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> This line really bothers me. Probably because I simply don't think this way. I don't see color in people.
It is because of this, perhaps wrongly, that I can't accept the idea that this kid was arrested because he is brown.

If you really "don't see color", then that's commendable. If you don't think it's possible that other people see color -- well, that's just willful ignorance.

The rest of your comment is irrelevant speculation. You have no idea about the political backgrounds of the teachers of this school. And if I had to speculate, I wouldn't think it's likely that you'd find a lot of hard-line liberal teachers in a suburban Texas high school, in a town whose mayor is notoriously anti-Islam. [1] In any case, it wasn't the teachers who put this kid in handcuffs and interrogated him, it was the cops.

I'm not going to watch a couple of hour-long videos of talking heads, but I'm well aware that people like Sam Harris believe liberals are "intolerant" of anti-Islam sentiment. I'm struggling to see how it's relevant to this issue.

[1] http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...
No, he was arrested because his name is Ahmed Mohamed. The clock was just the pretense.
The school administrators-
http://www.irvingisd.net/domain/1670
What is that to the right of the keyboard on the third slide in the top banner area? Is that some kind of mouse?
Here's President Obama's tweet on the matter --

"Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656
iOS 9 now available
The funny thing is that people buy guns because they are afraid, yet that makes the whole situation more dangerous.

The reason why you don't have to be afraid when dealing with Craigslist in europe is that guns are rare, as is gun violence.

But I'm sure some will just buy another gun to feel safer. Isn't that the standard argument after a serial shooting? The first victim should have had a gun, then this wouldn't have happened... that's as perverse as it gets!
I used to use the bench power supplies to fire nails across the classroom with a coil. This wasn't for a project, I was just bored.
> From the "WLAN" café

Is there any other country which calls WiFi as WLAN? I have traveled to many countries in Europe but I assume Germany, France and Luxembourg seem to be the only countries that use this term.
Then it's just a futures contract; and nobody in their right mind would sell a futures contract on a perpetuity. Currency is a useful abstraction for a lot of reasons.
The reason you don't know of any is because they're not cast in big roles, because leading roles almost always go to white actors.
Jazz Hands[1] has been a staple for my iOS app onboarding flows, super happy to see I can start doing the same on Android.

[1] https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands
> The real problem here is that I find most middle-class people have no idea how welfare works.

I got a taste when I applied for PFL in California when we had a baby. The scale of people the State serves is insane, and navigating the system could be a full-time job in itself.

(PFL is California's supplemental program that pays some fraction of your salary for family leave - in my case new child bonding)

I took 3 weeks leave, and on the last Friday got a phone call from the PFL office: "We have a question about your PFL application, and if you don't return our call today we will deny your claim". I call, and after battling the phone tree got, "Our system is over capacity. Please try again later click". I finally got through at the end of the day via email.

I finally got paid the first day I returned from leave (!). Luckily for me I wasn't depending on the money or else my kids would have been eating rice. What a nightmare. I don't envy anyone who has to use social services.
How much is Basecamp worth? I don’t know and I don’t care
If a year's buffer is 20k (rent, utilities, car payments, insurance, etc can total $1500/mo pretty easily) then 2% inflation (and basically zero interest) means that this buffer costs me $400 a year, or over $30/mo. That's a non-trivial carrying cost, $30/mo can buy me substantial, actual real things.

I might not care too much if it was $0.50 or $1 per month. But quantitative differences eventually become qualitative ones, and at this point it's not just some tiny abstract amount of money, it's real consumption that a person has to forego every month (or day!) for the sake of not getting financially ruined the first time a big unexpected expense comes up.
Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts with Twitter data
> Maybe he's being downvoted because the so-called facts he's basing his suspicion on can be easily disproven

Which of the 3 points have been dis-proven?

Also take into concideration that -

1. The kid had a metal box containing PCBs and probably large components, all tide together around with a wire, and it was making beeping noises in class.

2. The school body and school district is almost 90% non-white, with the majority being "brown".
That is the photo the police provided to reporters by police. He did hold it in a "lunchbox-like" case
Additional details: I am mostly interested in hearing about financial instruments. We do have a murky path to fueling more growth with some strategic hires (a designer might go a long way), but my founder and I are trying to ramp up our team, and our ability to manage that team, in a controlled and smart fashion. Meaning there is obvious gains to be had with an additional web dev and a designer, but it feels like we are 6 months out from having the right culture/structure/management skills to use them effectively. We went from 5 to 8 full time employees this year, so adding more is a bit risky feeling.
Amazingly clever twist!
Yep. Even then. I've had a company that put one on my employment, do a mass layoff and even put a reminder that I signed the document in the termination letter.
(Claremonter;) I had felt that our libertarian influence is equalized by the constant Massachusetts immigration.
iOS 9 Update is now live
Handcuffs went too far. But that's a protocol issue for US lawmakers etc. We've all seen protocol out of control in the States for a host of different incidents.

