skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anti-vaxx movement seems to be a symptom of a deeper problem - I see it as a combination of people being increasingly unable to comprehend the world around them and growing mistrust toward the authorities.

The second one is perfectly understandable - politicians cheat us all the time. Journalists lie in every other sentence. Big companies consistently spew bullshit. A lot of small companies are run by fraudsters. The fundamental trust of society toward its structures is broken. It's easy to assume that politicians and businessmen try to push things for profit and not for the social benefit.

That itself is not enough for a movement like anti-vaxxers though. I'm pro-vax, but not because I trust the government or pharmaceutical companies. There's definitely a lot of fraud, bribery and fudging results there. But the general scientific idea is sound, and it adds up to other things.

It's the kind of feeling I believe big part of population doesn't have. That things add up. I believe in mainstream science because it's coherent, logical and agrees nicely with observable reality. I understand some genetics, know enough maths to have a feel for exponential growth, etc. But many people don't really understand anything about the world (yay education!), it must seem like a black box for them. Some things happen because they happen. When you eat dirt you get sick, etc.

Along with anti-vaxxers, I often talk with anti-GMO and anti-nuclear people. The situation is always the same - they don't trust the autorities and they don't understand a thing about the topic domain. "Nuclear energy" is the scary thing. Chernobyl. Soviet lies. Fukushima. Japanese lies. It's hard to make them do the math and understand that this is our only viable option for now. They don't trust governments and they don't have enough knowledge to evaluate the topic themselves - so they don't trust the solution.

I'm afraid that as a civilization, we're going to really hurt ourselves beacuse of trust issues. That's why in my books, lying to people is one of the biggest sins. It's literally destroying humanity's ability to work together.
What on earth is the ECB up to?
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Just noticed it a few minutes ago, its in the "Audience" section, just below "Overview". Its pretty basic right now, but its a good start.
No.

I started in tech support in '98. I worked my way from a trainee associate in Sophos's UK support team to managing a department of 30 in 5 years. I left Sophos in '06 to start my own business.

I am in a similar position to you in some respects. I started my own locally-focussed business as the tech guy. I placed an ad in the local parish newsletter for 25GBP (~40USD) for the year. That ad has paid for itself 400+ times over since then.

B2C support is tough. My demographic is adults, typically 40+. People are sometimes reticent to ask for help, especially with cheap laptops. Be approachable. Be a nice guy. Be professional. Be honest.

You'll learn about your area pretty quickly. I started out with an external hard drive and a screwdriver set. It's 90% laptops and tablets, and the repair side of my business is slow to catch on. The low purchase cost of laptops and tablets makes people less ready to commit to fixing things, instead choosing brand new. Sad, really. Apple device users tend to be more keen to get things fixed up.

Poke around on /r/computertechs[1] and start thinking about a software toolkit. Get a basic website and sign up with iFixit Pro[2]. Familiarise yourself with their store; they do good parts at fair prices. My website[3] isn't anything special (and isn't finished, either), but gives you an idea for what works around where I live.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/computertechs

[2] https://www.ifixit.com/Pro

[3] http://ex23.com
I consider everything running systemd as one distro. That leaves about five distros left, in total.
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I'd personally never buy a rental (how do I know though, they get sold at the same auctions that used car dealers attend too!) cause of how I treat them, but your experience mirrors that of a coworker which was good for him as well. He bought from Enterprise.
Actually, it depends on the vaccine, and even killed virus strains aren't going to present all the antigens that a "healthy" or attenuated vaccine virus does.

We're already noting that the acellular pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine doesn't do as good a job as the old "witch's brew" variety. Wikipedia right now says:

Acellular pertussis vaccine (aP) with three or more antigens prevents around 85% of typical whooping cough cases in children. It has higher or similar efficacy to the previously-used whole cell pertussis vaccine, however the efficacy of the acellular vaccine declines faster.

That said, this posture is still an example of amoral familism, and should be dealt with as such, e.g. exile.
Android has an SIP client built-in, and the blog post states that it needs WiFi or cell network, not both.
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Have a look at http://kidoman.io/programming/go-getter-part-3.html

Did this last year comparing Go 1.2 with C/C++ (and lots of other languages contributed by others.)

