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The marketing for them, in my opinion, shouldn't even mention the word 'watch'.

Mobile phone manufacturers and tech journalists believe a smart watch is an extension of your phone, a second screen that saves you getting your phone out to do basic things. This is the vision that will, probably, sell quite well. On the other hand, the general population believe a smart watch is a watch that does some extra fancy stuff. That dissonance is something that is going to be very difficult to overcome while 'smart watches' just look like big, ugly watches that do things your phone already does.
The answer, as always, is yes and no.

Something no one seems to understand, is that the smartphone revolution didn't happen because we suddenly had touchscreens and processors powerful enough to have a relatively decent OS. We'd had that for years beforehand; someone would've gotten it sooner.

It was the fucking user interface.

That's all iOS did. It got the UI right. It didn't take 10 awkward actions to check your mail. You didn't have to go through complex menus to add contacts to your address book. You could browse the internet, have it be the real internet, have it feel like the real internet- and it felt manageable with the ability to zoom in and out, and properly move through web forms.

Smart watches, similar to Google Glass, are starting from zero again. They're brilliant ideas, as brilliant as the smartphone was before them. They're obvious, which is why they're brilliant. What isn't obvious, is how you make the entire experience simple.

So, are smartwatches going to take off? Probably not right now. Neither is Google Glass. There's a lot of talented UI guys involved with both, but you can't get it just half-right. It needs to feel right, and every way it feels wrong needs to feel like it's wrong in its own way, and not because it doesn't do it the way something else does. And right now, no one has either figured out that much.
There are definitely people that are going to want a smartwatch. To me, a watch is a pure accessory, and i have yet to see a decent one (except for the Motorola 360).

Function-wise, i don't see the point of getting one at the moment.
While I see what you're driving at, AO wasn't dropped on Everglades and then banned.
It already runs RISCOS ;)
Official announcement: http://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/#introducing-raspberry-pi-mo...
If I only have to charge it once a month or less, sure. Once every day or two is a nonstarter. I have enough trouble finding all of the plugs and keeping my phone charged.
I agree, and bet it would also reduce power consumption even further because of higher efficiency. Does anyone know if they use the USB bus because of the space constraints?
No.

I want a true virtual reality input that beams a 360 degree laser virtual display with a resolution of less than one arc-minute right onto my retina.
I've always hated wearing anything on my arms or wrists, even including log-sleeve shirts. I was thankful for the day I got to ditch my watch in favor of a cell phone, and I have no intention of going back.

(I used to teach a children's sailing class, so I needed to tell the time in order to know when to sail back to the docks.)
That's good advice.

However, as "Who is surprised!" has become a standard meme in security/privacy related threads, I want to point out a few things that may be interesting:

- the actual extend of the threat (numbers?)

- the extend to which the general public has come to terms with this problem

- the reactions around the web and proposed solutions ("use this kiosk linux distro")

- discussion of similar/related threats (like "also watch for public wifi")
What's the same:

- Same Broadcom BCM2835 Chipset

- Same 512MB RAM

- Same full size HDMI port

- Same 10/100 Ethernet port

- Same CSI camera port and DSI display ports

- Same micro USB power supply connection

What has changed:

- Now comes with 4 USB ports so you can now connect more devices than ever to your Raspberry Pi.

- There is a 40pin extended GPIO so you can build even bigger and better projects than ever before. The first 26 pins are identical to the Model B to provide 100% backward compatibility for your projects.

- Micro SD slot instead of the full size SD slot for storing information and loading your operating systems.

- Advanced power management:

-You can now provide up to 1.2 AMP to the 4 USB ports

– enabling you to connect more power hungry USB devices without needing an external USB hub. (This feature requires a 2Amp micro USB Power Supply)

- The B+ board now uses less power (600mA) than the Model B Board (750mA) when running

- Combined 4-pole jack for connecting your stereo audio out and composite video out

(Source: http://raspberrypiaustralia.com.au/products/raspberry-pi-mod...)

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That reminds me of the guy who tried to protect his fingers from the pedestal grinder by using the sleeve of his hoodie instead of walking 20 feet to the tool room to get some gloves. His sleeve got caught at torn completely off. Fortunately he wasn't hurt and banned from the metal shop.
That's a good matrix for early-to-mid stage programmers. My only issue with it would be that it doesn't go high enough. I'm a level 3 in probably half of those categories, and I don't feel that I'm anywhere close to being a master programmer. I have a long way to go before I'll consider myself even a decent programmer. I think someone could be a 3 in nearly all of these categories without being particularly extraordinary.
Thus why I tend to keep everything limited and 'dumb' that's digital, minus my principal/only computer. I work online, I don't need to be online when I'm off. One problem, though, is the offline conversations I start sometimes come from things done/seen online so I'm 'online' even when I don't particularly want to be.
I've wanted a watch for about 15 years now. I don't think adding more features my phone already has is going to change the status quo.

