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> > .. an irrelevant "me too" mobile os

> [citation needed]

It's been developed for more than 4 years and still nobody wants it: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/ultrac...

Now they're going to compete at the high-end, which means they have to find OEMs that will bet their flagship models on it. Good luck with that.

There are three elements to OS choice: standardization, marketing and openness. Looking at the desktop market, you can see how Microsoft dominated standardization, Apple managed to dominate marketing, and Linux used its unrivaled openness to sneak in between the two.

In the mobile world, Android already occupies two of those slots, basically pre-empting any linux-like effort from ever gaining significant traction. That means the only ways you can break in the mobile OS market (assuming you're not producing breakthrough tech creating its own market) are 1) flooding the market with such a massive amount of units that standardization stops being a factor, or 2) flooding the airwaves with such a massive amount of excellent advertising that your devices become more desirable than Apple ones. Good luck with that.

(Note how price is not a factor. Mobile devices are inherently aspirational, as Nokia found out.)

The hard truth is that the land grab is over: if your mobile OS has not made it yet, chances are that it never will -- at least as long as devices stay in this particular form factor and nobody comes up with groundbreaking tech.

Mozilla should concentrate on standards, including a kick-ass Android browser; everything else is a waste of time.
I picked one up because why not but now I need to also buy several adapters so that I can use it.
I think of it as a space to explore. Punctuation is another preexisting visual aid in parsing. However, printed text is rather limited compared to the ways a computer can style text dynamically for you.

Edit: The fact that this capitalization disappeared suggest the returns from the effort of capitalization weren't so great. But now the investment per word is much lower because the process can be automated.
How does configuration of Cloudflare work? It happened to me too, so it doesn't sound like an isolated incident. I guess this affects thousands of people.
Amusing that most people I speak to (including myself) fall into this category.

Great deal nonetheless, especially when considering the bit where he mentioned being much faster that version 1, which is considerably slow if you ask me.
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> eg: the core of SF, NYC and Boston are well served by public transit

SF is, I think, a glaring opposite example: a city whose density should support transit, but which does not have it. Not a single part of SF is served by what I'd consider "modern" rapid transit, meaning average higher than 30 mph, frequent headways during the day (~3-5 minutes), and 24/7 service with at least some reasonable frequency (~20-30 minute headways off-peak). One smallish corridor of SF is served by what I'd consider 2nd-tier rapid transit, the BART corridor, which isn't 24/7, and has relatively infrequent trains even during the day, but at least averages an OK speed when it does run. Most of the city instead has 1920s-level transit. For example, to get from the Outer Sunset to the Caltrain station is about 45 minutes on a streetcar. This is a distance of 6 miles, which should take about 15 minutes on a metro.
£5.99 if you can still find the MagPi magazine with one on the cover. I picked up two on my walk in to work this morning.
We're not talking about America. In case you've missed the context, the United States Constitution doesn't apply in the United Kingdom.
Raspberry still costs more than 100$ in my country, due the rarity of such tools sometimes we found ourselves obliged to buy it with that price and pay the difference, and even though this is such a great step, i really doubt it would have any effect on 3rd world countries where this is really needed.
It's a pointy slab serif M [1], though there are numerous variations as the "brand management" wasn't exactly the thing back in 1930s... or 40s, or even 80s.

[1] http://imgur.com/Q7rHRlx
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...Delphi's not dead - see http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi, now it's cross platform, modern language features - generics, lambdas etc etc. Writing a Mac app in it right now :-)
> For example, to get from the Outer Sunset to the Caltrain station is about 45 minutes on a streetcar. This is a distance of 6 miles

Yikes; you could walk nearly that fast.
I can write up the sensor setup I have at home, if you want. It has motion, temperature, humidity, light sensors and IR/RF remotes for controlling devices, and a burglar alarm.
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...

And many others, but not so many compared to the whole list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems

At least, I'd like to think this is a success, but it's taken how many years to get here, and it's a closed system with so many variables under control compared to a car.
I find the lack of ethernet or wifi concerning. I get that they're trying to keep it small and low cost, but I can't immediately see any use for a Pi that can't run standalone.
I know what you mean.