The original version: http://kidoman.io/programming/go-getter.html
I agree. The whole concept of memes that evolve and spread like genetic material is a useful tool (hell, that's where the 'viral' comes from). It's useful to talk about memetic immunity in individuals and groups. If sarcasm helps you defend against harmful memes, then that's exactly what it is - a vaccine.
Context matters. TestCase.setupTestCase() sets the test case up, while TestCase TestHarness.setupTestCase() returns the setup test case.

A better name for the former would be TestCase.Setup(), and a better name for the latter would be GetSetupTestCase().
any suggestions besides Lubuntu and Xubuntu? Something that's closer to the simplicity and "just working" state of crunchbang?
I don't think people at Twitter use PHP ... might be wrong on that though. From what I remember they started with Ruby/Rails and are now doing a lot of JVM stuff (Scala)
Truly, web-technology is a rat's nest. But is non-web-technology really any better? And yeah, js stinks, but js can be made much more palatable. I'm pinning my hopes that purescript can make js not-terrible. purescript.org
I see cost, controls, range, autonomous operation, and accuracy as all being factors.

If you've got people who don't like you, small cheap ways of delivering hurt or death become an issue.
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What is your opinion of The Little Red Hen? She has no greater claim to the bread than anyone else inhabiting that land?
IntelliJ's Scala support has improved leaps and bounds the past 6 months. I'd give it another try if you have the opportunity.
"Can work places restrict this"

Absolutely. Voluntary disease carriers are not a protected class under any law. If there is a scientifically and legally provable threat to others' health and safety, I'd say a business has a responsibility to reduce that threat. The main way these outbreaks start, quite likely including the one at Disneyland, is unvaccinated people coming back from places where measles are still endemic. Those people are walking bioweapons. If they're not going to be quarantined at the border, then it's up to businesses to contain the damage as best they can.
I believe Riot.js provides a lightweight alternative: https://muut.com/riotjs/
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Disclaimer: OP is a Weiner.
Have you ever been persuaded to not use a particular OS by someone calling you a mindless fanboi?

If those tactics don't work for you and operating systems why do you think they'll work for anything else?
I wouldn't say never.

A midwife recommended oregano oil for my wife when she couldn't take antibiotics, and we have used it to mitigate sore throats and possible sinus infections ever since. She did say it's not something you want to stay on forever, because that can have its own downside, but its limited toxicity is much better than a bacterial infection or stronger antibiotics, if you can safely avoid them.
Stratasys has a $3bn market cap, and this post basically says their flagship product isn't much better than something that costs about 3% of the price. Probably not good for Stratasys long term outlook - SSYS.

https://www.google.com/finance?cid=61380041562207
Been there with FPM, too. This is probably handy for platform-independent applications like Java, maybe Python, but with anything native you'll have to compile things on the lowest-common-denominator of glibc out of all the systems you're targeting, and that means for many applications you'll be missing features that you could take advantage on newer systems.
That's just a style recommendation. It doesn't mean that doing it the other way is wrong.
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This is true, but they're also all Linux distributions providing exactly the same software, and all duplicating hundreds of hours of effort per package by doing exactly the same thing with tiny incompatible differences. It doesn't have to be that way. For example, they could provide shims for the incompatibilities in each others' standards so the packages edit: spec files could be reused without breaking on other systems. But instead they work in silos. Sigh
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There is a small chance that the second IRS takes your money your house burns down and that you die in cold and hunger because you didn't have that last thousand dollars that was taken from you as a tax. I'd say it's more less as probable as dying from a vaccine. The example is good.
Well, anti-vaxxers are about to see how bad it gets with all these measles and whooping cough outbreaks they've caused.

Personally, I'm past convincing parents to vaccinate. Let's move straight ahead to involving Child Protective Services and throwing anti-vax parents in prison for criminal negligence.
With most ear plugs you can hear normal conversation without any problems. Certain sounds are blocked out more and things like music sound distorted.
Lentic – multiple views over the same text in Emacs
Your definition of the libertarian philosophy (small-L) is an oversimplification and idealistic. We live in a world with finite resources; every action we make impacts others. At some point the line needs to be drawn as to what constitutes an 'impact' on other people. My understanding of small-L libertarianism was that this line shouldn't be drawn.
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There's already a few established companies in the "cloud" 3d printer market, even 3D Systems (the 3d printer manufacturer) participates with their Quickparts brand (http://www.quickparts.com/LowVolumePrototypes.aspx). Just go get some quotes and see if you can make a business case doing this type of thing better in some way.

