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Markup + import tax (as another commenter remarked) would not really allow a competitive price range. Only way to get around that would be to assemble it in the country itself (assuming the components can be imported without those taxes)
I am no Rasberry expect, so I need to ask: Is it possible to connect Rassbery Zero to some network in some convenient way?
> I know Brazil has prohibitive import duties on electronics, does this also apply to Chile?

To be honest, I'm not sure. VAT here is 19%, so if you are assessed duties on things you bring, you'll often pay that rate. However, I don't know what the rates are like for merchants importhing goods for sale.
What's going on here, exactly?
In a small community, when one person knows something, everybody knows it. One rumour, one false accusation and suddenly literally everybody you interact with knows and can judge you for it.

I'd far prefer a lack of privacy in a large community than a small one.
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Rush hour and xmas season traffic gets horribad, that's going across the city though. Staying inside certain boroughs usually isn't as bad.
This. I'm not a designer, but my wife is (we met in a design studio I was prototyping for). We were just having this conversation yesterday about how design is "appreciated" in her company, basically going through every point you listed above. It takes a huge cultural change in a company to make something better than "design by engineer" desirable. Many companies want jack of all trade generalists who can code a bit and design a bit, meaning they can be reassigned easily enough to where the work happens to be at the moment. But at the end of the day, it's all mediocre output (though sadly, it is considered acceptable).

And then anyone who plays around with photoshop or illustrator for a few days seems to think they are ready for a visual design career (and interaction design is worse!). Who needs design school? So people encounter so many bad poorly trained and experienced designers that their expectations of the profession begin to be lowered. It is frustrating for those who actually went through hard work to become skilled and experienced UXDs.

I'm personally a PL designer and see the same issues in our field (well, it is very niche, and anyone who can write a compiler wants to design a language....).
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Pascal falls into an unfortunate niche:

- It's nowhere near new and trendy enough to have a bandwagon (e.g. Node, Go, Rust)

- It's not obscure enough to have a retro-cool following (e.g. Tcl, Forth)

- It doesn't blaze any theoretical trails in computer science today (e.g. Haskell)

- It's not associated with any evil corporate entity, allowing you to praise it "ironically" (e.g. C#)

However, I find it to be a really pleasant language to work with, at least for side projects and the occasional cross-platform GUI app. It's a clean, easy-to-learn imperative style throwback... with respectable support for object-orientation (NOTE: Everything in this comment is directed toward Free Pascal's support for Delphi-compatible Object Pascal. I haven't written old school non-OO Pascal since the 1980's).

In a nutshell... the language syntax feels like Golang dropped its curly braces, and finally added generics!

I believe that the Lazarus IDE and GUI libary for Free Pascal (http://www.lazarus-ide.org) is by far the most compelling option out there for this common use case:

- You want to write a desktop GUI application, supporting OSX, Windows, and Linux from the same codebase.

- You strongly prefer static-typed languages. You don't want to cobble together a GTK app with Python or Ruby, and you REALLY don't want to embed three-quarters of Chrome and have to write your app in HTML and JavaScript.

- You want AOT compilation down to a standalone executable. You don't want to depend on the target machines having a Java VM or Mono installed. You don't want to wait another several years for Java AOT or .NET Native to become serious reality, and you don't want to deal with the flakiness of Mono's "mkbundle" tool.

- Life's too short to install a couple gigabytes worth of Qt, or try to make wxWidgets build properly on a Windows machine, and become proficient with C++.