Main reason I've never got around to buying a watch: I always have my phone.

In fact this brings up another thought ive been kicking around for a while: wearable computing and whether they will "fly" with audiences, the truth is, they already do - phones, whether you consider clothing or not is pretty much on your persons 24 hours a day. Its basically underwear for a lot of people. Watches, while not "smart", are computers to some extent. I think smart watches, are a natural progression but I dont see them being the next "mobile" like some would have you believe.
I think most people don't even know they want a smart watch yet because they've never seen an actual "smart watch" (everything on the market right now is shit). It will probably evolve to the point where the word "watch" doesn't even make sense anymore, like the word "phone" does today. People need to stop thinking about using a watch for telling time. That's the least of the problems an always-on wrist-device needs to solve.

Personally I'm interested in all the sensors they can possibly cram into it. If they can figure out how to get blood pressure readings from it, I'll wear it 24 7. Judging from this [1] it seems a wrist device can do BP measurements.

[1] http://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-blood-pressure-mo...
> You sure as hell deserve it.

Without a doubt. I've spent countless hours myself developing a mod for an old gaming community with some of the most unappreciative manchildren (trolls) in existence, and I saw it through to the end because I felt I had an obligation to finish it. And to this day, there are a handful of people from a subset of that community who blame me for the demise of said subset, even though I did everything they asked.

I learned a lot from it though, and not just about coding and development, but about communities in general. The entitlement that some people feel they have of your time can be astounding. Apparently when you do things for people for free out kindness or out of passion for something, it only leads some (many?) of them to expect you to continue to do it all, until they've sucked every bit out of you that they can. I'm sure this is especially worse in online communities, because to them, you're just text on their screen who provides them with something fun or useful, not a human being.

So yeah. Take a break. A week may not even be long enough. Work on other things, completely unrelated things. It'll give you a fresh perspective and help with realizing exactly how much time and energy of your life you're devoting towards something and how much of it is really worth it.
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I used it to serve files via http, and it was very poor at it. I would not recommend using it as an http file server. Light application use, or for things like hosting git repositories works well though.
If your site will serve only few static pages and you going to have less as 500 unique daily visitors RPi should be fine.
But if you run some heavy framework like Wordpress and will have more as one visitor at once RPi cant handle.
We should be understanding of mediocrity, but we should never accept it as given. As an industry we need to do better -- push back on unrealistic expectations, demand the necessary resources, understand business needs and when they are unjustified.
Google’s Ingress augmented reality game quietly launches for iOS devices
> Pronunciation will shift, elisions and contractions are going to happen, and the perfect match between orthography and pronunciation will evaporate.

That was all before The Network. Those problems won't happen now.
One could, of course, argue that it's even less likely you're going to find the plug if you only need it once a month as opposed to once a day.

However, to chime into the overall discussion: I don't really see myself wearing a smart watch. The last time I've worn a watch was in 4th grade. I really never liked the feeling of wearing one even when they were lightweight and since then I also never missed wearing one, so I don't think this is going to change.

If I'm willing to pulling out my phone and looking at it just to get the time, I would assume that I'm equally willing to do that for whatever other task these smart watches can fulfil.

That said: Who knows what we're going to see in the future. Maybe there will be a killer application that would make the prospect of wearing something on my wrist actually bearable, but for now, nothing I can think of would make me want to.
Related to time-telling and navigation (and the origin of the NY-NYE ball drop)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_ball
Agreed, but there are some issues there as well. (The "database" row could easily be labeled "postgres" for example).
+ micro SD card

+ 4 USB ports

+ more GPIO (now 40 pins)

+ better mounting

+ better audio controller

+ reduced power consumption

~ combined audio and video onto the 3.5mm jack

- power connector position moved to the side (bad for small form factor projects)
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I think the angle of extension of phone will never really fly for much of the population, I could see something similar to tablet uptake.

I think things will really get interesting when I can ditch the phone all together. Think bendable screen around your wrist which straightens out (or doesn't) when you use it.
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I got surprised B+ cost same as B, and they even keep B in production. That, what I miss from other manufacturers in modern world.
> I think most people don't even know they want a smart watch

Maybe I'm the minority here, but I haven't felt the use of even HAVING a watch for like... 15 years of something. Unless you care about fashion, there's no real need to have something 24/7 on your wrist just to indicate the hour or do trivial other tasks. The screen estate is too small to do anything really interesting anyway, and power-wise it's going to be limited by the form factor as well. I have never thought of watches as being great ideas in the first place once we were carrying multi-functions devices with us (like phones), Smartwatches even less.

