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@akiselv:
Some of the questions my daughter has asked:

> how does an earthquake happen
> when was the first Christchurch earthquake
> what are the well known constellations
> how big is cat VY Canis Majoris
> what is the biggest star
> how old is Pluto
> what is Fusion
> how was the sun formed

This is from one session.
> You have to plug the rigid coil into your device,

What is the point then? Plug in your phone, so you don't have to plug in your phone?
What law did the US break? The guy was a member of Al Queda. Congress explicitly initiated a war against Al Queda. The guy wasn't in a place where US law enforcement could reach him. Which is kind of the definition of being at war.
> Fact 1: Ahmed claimed to have "invented" this clock in a video. He did not. It is proven without a doubt to be a radio shack clock's guts stuffed in a case.

So what? That's irrelevant to the reason people are interested in this case. (Nobody cares what exactly he built, people care that he was arrested despite it being completely harmless.)

> Fact 2: The clock was powered via AC, meaning no beeping (one thing all accounts report on) unless it was plugged in. Which it did. Who plugs in an alarm clock in English class?

There's a 9-volt battery cable clearly visible in every photo of the clock.

> Fact 3: His engineering teacher, the guy he supposedly brought it in to show, told him to leave it with him / not show it to other teachers. He did otherwise.

He earlier set the alarm, then forgot that it was set.

> Fact 4: There is no legitimate evidence that this incident was based on race. Plenty of white kids getting kicked out of school for toy guns.

I'll grant you that one, but regardless of the kid's race the reaction of the school staff and police was utterly unacceptable. That is the important thing about this story.

> Fact 5: His dad is a known political agitator, most famously for a koran-burning incident in Florida a while back.

So what?

> Taken alone, any one of these things don't really mean much. Added up, there aren't many scenarios that look good for him.

No, this is at best irrelevant stuff ("he didn't really build a clock!") and at worst conspiracy theory ("his dad is a political agitator!") stuff.

I had no clue there were so many conspiracy theories in play around this simple story so soon after it broke, nor that so many people on HackerNews would be conspiracy theorists, or I probably wouldn't have posted in this thread at all.

Because seriously, this is ridiculous.
Now we're doing reverse car analogies, comparing cars to operating systems instead of vice versa.
Shouldn't there be a "cd build" command just after "mkdir build"?
To be fair, it changes the narrative from "smart kid builds ingenious working electronic clock" to "tinkering kid disassembles clocks to make them (coincidentally or otherwise) look like Hollywood depictions of a bomb". The background context has the kid messing about with plenty of other electronic devices for fun, but it also has a politically-active father turning up at well-publicised Quran-burning events and claiming shock that the Quran was burned. It's not exactly beyond the realms of possibility that he might have seen the potential for his son's electronic experimentation to end in a suspension and similar barrage of publicity, even if the son himself is merely an innocuous hacker type with a fondness for electronics.

Obviously any suggestion of intent still doesn't excuse the way the police reportedly handled things, or make Dawkins' attitude any less ridiculous.
I guess I can't argue that he'd have a normal life now. I totally don't buy that "huge portions of america think the kid's a terrorist", but we can stop our discussion here.
I guess the main difference is one of scale. The vast majority of citizens don't "experience restrictions on mobility or expression" in a significant way, even though it happens to some people.
Peoples bald assertion that America is not a police state is empty useless rhetoric, plenty of facts disagree with such simple, propagandistic statements. Try actually contributing instead of shouting useless nonsense.

EDIT:

It is clear no significant counter arguments can be made, so instead down votes and accusations. Enjoy your echo chamber HN
> It means that we get to choose our behaviour to feed, have sex or play at different times or delay gratification to optimize satisfaction for our whishes.

That's still tautological. What does it mean to choose? What is the "I" that is doing the choosing? Those are the crucial questions that underpin the whole idea which you aren't explaining.

