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Great thought.

Though, there's always a single choke point at which you could deny ANY number of services, including all the externalities. Even if that point is a little worst-of-the-worst case scenario.
That is a truly wonderful infographic. I'd never seen it before. Thanks.
Nice writedown, albeit quite difficult to parse visually. Some mouse-dependent row / column highlighting would be quite beneficial in this case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge_%28microarchitectu...

Although I did forget about the Xeons.
I'm working on my personal tracking app, RoutineTap. http://routinetap.com I'm having a hard time getting visitors; right now I'm also learning backbone.js and writing a mobile app.
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We are using this and it's brilliant. The only thing missing (which I'm told is coming) is a user-definable Thank-You url. Without it we can't finish our goal funnel tracking.

But the integration is crazy simple - took us 1 minute to get set up.
> who would get a Chromebox though

Instant on is still a factor, maybe not for you and certainly not for me (my home PC runs 24/7), but there's plenty of people who don't leave computers running when not using them, and still would enjoy not having to wait while it boots up.

The biggest use-case I see for the future is as a media centre connected to your TV. Google are already trying to replace computer software with web apps, why not TV software too - think Boxee or any other similar device, but all through web apps. If it took off I think it would be awesome.
Both display fine for me on Chromium on Ubuntu. But on HTC Desire Android phone, I can't see my original, but can see your ones.

Yay! Unicode! Encoding! Fun!
A new language isn't required. For part of my dissertation, I wrote a DSL on top of Python called Weaver (http://bitbucket.org/pbui/weaver) that compiles workflow DAGs that are executed by Makeflow (http://cse.nd.edu/~ccl/software/makeflow) on a variety of distributed systems (e.g. Condor, SGE, WorkQueue, multi-core).
Most users cannot multitask very well. Even if they use 3-4 applications in parallel, many just wait for a CPU intensive task in foreground instead of switching to another task.
I'm not seeing the new units for sale on Amazon.co.uk (though they do have updated copy and product shots for the Chrome device range) but the second-gen Samsung Chromebook is listed on the John Lewis website, which is one of the other retail partners.
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This collaboration in style, substance and purpose makes it all the more favoured with urbanites and those with a love of live entertainment. Why not taxi a taxi to Hammersmith and see for yourself?
I think the difference could be that Google is headed up by researchers, and thus the interest and fascination in pushing boundaries with research. While Zuckerberg is a visionary, I'm not sure the same type of commitment to research that is not immediately useful will ever happen within Facebook's walls.
I don't question the usability of this, but I really don't get the price, which I think is too high. I guess that for the same price one could buy 15" laptop with the roughly same components, so you would effectively get a screen and a keyboard for free. Where does the additional cost come from? Stripped down OS?
>I've seen a lot of articles from 37signals.com on HN but I have no idea who they are or what they do.

If you also read the articles, how is that other stuff difficult to find out? It's like a google query away...

The make a SaaS offering for groupware (coordination, scheduling, chat, etc).

They also created the Ruby On Rails framework, related to which you'll see 2-3 articles per day on HN.

They also wrote a few business books, two of which have been NYT best-sellers.

The make several million dollars a year, and have tens of thousands of customers.

Their business, a standard profitable, bootstrapped business if a ever saw one, is often sneered by startup kiddies on HN because they haven't sold their company for VC mega-bucks or had a huge IPO, VA Lin^H^H^H^H^H^H Google style. (Normal companies are apparently passe in the web 3.0 age -- a new Apple would be something to point and laugh at, a Ben & Jerry's even more so).
"Kublai Khan was ahead of his time: He recognized that what matters about money is not what it looks like, or even what it’s backed by, but whether people believe in it enough to use it."

That belief is based on some form of backing eventually. It could be a hard and liquid commodity or a government demanding taxes in that particular currency.

The full article here http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/a-brief-history-...

Note that money has little to do with abstraction, but rather confidence. People hark back to the 'good old days' of hard money not because they're incapable of abstraction, but because they distrust a political authority to preserve that confidence.
There is a lot of crossover between the anti-power user at work and the anti-power user at home. The former gets a locked down machine managed by IT to keep it running and uses the browser and a contant handful of apps. The latter uses a machine that runs poorly because no one is managing it.

Making a disruptive improvement for one market would probably end up being compelling to both so you focus on either for a start.

I don't like the decision to focus on office staff first. Google's in a great position to sell to consumers. Also I think Apple demonstrated that going through consumers first encourages better products.
I do not really care about collaboration, even if it could be fun sometimes and I believe we will find use cases where we absolutely need it,...

