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>I would honestly be shocked if they can ship a console with even those specs along with a controller and all the assorted bits and pieces you need, to an end user for $99 without eating some hidden costs themselves

Google is selling the Nexus 7 right now for 200 dollars. This is essentially the same hardware but:

1) No screen, no batteries, no cellular radio

2) No need to squeeze it into the tiniest and lightest possible form factor

3) It doesn't come out until next year.

While I have no idea if they are actually competent, it is a reasonable goal. The controller apparently costs 30 dollars.

>Even worse, the hardware specs are just... short-sighted. 8GB of storage is not remotely enough for a console that has no physical storage medium for games

It's going to have an SSD slot. They omitted that in their description but that info is available in the other news articles. Not ideal but a perfectly okay spot to save on IMO.

>There's also other assorted details that just make this feel lazy... Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all made sure that each of their buttons has a distinct shape or letter associated with it so that in-game text and UI can communicate clearly to anyone who plays.

Agreed. I hope they fix this before launch.

>I could also rant about the fact that they think a Tegra 3 and Cortex A9 is adequate for a game console, but honestly I'm not worried about that.

It's a good baseline. They can't go higher than this and sell it for 100 dollars.

The one hardware bit I am worried about is that they make no mention of accelerometer and gyroscope in the controller. The Nexus 7 and pretty much any recent cellphone and tablet being have them now. They make great low cost all in one chips for this they really need to squeeze that in there or they will be locked out of a huge amount of possible games.

In general, we've all seen a huge surge of awesome games and innovation on tablets and phones in recent years. I don't think it is due to just the form factor -- it is because anyone in their garage can publish a game for the platform. Bringing this ease of development into the formerly protected space of the console/tv gaming is the benefit of this console.
> It's interesting how negative the original HN thread is. Everything from "it's too underpowered" to straight up "Gaming on android is a sad, laggy affair" and calling them "amateurs".

I think there's a significant proportion of the HN userbase that responds to things like Kickstarter funding with indignation, because it neatly circumvents the VC funding process that so many of us have suffered through. It's almost a "How dare they raise so much money without jumping through hoops like I did?"
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Glad to be of service. Cheers. :)

Edit: Update worked. I did a pip install --upgrade plop, the spurious line is gone from my virtualenv.

Have a wonderful day, thanks for sharing this.
Works for 10gen boyeeee... awww yeah.
What is to stop someone from making their own? I foresee custom app stores and custom games along with people building one with a terabyte of internal storage.

Or why not just build a PC with an OUYA OS partitioned drive?
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>We're not going to "kill the planet," or the entire human race. Humans adapt. That's what we do. That's why we won.

That is very close to the "fine tuning" argument often employed by creationists. It is entirely possible that humans have, in fact, merely been phenomenally lucky to have survived so far, and that the fact that we find ourselves as members of such a phenomenally lucky species is easily explained by the anthropic principle.

If you take all of the intelligent critters out there in the universe that are capable of discussing their adaptability, a pretty big chunk of those critters are going to be members of civilizations that got very lucky over the ages and managed to produce large cumulative populations, while a very small proportion will be critters from short-lived civilizations. Indeed, holding constant whatever level of adaptability we actually have, it is reasonable to assume that we are among the luckier of the civilizations at that level.

So no, we can't just assume that we're going to leap over any hurdle that comes our way.
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Qooxdoo, my favorite opensource RIA tool, has virtual lists and grids as core building blocks in both the desktop and mobile variants.

However, i would not be surprised to find out, that they emulate their own scroll containers. But it is indeed possible and works well.

See http://qooxdoo.org
I would suggest that you "don't get it". There are a lot of different markets for gaming, not just insanely high end. For $100 these guys are offering everything on android on the big screen with a gamepad. Maybe you fail to realise how many people find this desirable but I would hope the $1million they raised in 8 hours might make you go back and reevaluate your assumptions. Maybe it doesn't work for you but to generalize that to the world seems to fail here.

The platform is comparable hardware wise to the current generation of consoles for a fraction of the cost with loads of games already and an incredible hacker spirit (isn't that what this place is supposed to be about... ) as the most open console (free dev kit, open the box and mod it doesn't necessarily void warranty, open source etc etc).

Maybe not everyone wants to pay a fortune for over priced over engineered locked down blackboxes. Maybe some people can derive fun from medium to low powered open platforms. I'd say give this thing a chance but it clearly doesn't need you and looks like it's going to succeed just fine regardless. :)

And isn't the spirit of HN to be looking for and cheering the next new thing, not crapping on it in favor of the old established thing?
All occurrences of the string "lenght" are inside of comments. Phew.
This comment kinda annoys me. Let's say Dropbox had a 5GB plan for $10 (let's assume that's the price of their lowest plan - I'm not sure). So, people with 4GB would say "this is good value". But suppose they offer even better value and allow 100GB for the same price. Now it's perceived as bad value for the 4GB user, and they want a cheaper plan.

In fact, we had the same problem at my startup. We had a plan with 1-way parallelism, and a plan with 8-way parallelism (we do hosted continuous integration - https://circleci.com). Many of our customers said "oh, I don't need 8-way, so I don't want to pay for it". When we changed it to 4-way (for the same price as 8-way), the uptake was much higher, as they perceived it was something they'd use. Go figure.
Try: .* fuck.* There are some very angry kernel programmers out there.
They do. It is called a run. Then anything left is bought for next to nothing by a larger bank, and there is then even more opportunity for collusion as there are now less players at the table. It's been going on for a while now and in history seems to be the general trend apart from during those brief times when it is reversed for a while by the invention of new markets and financial technologies.