Being cheaper isn't going to win you a ton of business, imho. Being faster or better or more personal, or providing unique materials may win you quite a lot of more niche business, though. For instance, for low volume injection molding, Proto Labs are hard to beat as they will do a fully automated quote and give you flow analysis for parts you upload within an hour or two (usually this takes days). Your business would need to separate itself from the other existing 3d printer providers in order to have good success.
If you need a cup, you probably should get one made out of something food grade. In less than an hour I can do so at the thrift shop. And it's only 99 cents.
I can't seem to find it now, but I remember seeing something a few months back about support for some HTML tag being added to react. I could be wrong about that, though (which would be great). I guess my question is this: can React/JSX render any kind of well-formed arbitrary markup? Like if next week there is a <doohickey> html tag I want to use, will it work? Or would react have to be updated to "support it" somehow?
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Yes, but it excites me because my focus has been figuring out how to change the gene expression using diet and lifestyle. I have gotten a lot of flack off of people. I am excited to see language like this in an article about this kind of "natural" approach.

I know what I am doing. I just don't know how to talk about it with other people and it's been very frustrating. So I find stuff like this interesting.

Thanks for your various comments throughout this discussion.
He's fully aware of the impact his decision has on other people. Like I said, he's simply willing to accept a 0.1% child mortality rate as the price you have to pay for the benefit of natural immunity. A minority has to die so that the majority can have a better quality of life. It's a defensible position.
Don't forget the maximum speed, it'd be tough to simulate a universe where things could affect arbitrarily distant objects instantly!

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In my experience, this sort of intellectual smugness is one of the main causes of people on the other side ignoring reason, facts, and logic. They get the picture loud and clear that people think they are too dumb to understand things and that they're being talk down to, and it makes them far less likely to believe the facts. This is the same problem that the climate change movement has. People who say "it is not plainly obvious to me that this is what's going on" and are scoffed at for being stupid are much more likely to listen to somebody who says "no, you're not stupid, here are some (potentially incorrect) facts that confirm your point of view". The fact is that these complicated sciency thing are not at all obvious and those who can should be doing the hard work to convince people who don't have the time or ability to study this stuff themselves, rather than just thinking people who don't inherently trust the "right" scientists for their expertise are stupid.
Let's use 'attr_reader' as a simple example. It defines a method that returns the value of a member variable. It would be nice to refer to the variable name literally, but this is not possible:

attr_reader foo

The 'foo' above would evaluate to the contents of the variable 'foo'. So, you have to do this:

attr_reader :foo

Because we cannot control how this code evaluated, we must quote 'foo'. This greatly limits what we can express.
We should handle this the same way we handle other negative externalities. With taxes. You certainly have the right not to vaccinate, but you should bear the full cost of that decision and not simply be allowed to free ride on the herd immunity of other people who did accept the small (mostly perceived) risk of vaccination.

I'm betting once there is even a small tax on skipping out, most of this nonsense will vanish like smoke.
I don't understand why the risk of death and suffering from the vaccine is not allowed to be talked about. Why are we only allowed to talk about death and suffering from the diseases?

Why can't we have a balanced discussion? I am not saying that the risk from disease isn't greater, it is, but the vaccine still has risks.
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how about: every DSL should be a thin translation layer over a clean API. Too many times I've been burned by gems that provide a DSL and there's no other way to use their functionality.
This is a problem (if you consider it a problem) of all Linux distros. It's just that people look at the foo.rpm file and think it should be installable anywhere, but no one would look at a foo.deb file and think they could install it on Arch.
The thing that gets me is that JavaScript has all these same problems yet, because everyone is forced to use it, it doesn't get as much hate.
Not surprisingly, things like this already exist[1]. Has anyone ever tried one of these?

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Kidz-Gear-Volume-Limit-Cable/dp/B005UH...
I turned caps lock on for a week
Sound is such an annoying thing to troubleshoot on linux. I'm pretty happy with the way Pulseaudio handles on the mainstream distros, but sometimes I do more intensive audio work where I need to use Jack and the configuration can get confusing.