EDIT: as for sensors, yeah, sure, but then I don't really need a display, I'd rather access the data through other means (phone, computer via bluetooth, etc).
Yes, you're right. There is some value in repeating the information - but I assumed most people on hackernews would know about this already.

It would be great to re-hash the information to the general public, however.
Could you explain why would it be better for you?
Probably referring to this comment from pg, linked to elsewhere here in the comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4602821
Been programming for 30+ years, [can solve any problem] in computing, have saved companies millions and invented new ways of doing entire processes for thousands and thousand of people

-> I have no idea what most of those matrices were on about. I think I'm a shit programmer.

Edit: [have never come across a problem I couldn't solve given time (as I think is the case for most of us)] - fair enough jafaku
Tried, but can't do any heavy stuff.
> What you are missing is that you are focusing entirely on edge cases.

Am I? I could name half a dozen other cases, but you're the one who stated your point without actually providing any argument for it so I feel like it's your turn rather than just throwing around words like "certainly" as if they're a proof of anything.

Here's the basis of my counterargument: no one, other than a fringe group of crypto-neo-Nazis, takes "white", to be defined as "European", seriously as an ethnic identity. This is certainly not the case with "Jewish". Jews have identified with other Jews for centuries. You can't even go back a single century before your pan-European notion of "white" identity breaks down. English-descended people refused to consider Spanish and Italian-descended people as "white". Even German Nazis didn't consider themselves the same race as Slavic people. The entire notion of ethnic identity is based on a shared history, and there's no shared history between Bosniaks and Basques that would meaningfully exclude any non-whites.

So I ask, why do people try and advance this ahistoric "white" identity out of nothing? My contention is that it's motivated by antipathy if not outright hatred towards races considered as "non-white".
Adafruit has a nice overview of what's changed.

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-mode...
The mindset you should have for security requires it.

Think of it like playing DOOM. There are 2 options :

1) something is moving. Quick ! Shoot it !

2) something is not moving. Therefor it must be thinking about moving. Quick ! Shoot it !
Pretty neat. I noticed something a bit off about the "tint a random photo blue" example around 2:22. Two of the three search results are fine, but the second search result is

pics := media -> pictures
pic := pics -> random
pic -> tint (colors -> sepia)
c := colors -> blue

All the components are there but not in the right order -- it still tints with the default color.
I got a silver Pebble Steel about a month ago and I'm completely in love with it. Small, discrete, smart and elegantly designed, it gives me notifications without ever becoming too much. So yes, functionality is limited, but more to the point it is focused. If I want something more I can always just reach for my phone - so I don't have to contend with the overlap.

The Pebble allows me to have my Android phone on silent, displaying who's calling without having to pull the phone from my pocket, as well as emails, hangout and sms messages. Oh and by default it displays the time. This is perfect for my usage.

As opposed to the new batch of "Gear" products, the epaper display is always on, looks razor sharp, and the battery is fantastic lasting from 5 to 7 days. When my watch gets a low battery warning, I have what must be a full charge of a Gear device remaining!
Put the files on Github? Nice work
I'm not so sure that I agree with your perception of the tone. The high-level takeaway I got from this article with respect to C was, "C's abstract machine is clearly the best way to think about performance sensitive programming, but the type system sucks". Is that not a fair statement?

I suppose there was an intro bit about Rust's lack of advertisement as a functional language (and perhaps that comes off as snooty), but from what I've seen of programmers outside of HN, this is a reasonable precaution. Most others I've talked to are either simultaneously ignorant and apathetic towards FP or actively distrustful. I literally had a friend at a major tech company tell me that he avoids FP because he does "real work", and he shouldn't have to bother with "idiots and their lambdas".

Then again, everyone likes to feel like the downtrodden victim. Dropping the pretense on both sides and trying to elucidate without proselytizing is the most effective strategy.
The reporting on this scandal has focused on NCLB as the evil outside influence which corrupted the garden of Eden that was Atlanta public schools. That is like blaming the coroner's office for a spate of murders.

Atlanta schools were ineffectual, corrupt money pits which failed generations of poor students, and that was not a problem until Washington upset the apple cart and put a number on it.
Github and Bitbucket "Issues"? I don't get that. Wonder if it's a typo.
Beware, also, of public WiFis. Even the ones that are not open. Beware, actually, of connecting to any network where you don't know all of the devices you can communicate with directly. Ancient attacks such as ARP or DNS spoofing still work, by and large. It's surprising how few people are actually aware of them.
Moreover wearing watch trend is going down drastically, i dont think the smart watch trend will get its space.
Microsoft is the very antithesis of strategy
Forget about daily job.