If at least a few of the bullet-points above apply to you, then Free Pascal and Lazarus are definitely worth a look!
What you can do with hybrid apps. The wide and interesting spectrum
Author modified his OS kernel to set the "Evil Bit" (as proposed in RFC3514) on every TCP Packet Header. Having scanned the Alexa 100K, the author found that some servers actually followed RFC3514 and dropped traffic with the Evil bit set.
This site has some numbers: http://www.kunger.at/161540/1591397/overview/farm-432-insect...
You are correct, UUIDs are a pain because they're large and hard to remember/compare when debugging. But, they can be useful for internal functionality in DB engines also. One of our database engine products uses them with the manifests attached to replicated updates. A UUID uniquely identifies each table being replicated (assigned when a table is "published"), and the manifest contains the list of UUIDs that have loaded the update. That way the engine knows whether a particular table can safely ignore the update, which is important with bi-directional replication.
"Your carbon footprint rating for this year is 'fair', but I'll raise your assessment to 'excellent' if you eat a bug."
What speakers/mic/battery/wifi dongle would be best to pair with this if I wanted to make my own open version of the Amazon Echo?

I could see printing a 3D shell and selling a kit for $20 with the appeal of users being able to easily break it down if they wanted to repurpose the RPi.
Palestinian territories to get 3G in mid-2016
Rust is trying to improve the quality of core infrastructure, not random CRUD apps. It takes time for large companies to rewrite and migrate these systems, but it is indeed happening behind closed doors (source: private conversations with said companies).

It's been less than a year since Rust 1.0.
Or dwarf planets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet#Contention
"is a little cheaper (1 person), about the same (2 pers) ..."

Living in any city with a decent transit infrastructure (I know, that isn't by any means all the medium-large cities in north america) this calculation really isn't realistic.

It's more like owning a car is 4-8x as expensive as transit (only), so your break even is more like the 3-4 people. The calculation changes a little bit if you live in the suburbs, but it is still more expensive than most people realize to maintain a car (mostly people do this calculation wrong by ignoring depreciation and incidental costs, even financing)

For what it is worth, in the downtown area I live in, average monthly parking rates are about the same cost as unlimited transit usage....

This doesn't speak to your other points, and I totally get why people want to own cars, but they should be realistic about the choices.

In several cities I've lived in, it is entirely possible to a) not own a car b) have unlimited transit pass plus c) take a cab back from groceries every weekend plus d) rent a car or trunk whenever you need it on a weekend -- and still end up a couple thousand dollars ahead (or more) at the end of the year. And that's assuming a cheap car. Sure, it doesn't apply to everyone's situations but it's also not terribly unusual.
Will You Be Able to Run a Modern Desktop Environment in 2016 Without Systemd?
Right, vegans are not protein deficient and many people thrive on high carb diets (see blue zones, adventist health studies, etc.) Unfortunately we've all been bombarded with the protein myth (more protein == healthier) and even the smart people of HN can't seem to question this belief objectively.
"The right of privacy" was coined in 1890, inspired by fears of the polaroid camera

First commercial instant camera was available in 1948, by Polaroid (which itself was created in 1937).
It's flying off the shelves, had to vist three news outlets to find one! I got a spare one for a family member too, but if they change their mind I'll gladly post to a UK address.
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The word privacy is complex and might have grown to have too many meanings. There's privacy like not wanting people to see you naked, having sex or using the bathroom. Then there's privacy like not sharing a living space with several other people. Then there's privacy like online tracking and keeping certain information from being public or easily discoverable.

People seem to use those concepts interchangeably, which only clouds the issue. Someone from a small town might not mind sharing a living space, but object to online tracking. Or someone could say "I have nothing to hide" in regard to their daily communications, but still not want their showers to be broadcast. Or an exhibitionist could have no problem with public showering, but draw the line at sharing a bedroom with two other people.

So when people say that privacy is dying, which kind of privacy do they mean? "All of the above" is a valid answer, but the situation is probably more nuanced. This particular post provides an interesting view, but still lumps a lot of concepts together.
Errata:
[1] in the end-notes was supposed to be a link to the notorious EC5 equality. http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/programming-co...

What was actually annotated as [1] in the end-notes should have been annotated as [2] with the proper link. The "IDE[1]" annotation should be altered to "IDE[2]".
Maybe they are too polite to say, but I had a quick look at the profile and followed some links to the home page[0] and Patreon page[1]. Also really enjoyed reading the first chapter of Decrypting Rita!

Best of luck with your work.