We can send pulse through jack now and everything works out pretty well, but setting this up seems like a slightly different process on every distro.
Most of them rendered on the order of ~30 minutes. The gopher I ran overnight, although it really only needed about 2 hours to get really good quality. Keep in mind these durations are for large resolutions.
Slides from Daniels presentation: http://www.daniel-kurka.de/talks/gwtcreate15/singular.pdf
Threshold breaking, where you stop as hard as you can with out locking up the wheels, is probably better than relying on ABS, but it requires training and practice, and doesn't enable the per-wheel breaking that modern ABS provides. My parents taught me that ABS is often bad, and that sometimes it actually prevents you from stopping (for example on a hill), but then I sat in a car for a demonstration of the difference:

I visited the Consumer Reports test track in college, and among other things they had us all put on helmets, and 3 at a time we rode along in a car they had modified to disable ABS with a switch. They had a section of road setup so that one side is slicker than the other, and they straddled the line between that and the regular pavement for their demonstration. The first run, with ABS on, was a hard, but boring stop where the car leaned forward and came to rest nicely. Then they flipped the switch and did the same thing again. Riding along with ABS off was much more exciting. It meant you got be be in the Subaru as it spun around 3 times at 50mph. I was convinced.
There are two ways they may be doing it:

1) they're mis-classifying their business as a flowershop (somewhat illegal and definitely against the processor agreement, but it's not likely that they'll get caught)

2) They're using a "cashless ATM" where you withdraw money from your debit account or credit cash advance in the form of a deposit receipt that the dispensary can then cash.

Neither of these are good solutions. It is not technically illegal (well, kinda) for cc processors to accept mmj purchases (and Visa and MasterCard are ok with it-but not Discover and Amex), however no cc processor wants to because the amount of paperwork they'd have to file to be in anti-money laundering compliance would loose them money.

I was working on a startup trying to find a solution to this, but we recently gave up, at least for the time being.
Presentation video from GWT.create where Daniel announced Singular: http://gwtcreate.com/videos/index.html#singular
I don't understand - can't one calculate MAU from firehose data? If so then all companies who bought that data can access this elusive MAU metric.
Off-topic: Any advice for a business school hopeful? I'm a financial analyst for a tech company but want to move into management/strategy consulting.
That URL is fantastic. The article may be too, but I'm in love with the URL.
> I would kill to be able to do React in F# or OCaml.

Websharper (http://websharper.com/) for F# is now Apache-licensed and comes with the UI.Next framework that provides a really nice reactive paradigm for creating web UIs. Unfortunately it doesn't help with mobile apps as React Native does but is still pretty good.
I gave a strikingly/humorously similar talk at a meetup in Boston ~1.5 years ago:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/mmautner/email_classifier...
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Yes, and I've gone that route before - install Debian, install openbox, install your panel and networkmanager and all the other little desktop utilities and get them configured and working together as you wanted and skinned to look ok together. But that's a lot of work, and starting from Crunchbang I can get a system where I want it a lot faster.

I also don't get the distro hopping, my path was Debian -> Crunchbang for desktops shortly after wheezy went stable. But if Crunchbang development is ceasing, then soon I'll need to move on to something else. I may try to get some variation of the #! config ported to jessie. Maybe I'll even package and release it, who knows.
I assure you this person is not ignorant, and he understands statistics and how vaccines works. He really is just choosing a different risk posture than most people do.
That tactic didn't work for evolution or climate change, why should it suddenly start working for vaccination?

The problem with being a good empiricist is that you start to find that your reasons for believing certain things differ very widely from those of other people.
I disagree with you here. You're discussing a different issue. There is not that much more difficulty in learning computing with any other modern programming language. This isn't about snobbishness or elitism. Its just about the real practical problems that exist with PHP but do not exist (or do, but to a lesser extent) with other modern languages.

PHP is somewhat easier to deploy due to the elegance of mod_php and the Apache based LAMP stack. That's one of the things that has driven the proliferation of PHP. Mostly we're just dealing with history and inertia though. PHP offered a streamlined, relatively modern way to program web applications several years before good solutions became widely available in different languages.

PHP is almost like a framework in itself, with built in HTML templating, database integration, and HTTP libraries. The builtins in PHP absolutely suck compared to alternatives (including more sophisticated versions of these same things implemented in PHP in frameworks) but that's besides the point. Its possible to build stuff even with shitty tools.

The problem is that PHP has a large segment of its community that suffers from something that is almost like the inverse of elitism. Its a kind of willful ignorance or embrace of amateurism. A culture of mediocrity, basically. This is not a good thing for anyone. There are historical reasons behind it in PHP and they are vexing and difficult to overcome, but really they should be overcome, for the good of the future of the web.
I actually had to stop for a second, and wonder if they actually found (or were notified) of the exact same issue and did their own write up. I wasn't aware your post was from 2012, I first saw it in a recent HN repost.
Because many people use the terrible parts.