Life is short. Just live your life to the fullest. Travel around the world and do what you like. You'll meet awesome people down the road that's for sure.
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I'm interested in Raspberry Pi. I bought one before. It's just a small PC, use one hand you can hold it. But when you want to Raspberry to do some complex works, it let you down. I want to know where does Raspberry Pi can work well?
Right now it's possible to back feed power with a powered hub instead of using the micro USB connection. I'd like to see the schematic to find out if that's still possible, but I can't find one yet.
What's the implication of being on the same bus? More CPU usage for ethernet?
I want one. The use case I'm interested in is using it in multi-factor authentication, so not interested in things like watch faces, notifications or games.
The power of universal signs
If anybody prefers a .mobi: http://www.filedropper.com/linkers-ianlancetaylor

(If anyone has a suggestion for a good place to upload that, let me know. I don't know whether the site I found on Google is sketchy.)
I still can't see why would anyone buy one except as one of those toys that you buy and then gets tossed in the closet. 10 years ago I could see the appeal, but now? The robotics, home automation, and weekend project use cases seem like would be better served by a $5 microcontroller.

Some projects, such as the weather station, justify the use of a full-fledged OS, but with the cost of buying an existing, proven, weather station being so low ... why bother?

And for a cheap webserver? A $1/month VPS is more powerful than this thing.

Can anyone tell me what is the use case of this?
I think rollout of 3G and affordable mobile data tariffs were very important to smartphones. If you'd had an iphone in 2004 it wouldn't have been much use because it would be too slow and you wouldn't be able to afford to use it.
The guy who headed the project was interviewed recently in a podcast: http://www.se-radio.net/2014/05/episode-204-anil-madhavapedd... , he provided some very interesting insights into the MirageOS, Unikernels and Ocaml
I believe the fate of Android Wear style smart watches is highly intertwined with the proliferation and usefulness of 'contextual computing' (Google Now, etc).

Glanceable cards afford great tolerance for false positives. Combining this with advances in activity detection, indoor location tracking, and IoT opens the door for a new generation of personalized software well suited for casual wearable interaction. However it remains to be seen if the economics are there to create this brave new software ecosystem.
Am I the only one hearing Daft Punk's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfH3erWacsQ?
A smart watch no.

A smart wearable maybe, but definitely not attached to my wrists. It's too uncomfortable (25 years since I wore a watch) and monitoring my vitals doesn't matter to me, maybe when I'll be old.

Probably I could use a wearable computing device attached to my cloths. By the way, most cloths have been presciently engineered to hold those devices. They have pockets. I've got a smartphone in one of them, which is much less a phone than it is of anything else (internet browser, email client, video player, clock, game console, ebook reader and more) so I'm already into wearables together with a good chunk of the human population.

I can see me replacing a smartphone with something functionally equivalent that spares me the need of reaching to it. Not glasses, they won't be as light as the prescription glasses I'm wearing. Maybe VR contact lenses interfaced to a base device in a pocket (inspired by Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End) but unfortunately my eyes started to refuse contact lenses years ago so I'm waiting for direct neural connections :-)
Shortest program to transform the standard input into Morse code
The Pi makes a fantastic media center when combined with XBMC.
> can solve any problem in computing

Maybe you should have phrased that differently, because it's obviously false.
The first iPhone did pretty dang well without 3G. 3G helped, but it by no means was a requirement, especially with wifi prevalent even in 2007.
No, I don't want a smartwatch.

First of all it doesn't help they are in their infant stage (meaning: they suck), I also don't feel the huge need to be even more connected than I am today.

In fact I am doing the opposite. I'm trying to leave my phone more often as it takes away my attention at times when I should give attention to other things / people.

I find it's kinda rude when I'm at a dinner or meeting and people sit there watching their own little screen instead of actually beeing part of what's going on in the real world.

I'm guessing another screen won't make it any better.
Personal Productivity: Business vs. busyness vs. laziness
Yes, you're absolutely right. If I could send them 30 euros a month, instead of $10 to my usenet provider I would. I can't, so I don't. (I live way way way away, netflix is a distant dream here)

Also: I tried netflix at one point (year ago or so, with some proxy thing) - It pales in comparison to a proper XBMC setup. I would still swap over, but it would be a step down.
$63AUD + Shipping - No thanks! http://au.rs-online.com/web/p/processor-microcontroller-deve...
good one for beginners, though few important stack is missing like pandas. But well embraced by IPython notebook. Good for learner.But try it yourself prior to adopt any technology mentioned here.
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Raspbmc. Works brilliantly.
We shouldn't really have to wonder about this kind of thing. explicit_bzero() for glibc, please!

It's probably dynamic/static noise. I don't think zeroisation would have an overhead as big as 4%. But then, I haven't measured: it's easy enough to do an A-B test with a castrated version and see?
Forget T-shaped skills, we need V-shaped skills