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> Intel Core Processor

Why not specifying what processor and hardware is in the box ?
16gb SSD of hard disk spare really limits your options if you're loading up a Linux distribution.

But seriously you can something with cheaper and better specs for less that $329 to run Linux.
>Looks like there's major spin on this on that page.

To be fair, it is Google's page. I don't expect anyone trying to sell me anything to tell me the negatives unless they're legally obligated to do so.
Well, there are a wide variety of legal, PR and other reasons why Microsoft couldn't start eating bablies as a matter of corporate policy.

More to the point, Microsoft doesn't have a current policy about eating babies with ARM CPUs. They do have a current policy about locking the bootloaders of ARM devices.
Well yes, that's true. They do have elevated permissions. I didn't know they resided locally though, I thought they just used cache manifests.
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You're right-the quote showed up in the Google summary of the page, but not the page itself. Weird.

Here is a video where Branson says he achieves "twice as much" on a day when he works out compared to a day when he doesn't exercise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFjgMKwpz_k
One of my pet peeves is people saying this about iOS. What he says is a half-truth, a mixture of two different features. ( Link TLDR: Apple takes a screenshot of your app and shows it on launch )

What actually happens: When you background the app, Apple takes a screenshot to do the fade-out animation with. This caused a bit of hubhub a few years ago because if you jailbreak you can find the screenshot of the last closed app .

It's actually the developers job to give a launch image for the app itself, and the apple guidelines are that you should aim to emulate your app's homepage with no data in it. You don't have to, we don't at http://art.sy - Which isn't Apple taking a screengrab.

A simple way to think about this is, what happens if you open the app in a different orientation a screenshot wouldnt work then.
"Chrome devices are available in select countries."

2% of all available countries.

I wish Google understood how badly this undermines their international marketing. Apple understands this better.
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These tough economic times can be basically more than, although worldwide financial system is in recuperation phase.
There's no bad product, just bad pricing. I think Google and their partners really don't know how to price a new category product. They should be priced aggressively like the iPad was (when people expected it to be $800-$1000), and also as the iPhone, even though in the beginning Apple tried to sell to the "early adopters" with a higher price, too. But they quickly learned their lesson after just 2 months.

Google has already been through a few of these situations already ($300 Google TV set top box, $430 Chromebook at launch, $800 Honeycomb tablet at launch) and they still haven't learned anything. They haven't learned that the "early adopter price" tactic doesn't work well anymore. You need to price it for mainstream from day one, maintain the price throughout the year, and then just update the hardware for the same price every year. Consumers don't want to be cheated into buying a product that is twice as much at launch, compared to 6 months later.
I have a question: Is there a possibility to "disable" the automatic creation of new classes? because if I understand the documentation right, then it would be possible for any user to spam my model with new classes.
It's a well-known technique used by a lot of products. Github, for example, has a little "slide-in" animation of when you click on a folder in a repo to achieve the same latency masking.
wait. why is this being downvoted?
I think joestink could've instead said:

When web-app DEVELOPERS finally get the whole offline thingie working, a web-first option will become much more of a real option...

/edit: Then again, I'm not positive if Google Chrome's "intalled web apps" often being shortcuts are developer's fault or Google's? I'd love someone with insight to tell us.
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It's marketing. The emphasis is on the simplicity of the product.

That being said, it's a 1.9ghz Celeron CPU. That can give negative connotations since Celeron is Intel's cheap line of processors.
Not all apps have been designed to work when offline and use local storage, local services etc. Most web apps will expect you to have constant connectivity in order to work or be useful.

IOW: Just because web-browsers support offline, doesn't mean the apps does it.
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Wow! Wonder if the weight of a canister and mobility of a plane may help in connecting the two together? Or make it harder? Awesome story.
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Agree that Chrome OS is more web-centric than Android, but webOS is more web-centric than both.
Come on, it's clearly aimed at tech geeks. Nothing to be ashamed of.
And it looks like they are planning for a future Dragon to do precision landings on a landing pad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m...
Going from 1s to 0.5s is not a 100% improvement, it's a 50% decrease (in time).

i.e.: 100% increase = 50% decrease.

Percents are weird to calculate.
What happened with the restrictions on apps that execute user provided or downloaded code? I remember an app being kicked for including a BASIC interpreter and a rule banning any third-party interpreters on iOS, but it was relaxed to allow things like Unity games using LUA scripting.

