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I dropped them an email with some questions:

> 1) How long do you think it will be before the boards become available?

I'd say three or four months. As you can see from the screenshots, we
have usable Linux, but we're waiting to get final versions of the the
chip from our supplier.

> 2) Are there any plans for a version with onboard ethernet?

I don't think we're likely to do onboard Ethernet; we will have an
onboard 3-port USB hub so people can add an external adapter.

> 3) Are there any plans for a version with onboard wifi?

Yes. The final version (though maybe not the first distributables)
will have onboard WiFi (probably 802.11n) in the price point.

> 4) What are the power requirements, both under load and at rest?

At rest I'd say 50mW (we could trim this if it was really important,
but it gets a bit fiddly below this point), under serious load
(original XBox class graphics or 1080p30 H.264), 700mW.

I'm looking at this as a replacement for the Bifferboards [1] I often use in projects, they're similarly priced (£35), but significantly lower specification.

[1]: http://bifferos.bizhat.com/
Funny enough I've long thought about building achievements into an issue tracker like JIRA, like since 3 years ago, but clearly I'm too lazy or I would have done it first.

Anyhow, even though JIRA is incredibly well made software I still tend to dislike it on a daily basis. Achievements might make it little more palatable, but that still doesn't fix the overall feel of JIRA for me.

It's shiny, but it's also bloated with features that I don't care about and some things that are there seem half baked (like time tracking if you need it).
Very nice, but the analysis seems to assume that HN rank is determined by the headline and not by the content. (More precisely: for the analysis to give useful guidance to would-be HN headline writers, it needs not to be the case that content features correlated with headline features make a big difference to HN rank.)

My proposal for a good headline according to the numbers in this article: Showing why impossible future controversy survived the problem could hire data. Score: 1.3 (could) + 1.2 (problem) + 1.3 (survived the) + 1.0 (controversy) + 0.9 (impossible) + 0.7 (why ___ future) - 3.3 (11 words) + 2.6 (showing) + 0.5 (hire) + 1.9 (data [END]) = 8.1. For comparison, Why showing the future is essential to acquiring data gets 1.4 (essential) + 0.7 (why ___ future) - 2.7 (9 words) + 2.6 (showing) + 1.7 (acquiring) + 1.9 (data) = 5.6 -- except that it doesn't really get the points for "essential" (not at start) or "why ___ future" (two words in between) or "acquiring" (not in second place, word isn't quite right). Of course my headline has the little drawback of being total nonsense.
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Sorry, but how does this teach kids how computers work? What you do is educate them about boolean algebra, then explain how different boolean components can be bought in a microchip. After that you explain how large combinations of those make up something which can process 0's and 1's and thus (which they should already know by then) strings of 0's and 1's.

The brighter kids will already start trying to make something 'work' out of that. You continue further about how a CPU works, completely in the language of boolean components. And then they get to design and build one themselves.

That will really teach and show them there is no magic and how it works. Even with the insanely small and complex systems you have now, you can rest assure that in the core they are basically just like the one you made when you were in school.
This kind of practical way of working with hardware (even simulated), gives a lot more pleasure and teaches kids computer hardware design, cpu design, microcodes, assembly and tons more.

I was taught from 'Micro computers' by A.J. Dirksen (ISBN 9789021015934); it (+ the teacher) gave me enough insight to quickly learn Z80 assembler, 68k assembler and add / replace hardware on my '80s computers.

EDIT: I forgot; it would be really stupid to not release this to the masses. Everyone wants one, but only the kids can it; I agree with the rest here; that makes no business sense. Charities are businesses too.
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I think it's more likely Apple moves to ARM for Macs than moving from ARM to Intel chips for iPhones and iPads, like it was rumored a few days ago. ARM chips will be powerful enough for Apple notebooks in a couple of years, so I could definitely see an ARM chip in a future Macbook Air sometime in the next 2 years.
I hope it would be broken up by antitrust regulators.
but it seems like we have the same players in the race
What is nice about these lightweight thread multiplexing languages and runtimes is that you don't have to write your apps in the butt-ugly continuation passing style (doSomething("foo", function(result, err) { print(result); }). This is something that the compiler and runtime can do for you in Go/Haskell/Erlang/etc where using a blocking system call will effectively do the same, but it's automatically done, not by the programmer.