Even taking what you said at face value, almost every animal exihbits this behavior. Do all animals have free will? And what makes these a free choice? If you're saying that, assuming I have food and sex readily available, and I choose food, that I could have chosen otherwise given the same circumstances?

> So freedom for you consist in the ability to contradict nature laws? No wonder you think it doesn't exist.

Of course not. I'm merely restating the problem.
Ahmed himself admits he plugged the clock into the wall and it was beeping:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=801_1443042484

Teachers are required by law to report potential threats to the administration and law enforcement. The police are required by law to investigate potential threats reported in schools. Ahmed was apparently uncooperative with the police, leading to further confusion and suspicion.

This was deliberate.
Very neat! What does it offer over links2?
Have you read the manual on treating hydrofluoric acid burns? Recommended if you want to completely lose your appetite, especially the fingernails part.

https://www.honeywell-hfacid.com/document/hf-medical-book/?d...
Yes, I did. If things were that generalized, it would be.

Got two already, so it's at least not universal.
Can we at least admit to ourselves that what he built would have passed for a bomb in a movie?

Can we at least admit that movies have approximately zero relevance to reality?
It's mentioned in there, but I really want to emphasize how important it is to ditch the do-not-reply return address and, in fact, to have actual people read every single reply.

We get great suggestions, feedback, sales opportunities, etc. from replies to automated messages. We don't get many complaint emails, but when we do the author seems to think they're yelling into a void. People seem genuinely impressed when they get at thoughtful reply back and sometimes it changes their whole impression of us.
Local and fresh beats just "certified organic". Many farmers at farmers markets are not certified as it's expensive and a hassle, but they don't spray their produce, and most of their food is healthier than the organics bought at the chains. Here's a list of companies to avoid: http://www.cornucopia.org/who-owns-organic/
> The article showed Ember 1.9 coming in dead last because of code size. 2.0 is supposed to be a little better but do you really think it's going to be ahead of the curve? It seems pretty unlikely... I hope you'll say more.

To be fair to Ember here - Ember includes Ember itself, Ember Data and jQuery in that payload. React is just React - you'll probably want to include Redux (2KB) or Alt (33KB) and then potentially a whatwg-fetch polyfill or superagent, normalize and other libs to (possibly) fill out some jQuery features (Zepto @ 9.1KB), if not jQuery itself.
You mean like the old "Cabinet noir"?
Which leaves us back where we started: Given that white kids are subjected to police involvement for unambiguous toy weapons all the time, what evidence is there that this has anything to do with prejudice?
Given its age, probably quite little, actually. It can run without a display server, but so can links. I guess Arachne's greatest trick is that it runs on DOS.
I have no idea about the veracity of the claim but this page[0] contends that Lisp has had first/rest since 1959.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR
Who Owns Organic
> An interesting technological challenge for a startup might be using purely passive radiation monitoring to detect humans.

Beta is super-easily stopped. A piece of cardboard or tinfoil reduces it dramatically, or stops it completely, depending on energy per particle, total flux, etc.

I've a Luminox watch, the dial is visible in darkness all the time, you don't have to "recharge" it. It works by having small amounts of tritium decay within luminescent tubes. The radiation produced is beta - but the levels of radiation outside the watch are essentially zero. The body of the watch is enough to contain it.
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> Pretty huge 'just' there because it discounts God, souls, etc. Many people think that the brain isn't just atomic particles. But there's no evidence that they're right. We've cut brains up and looked.

But if the mind (note wording change) were not just atomic particles (that it, God, souls, or some such was involved), when you cut brains up and looked, what would you see?
I was just thinking about this problem today: lack of information as to whether a link is an external link (different site), an internal link (same site) or anchor link (same page).

I cmd+click everything and inevitably have four or five tabs of the same page. It's probably the most minor of inconveniences but the serendipity compelled me to comment.
From a Popular Mechanics article about how the New York Times works:

The Times is occasionally mocked for its staid and deliberate pace, but it is in moments like these that the seriousness with which it approaches every aspect of its operation becomes clearest. There are few organizations with the resources to spend such time and consideration on stories that aren't primed to go viral—though search-engine optimization and other tricks of the digital age do receive plenty of consideration.