The one thing I find interesting is "Real Palm Rejection". I tried to replace my trustworthy college block with the iPad but I always failed because writing without putting my hand on the screen feels wrong and results in a writing even I cannot read anymore.
If they only get this one feature right I believe they can enter and enterprise market without any real competition.
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Nice to see Groupay coming back to its roots with this. Good work guys.
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As long as OEMs only listen to MS, coreboot will never happen.

Even with UEFI, this doesn't have to be a problem.
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Great work. I signed up about two months ago and intend on using codiqa for our mobile prototyping. It's great for those of us that are bootstrapped.

I actually found about you guys on Reddit :)
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To begin with, it's perfectly possible to increase several orders of magnitude the performance of a piece of code, you can Google for plenty of examples. In addition, going from 1 sec to 0.5 sec is indeed 100% improvement.

Given 0.5 sec = 1 ; 1 sec = x, then x = 2
Running has more bang for your buck, so to speak. Among other things, you burn more calories per minute, work more stabilizer muscles and strengthen your bones. Its easier to get the intensity up (speed and strength work, fat burning), and to keep the intensity low (endurance building).

Both of the sports will cause damage, as they are both straight line repetitive motion exercises. In either case you want to think of them as specific or specialized uses of your fitness, while creating proper base fitness like flexibility and muscular balance in the gym/yoga etc. would be your non-specific work.

Any time you go very specific you are going to find a weak link.
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I think one of the things that stands out is that if the patent laden litigious environment that exists within technology and software today was in effect in 1990 we would probably be still waiting for the internet...
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I'm not that old, but the same is true about me and Flash. I think Flash is a bloated piece of software right now and should die (last great version was 8)...
And if you like humour, read Good Omens (by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman).

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I wish I went through a page like this when I started JS. It might be useful to try to make some of the more illogical ones in bold, like NaN==NaN=false or [0]==0=true but [0]==[0]==false.

Also at least first and second table seem to be symmetric. To help visual parsing half of them could be hidden.
I could take this more seriously if I didn't strongly suspect that's your answer to everything.
> And there's no reason why Microsoft can't change the requirements for Windows 9...

Right, and there's no reason why Microsoft can't suddenly start eating babies as a matter of corporate policy next year. This is just FUD.
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Just fished helping the wife with a paper on libreoffice... Heck latex is the ultimate user friendliness. But mostly because i can write in vim.

openoffice is a joke. Don't know if it's because i still can't find how to fine tune key shortcuts but all the "speed" problems were me hunting down the same 3 items in a menu over and over.

They should move all the focus on maintaining a non-word clone interface.
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I'm no doctor, but Red Bull on an empty stomach before the gym in the morning sounds like the worst drink possible. I knew a guy who drank Red Bull before and after the gym, immediately after he ate 2 snickers to "restore his energy tank", I think he lasted 2 months before he stopped his exercise efforts. Where do people get the idea that Red Bull and exercise is related? Have they started to market it that way perhaps?
As an aside, that is also why it is dangerous for a company to create an "innovation" or similar department.
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This is one good way of identifying how the company will work and facilitate you while you have to move from one place to another and make sure that with all your belongings, the vehicles you own are safely transported from one place to another as well.
Those 2 comments really helped me understand where chromeOS and other browser-OS machines sit. The are the opposite of Raspberry PI, which is a tiny but all-capable thing for general purpose computing. They are limited by design, therefore might be more secure (not prone to OS-vulnerabilities) and suitable for anti-power users.
This is a terrible page and the product manager of this thing should be ashamed.

The inmates are truly running the asylum. The technical specs are completely irrelevant to the interests of the majority of consumers. This page needs to show what this is capable of without the foreknowledge of what Chrome OS is or is capable of or what Googles other offerings are.

Sell me a story! Tell me why my life is going to be better with it.

What most people going to ask:
Can I use my social networks?
Can I do my internet banking?
Can I get my photos off of my camera and share them?
What about my music?
Can I watch movies?
How about spreadsheets and word documents?
I expect it has entered popular culture via rap music, where they make a big deal about East vs West - even within the same city.
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I may be missing something but how does Parse store/retrieve data? Is it using HTML5 storage?

UPDATE: Nevermind. I just found the other article on HN that explains how Parse is a storage PaaS. This article makes more sense now.
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Looking at my Mac's activity monitor, I see about 100 processes running. I am pretty sure that more cores would improve performance nicely. It's about the system, not just one program.
That reference(even if Wikipedia) seems to imply that the first Sandy Bridge processors released were the Core processors, not that all Sandy Bridge silicon will be or is branded Core.