Of course you can get the same effect with Node.js/Boost.asio, but I find it a bit clumsy.
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Supposing they comply with the subsequent court order, what's to prevent the 10 variations that will pop up to replace it? This would surely only proliferate add-ons with the exact same functionality.
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We can't be more than a few years away from the iPad or iPhone becoming a full computer. Slide it next to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and it transforms into a desktop.
this is somewhat myopic in my view. there are more important things than supporting startups. even on HN.
> I wonder, is it possible to do some syntax rewrite to make it look like a weak/dynamic typed language

Go already in practice feels very much as light as a weak/dynamic-typed language thanks to (implicit) interfaces, type inference and the plain simplicity of the type system and syntax.
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it's similar (but very much different) to http://www.MyLowCostPC.com project, that, unfortunately, hasn't raised, so far, the founds to develop it
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but the Raspberry Pi is much close to this one http://humaneinfo.com/pc.html
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Not unless they significantly open up iOS.
As has been pointed out before this article, Paul Allen ploughed 10s of millions of $$ into the Interval Research Institute and employed people like Lee Felsenstein. Interval shut down in 2000. He just wants some money back from his huge investment in this institute.
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For all the talk about one beating the other search and display ads are completely different channels and Google has never been particularly strong in display ads.

Google makes so much money by dominating the search advertising market that they pretty much dominated the entire time that they can try and get a foothold in other mediums like display, social, radio, tv, newspaper, and so on.

The problem is that Google isn't nearly as good at those things because they don't have their own product to put it on. Without that they don't intimately understand the needs of buyers and they stop investing in those things before they are fully baked.

Of course facebook is dominating display advertising because they put pictures next to their ads. Google doesn't do this for product quality reasons. That makes sense.

In the end both are going to make gobs of money and dominate their respective markets.
Your definition of what constitutes a "full computer" may differ greatly from that of a regular, non-technical user.
It seems unlikely for high end laptops and desktops. Intel continues to dominate that performance category and doesn't show any sign of letting up. When it comes time to crunch hours upon hours of video and audio you are going to want a high end Intel processor. The lower end portables in Apple's lineup I can definitely see incorporating ARM processors.
it might also be that Intel will gain some momentum with the recent introduction of their new 3D transistor approach leaving ARM behind even in regard to power consumption.

this could discourage apple from making a major processor switch again, especially with the high overall costs (compatibility etc.) a switch would introduce.
If Apple doesn't do it Android will. That sort of forces their hand?
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Intel's big breakthrough with the 3D chips is that they can continue Moore's Law at a steady pace, even when they can't shrink the transistors anymore. But it's not a breakthrough in performance. So in regards to that they are still behind ARM as always. Intel is still moving at Moore's Law's pace, not faster. For now at least, ARM chips seem to be moving faster, doubling in performance every 12 months.

I think Apple is planning to move to ARM once they have their (most likely) quad core A6 chip.
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.. original post on semiaccurate is filed under the category "humor" and backed by the "fact" that previous rumours mentioned on sa turned out to be "true".
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I agree - a Macbook Air and an iMac running iOS makes some sense, but not things like the Macbook Pro and the Mac Pro - tools like Photoshop (and even things like iMovie) would be crippled by the reduced CPU power.
No, I don't think it does. Apple is to careful to be 'forced'.
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Can you run skype in the background while browsing a website in iOS?

If not, it isn't really a real computer.
It seems very unlikely to me that they'd switch the MacBook line to ARM and rely on an emulation layer to run current applications. ARM processors are getting faster all of time, but catching up to full Intel CPUs is going to be a very difficult task.

Meanwhile, Apple would have to support ARM-based MacBooks and Intel-based workstations until ARM became fast enough to replace workstation-level processors. While software makers caught up to the new architecture, MacBooks would lose much of their 'desktop replacement' status unless they truly could emulate x86 and x64 code with impressive speed.