When the conversation turns to a vivid story from Liberia, where Ebola has overtaken a particular neighborhood in Monrovia, one editor proudly reports that she believes the Times is the only outlet with a reporter on the ground, which makes everyone happy until another editor says, "I think BuzzFeed actually has somebody there." There is momentary silence.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a14030/how-the-ne...
Its hard to underestimate the value of sending a thoughtful reply to an annoyed (potentially angry) reply to one of your automated messages.

^ as above, multiple opportunities have come from simply being empathetic to the fact that someone was tired of your automated emails. Being a real human helps.
He was arrested, not just suspended. It's fair to ask whether they would have avoided escalating that far for a white kid.

It's likewise reasonable to err on the side of caution when it comes to bomb threats, but the story didn't end there.
> For simple commutes and around town, you'd be better off jettisoning the weight and cost and getting a slightly bigger battery

I think the general desire for a plugin-hybrid is for the longer journeys so you don't need two cars.

> Trying to combine the benefits of all-electric with a hybrid is questionable.

It's a tricky trade-off but it's an interesting comparison.

For example, a 50 mile range may actually cover 80% of my travelling and so I could have a small battery and then use gas for the rest of the journeys. I don't need a 200 mile battery to get me up to 95% of my journeys.

It'll depend heavily on your actual variation on use though.
Some would argue being a platform for controversy is a good thing because it gets eyeballs and keeps you relevant.
Yeah, they probably did say "fuck western nations". Right after visiting the White House and the leader of the nation (and going to the Google science fair and meeting Sergey Brin). Right after that they decided "fuck the west".
Calling other people's arguments propaganda is empty useless rhetoric itself. Not sure how it contributes.
Interesting--thanks for all the additional details. Very interesting indeed about the WaPo.
Honestly, this sounds absolutely terrible. Why is the quality so much worse than, say, Google's TTS running on my phone?
In my place (and I live in a highly developed country, Germany) Google maps is missing a whole district of my city! Which leads to lots of people ending up in a dead end in a residential street, locking for the highway.

Well, it’s always funny, but with Google’s data not updated since 2005, they’re pretty useless.

It’s like Google only cares about the US.
> Can you tell me what the legally-mandated punishment is for bringing a non-weapon that resembles a weapon onto school grounds is?

Can you explain the relevance since -- except in the sense that every digital clock in existence resembles a fictional weapon through the Hollywood tendency to depict bombs as digital clock displays -- the actual device in question does not in any meaningful sense resemble a weapon.
The reason he was arrested was due to possession of a hoax bomb, not a misidentified not-bomb. That first thing is against school and state rules all on its own. After it was determined more or less that there was no intent to make something that looked like a bomb, he was released.

And as to lying about it being an invention: "Goes to character, your honor"

The 9V battery is responsible for maintaining settings in case of a power outage - I've got a clock similar to (but much newer than) that one on my nightstand - it does not power the device on its own.

He disregarded his eng. teacher's instructions.

If the "important thing" is that the police/teachers overreacted (which isn't in question.. zero tolerance is dumb), then why is the media, the goddamn president, and half of this thread trying to make it a race/islamophobia issue?
I did not realize that; looking things up I can verify your claim. There is an RFC out there for the ability to write constant time functions. That would be great and I hope it makes it in. Thanks for informing me.
Pretty high for a car company (typical margins are under 10%).

http://www.statista.com/statistics/280346/ebit-margin-of-the...

http://marketrealist.com/2015/02/intense-competition-leads-l...
mechanics generally do not see the all the cars in a given local area time and time again except for regular servicing.
At Stanford, an Affair Reveals Accusations of Discrimination
Yahoo and Google Together Again in New Search Deal
Did they take out those "debug" environment variables which turned on key logging and crypto bypass?
Even in movies, bombs usually have this thing known as "explosives" attached to them somewhere.
Why do you need asm! for it? .s files exist, and as far as I understand, are easy to link to.
> beta radiation. It's not as penetrating as alpha

That's the wrong way around. Alpha radiation barely penetrates at all.
> Ignoring Ahmed Mohamed's religion and race and pretending like it's not relevant doesn't change the fact that this entire incident is inextricably linked to the fact that he is Muslim and not white.