I have a Tessel here (Nodejs base micro controller) and never used it...
media player with an external HDD for content.
Why the huge difference in costs..? International shipping..?
Here a discussion of three months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064657
There's none. It'll try to load non-existing pictures.
You are the first person I've seen to ever include the rightmost dot in the domain name in a comment on the internet!
That's because they're throwing in a HDMI cable as well as an OTG cable.
So you're basically saying you're not getting enough value for $5?
It's almost nonexistent in the market, so people having it, take advantage and sell it for imaginary prices compared to the original prices.
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That's a pretty cool link, thanks for sharing!
hm, I probably should check now, but were I live (non US), the last time I've checked zigbee prices started from 19$ :(

But still the best thing will be that:

- you will not need any dongles

- can embed your project immediately

- better compatibility with hardware and software (hopefully) :)
I somehow don't think this is what they mean with "eating insects is the future" with the $700 worm hive and $300 ant booze.
Not just an ethernet cable, I think. From the images it looks like there's no Ethernet port on the RPi Zero.
> the imitation leaves out the ground connection

Genuine Apple adaptors come with plugs with plastic earth pins. You can feel the tingle from leakage current with such plugs.
I suspect it's due to the combination of low sales volumes and import taxes. Here in Chile, Pi B's are around $50–60.
Though to be fair, traditional PCs and laptops are more expensive than in the US (but not 2x as expensive).
I like it but it should support more versatile times, right now I can only make it use full hours.
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That's encouraging news, this is something I've wanted to tinker with. The only time I tried to get into extension making (which, to be fair to them, was 6 or 7 years ago), it seemed a complicated thing with rather poor documentation.

How would one go about getting started in this now? I hear there's "old style addons", jetpack-based ones, and something about making it Electrolysis-compatible... and then there's WebExtensions looming in the horizon. Could you give me one definite starting point that's reasonably modern and future-proof?
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It's out of stock :(
If your application absolutely needs virtual memory or some other "full OS" feature, you probably should run it on a full OS instead. If applicable, you can always consider building your own, application-specific OS on top of the drivers provided by rump kernels.
It's easy to imagine multiple simple designs. You can couple it with an ESP2866, for example, using a number of attinys to access their analog inputs, or with a CAN-SPI head collecting data from multiple sensors, processing and then reporting through an ESP2866.
raspberry avoid this by using chips only supplied to them.
- 1ghz arm11 (40% faster than original pi)

- 512MB ram

- HDMI

- Micro-usb

- Micro-SD

- 40 pin GPIO

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/
Oh shit, you namedropped 3 people. Guess you must be right, all engineers are religious.
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This is either an ad or some feat of engineering we'd be delighted to see shared with us. However right now, it's the former.
> taking sandboxing seriously from the get-go

I'm curious how that would work. I know the desktop Firefox will only - very gradually - move to a complete sandboxing architecture, because of the way it will break many add-ons.

But Firefox for Android already supports extensions - is it only the Chrome-like/WebExtensions-like extensions it supports now? Is that why it will be easier to move to a complete sandboxing system on mobile first?
All the examples of the Harir typeface from this post are the bold and bold caption fonts. Do you also think the regular and display regular fonts are too thick? https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/harir/regular/sample/arabic...
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Every Apple USB I've had (back when I used iPods) had the casing crumble, which I haven't had happen with any other cable. I don't understand what they've done to make them so fragile.
My current security setup on Windows 10 is;

1) Comodo Firewall

2) Comodo Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)

3) Comodo Sandbox

4) Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)

5) Peerblock with an iBlockList subscription

I've also got MalwareBytes and ComboFix for on-demand scans once in a while.

I have Windows Firewall and Defender both disabled.
The Twizy is already available and not self-driving. People might be more accepting of smaller cars once accidents have become vanishingly rare, but that's a very long way in the future.

Remote work / non-face-to-face meetings are a social and managerial problem. Having your employees commute has no cost to managers and allows them to oversee them more easily. (See for example Yahoo had remote work and took it away; this kind of progress is not on a ratchet).
I believe it when I can buy it. This is not the first time some startup (or huge, established company) announces some impressive breakthrough. And while 1GiB wireless networking would be sweet, the fact that you need a clear line of sight is problematic. In regular wifi-scenarios, a clear line of sight between access point and device is fairly rare, I think.

Still: That leaves plenty of scenarios where a high-speed wireless connection would be really sweet.
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No, but like the Op, I would gladly pay double the price for some sort of onboard network connectivity.
When the commute increases to four hours, you can do a full eight-hour day in the car, arriving at work just in time to have lunch with colleagues before starting the commute home again!
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Can you clarify? I've heard similar negative feelings from devs. What's wrong with lombok?
So why should we eat insects? The standard answer is: it is a cheap and sustainable source of protein. But I have yet to see a convincing argument that it is cheaper and more sustainable than soy protein, aka tofu.
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I've heard people call the New York system the metro.
The MagPi magazine comes with a Raspberry Pi Zero, like the old floppies of the 90s. The lady at WHSmith told me they run out as soon as it got in today.
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How to downvote OP? ._.
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Westerners are going to be very reluctant to do this, especially if it means sharing with random strangers.

