders squeezed out an early developer's equity. All things being equal, why would I assume Id get any better treatment? This situation isn't quite the same, but you get my drift.
Oh right it's here. A few things:

* Why not by default ?

* Why is Ctrl+Shift+Tab and Ctrl+Tab working in reverse? Even when I change my preference to "tab order".

* It's not customizable enough, I want something that works like Tree Style Tab.
Now if only you could actually find that nice of an apartment in Paris (complete with a sensible bathroom layout) for under 10 million Euros.
Presentation on Crafting Experiences with Data Visualization
And it's still slower since the JS needs to be requested after the first chunk of html is parsed.
Agree with you 100%.

It's also quite frustrating that to revert back to the default bookmark manager, one needs to mess around with settings in a way I'm not sure the average user knows how to access (about:flags in the address bar)

I have high expectations with managing my links, articles, bookmarks though, and I doubt any system that tries to auto organize will work for me...

It's interesting you use the word "worry". I've come to think that the act of organizing is crucial to memory consolidation and furthering ones mental models.

For this reason I've completely lost faith in folder structures for optimally organizing my digital life...tags and graphs/connections highly preferred (closest systems that emulate our internal information/knowledge repository)
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Yeah but that's kind of a capricious line considering the amount of traffic going into that public place -- mandatory of not. It's kind of a not-so-strong point to say that kids are forced to go to school when there are so many kids in a library anyway.

Also, I thought vaccination works? If so, what does it matter if another child is or isn't vaccinated? This child is a special case, and he is also a temporary case. It's because HE cannot be vaccinated. It's silly because if there were another special case at the school, then it would be untenable.
Why artists don't get paid for the Super Bowl – the game theory of added value
We've really just started exploring Boot, but given how much better it deals with ClojureScript (especially in the context of http://cljsjs.github.io), we're taking it rather seriously. For my personal side-projects, I've just started a new one with Boot. My experience so far is that it's definitely not as "full-featured" an experience as Lein, but it does feel more "composable" and, dare I say it, more "like Clojure".
The Cirrus SR22 airframe parachute ensures a soft, slow landing.

These are not unsurvivable forces we're talking about.
I don't mean this in a mean way. However, I don't think you understand the science here at even an elementary level. It is this sort of attitude that only serves to bolster the position of those essentially against science. It's not about encountering a "mild dose."

Here is a link to a simple explanation.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/08/27/mixing-unvaccin...

From the linke:

"Here’s the simple answer: Vaccines are not 100% effective. Nothing in medicine is. They may be 99% effective, 95% effective, 90% effective, or even less. By medical standards, any intervention that’s over 90% effective is a pretty darned good intervention, and most vaccines are at least pretty darned good, especially given how rare serious reactions are. But they are not 100% effective, and it is almost as foolish for parents who vaccinate their children to believe that vaccines will be 100% effective in protecting their children as it is for antivaccinationists to believe that vaccines do more harm than good. At the very least, it’s naive. Also, there are children who for health reasons cannot be vaccinated and who thus rely on herd immunity. The larger the population of unvaccinated children, the weaker the herd immunity, and if the percentage of vaccinated children falls below a certain point herd immunity basically collapses."

The science here is so clear. A key point is that children that, in rare cases, cannot be vaccinated for other health reasons can not longer rely on herd immunity because such as what you are advocating for have taken up the madness pitchforks along with Jenny McCarthy to destroy herd immunity.
There are kids that cannot be vaccinated for various medical reasons.

If unvaccinated kids are rare, then they're safe because any disease outbreaks quickly stop and don't spread; but if the rate of unvaccinated kids is above a certain threshold then they are at a serious risk.
There is more money in the gullible than the educated. When you have some computer program that controls your snail mail output, it's very easy to mentally justify the distance you put between yourself and the advantage you're taking of the poor and downtrodden.

That's where most of this lies. If you look at sleazy and then try to find the sleaze, more often than not they're rather separated from the reality of the harm they're actually doing.
I would take the theoretical foundations course, but that's mostly because it sounds more interesting to me. Probably the networks class is more likely to be useful, though.
So officially Google says it can crawl these kinds of sites; however, from experience this is not the case. So until the future comes there is https://prerender.io/.
Vaccination rely on the immune system to work, so in situations where the immune system breaks down, or is overloaded, vaccinations stop being reliable. Like with auto-immune disorders, or after heavy chemotherapy (as in the OP).