[0] - http://egypt.urnash.com/
[1] - https://www.patreon.com/egypturnash?ty=h
Has anyone tried this adapter with any of the Pi variants?
Are Domestic and Wild Salmon Still the Same Species?
If your use case is comparable to a desktop machine, maybe the RPi isn't the best choice for you. You'd get a lot more power from an old laptop, though obviously in a larger form-factor.
Nothing about toilet privacy which also was technologically induced not innate.
A Dilbert comic, which I quoted upthread, had the PHB getting Wally and Dilbert to eat bugs as a test of what they're willing to do for his approval. The "insect diet" proposals are the same and that's all they are. The Earth is in crisis; are you willing to eat bugs if that's what it takes to save the environment? No? Then fuck you. Into the chipper-shredder with you, we'll recycle you into protein for starving refugees.
So are those the rules now?
If we consider some thing to be worthy we can post it again and again and again?
Understanding garbage collection and hunting memory leaks in Node.js
I have been running the Pi since 2012 from the early days of Raspbmc to OSMC and sometime in 2013 starting watching and recording television using it.

I have ATSC (North American Over-The-Air TV) which is similar to DVB-T. I use an HDHomerun Network TV tuner. I watch using my Pi running OSMC and an Add-on for DVBLink, and when I select record, I use DVBLink software which runs on my Synology NAS. DVBLink however is paid software that can run on the Pi, as well as many other platforms (Windows, Linux, Asustor, Netgear, QNAP, Synology, Western Digital).

I tried using TVHeadend but found the interface and support of DVBLink to be better.

My other Pi currently runs Volumio (https://volumio.org) for music streaming.
By that logic the government is hiding the fact that vegetables aren't economically sustainable either. You're just changing your definition of sustainable to fit your argument (from ecologically to economically and then back to ecologically when the economic part was shown to be false). Pick a definition and stick to it.
The RFC is from 1990, the implementation from 2001.
Like the RPi compute module?
Overcoming TvOS Development Challenges
Probably bind or httpd ... the fundamental tools that took the internet and transformed it in to the World Wide Web. I wouldn't have a career, a hobby, a financee, or 20 years of interesting experiences without them (well, I would, but it'd have been very different, and possibly worse, so yay for the web).

Plus they've helped a few other people do some cool stuff too as far as I can tell.
> Government subsidies don't actually lower economic prices. They just change who pays. Removing those subsidies would double most meat prices which means there far less 'cheap'.

Removing those subsidies would not affect only meat.
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Yes, it's unfortunately sloppy and overstates the case, but there is interesting material in there.
In Hong Kong, it is commonly referred to as the MTR (the company that operates it).
What is good for children is most often also good for adults.
Google for PC/104 its exactly what you're looking for although its aimed at industrial control users (and unfortunately priced accordingly)

Of course if you could guarantee a production run of 5 million then a contemporary PC/104 board could probably cost as little as a ras-pi.

Note that there's PC/104 the concept and form factor, and another concept with the same name was a 104 pin header that was vaguely a PC/AT bus. After all, S-100 can do almost anything so an extra 4 pins shouldn't hurt anything LOL. Anyway my point is if you find references to the 80s era 286-AT level of performance bus, don't worry for a decade there's been stackable PCI equivalents and all that.

Something to think about WRT "limited" PC/104 bus speed is its not like spec-ing gamer graphics cards... if the purpose of the bus is to connect a 4 kilosamples/sec 12 bit A/D converter, even something as slow as RS-232 would not be a limiting factor, for example.
Just a little bit more:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Best-prices-UNO-R3-MEGA328P-f...