No need to react so much in the other direction either, making this kid an ambassador of "freedom to pack electronics in a case and bring it to school" or whatever.

He made an error of judgement going against his teacher's advice, and a ton of bricks came down on his head way too hard. Hopefully everyone can learn something from this.

But you can't deny that "radicalization of young Muslims" isn't a thing these days. No point of covering your ears and insisting everyone wants to get along.
France does as well
No, I totally get why people would collect vintage cars, or vintage LPs. I don't get why people buy newly released LPs that are not vintage.
How safe and secure is open-source OpenStack?
I also travel with custom imaging equipment that sometimes has exposed PCBs. My recommendation is to carry it on, so that you can open it and explain it. Twice I have approached the gate well ahead of my flight, and offered to show TSA the equipment. Both times they took only a cursory glance at it.

I'm surprised they don't just mandate the spectrogram swab on every piece of electronics that comes through, consumer or custom.
You may want to check comment history of the account you're replying to.
Thanks giancarlostoro. That is great feedback. Let's gather more responses from others, and we will make the change. We want this to be super easy to you to use.
O2. 28€ / 5 GB + 10€ "Datensnack" (exceed).
The 500 MB thing is a commercial I saw a few days ago "LTE Einsteigertariif" with a flat rate telephone. Actually not that bad, but 500MB LTE...

I have a feeling I'll switch soon. I just took O2 because I had a good experience with their prepaid rates, and having checked T-Mobile and Vodafone I didn't find it better.
LinkedIn will be thrilled about this. Im glad someone is finally going to challenge the LinkedIn-space but Im bummed it's Facebook that is doing it.
Why Do People Take Selfies in Emergencies?
That appears to be the wrong high school, it's this one instead - http://www.irvingisd.net/domain/2031
I'd call "minor" something like wart removal or an ear infection, not heart surgery.
What's a good way to get started developing similar apps? Do you recommend coding from scratch right in WebGL, or do you recommend starting with some framework or another? Do you have any thoughts on using Unity or Unreal Engine for WebGL deployments?
Effectively, the whole reason why governments exist to do things is because they can do things that are unprofitable. And they can do it well. Look at the US healthcare system vs. the social democracies. You have the same cost per person in taxes (the US actually spends more tax dollars per person on the healthcare system than most other countries), but the US has, additionally, people paying private on top of that, and you get worse results.
That's a great idea, get it started and the kid will have $100 from me.
Because it's a function of tenure, and not job performance?
> I don't think anyone commenting along these lines on HN is that ignorant.

You are quite the optimist.
Did they call the bomb squad? Nope, they never believed it was a real bomb. Did he ever claim it was a bomb? Nope, never.

Somehow they still claim that Ahmed made a "hoax bomb".
President Obama has invited Ahmed to bring his "cool clock" to the White House: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656
This is one of those scenarios where I'm sure both sides quickly realized they were wrong, but instead of doing the right thing and apologizing, they instead doubled down and tried to make the evidence fit their incorrect theory.
When I was in high school (in Slovenia), I have actually brought a home-made "bomb" to school. It had an LCD and a keypad, you would arm it and it would count down while beeping with increasing frequency, unless you entered the correct deactivation code.

Nobody mistook it for a real bomb and nobody had any trouble with it, except for when it was set up in the middle of class to annoy the teacher :)

A later improvement was the addition of "detorator circuit" based on the flash electronics for a disposable camera, and you could hook up something like a resistor to it which would then be fried by who knows how many volts...
While this has great rhetorical impact, it is still an appeal to authority. To me, the Obamas are just like any other rich(er) family. The PotUS has no special expertise in this domain.

They can afford to send their kids to private school, they believe that school to be superior to the public schools their kids would otherwise attend, so they pay the private tuition. As a parent, I agree with this. I, however, do not have a $400k income with a $169k expense account and a sweet pension plan, like he does.

In short, his kids don't attend public school because he can afford for them to go somewhere better. I am not willing to penalize any child for the sake of their parents' political views (or offices), nor am I willing to restrict people from spending their own money just because they might buy something I don't like.
I think you entered the wrong link; that just links to the newest threads on HN.
I see. Does that account though for the dramatic growth in LP sales. I mean is that why most people buy LPs nowadays?
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Haha. I find myself keep watching the menu bar for updates, then click on the news item. Glad you think it looks good. Feedbacks are welcomed.
You find out that large companies start reflecting some of the 'evils of government' eventually. I've realized it comes more from large bureaucracies than something fundamental to government.