Are there any cases of laptops or PCs with Celeron processors being referred to as having Core processors?
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Small storage, cheaper Celeron processor, cheap amount of RAM. The additional cost I'm guessing would be a hefty mark up. Perhaps they are trying to achieve Apple levels of profitability.
It's an appealing, nicely-produced video.

Everyone in it has nice handwriting, even when writing on a low-friction screen. What about those of us who don't particularly like reading our own handwriting, let along sharing it with others?
Did you read their article on bitcoin? In the first paragraph they pretty much claim that it was invented to let people buy porn anonymously over the internet. That article is not going to do bitcoin any favours at all. And as for their handy "infographic" on what happens when a transaction takes place...
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/features-key.h...

Is that better?

edit:
To explain, I think how they expect you to experience the website is:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/ (from www.google.com/chromeos)

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/features.html

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/features-key.ht...

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/features-device...

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebox.html

So, we're looking at a relatively deep link, which assumes the reader has been shown the main OS features and is looking for which specific product to buy. That said, I agree that this page doesn't do much except show pretty pictures and throw out a few tech specs, and won't sell the product on its own.
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"Most users won't get any effect at all unless they're playing top-end video games."

I have 14 browser tabs open.

Safari is currently using 17 threads. Webprocess is using 10, Pluginprocess is using 22.

I shudder to think what those numbers would be if I wasn't running AdBlock.

I believe most users would see the effect of more cores.
For me first thing to do when I would receive either Chromebox or Mac Mini, I would format the disk and install my Linux distribution of choice.

So, also from my point of view the OS provided in the beginning is not interesting.
Launch chrome. Open up 16 tabs. You are now running 16+ processes.
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The Chromebox is a fast, compact home or office device.

The first sentence describes this as a device not a computer. This seems like a poor choice, as is that the page mentions the word 'computer' not once.
That's not really true, it's more that installable apps can just be a glorified shortcut. The majority of apps that did that at launch of the store hurt them on that perception, I think.

Installable apps, like extensions, usually reside mostly locally and can have elevated permissions on some things: https://developers.google.com/chrome/apps/docs/developers_gu...
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Yes, there is a noticeable pro-Google bias on Hacker News. Links that show Google in a negative light are instantly backed up by Google employees. This comment will probably get down voted. I seriously don't care about votes and don't know how the system works and get annoyed when people complain about down votes (like it actually matters).
ClamAV for Linux et. al. primarily targets Windows threats. It's primarily used to filter e-mail or scan SMB shares, not look for threats that might affect the machine they run on, so it'd seem a very odd choice to include.
Perhaps the only thing I really gleaned from this article is how brands apparently play such a key role in this man's habits.

Macbook air, textmate, Octopus card, Fitness First, Red Bull, Volvic, iPhone, Gmail, Caffe Habitu. All of these were jarring to me as a reader, as the article would read more naturally with generics--laptop, text editor, charge card, gym, energy drink, water, phone, email, coffee shop--with no loss of meaning. Many of these brands are mentioned 4 times or more during half a dozen paragraphs.

Whether intentional, it demonstrated the power of good branding; get inside someone's head, make them associate good habits with your brand, and you will become part of their daily ritual. They no longer 'go to coffee shop', they go to Caffe Habitu. It's not buying a bottle of water and hitting the gym, its "purchasing a Volvic in the 7/11 then doing the 3 minute walk to Fitness First". They don't check email, they check gmail.

A related takeaway from this blog post is the inherent "bragging rights" people feel when they stick to a habit. This guy doesn't just get up in the morning, it gets up at 5.50am people. Now that's early! Now it's time for 12 reps at 30kg at Fitness First as I knock down my redbull after crushing some sick bugs on my macbook air at the crack of dawn working in the cloud at my webapp startup.

Premium brands do the same, and it's part of the reason for the consistent brand-dropping here. People don't have phones they have iPhones, not because they are ubiquitous (like hoover became the vacuum) but because people must differentiate normal phones from their phones, due to the premium pricing they paid. And by using the new product as part of a habit (like your iphone is an integral part of a morning workout), it becomes more justification for the purchase.
> I find it unlikely that there is a big conspiracy involving America though.

You find it unlikely because you are clearly ignorant of the facts.