I really doubt that Apple would split the architectures of their laptop and desktop lines.
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Thanks for the EU Blue Card link... I'll look into it.

We're thinking of moving to Madrid or Barcelona. We prefer Barcelona, but there seems to be a lot more work in Madrid, we'll see what happens.

Both of us are in the process of applying for a non-lucrative visa. We haven't actually submitted our application yet, which will take 3-5 months to be processed, because we're waiting on the FBI background check which takes 6 weeks.

It's quite the process to move to Spain but it'll be worth it!
>If you are in Sydney, there are no rabbits running around suburbs and the rats do well to stay out of sight. Are you suggesting that the local cats will search out rabbits and rats instead of try and hunt the local birds (which I have seen cats do)?

The rats are there. Humans can't without them. Cats, like all other predators go for the easy target first and do overwhelmingly hunt rats/mice ("small vertebrates" :), insects. And if a cat would catch an ill or stupid bird - it is a favor for the bird's species that some predator is required to perform, and due to the human presence the natural predators are unavailable. For example, about who is damaging the bird population - here in the Bay Area in the few small spots without development i regularly see Asian people gathering wild birds eggs. They just clean it up, taking it all. The local newspapers, of course, are from time to time actively discussing how cats are damaging the birds population. To try to "help" the birds, at one park here they even eliminated the ferals - and were surprised that [the morons should have read history of the other such cases before doing it], the immediately grown population of rats destroyed the rest of the eggs that humans hadn't, and the bird population was completely decimated.

For thousands of years free roaming cats protected humans from rats and everybody around humans from humans' rats. That is the evolutionary machinery that brought a cat to live with humans - the easy availability of a fat rat.
And by the way, nutritional value wise the rats/mice are much better than birds. Have you seen "Living with Wolves" btw?

>All the introduced species need to be controlled

yep. The most damaging introduced species - humans - needs to be controlled for other species to have a chance for survival. Until that happens, the poor cats and wolves and the others will be scapegoated for human stupidity, greed, hypocrisy...

The article you linked forgot to mention that in natural steady conditions, without human intervention, the presence of foxes and cats never eliminates the "small mammals" population - instead due to natural predator/prey relationship (which exhibit well known cyclic patterns through the years - which includes described in the article cycle step of increasing prey population with decreasing predator population (which in turn leads to increased predator population, which in turn leads to decreased prey population which in turn leads to decreased predator and so on... ) the "small mammals" population is kept healthy and naturally evolves ... well, until human intervene
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That's exactly what I think, too. Obviously they won't start putting ARM chips in iMacs and Macbook Pro's anytime soon. But a quad core ARM chip in a Macbook Air would be good enough for most people. It's not like Macbook Air has the latest Intel chips in it or have a very high clock frequency anyway.
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As you say, it's quite possible.

Some competitive studies that a professional acquaintance of mine did indicated that if the ARM Cortex A15 meets it's performance goals, it would roughly have IPC [1] parity with AMD's Bobcat. Bobcat is now at 1.6 GHz and the Cortex A15 is being designed for 2.5 GHz. This means that the A15 might be up to 10-20% faster than Bobcat. Now, Bobcat is at approximately about 50-60% performance of a high-end notebook today, which leaves the A15 looking very decent performance wise.

I think the real threat to the Cortex comes from the 22nm Atom. If the 30% power savings due to the FinFETs are true [2], taking into account the fact that the current-generation Atoms are still on 45nm, it's conceivable that Atom power consumption might reduce by something like 70%. Also note that the A15 will still be on either 28nm or 32nm, so due to Intel's manufacturing muscle means the Atom part will be very competitive.

Things are beginning to get interesting in the microprocessor industry. :-)

[1] IPC: Instructions per clock cycle.
[2] I'm not a circuits guy but my semi-informed guess is that the numbers are not far from reality.
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At first look, there would appear to be two substantial roadblocks to this happening. The first is simply performance. For computers (as opposed to iPads) performance is king, and Intel is the undisputed champion of performance, at least at the moment. We would need to see substantial advances in performance by ARM manufacturers that we just aren't seeing yet - maybe NVidia has the capacity to make it happen?