There are various forms of malice and incompetence that can explain the official acts at the basis of the incident, so while there is certainly plenty of reason to think that might be a significant factor, I think its far from clear that it is.

The responses to the incident from various circles certainly provide plenty of evidence of both racism and Islamophobia, but I don't think its fair to say that it is unambiguously the case that the whole incident boils down to that (though I don't think its particularly unlikely.)
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Mostly I think alternate spellings should be tolerated, and there should be fewer irregularities. I like a lot of Masha Bell's suggestions to simply make English spelling less irregular. http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2010/09/luv-u-giv.html

Keep a silent <e> at the end of a word if it makes a vowel "say its name", but drop it otherwise. Then we could make a spelling distinction between a political moderat who wants to moderate political discourse, for example. Take off the inkhorn <p> at the beginning of "ptarmigan", spell philosophy with an <f> at the beginning like they do in most of the Romance languages. The only reason night has a <gh> in the middle is because a thousand years ago it was pronounced with a velar fricative in the middle that standard English hasn't used for centuries. Why not just rite nite rite?

Etymology and historical sound change is fascinating, but it's an irregularity that makes literacy harder for grade schoolers. The spelling is not the language. And is it really the case that it's more important to spend classroom time teaching children centuries-obsolete spellings rather than deep reading skills or math?
There's a 9-volt battery cable clearly visible in every photo of the clock.

Many/most plug-in digital alarm clocks use a 9-volt battery to keep time in the event of a power failure, but the battery can't light the display. Some clocks will still sound their scheduled alarm if the battery is connected but AC power is not.

The volatility of this thread is pretty nuts, with posts rapidly alternating between gray and black with every reload, so this will be my only post. I just wanted to point out a common commercial alarm clock design element.
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Integrating with LLVM is almost definitely more work than just porting the simple compiler to multiple architectures. Plus, LLVM is actually the source of the difficulty of writing constant-time code using Rust's official compiler, because LLVM is too smart.
You're a much more constructive person than I! It would be interesting. Hook it up to a 360 panoramic camera to capture the source as well.
Neighborhood traffic circles are not modern roundabouts.
Many people confuse other and older styles of circular intersections with modern roundabouts. East coast rotaries, large multi-lane traffic circles (Arc D’Triomphe, Dupont Circle), and small neighborhood traffic circles are not modern roundabouts. If you want to see the difference between a traffic circle, a rotary (UK roundabout) and a modern roundabout (UK continental roundabout), go to http://tinyurl.com/kstate-RAB to see pictures. And here’s another site that shows the difference between an older rotary and a modern roundabout: http://tinyurl.com/bzf7qmg
I alluded to that in my last note. :)

If you properly define the functions (`c`, `f`, `g`, `t`), you can get the semantics of halted computation on failure. That is essentially what Haskell's `do` notation does.
If we had no prior knowledge, then that would be a safe assumption. However, we have the prior knowledge that we exist as life of normal matter, which biases the probabilities to normal matter being more supportive of life.
Bringing an imitation weapon into a school is a criminal offense in many places: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/06/virginia-boy-10-arreste....

I think that's really stupid and that people are too sensitive about school shootings, but that's an entirely different argument.
If it has a stop sign, it is a traffic circle with different rules than a modern roundabout.
A lot of social science, including economics, does not involve experiments. Perhaps you want to argue that social science is not science, but if so, I personally find your definition of science a bit restrictive.
One difference is Tesla stock is already priced as if they had already won the wider market.
Cute little lion learns how to roar
It's probably the best technology that the early 90s had to offer.