These people who phone it in still do their jobs, but they aren't hard workers, they are not active in the technical environment so much. They're static workers, working on projects that might be not so necessary any more, but ignored by the business because it's part of a profitable unit. Such as printers and so on.
Hosting a simple static site on IPFS
Hillary Clinton has come out in support of Ahmed too.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/644167278196600832

> Assumptions and fear don't keep us safe—they hold us back. Ahmed, stay curious and keep building.
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Well, jesus -- good for them! However that article only left me suspicious as to how these new millionaires are making their money...

Even in the article it states that some dont know where the money came from... I err on the side of corruption...
Never heard it in France (in France you usually use the word LAN or WLAN for local networks, as it should be).
Kinda fun! I don't like this question/answer though:

> Musical hacking began with the invention of the cassette tape. / The answer is TRUE. In the 1960s, the arrival of the cassette tape made it easy to duplicate music at a very low cost.

I don't know what "Musical hacking" means, but my grandfather was messing around with reel-to-reel tape in the 1960s, like doing duets with himself. That doesn't require cheap cassette tapes - reel-to-reel was cheap enough for a non-professional to acquire.

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te#Magnetic... you can see that people were experimenting with a lot of tape-based techniques, like micro-editing, in the 1950s.

Edit: Oh, I think I figured it out. They regard 'hacking' as equivalent to 'copyright infringement', and not as 'experimenting with the medium'.
Friendly tip: You need to look at the different uses of "since" and "for" in English.
President Obama just tweeted: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."
For reference, Level Money sold to C1 and had 1 backend engineer, 1 android engineer, and 1 ios engineer.

This scale isn't unusual at all. Really it's a lot more about feature development. The smart way to build most mobile startups is to use managed providers like google app engine, AWS Container Service, or Heroku. Between that and how not-bad both Android and iOS are to develop for these days (compared to their history), it's possible to get your engineering team size pretty small.
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I have to say, I spent 15 minutes reading this page and I still have no idea what Jaro Mail is. It calls itself a suite of tools for email, but it also has it's own interface (or cli client, not sure), what does this interface do that Mutt doesn't do?

Also it's confusing that the page says to install Mutt, Fetchmail, etc. yourself, then what exactly am I getting when I install Jaro Mail if not the suite of applications?
Watching the replies to that thread make me despair.

Be happier: never read the comments, avoid mainstream media.
This appears to be resulting from the "overwhelming number of downloads", according to Apple: https://twitter.com/iOS_Support/status/644190240836591616
I'm not the only one that tought exactly the same, at least.
The kid's error was merely in underestimating the danger posed by the authorities. Certainly we can all learn something from this, and the lesson is that a lot of authorities are catastrophically stupid and unbelievably petty.

Why should we not make this kid an ambassador of "freedom to pack electronics in a case and bring it to school"? That sounds like a pretty good freedom, and one worth fighting for. Kids should feel free to bring their (non-dangerous, no need to bring in guns or actual bombs or whatever) interests to school to share them. You might even broaden the horizons of some fellow students (and who knows, maybe even a teacher or two).
This was posted on HN not too long ago, but further proof they're useless:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find...
"digital" is equivalent to discrete sampling of a continuous time signal
> If there's even the smallest chance that it could cause harm, they need to investigate.

What?! That's just fundamentally mislead as to the nature of life. Everything has the possibility to cause harm. Absolute harm reduction is horribly mislead and will be used to end anything like freedom. This is not the answer!
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It's like a spring/mass dragging across a rough surface: it stays behind until the tension gets too much, and then skips forward. You can find this effect in a lot of places.
Thanks. It's definitely been a fun project. And yes, our goal is to keep this area moving forward towards better and more secure systems. CryptDB was a big step, but there's still lots to be done.

If you're interested in other recent work in this area, check out the Secure Anonymous Database Search project from Mariana Raykova and others at Columbia [1], and the secure database work from David Cash and a big team of other smart people [2].

[1] http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~mariana/search.htm

[2] http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/853
I think the proximity of the place I visited in France to the German border might have a role in the "WLAN" term usage.
You're misunderstanding, mischaracterizing, and conflating your own arguments.

It's a rhetorical appeal to authority, so implicitly, in addition to anyone who shares my respect for and identifies with the values of the American legal heritage, I agree with it. Therefore, even though it has no direct application, as you unnecessarily point out, it is a rhetorical convenience for delineating our very different views of right and wrong.