Has anyone recently produced an app that lets users program on iOS?
Ummm, I'm pretty geeky. But I haven't been following Chrome in detail, so I don't have a clue what this box is for or what it actually does.

Reminded me of this: http://www.theonion.com/video/sony-releases-new-stupid-piece...
I don't think this should be seen as a negative or bad thing. But it should put things in perspective for those comparing the "performance" between different platforms and OS's.

Another similar example is how Apple doesn't show a pop-up message when an app crashes in iOS, while Android does (Force Close), which makes people think Android crashes a lot more when they keep seeing these Force Closes, even though there have been some reports saying that iOS apps crash more often than Android apps on average. But the perception matters a lot more.
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I'm working on a project to help researchers and medical doctors to easily stay up to date with state of the art research publications (1M+ publications/year, more than 2k journals), by categorizing and ranking papers.

We (me and the business co-founder, a student in medicine) should "go live" in about two weeks.

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And "device" without context is as appalling word without context. When I was an editor I always banned it without context, telling the writers "Would you use the word 'thingy'? Because that's what you've just called it."
It looks interesting, and the the palm rejection is probably the feature that will make or break it. It looked to me from the video that nobody was actually resting their palm on the surface - they either suspended their hands above the screen, or wrote on the edge and rested their palm on the (ipad's large) bezel.

So perhaps, as of yet, that 'tricky problem' isn't quite as solved as they say it is.
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I'm a smoker and was actually thinking of trying it but a large part of me hates that I have to spend $50 on a service that I've never even tried before. The monryback guarantee helps but I still can't help but remain hesitant about purchasing despite my intrigue. Maybe I'm just cheap when it comes to products I have 0% knowledge on and have to pull out my credit card before I can even hear an audio sample.

I propose an unorthodox solution, offer a discount on the first purchase or offer a discount on any purchases after the first. Either way, I feel that more people would be inclined to try the product. Essentially, new customers need to be rewarded for taking a risk, most people have 0% knowledge of hypnosis and are doubtful of it, never having tried it.
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The Red Bull and Volvic seemed particularly out of place to me, especially in that he made buying them one at a time a part of his daily ritual. Maybe he wakes up in the morning with a compulsion to throw his money away at a 7/11 instead of getting a 12-pack from the grocery store? Instead of filling his own bottle from the tap and drinking coffee for his caffeine like normal people who don't attach brands to all of their routines?

I don't know the exact price of Red Bull or Volvic, but at $5 a day and 260 weekdays in a year he'd be spending $1,300/year.
Interesting enough that's my favorite part from the speech as well.
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You might as well say "Most top 100 websites I see are just /code running on a computer/"
Scalability.
My list:

1 Intel i72700k desktop (4c),
1 Intel i72670qm HP laptop (4c),
1 Intel i3330m Acer laptop (2c),
1 AMD Phenom II x6 1100t desktop (6c),
1 AMD Phenom II x4 830 desktop (4c),
1 AMD C60 Acer laptop (2c),
1 Tegra II Viewsonic gtablet (1c),
1 Tegra II Droid X phone (1c),
and an ARM in the Raspberry Pi (1c).

Looks like I notch in at 25. I'm in a technology/business related research field.
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Example: the progress bar shown by the Mac's "Software Update" has no particular correspondence to reality.

(The progress bar shown when copying a big file OTOH is accurate.)
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On Ubuntu 10.04 compared to Open Office Writer 3.2, storage of a 209 pages document with Libre Office Writer 3.5.4.2 is even slower.

Program startup of Libre Office Writer is also slower.

Minor detail: after unpacking "LibO_3.5.4_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz" I got a directory "LibO_3.5.4rc2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US", the "rc2" lets me doubt, that this is the release version.
Is there any major mobile app open sourcing the entire app sourcecode
I know that Facebook and Twitter open source the in-built libraries for iOS, but i wonder if someone goes further and open sources the whole app's codebase.

It is obvious that there is some security concern involved, considering the exposure of private API's and etc.
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But the complaint (and a legit one I feel) is that this page is the opposite. This page has very little information that techies want (as seen by all the complaining here.)
It's bit like complaining that Samsung doesn't tell you about their phones having poor battery life on their website.
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Between 1979 and 1987 I ran quite a few marathons, with the odd shorter races, and a few ultras scattered in. Since the fall of 1987, I've run exactly two races, a 5K each of the last two years. My fitness goes back and forth, but I've seldom failed to keep running on the weekends, and taking long walks.