But if you are not planning on using shields you can get arduino mini for ~$1.3 or nano for ~$1.8
Too bad they didn't include camera module connector (CSI). Low-latency hardware-encoded h264 stream from camera is one of the most cool features in RPi platform. The Zero would be great e.g. for FPV fying folks, if it supported camera module. (USB cameras aren't answer here, as they typically don't have low-latency hw-encoding.)
Or wcummings is actually a compiler who closed the quote at the second double-quote mark, when a human would have read it as nested.
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Absolutely false:

http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/compiling_android_apps_delph...
Yes, I meant Brazil.
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Awesome-transit
This is reminiscent of The Toaster Project[0] a really interesting book written by an art student as he attempts to build a toaster from scratch. Including visiting disused mines and making a plastic mould out of a tree trunk.

[0] - http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm
Gotta be Tim Pope's vim plugins for me. I can't imagine how unproductive my everyday existence would be without Fugitive, Projectionist, Dispatch, Unimpaired, the list goes on and on.
"30 years ago I was discussing these arguments between those using Assembly and those that dared to use C, Pascal, Basic and Modula-2 in home computers.

20 years ago I was discussing these arguments between those using C, Turbo Pascal and those that dared to use C++, Object Pascal features in Turbo Pascal/Delphi."

Nice take on it. :)

"But I would rather have a full stack language that offers me the safety of Algol languages, without C underpinnings."

Exactly. That's always a Pascal advantage. You can be clear on exactly what it does and it's probably safe by default.
The Evian Conference 1938 (refugees in Europe 1938)
How much of the japanese diet is actually made up of soy? The numbers I've seen are <5%.
This just the maximum likely hood test. Which is a frequentist method.
I recommended it to companies as a future-proof language back in the day because of how easy it was to understand and the better safety than C. I told them that would pay off in maintenance mode plus a compiler or whatever would be easy to write if its support dwindled. Wirth's stuff is just inherently so simple.

Most went with C or C++. I hear the codebases are a b to work with. ;)
Trusted Product Security Evaluation Program (1990)
Welcome to the world of being an "old" programmer.
Side note: sometimes they weren't even a treat for the elite, they were rented to display in parties, and then returned.
What's this stack for? I'd be very surprised if it beat PC hardware + GPU for MIPS or FLOPS per $ or watt.
While a very good story, I suspect the offending firewalls might drop traffic with any of the reserved bits set, not just the "evil" bit. Very fun exercise though!
What I would like to know more about is how to power these gadgets. Say I want a sensor that sends data to a server. Do I need to plug it into a power outlet? Can I run it off a battery for a significant amount of time (months)? Can I use solar power? How much power does WiFi consume, or should I look into Bluetooth or ZigBee?
This:

> it makes sense to make the library lean and lacking obvious bloats, or at least make efficient code paths possible without forcing the application programmer to indulge in excessive verbosity.

Does not apply to these people:

> It's hard enough teaching people to avoid inefficiency when it's right there in front of them, and harder still when you encapsulate inefficiency in a pretty package.

who, by definition, are not experienced enough to write code that is sufficiently lean and lacking obvious bloat, or at least make efficient code paths possible. If they were, then they won't have a problem with the pretty package either.
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Which static language should supposedly have won?
Wait for this ;)
http://hackaday.com/2015/11/06/the-latest-best-wifi-module-h...
It's possible to connect HDMI display to GPIO pins[1]. Maybe similar technique is also possible with CSI camera connector?

[1] http://www.adafruit.com/product/2453
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Make it work, then make it fast.

I hear a lot of people complain about higher levels of abstraction in languages like C and C++, because they take away control or don't allow them to squeeze every last drop of performance out of their programs.

I also see a lot of software in the wild that was programmed in C and C++ and runs very fast... but is buggy as hell or has pretty nasty security bugs.

The fact is that, regardless how good you think you are, most likely you're not one of the few people who can write fast, bug-free[0] software in C and C++. I certainly am not despite having written quite a bit of C and C++ in the over the years. The amount of high-impact bugs (especially security bugs, eg Heartbleed)

[0] Where I really mean: no severe bugs (data corruption, data loss, security flaws)
Pool lanes are not about the "compression factor" they create right where they are. Between "natural" multipassenger vehicle occupation and the occasional underutilization they would indeed be very unlikely to ever cause a local net improvement. But if they occasionally do motivate actual pooling, that "compression" will carry on to roads without a pool lane because the passengers won't pop out their magical inflatable cars from the trunk once the pool lane ends. Therefore, actual usefulness not only depends on the amount of lane-generated pooling and the level of local underutilization (which needs to be non-null to provide a pooling incentive), but also on the fraction of regular road vs pool-laned road distance traveled under "lane motivated" multipassenger occupation.

