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For some schools, including all schools in the UC system, CS majors have to take EE classes as part of their requirements. I remember having to setup and program gates and the sort…

_You don't need to be able to see the camera to respond to messages in the bottom half of the screen._ But the camera _does_ need to see you in order to unlock in this case. You ca…

During my time of service this was an oft repeated bastardization of Admiral Nimitz' quote: Common sense was an uncommon virtue.

Right. You used to have to see the ads during the actual game, but now they show the ads that will be shown during the game during the "news" in a "you have to watch these ads" seg…

In California, there is the "Shine the Light" law [0] that requires a company to release third-party information to a consumer if there is identifiable information given to third-p…

I just looked into why that is the case and if you hover over the little dropdown carrot for the "3.8 out of 5" you see this: Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings using a mac…

On mobile, at least Safari iOS, all the AMP results are at the very top. I can't even see the first non-AMP result unless I'm in portrait.

It looks like in Los Angeles this could become a reality soon. At least for a year: http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-garcetti-co...

My corporate CitiBank card required me to set a pin when they switched to chip cards. All my other chip cards have been chip and signature though.

scorecardresearch is the endpoint for comScore which is used to do exactly what you mentioned. Imgur buys the data from comScore as a sort of "online Nielsen rating" in order to se…

I almost bought a Prius for this exact reason a couple of years ago. Unfortunately(?) the emissions requirements is now limited to electric or plug-in hybrid models now.

CalTech didn't make it, so I guess Knuth would be out of the running ;-)

This was submitted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9414211

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...

Some locks do have alert features [0] so you should at least know it was opened. It won't stop a thief, but at least it lets you know when someone was looking. That is, if it makes…

I think the difference is that you're only funding the company if it reaches the point where it won't fail due to lack of funding. They're supposed to have all costs associated wit…

You can donate to a 501c up to I believe $5000 anonymously.

Yup, you're correct. In the attached pdf [1] it says the complainant alleged that Smart City transmitted deauthentication frames to prevent the complainant’s customers’ use of thei…

Agree. They should be fined just for charging people $80 a day to connect to their network.

I can't find the HN link, but I think this is the article you are referring to: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2909589/microsoft-subnet...

This reminds me of an anecdote that a Marine officer once told me. He said that when the Air Force builds a new base, they're given a certain budget and they build every part of th…