My experience with over training was that it gave signals that could be ignored only willfully.
I don't understand the technique at art.sy - It loads a lot of stuff when you open a page for the first time but interestingly when you navigate for another page, it does not seem to be loading anything except for a 1x1 gif. How come the URL changes (full change not just like hashbangs) but nothing particular is loaded from the server? Is there a name for this technique? Is there any framework supports this?
Ahem, take a look at your Linux startup - does or does not getty start before all other daemons?
You don't need anything other than plain water for normal exercising (anything under 2 hours will generally count here). --Sports drinks will simply add calories and are not going to enhance your performance.

If you're going to be working out all day or doing something like a marathon, then you need to consider something to help replace the salts you lose when sweating.
Given the 16GB SSD, clearly Google assumes users will be storing most everything online. First question I'd have as a consumer, then, is, does it include some "cloud" equivalent of a Mac mini's Time Machine? Specifically, if my Google account is hacked and the attacker deletes all my music, photos, documents, email, etc., can I recover them?

If not, saving a couple hundred bucks plus the cost of a USB backup drive seems short-sighted at best.
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For user experience, perception is everything. Making the user not experience latency is as good as not having it.

'course this ultimately will mean one day we'll all just be brains in a big vat fed drugs directly by Apple, but trust me, that'll feel awesome.
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In fact, the 7-11 and Circle K here are so cheap that often times even buying in bulk, you can't beat their prices. And then there's the convenience factor: literally 30 seconds to grab what you want from the fridge and pay for it with the Octopus RFID tag.
are you just looking for the source code to an app so you can amend it to produce your own app? Or was there another reason you needed the sourcecode?
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Sorry, I should have been more specific, I meant for the art.sy iPad app! A lot of what the website does is black-magic (or backbone js -whichever) to me :)
If they are getting weapons from the military (and they probably are as well since the Zetas are ex military) then why are they smuggling in from the US? [1]

[1]http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/08/nation/la-na-atf-gun...
In general, I think vendors should be more transparent about performance and reliability:

Microsoft Office 2011....Now using up to 30% less bugs, 20% faster load times, and you get X amount of features.

At least performance/reliability would be considered a feature. It would be better than a lot of the bloatware that comes out these days. Users should be conditioned to ask about performance and reliability of a product rather than how many features they added. You clearly see this from Apple but not Microsoft.
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Just because the government has the resources to throw at a problem it does not mean that they will do so effectively or efficiently.
I may be misunderstanding you, but the number of ways to pick 2 out of n dimensions is Θ(n²).

Even if we looked at up to d dimensions, (bruteforceable at Θ(n^d)), that doesn't imply we need to generalize to do all 1000.

The post you replied to actually suggested clustering just one dimension at a time. I think that's a reasonable solution given the situation you posited, where you have some dimensions that do cluster well, even individually, and some who are mostly noise.

I would say that the curse of dimensionality is more fundamental than the problem you describe. The problem doesn't lie just in separating noise from signal - in a truly high-dimensional space there may not be a "right angle" to see it from.

For a simple example, you may take randomly distributed points. Even at uniform random distribution, it is relatively easy to for instance index two dimensional points in such a way that you can later locate points that are close to any particular spot. For 20-dimensional points, this is very hard.
What a travesty of a launch.

What can it actually do? Stop telling me about "multiple USB ports and multiple display options". Should I get one instead of an iPad or a new laptop? Is it a new name for a Google TV device?

"Place it anywhere" ? As opposed to what?

Buy now? OK I'm in the United Kingdom, that's lucky. Let me buy it from...PC World? This leads to a page with a screenshot of a netbook/Chromebook and a Chromebox somewhere in the background. The word "Chromebox" doesn't even appear on the page.
Red Bull is $40 for 24 cans on Amazon, probably twice that at 7-11. Call it $3.20/can.

Volvic is $28.81/12 on Amazon. At the same 100% mark-up, it's $4.80/bottle at 7-11.

That's $8/day, plus local sales taxes, or nearly $2100/year.

Getting a good water bottle and filling it at home is likely too cheap to meter. Making good coffee at home and using that for the caffeine boost is a lot less than $3.20/serving, and then there is this:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1443950608...