The net result might still be negative, but a purely local observation on pool lanes cannot be enough to come to a meaningful conclusion.
This seems like a really bad thing to do. If any of those reserved bits get used for a legitimate purpose in the future then none of these networks will be accessible. Reserved should mean "set to 0 when you send, ignore on when you receive". It's not like these bits actually cost any additional processing. There's literally no benefit to dropping these packets, and it's shenanigans like this that mean we can't improve protocols easily in the future.

I wonder how many routers are filtering IPv4 packets with fragment offsets of 8190 and 8191?
Borland's Delphi (now Embarcadaro) was a platform that made apps faster than C/C++, easier to read, less crashes, less undefined behavior, easy to extend, and so on. The properties of Pascal made it the closest thing to an ideal language for future-proof apps back then. I predicted that, if Borland failed, it would be straight-forward enough to create a replacement stack due to Pascal's focus on simplicity. It was good to see each iteration of Free Pascal do exactly that.

Not sure if I'd recommend Pascal today given whats available. It's still one of easiest to pick up and should be effectively future-proof. Way better than ending up with COBOL, C, etc codebases. Maybe those will be its legacy. Another part is Pascal/P showing how to do portability "like a boss." :)
> These symbols become part of the city's identity, I'd say that's pretty important.

Vastly more important is the proper purpose of the signage. It signals to someone unfamiliar with the surroundings there is an underground train station here. The targeted persons who require this signage and are helped most by it are predominantly not residents of the city and therefore have little reason to feel identity or affiliation.

Much like regulated traffic signs, it is better that cities do not design their own unique logos, but use a standardised one. See the paragraph on http://mic-ro.com/metro/metrologos.html starting with "Some logos are ubiquitous, at least nationwide" for places where cooperation won out over individuality.
The Inductivist Turkey and Thanksgiving: why we shouldn't rely on our experience
Make a payment to see "we are fully booked till next year"? I think using callbacks to trigger stripe's checkout.js is not that hard, unless you hate your users.
Highway strip
Not exclusively, but indeed the two main vectors for both dengue and chikungunya are Aedes aegypti and aedes albopictus. Several other species are at least somewhat capable of transmitting these viruses.
Highly unlikely. For a market as immense as the USA that is way too high. For small markets it'll never pay the labor and local-FCC-equivalent certification costs. There would be tradeoffs and other problems; some countries are very locked down and unamused at the idea of someone telling their wifi they are in Japan despite being somewhere else thus enabling unusual power and freq limitations. Small countries and markets would be discriminated against, likely never getting a pi legally shipped to them, an intentionally avoiding serving poor people is kind of counter to most of the politics and rhetoric of the group.

There is a compromise of putting a port on the thing where a locally puchased wifi dongle could be installed. The port would have to provide power and be fast enough to be wifi usable. It would be really nice if that port were popular. The Pi People seem to like community building and a USA distributor could bundle a USA FCC certified wifi adapter with every board, just plug it in. That port is called the USB port. So the solution to various implementation problems devolves into the current situation.
You may be interested in CHIP. 8 USD (this Monday only), and includes wi-fi as well as integrated flash storage.

http://getchip.com/
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Apparently the emergence of Go, Rust et al. is a sign that static typing has "won".

I'd more argue it's a sign that C and its derivatives are ripe to be replaced.
In Boston it is also the T (properly stylized as T⃝ if you have a good Unicode renderer). It doesn't stand for anything (it's run by the MBTA, and it's not ever called anything but "the T"), though Wikipedia tells me the logo is modeled after that of Stockholm's.