FTA:

gnuspeech is currently fully available as a
NextSTEP 3.x version in the SVN repository
along with the Gnu/Linux/GNUStep version,
which is incomplete though functional

Wikipedia[1]:

3.0 September 8, 1992
3.1 May 25, 1993
3.2 October 1993
3.3 February 1995

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Release_history
DMV manual fail.
All way stops have a small sign below the stop sign that says ALL WAY. Any stop sign without that rider sign is not at an all way stop intersection.
Pretty neat. It'd be cool to see some enhancements to the interface. For example, having some feedback on hitting the white dots would be nice. Maybe they turn red, or the surrounding area flashes a color. Also, a countdown starting timer could be projected near the players head so they know when to start. Also some indicator arrows that are always shining near the player so they know where the other dots are, which may be hard to see depending on the wall's shape.
Socially, I'd think in most parts of the country he can choose between being "hey, check out the funny story behind my 15 mins of fame Ahmed" to his friends, "I too have been a victim of police oppression Ahmed" or just another normal kid with an extremely common Islamic name. I doubt many of your friends that think he's a terrorist would recognise him if he walked past them on the street tomorrow, unless he happened to be carrying a clock.
Buzzfeed surprise aside, since the states are really in a bind on getting these drugs, it is in their interest to ask few questions and not look too closely at the answers. Which is pretty sad, the folks who have tried to prevent executions are at risk for making executions more gruesome by the state using drugs that aren't up to the task. I don't know if they can make this situation any worse.
Traffic circles and rotaries are not modern roundabouts.
If any of the entry lanes has a stop sign, it’s not a modern roundabout.
If you could play a game of football in the center landscaped area, it’s not a modern roundabout.
If the circular roadway has a stop sign, yield sign or signal, it’s not a modern roundabout.
If you don’t have to slow down to enter it, it’s not a modern roundabout.
If you have to change lanes in the circular roadway to exit, it’s not a modern roundabout.
If you can easily drive faster than 20 mph in the circular roadway, it’s not a modern roundabout.
If it has a park for pedestrians, or a building, in the middle, it’s not a modern roundabout.
Graduated in '04. Didn't have a job upon graduation, haven't found one willing to hire an unemployed person since. Everyone in software development is blind to the problems.
> It would have been the perfect opportunity to talk about how fucked up our school administrations and their "zero tolerance" policies are, and instead everyone wasted their time rehashing the same old arguments about race that we have every day

Actually, most of the early response from public critics -- and most of the major-actor outreach to counter the official sanction directed at the student -- seemed to focus largely on the lack of sensibility of the administration and it being a failure of authoritarianism stifling harmless youthful experimentation. There was some speculation about the official reaction potentially having racist motivation, but the issue becoming principally about racial and/or religious bigotry really kind of took off as defenders of the actions by the school (or those just wanting to bash Obama because politics) started arguing that the student must have been guilty of doing something wrong, even if it wasn't actually building a bomb, because of his families background.
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Dress Codes are simply another method of control and indoctrination (meaning directed education with a preconditional bias). Whether that is good or bad, necessary or superfluous, is a matter open to debate.

The problem is that, if we cannot agree on this fundamental precept, then any discussion as to the good or bad of a dress code is unproductive.
It is possible that dark matter interacts with forces that we have not discovered.

We have been able to make some inferences about the structure of dark matter, but I believe our methods are not precise enough to detect small features.
Looks like repository removed? GitLab looks to be up and functioning properly, https://status.gitlab.com
So here's a question...are there any ways we can definitively detect these vans (ie. something that can detect a large source of x-rays being emitted)?

If so, are there consequences for identifying and making it known to those nearby that "this van is scanning you without your knowledge/permission?"
Another solution: the states can stop killing people.