The second problem is that trying to take an application that runs on a powerful Intel chip, and then emulate the Intel instruction set on an ARM chip would be just diabolically slow. Apple have already changed the processor family twice for the Mac (68000->PowerPC, PowerPC->Intel), but in both cases the new architecture was substantially more powerful than the predecessor. That is not the case with a transition from Intel to ARM.

Of course, this time around there is a potential game-changer, the Mac App Store. Applications built for the App Store are at least in theory very easy to rebuild for another CPU architecture, and then push to users. You have an app bought for your Intel Mac, you "upgrade" to an ARM Mac, and the App Store automatically grabs the ARM version of your software for you.

Still, the two problems are showstoppers, each in its own right. Power has to improve substantially, and the Mac App Store needs to cement itself as the way to distribute software on the Mac before any such transition could be envisaged. Which is not to say that Apple doesn't already have a build of Mac OSX running on an ARM motherboard - indeed I would think it likely that they do have such a beast in the lab - but its purpose would be more as a bargaining chip with Intel, and as an interesting future direction, rather than as an actual product.
At least in NYC, the pedestrian crossing buttons have no effect on the traffic lights. They computerized the traffic grid and them pesky pedestrians screw up the flow. So you can push all you want, but it wont speed things up.
Apple was on Motorola 68k for some 10 years, then on PowerPC for some 10 years and now they're five years on Intel. If this is a pattern, they may be working on the "next big thing" in a lab somewhere.

We know that OSX is very welcoming to architectures, with it's NeXT roots supporting four architectures simultaneously.

A situation of a low-power ARM and high-performance Intel similarly to the dual-GPU architecture seems more likely.
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Doesn't sound like a humble opinion. I would also like to know specifically why. What are they trying to achieve with it? Without it you have inane platform wars on the sidelines. The context changes a lot with that little piece of info.
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I wholeheartedly agree with your summery.

I was absolutely fascinated by the first part; such a shame, the author wasn't able to apply its point to his own suggestion: Whether the law is made by one body or by many -- it will remain an authority, a government made by people, used to impose one set of values to other people, and open to misuse.

His blind faith in free markets seems to have clouded his judgment.

Counter-examples to his free market for laws are easy to find. Sharia laws in Britain are just one example. Women are hardly 'free enough' to voluntarily accept its authority. What about children: Can they voluntarily accept the authority of a certain court? According to the cases of child indoctrination and abuse by crazy religious parents, priests, and schools, not so much.

Markets fail rather often (depending on the definition of failure). Shoes are a perfect example of a free market that somehow 'works', but is inherently inefficient in many regards. One just needs to try to find a shoe that (a) fits, (b) is subjectively good looking, and (c) priced fairly. Now imagine one would additionally need to look for (d) an acceptable court for clearing disputes!
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> But it's not a breakthrough in performance.

The tri-gate transistors have lower gate delays (they can switch more quickly) and can operate with lower voltages. How is that not a breakthrough in performance?
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I hope this stays a rumor. While I certainly prefer Mac OS to Windows, there's still some development left to be done under Windows (Windows CE based barcode scanners) and there are still more games available for Windows than for the Mac.

Right now I can do the windows development in VMWare at acceptable speeds and the gaming in bootcamp at excellent speeds.

If they move to ARM, that means no more gaming with Bootcamp and very, very slow development if VMWare should decide to even begin emulating Intel processors.

This would possibly force me to move away from Macs again which I would really, really hate to have to do. Please, Apple, think this through before rushing it.
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This is the original article:
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"Now you realize why Apple is desperately searching for fab capacity from Samsung, Global Foundries, and TSMC. Intel doesn’t know about this particular change of heart yet, which is why they are dropping all the hints about wanting Apple as a foundry customer. Once they realize that Apple will be fabbing ARM chips at the expense of x86 parts, they may not be so eager to provide them wafers on advanced processes."
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