You really need to widen your reading with an opinion like that. I suggest books like "Classified Woman" by Sibel Edmonds, "Ghost Wars" by Steve Coll or "Family of Secrets" by Russ Baker.

Note I'm not saying there IS an American conspiracy. I'm saying the fact that you find it UNLIKELY that there is a conspiracy is naive and ignorant of how American power actually works (as opposed to how it advertises it works).
What are you implying? I think almost all modern browsers support app caching manifests, meaning web apps work offline.
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100% performance increase!! thats a bit too much of a statement.

I am wondering if a product can have an 100% performance increase, then it must be pretty badly built the first time around. isnt it? I like openoffice, and didnt really think it needed a 100% performance upgrade, but hey more is better.
The sensible treatment of a "secret question" is as a second password. Since it acts in parallel with the password, like a second door to your house, it should be at least as hard to guess as the "main" password.

I would go further than saying that this is obsolete: it is simply bad security design.
Microsoft have been using deception to make Windows (and now Windows 8) seem faster for years. Windows XP went very quickly to the desktop, but it could take a whole minute (or on very slow machines, several) for it to fully start up.

Windows 8 is full of animations, to disguise latency.
See http://ozlabs.org/docs/uefi-secure-boot-impact-on-linux.pdf section 2.3: "This is known in the UEFI specification as the “forbidden signatures database”, and is modifiable during execution by authenticated software."
> Why is ARM such a big issue when there are about 200 different kinds of Android ARM tablets out there that you can install Ubuntu on?

Some people are interested in dual-booting Windows and "something else" (Android, Ubuntu, ...) on ARM devices. Historically, dual-booting has an important source of Linux users. Microsoft's current policies for ARM prevent that (absent bootloader hacks, of course).

Beyond that, if subsidies are really the underlying issue, why not permit customers to "buy off" the bootloader lock (i.e. pay to get permission to install their own keys as well)? Or at least move to that policy after the initial uproar?

I think that the reason is that there are more than subsidies at stake here. I think the simplest explanation is that Microsoft wants to establish different default expectations for the "Post-PC era".
Where is the target of this device? Certainly I won't buy this, but neither can I think of any reason for a sane people to pay more than 100$ for this box.

People will get an iPad instead, rather than paying 3xx$ for a dumb box.
Source? I didn't see anything like that in his authorized biography The Snowball. And it specifically mentioned several times that Buffett always hated manual labor, always ate badly etc.
Most BSoDs nowadays are due to badly written drivers. Actual memory corruption is pretty rare.
The imagemap to the right of the specs is horrible as well, you have to hover over their tiny "+" icons to see the quick selling points which are actually of interest to consumers. Saying "boots in 7 seconds" is great, but only if the user can see it right away.
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There is already an app called "Collusion", a Mozilla add-on:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/
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It's still early (in the life of this device).

Early adopters will be techies. It's OK to be geeky at this stage.

They can dumb-it-down later.
I think $150-$200 would've been the sweet spot for a ChromeBox, and $200-$300 the sweetspot for a Chromebook, depending on the configuration, quality of materials, etc.

Also, I see no reason why these shouldn't be running ARM chips. All you're using is the web, so it's not tied down to the x86 architecture like Windows is.
So Microsoft will sign just about any bootloader for a one-off fee of $99? What's to stop me setting up a legit-looking company, writing a fake bootloader, getting it signed, then adding malware to Windows? If the key is blacklisted, I'll just sign up for another one.

The whole idea of secure booting on hardware that you don't physically control is ridiculous anyway. You're trusting everything in that chain of software, from the bootloader, through the OS, through to every ring 0 driver, to not contain any exploitable bug. We know how well that worked out, just look at consoles & Android.

Microsoft aren't stupid. They know this isn't going to provide real security. I think the intention is (a) prevent people easily repurposing machines to run Linux, (b) provide a sop to Big Content, (c) set expectations that you don't own the hardware you bought.
I have just installed LibreOffice 3.5.4 and yes, there is a drastic performance improvement. Documents and application do load much much faster (I am on Windows 7). A real improvement here, but I am not sure 'accurate' figures can be reported. I am impressed by the boost.
My apologies, I meant to link to the list of processors in that article -- by pure count (and, anecdotally, most often), most Sandy Bridge processors are Core processors.

The text "Upgrade To An Intel® Core™ Processor" does appear on Intel's Celeron page, so there's that. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/celeron/ce...

(And, for what it's worth, I'm not completely defending Google on this, just pointing out what their reasoning could be.)