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I hope this is sarcasm.

I don't understand how this board only "uses 2 pins". The schematic shows the ezLCD component still uses 7 pins for I/O. Using the SPI bus requires 4 pins and the other 3 are presumably for the touchscreen sensing. The board still has the full Uno footprint, so you could connect other stuff to those pins at the same time, but you couldn't do anything with them while driving the LCD.

> The company intends to jettison the jobs without laying off workers, said Intel spokesman Bill Calder. The reductions instead will be achieved through attrition, buyouts and early retirement offers.

And free fruit!

Not sure if you read the links, but I think they were posted here to (accurately) point out that overgard's comment contains two really common tropes that people use to dismiss men talking about feminism. Each post is like two paragraphs long and not particularly controversial, so a comparison to the Bible is pretty far off.

Let me get this straight. The previous comment pointed out that naming this program in a gendered way that references the sexist concept of "brogramming" is unnecessary/stupid. You interpreted this as an attack on the right for men to take pride in their manhood? Really?

I wonder what sort of proof you are looking for. I too would love to see some studies on this. Is there a percentage at which you would care? In the mean time, I'll send you this link as well -- http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents -- to at least show that this exact type of incident happens all the time.

Looks like you have some reading to do. Here's a good place to start: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents

How many more posts like this are needed to convince you that the whole community of tech meetups is hostile towards women?

Of course that individual deserves the lion's share of the blame, but writing this off as an isolated individual acting inappropriately misses the forest for the trees (i.e. misses the root cause [culture] for the proximate cause [assholes]).

To further analogize, perhaps the bad apple was there because the bushel was poisoned?

Using the AP Computer Science exam as a proxy for all computer science education is seriously shortsighted.

Check out TicTocTrac (http://www.tictoctrac.com/). Open source watch that monitors when you check the time, and lets you track time perception whenever you want (instead of buzzing you every 5 minutes, you tap to start the test and then tap when you think X minutes have elapsed). You can save the data and use the site to visualize it later. The BOM comes to about $55.

Those 3 locations (all at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn) are "representative of the types of properties that may be available following submission of an application by the relevant university/college and approval by ESD and/or the Start-Up Approval Board". So, you could work with any university in NYC, not just SUNY Downstate (although the campus is a really nice spot for startups as well!)

NYU Poly operates incubators at Jay St/MetroTech in Brooklyn and Varick St in Manhattan. Columbia has a biotech incubator (AUDOBON) in Washington Heights. Cornell has 22k ft^2 in Google's building in Chelsea. All of those sounds like they would qualify (if you could get the right people on board)

> no point in being ethical if no one notices.

No meaning to ethics if this is your philosophy.

This basically adds no new information about Tor, except what we already knew -- that you should really have a private bridge, and that Tor traffic is readily discernible from normal traffic (hence, avoid using it on networks where authorization is linked to your identity!). The affidavit doesn't say how they linked the GuerillaMail address to Tor, presumably they used a subpoena.

He could have easily avoided detection (not to say that would have been a good thing) by using something like SkypeMorph (https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/software/CodeTalkerTunnel.html)

Why bother risking expulsion/FBI charges/a tainted professional reputation for the rest of your life for more time on a test? Even if he succeeded, I doubt anyone could pull something like that off and then focus on schoolwork for the next day or two. Plus, <insert snarky comment about Harvard grade inflation here>.

That may have something to do with college (at least public universities) being free in Iceland and outrageously expensive in the United States.

This was a peaceful protest, not vigilante justice. Some people were unable to get to work on time. Where's the outrage about union workers not being able to get to work during a picketed protest?

That analogy is just a tiny bit more extreme then what actually happened.

What do you mean by "be toxic"? And how do you expect people to work against income inequality without calling it what it is?

Your comment ("lol income inequality") is dripping in upper-class privilege, as if you're the one suffering when poor people bring up things like the disappearing middle class & tax breaks for the wealthy -- because they're being "toxic".

They are not paying for permits. The MTA has proposed a permit system for a limited number of shared private/public bus stops, but it has not been introduced, voted on, or even released publicly, and has lingered since as early as October 2012[1].

Even if the pilot program succeeds (maybe some time next year), and Google, et. al., start paying for bus stop permits, there's still the issue of the city turning a blind eye to all the illegal stops that have gone on for the last 5 years or so.

It's great for the city to create a program that encourages mass transportation, but subsidizing it for only a select class of people is a poor use of public funds at best, and discriminatory at worst.

[1] http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/rules-proposed-for-co...

The author's point is that URLs are not pages -- they are just pointers to information, and that (a) by design, they should be static and uniform, and (b) there is no reason that URLs cannot be used for both person- and machine-readable information.

Looks like they updated the article to read "File Transfer Protocol (FTP, the standard network used when transferring big files)". Better, although it's still wrong to call FTP a "network".

This seems like an appropriate place to plug http://adainitiative.org/ -- advocacy group working to change the culture of tech conferences.

That would completely defeat the purpose of the extension.

I can't believe this isn't satire. To me it exemplifies the exponentially growing hubris emanating from Silicon Valley -- namely, that the products being built are more significant than the people who use them. Saying that what's been built so far could replace the rest of society without a problem is this logic taken to its absurd extreme.

Take, for example, passages like "Uber and Airbnb challenge the regulatory state personified by Washington" -- which I guess is intended to imply that the state is personified best by its role in regulating taxis and hotels? As if Silicon Valley has a workable alternative to infrastructure, energy, the justice system, police, hospitals, primary education, and the rest of the $4 tr federal budget.

I laughed the most at "The Quantified Self movement helps people self-measure and opt out of the health care system." Yes, because measuring your heart rate while waiting in line at Peet's does wonders for people with chronic illnesses.

And, of course, Srinivasan's suggestion that people who sneer at his "frontier" must also "hate technology". No, I just hate when people assume it will inevitably solve all problems. If society at large begins to "backlash" to Silicon Valley, it's for that very reason.

You might be interested in knowing that your comment consists only of sentence fragments, and that you are on Hacker News and not 4chan.

I worked as a technology intern at a large investment bank for one summer, and my salary was a prorated 80k. The IB kids were making about the same (although they worked many, many more hours than we did). This was 2 years ago.

N.B.: This was awful and I am now safely far, far away from the banking industry.

Or we could build technology that doesn't cause people to crash cars when using it. Such technology would also have the benefit of being nicer and easier to use than looking down at a phone while driving.

Trying to lock users out is doomed to fail. Many solutions would have a "snooze button" effect where people might be more distracted by the additional effort to get around the lock. Others might end up being far too restrictive (what about passengers? people in buses or trains? people in emergency situations?).

Technology is also only a small part of distracted driving. It's still perfectly legal for me to eat a Big Mac and fries while having a heated debate with passengers and adjusting the car stereo while driving. We ought to build (1) a culture that strongly discourages this, and (2) cars that build in safety features (driver alertness detection, etc) while reducing the attention requirements of the driver (automatic collision avoidance, self-driving cars...)

I think the author's point was more that there is value in an educational tool that encourages kids to hack on it in an unsupervised, unstructured way. Of course there are better interfaces than TI. But the replacement educational tools (iPads in particular) don't really have that same freedom to hack (or at least the barrier to entry is much higher).

Of course Moore's Law will end eventually, but that doesn't mean that improvements in processor technology won't come from somewhere other than transistor density. Most likely, we'll see 2x+ improvements from one or more of graphene transistors, 3D chips, optical circuits, quantum computing...