The developing world already has lots of "minibus" transport, and still has plenty of traffic jams.
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It will buy you hours of virtual computing power somewhere...
"still a human seems to know how to deal with a 0% trustworthy human better on the road"

I don't think they cope that well. If you're under 35, a car accident is your main worry (other than suicide):

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S. More than 33,000 people died from motor vehicle crashes in 2013 alone

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/overview/key_data.html

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/mortality-statistics--de...
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This is really cool - I wonder, can I have someone find a booking that works for their time schedule, then redirect to Stripe to pay, then back to finish the scheduling?
Jack Lang - Chairman of Raspberry Pi gave a great talk at Business of Software Europe on how RP came to be and its success since.

http://businessofsoftware.org/2015/11/the-story-of-raspberry...
I think that's a rather tricky thing to say. They block access to the article based on them detecting the users content blocker. A visitors intention, therefore, might be to reconfigure the content blocker to not be detected anymore.
This probably wasn't something everyone was able to manage, but the only thing he can say is something like:
"We detected a content blocker for less visitors than before."
How is this more "table-like" than any other grid system?
Microsoft includes VBScript and JScript interpreters -- WScript and CScript. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host
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New York's subway stations are stilled marked on the street by a big "M", and you'll occasionally hear people say "metro," but "subway" is much more common -- it is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, though.

In Chicago, which has another pretty old mass transit system, people call it the "el," even the parts that aren't elevated (i.e., the subway, though you'll hear "subway," too). Oddly, the commuter rail between Chicago and suburbs is the "Metra".
That's great, thanks!!

I have a pi as a media server* connected to a projector via HDMI, that reads media files from a NAS on my home network; very efficient and lightweight.

I will definitely try pi-hole; maybe I can have both running on the same pi.

* via Raspbmc, which I just found out has apparently ceased to exist...
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I feel this title is mis-leading. It's not really how to make a pencil from scratch, but more so the difficult of actually making a pencil entirely from scratch.
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> That's an oranges-to-apples comparison. :)

>

> It's not fair to compare 3rd party repair services to a new Apple product.

You have to remember that Alupis was replying to the following comment (which he quoted in his comment):

> [the charging port on a computer is] of course far more expensive to replace than a new charger...

Context is everything, friend. :)
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Windows actually has a Javascript (well, the JScript dialect of ECMAScript) interpreter out of the box in the form of Windows Script Host. It also supports VBScript. You can play with it on the command line using the cscript command.
Same here. Had them laying around for two years before I dusted them off to port Processing to it (shameless plug: https://github.com/processing/processing/wiki/Raspberry-Pi).

Still haven't done anything truly original, but I learned a lot about the hardware and the kernel writing the scaffolding and plumbing - and hoping that this will make the curve less steep for the ones that do.
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Mass transit is usable as a commute solution. It cannot reasonably replace a car.

It can't replace all uses of a car. But what causes rush hour traffic isn't that you sometimes want to go shopping, or that you sometimes stay late at a friend - it's that too many people take the car all the time, and all the way.

By making mass transit the default and a car the exception, we'd be a long way towards a solution.
The line that started it all is the Metropolitan Line in London.
I asked myself the same question. Why do we need to replace meat by something? Are vegans really lacking protein? Moreover, even if it's true, if we just take into account an important diminution of the meat consumption, will people lack proteins? I'm assuming we eat more meat than we ever did in our history.
In the case of illegal drugs (assuming that's what you mean with substance), the "self-selected few" are the traffickers and producers (including middle-men): they fully control pricing, availability and quality.

In the case of gun regulation, it's more or less the same, but there's another component: the items themselves are a means of asserting power, so the regulation has to account for the entire product lifecycle more than with other areas (yes, drugs can also be used to assert power, but in those cases it's the supplier who has power over the user, and with guns it's the user who has power over a third party).

I included "when implemented correctly" only to avoid having to discuss regulatory failures such as market capture (e.g. FCC) or rubber-stamping (e.g. FISA) as fundamental arguments against regulation. We don't use Volkswagen's recent troubles as arguments against cars in general, yet somehow that line of reasoning is valid when discussing regulation.
Lacking because we were building it.
Only an American could write this comment. I know this is HN, but life isn't actually an entrepreneurship contest.
Interesting. Would you be offended if I asked you to tell me more about what you found better?
Sounds like a big market opportunity (if a market exists!) - import a couple of thousand and resell them at a nice markup.
Yes, it is visual studio code, technically it isn't visual studio but still.
Have you heard of this? http://vocore.io/
I can think of plenty of interesting projects¹ where the Zero is perfect as-is. However, you can just add WiFi or Ethernet via USB if you need it.