You misunderstand / mischaracterize me in that despite the existence of institutional racism, I think it is morally wrong and intellectually dishonest to presume or even assert that the specific police are racist, without personally specific supporting evidence.

And institutional racism against certain categories of brown people is far beyond a mere assumption at this point.

Ha, ah yes, the old, "I'm not going to justify my stance, because anyone who disagrees with me is self-evidently delusional." It must be nice to use leverage your inclusion in the ideologically "privileged" majority as an excuse to ignore the merits of my argument. Some would refer to this as a microagression.

I'm not interested in engaging the rest of your arguments. It's not related to my original point, there's too much material to cover, and we clearly have wildly divergent views of right, wrong and what constitutes appropriate treatment of the individual police officers in this situation.

I will say, to avoid being mischaracterized, that we are in agreement that the student was mistreated. We merely draw different conclusions as to why. Mine upon the specific facts; yours upon generic presumptions, assumptions, assertions and other views that are not specific to this situation. As a personal admission, I don't see any avenue for myself for effective communication with someone that communicates as you have chosen here.
>Of course, people would rather that part of his heritage weren't brought up,

because it's completely irrelevant to what Jobs accomplished. It always seems to be the people implying that other are people racist who bring up his heritage.
Thank you for posting your obscure in-jokes on a reasonably public forum.
> as far as I can tell they're only used for "threading" state through a series of functions

That is why people bump up against them when learning Haskell, but monads run much deeper in functional programming.. Even "pure" functions in Haskell are monadic with respect to the non-terminating "bottom".

I said it elsewhere in this topic, but check out Moggi's "Notions of computation and monads".
It's an intra-company communication solution, a not professional network. I think you should compare it w/ slack/yammer/google apps/office suite.

What is linkedin-space?
You're in luck; I made the changes. My coworker let me know that this ended up on here, which is kind of surprising.

Thanks!
The Dallas News version was submitted at least 4 times, TechCrunch was the one that stuck:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224216

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224223

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224747
Electron is moving pretty quickly (and breaking APIs) at this point so you'd end up with just as many versions of the shared library as you would copies in applications.
The reason I don't really need to be careful with that attitude is because it works both ways -- I wouldn't want to work for an employer that didn't agree. I'm also very clear when interviewing, which of course could cost me the position but that is a good thing (don't want to work there otherwise etc).
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Those are mind-boggling numbers.

Although I kind of doubt that "almost every" engineer has access to the entire repo, especially when it comes to the search ranking stuff.
Excuse me while I fire up the old Quadra and run my copy of MacBugs.
Yeah, unfortunately the app bundled with a Chrome. But, the upside is it's implemented in HTML/CSS/JavaScript and it's hackable :)
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10226157
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Ask HN: Which CSS/HTML frameworks should I consider for modern web development?
Hey all,

I'm putting a stack together for a new website which I am building from scratch. It will only target modern browsers with full flex-box support. This greatly reduces, but, presumably, does not eliminate cross-browser rendering discrepancies.

The plan is to build the website to material design's specs. Previously, I built a material Chrome extension and the layout came out well, http://imgur.com/a/vyd56. I am fluent in material design specs and feel capable of creating reusable web components. However, that project only targeted the latest versions of Chrome -- not all modern browsers.

With that in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to evaluate tools which might help ensure consistent design across platforms. I played around with a few of the more popular material tools, but, unfortunately, was pretty let down.

I've tried out:

- MDL, http://www.getmdl.io/: It's too lite. There's not enough components to build a full-fledged application and if I'm going to be building some components myself then I don't have much of a desire to mix-and-match.

- Polymer, https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/: I think Polymer will be better in another year. Right now it feels half-baked. Some of the components have very obvious issues which I hacked around to get a prototype going. Documentation was difficult to parse and after 3 days I don't feel great about moving forward with it.

- Materialize, http://materializecss.com/: This is the next most promising. I have not yet played around with it and would love to hear some pros/cons regarding it.

That said, I'm totally comfortable "materialifying" components myself. It would be nice to have it all for free, but not mission critical.

So, I'm left wondering: should I stop looking for something so 'heavy' and settle on a simple grid system. Bootstrap? Skeleton? Others? Is it even worth considering a grid system if I'm just going to use flex containers?
We're working on the Windows and Linux builds. Or if you can't wait, just clone the repo and run `npm start`: https://github.com/jingweno/hacker-menu#development
That's a punishment, not a solution. Then what?
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> providers won’t be held liable as long as they secure the network properly and get users to agree not to act illegally

Of course they had to include that paragraph, forcing everyone to tick some stupid check-box. As if the cookie agreements weren't enough already.