The results of a study showed that the ingestion of one, 250mL can of sugar-free Red Bull, in a sample of 30 healthy young adults, had an immediate detrimental effect on both endothelial function, and normal blood coagulation. This temporarily raised the cardiovascular risk in these individuals to a level comparable to that of an individual with established coronary artery disease.

Finally, he jumps straight into 12 reps dumbbell press @ 30kg (66lb per hand). Riiiight!
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I'm not a fan of the way secure boot has been playing out, but I don't see any evidence of MS villainy in it. It's crazy how much irrational ill-will is stored out there against anything MS does.
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Your right, they should give more details on how they came to this conclusion.

I rather use average improvement rather than best case improvement - that way users don't feel duped.
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Red Bull considered harmful:

"The results of a study showed that the ingestion of one, 250mL can of sugar-free Red Bull, in a sample of 30 healthy young adults, had an immediate detrimental effect on both endothelial function, and normal blood coagulation. This temporarily raised the cardiovascular risk in these individuals to a level comparable to that of an individual with established coronary artery disease."

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1443950608...
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Funny how many USB ports it has when it's capabilities are limited to a web browser. What on earth would you be plugging in to them.
I wouldn't say so. From a quick look, this seems more like Python's DictShield, but for node.js. JSON-Schema is just a format to serialize/deserialize to

https://github.com/j2labs/dictshield
1 reason to develop for iOS first: revenue.
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> I'm curious how this stacks up against e.g. a Mac mini

Easy… one of them is a full computer and one of them is a web browser with 6 USB ports and 16 gig of storage
I prefer to add 270 dollars and get a Mac Mini, that may even run as a server If I want to. (I can even install Chrome on it).
There is maybe a market for Chromebox, but for sure we are not that market. :)
There is a difference between saying "We don't know" and "this is wrong"

Without preponderance of evidence, the former would be more correct, but the latter is more prevalent.

It's very easy to reject things that need more research. Then IF it's researched more thoroughly and inconsistent with the theory THEN rejection is in order.

But instead, several research lines are rejected because of politics, 'playing it safe', etc
What would you plug into 6 USB ports when the "computer" only has a web browser?
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The numbers are per-account, not summed up.
A friend of mine is finishing up his compilers class and keeps randomly wanting to write new languages because he can. It would not surprise me to learn a similar effect is ...in ..effect... goddammit my diction sucks today.
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> We have customers who bought our software but first they need a computer to use it

Is your software a web app then?
We do have audio samples (they're halfway down the sidebar on each product page) and we offered a discount way back in January when we launched.

If you're interested in trying it out but the price is holding you back, here's what I can do for a fellow HN user:

First, complete an order all the way to the PayPal page, but don't pay. Then e-mail me at luke@hypnotizr.com with the order ID that PayPal shows you. I will make your order and send it to you, and afterward, you can PayPal me any amount of money that you think is fair (I'll count it as market feedback).
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looks intersting to me ... i would like to see a solution for this
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I would personally not use this machine, but I would I definitely see my parents/kids using it. It comes across as a low cost, low maintenance PC, and this is just want I would like my kids to use (vs the Windows/OS X alternatives).
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Is that true in the e-greedy case? Sure, during the exploit call, they are not independent, but during the explore portion I would assume they are, since they have been randomly assigned into the exploration pool (epsilon) and then drawn from a uniform random draw. There is no information that I can see from prior draws being used.
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This is true shame after the success of wall plug PCs and all-in-one boards.
It should be ARM and cost 99$
For 330$ you can build a cheap but full scale PC.
Why does it need 4G RAM? Is Chrome so bloated now?
Note that, as far as I can see, Classes are a SDK convenience but the data itself is completely schemaless as far as the Parse backend is concerned.

I've wondered about this aspect of Parse for months but not seen a satisfactory answer yet. With the client-side credentials for a Parse app readily available, a malicious user could store any amount and type of data in that app's store, with that app footing the bill.

The easiness of hacking the existing data (say, your SpaceBucks premium currency in a game) is a secondary concern, but it's valid to say that for that extra level of security you need your own servers and logic, and Parse is not the right service.
How does palm rejection work (if at all)? That has been the major barrier to me using my iPad for note-taking etc.
>I see no reason why these shouldn't be running ARM chips.

Because there are no ARM chips as powerful as the Celeron in the Chromebox.