I also know of a case where a child got an illness it was vaccinated against due to a generally weak immune system (induced by a heart disease and several surgeries).
We tried that approach for millenia but sadly young people with poorly developed immune systems and old or sick people with compromised immune systems kept dying and we decided as a society to do something about it because some of us have kids and parents we love.

Then a bunch of selfish ignorant hippies decided, based on their limited experience of living in a society protected by vaccination, that disease was a problem for poor foreign people and they didn't need it. While an outbreak might kill off the DNA of these people and their offspring and improve the gene pool it might also do some collateral damage. There are some legitimate reasons people have not been vaccinated and as vaccination simply strengthens the immune response it is more effective for some people than others.

You would hate to run into a coughing wheezing infected family of alternative medicine believers on the week you took a shot depressing your immune system to fight your crippling auto-immune disease or protect your transplanted organ from rejection regardless of your vaccination status.
Personally, I think a bootcamp or hacker school is best for people looking to make a career change. You're still young, if you can afford college I would go to a school with a good tech reputation, make friends, have fun and code in your free time.
Me too. All the engineering books I use week-to-week are PDFs in a directory on my computer. The dead tree versions (including AoE) sit on the shelf unused.

Make sure to click the "I want this title to be available as an ebook" link on that page.
For most use cases, the difference is going to be negligible, though. If everything is packed properly.

Most use cases. Not all.
What an accomplished man.

I feel a bit of a personal connection to his legacy as I live on the street where he was born (which now carries his name).
Your assumption that vaccination is binary is wrong. And your last question, you don't seem to care or know about immunocompromised people.

So:
- vaccination isn't perfect in preventing diseases - some people who get vaccinated aren't immune.
- in some cases, vaccination may reduce disease strength but not prevent the disease. More unvaccinated kids means greater transmission threat, i.e. greater chance of an illness that, while not as bad, can still be unpleasant.
- Afraid parents may have relatives who are immunocompromised, or may be immunocompromised themselves. Vaccinated people may act as short-term carriers, even if they are immune, and unvaccinated kids are more likely to act as a source, so the combination of these can cause immunocompromised people to get sick
- Same as previous, but with children too young to be vaccinated (younger siblings)

Immune compromise can come from AIDS, sure, but also cancer, transplant therapy, and other causes.

Yes, some of the fear may be unreasonable - probably being stressed out and sick isn't enough immune compromise to let you get measles (though that's probably) - but enough of it isn't.
I did see the "I think" part, but I also saw "no introvert" which was taking an absolute stance, regardless of it being your opinion or not.

You could have used "some", "most", "many", "a sizable portion", etc, but you took an absolute term rather than a malleable term. It's not my fault you're unclear in your communication.
First, to answer your question: that's not how vaccination works - a vaccine is not 100% effective. So if you get your vaccination, you maybe still have a 5% (just pulling that number out of the air) chance of not being immune, at which point anybody else who has the disease or is a carrier for it is dangerous to you. It's not that you get 5% sick, it's that you have a 5% chance of getting 100% sick.

Second, to address this question in the context of the article that you're commenting on, the child in question is not vaccinated.
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This is really hard to take. I think you should seek medical attention and I mean that in the most respectful way possible. Do you not find the fact that you "know" about this alleged "secret assassination program" even partially contradictory?
I don't think Linus ever said it. I'm not sure he even agrees with it. Eric S. Raymond named it after him because of Linux.

That said, Eric S. Raymond didn't say the quoted either. He said that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", which is a much less bold claim (imo, at least) than that open source converges towards zero bugs over time.
Which incubator is it?
I think the purpose of the keyboard and mouse control is to underscore that it's "in-game", rather than a pre-rendered cutscene. That's what I got out of it, anyway.
Vaccination is not a 100% guard against infection, but it has a substantial success rate.

However some individuals cannot be immunised, such as the child linked in the article who could not be immunised due to a weak immune system. Also, children under the minimum age to be safely vaccinated rely on herd immunity to stay safe. Having everyone in the community vaccinated makes it much less likely that these infections will spread from outside and put the weaker members of the community at risk.