Remember, on the first Raspberry Pi, the Ethernet port was connected via USB internally, too.

¹ One example https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1985705009/piplay-deskc...
The comment you replied to talked about cheap and sustainable sources of protein. Meat is neither.
Oh Nice! They are finally delivering on what I feel was the great promise of the Raspi in the beginning. Full linux install in the size and price of a micro (read: Arduino).

Some people are bound to gripe about the "lack" of ports but its not like this one displaced the A or B models. Its just another spin of the concept where you don't have to pay for expensive physical parts you don't need. Its a linux server at a price cheap enough to buy one for each little project you want to do and then leave it there. Makers rejoice.

I've got to hand it to the Raspi folks. They've really done an outstanding job creating their product line and getting it out to the masses. When they started, there was nothing but a sea of vaporware and "next-year" promises in the inexpensive SBC linux world. I rather famously doubted them at first. I am very happy to have been wrong.
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Also worth mentioning, general relativity appeared to violate the conservation of energy until Emmy Noether's contribution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

"Noether was brought to Göttingen in 1915 by David Hilbert and Felix Klein, who wanted her expertise in invariant theory to help them in understanding general relativity, a geometrical theory of gravitation developed mainly by Albert Einstein. Hilbert had observed that the conservation of energy seemed to be violated in general relativity, due to the fact that gravitational energy could itself gravitate. Noether provided the resolution of this paradox, and a fundamental tool of modern theoretical physics, with Noether's first theorem, which she proved in 1915, but did not publish until 1918."
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> Shouldn't this be 'Javascript UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements' ?

Nothing wrong with v4 UUIDs generated in Javascript, so long as you don't use Math.random(). Every current browser supports, eg, crypto.getRandomValues(), which is cryptographically secure. If you use a broken PRNG in any other language, you'll get broken v4 UUIDs too. :)

(Also, don't make the common mistake of conflating "UUID" with "v4 UUID". A v4 UUID contains 122 bits of (hopefully) random data. A v1 UUID contains 0 bits of randomness.)
There's no ethernet port. So, also an ethernet adapter. But there's only one USB port (µUSB, too, so you most likely need an adapter to regular USB). So if you want more than just ethernet, you'll need an USB hub. But the RasPi's power supply has always been weak, so better get an actively powered one…

And soon you're paying four times as much for the accessories than for the RasPi.
"cross platform" to whatever they feel like. I remember in college my teacher bought the new version for that. Turned out "Native Android support" was phonegap which isn't native.
You're right, I didn't intend to state that it was :)

After starting to use lazarus, I've seen the youtube tutorials by Embarcadero on Delphi 10 targeting mobile apps and it looks like a very productive environment: https://www.youtube.com/user/EmbarcaderoTechNet/playlists

I just find the price tag for the current delphi way too steep (+5k usd?) and I think that was part of decline of the suite.

Being able to target linux GUI is really relevant for me and freepascal + lazarus provides that. Delphi doesn't.
I have extremely limited knowledge of this subject, but I think they could be transformer coils. For long haul lines one would want to have higher voltage to keep resistance loss at bay.
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That does not sound like a nice way to die. ;)
> In a federated network, your identity is tied to your server.

Untrue.

TextSecure/Signal is a federated system. [0] IDs have always been and are -currently- tied to a user's phone number. [1] If you demand, I'm sure that I can dig up more examples, but that's the first thing that came to mind at $WAY_TOO_FUCKING_EARLY in the morning.

[0] The server software is open source, but only trusted operators are permitted to federate with the official TS servers. However, anyone is 100% free to stand up their own TS network (even if it's a single server) and distribute their own patched TS/Signal clients that use that unofficial TS network.

[1] There is ongoing work (that's probably nearly completed) to move IDs from a phone number to something that makes multi-device-but-a-single-user accounts work. I get the impression that it's coming along rather nicely, but haven't checked out the Github repo in quite a while.
There's a Xian County [1].

I don't think anyone would accept "Newyork", even though a Google search goes to the correct place ­— hardly a good measure of ambiguity. The pronunciation is different, so it could be confused with "Newark" with some accents.

English has enough ambiguity without introducing more, especially from carelessness or laziness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian_County
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