Albeit, this is only my probably wildly inaccurate and hastily sketched opinion.
When it comes to medical science, I would take skepticism over optimism any day. Many promising drugs have made it through the first rounds of trials, only to fall flat later on. Let's save the optimism for drugs that actually make it through to market.
"the ultimate purpose of a business is to make money"

No.

The proximate purpose of a business is to make money. It's a means to the end: the ultimate purpose of businesses are to improve human well being.
Thanks for the feedback. We initially displayed a list of recent activity but pulled it. You bring up a good point.

I will look into the cursor issue.

Thanks
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Yeh....was about to say that I doubt that given the architecture. The difference is that there is a for-profit company that controls the nodes, so I doubt they would allow that. Completely different than a real botnet where the botnet owner controls everything.
I was desperately hoping for this to happen also. I love dropbox. Use it across linux/windows/mac/android.
So people find a better way to get money and the old hardened crowd here gets cranky? How fast we grow into curmudgeons. I need to find a new "hacker news" that still has the spirit and would say "holy cow, congrats, amazing work, and we should look to see if we can exploit that next time too". So much for the spirit of the entrepreneur and hacker. Seems old school corporate crankiness. :(
It'd be really sweet if they offered VMs with a video card as well... for science.
Why do they keep closing the request? It's obviously a problem. The fact that they seem so willfully ignorant makes me rather nervous about relying on droplr for anything.

Edit: Looks like they're fixing the problem after all. It's unfortunate that it took a Hacker News article to bring attention to the problem, but at least they're taking the appropriate steps.
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The theraputic index explanation cleared my questions right up. Thanks!
Ask HN: Org Chart for a Software Startup?
My boss has asked me to come up with an org chart for our organization. What are your recommendations for a _simple_ org chart for a small software-as-a-service company who's looking for investors?

I realize this is kind of open-ended. I'd be glad to provide more info...
Sounds like you're arguing for the elimination of the Federal Reserve and bailouts--which is what moving from $ to Bitcoins would essentially do. The money supply of currencies like that is fixed.
True, there may be another option: left in New Zealand broke with all of his assets frozen and unable to ever interact with the United States.
No, its not. Its even more relevant for Javascript, because creating a dom node is way more expensive, thsn just altering it.
Alternative currencies are already legal in the US. If I print up a zillion Foobucks and you agree to take them in exchange for goods and services there's nothing illegal about that. But if it's a taxable transaction then taxes will be due in real money.
Presumably you are using the results of the distributed system's work for something. Can you trust those results from people who can't keep a web server alive?
I really hate it when people express a predictable sentiment along the lines of "herp derp, digg/reddit/HN cured cancer again! It must be Tuesday!" While it's necessary to be reserved, scientific progress, especially in biomedical fields should be celebrated, not derided.

We need more researchers in the world working on these problems that benefit us all. Thinly veiled mockery of their work and the progress they're making is really unsavory and possibly quite discouraging to someone who's thinking of going into this field.

Just be grateful that progress is being made; one day you may directly benefit from that experimental drug mentioned in the article.
We use it at my company all the time as shared space. I can't 'share' it to an unlimited number of people, mind you, but I can't imagine a scenario in which I would.

Regardless, it's a pretty good collaborative tool, super for backup of important documents, and yeah, personal doc storage, but as I've spread it out across 6 different PCs, it's a great sync service too.

That said, I'm no longer paying for Dropbox in lieu of Google Drive. Perhaps their cost model is more to your approval?
If it helps, I am running chrome 20.0.1132.47 on OSX 10.6.8.
Diamonds are super easy to purchase online so that isn't the problem. I am fairly certain the real issue is the DeBeers marketing machine.

"A diamond is forever". There is a whole essay on this that was an awesome read. Made me never want to purchase a diamond.
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The difference is that most Skype users don't even know they are carrying traffic for the network. The client silently punches a whole in their router and makes itself a pain to close (for example by reconfiguring what the red X does) without ever explaining why it wants to keep running so badly.
This has been bothering me as well. HN has gotten into a habit of shitting all over new ideas, innovations and technology start-ups. It's not just android or iOS, nor is it about taking VC money or not. It's about trying to do something different and showing promise. If you do that a large part of HN community will just shit all over you.

This is very different from the community a few years or even a few months ago.

These people are trying to disrupt a market that solely belongs to big players (MS, Sony and Nintendo), shouldn't we be happy that a smaller player is trying to enter the tough market. That deserves some applause and a pat on the back, doesn't it?
That's your opinion of it. I can have a contrary opinion that's just as valid, and so opinions of the "ultimate" purpose of business are moot.

Legally, the ultimate purpose of a business is to make money as well as legally possible; specifically, maximize shareholders' stake NPVs.
How do you equate that sentence with him being sold out?
The reason why the content itself is not served under https is precisely to avoid the SSL warning. As I've said before, this particular issue is not high priority right now, which doesn't mean we're not aware or aren't going to fix it.

Something about the tone of this response irks me.
Thanks! We are trying to replicate it now.

Really appreciate the candor on the landing page.
10x for the feedback :) I hope you've enjoyed the video
Somebody really needs to make a startup where, when you visit a page, you can either view ads, or opt out by paying a really teeny tiny amount of money. (And where you can set it to "always opt out and just pay for my damned content.")

Problem? You can't really charge people tiny fractions of a cent effectively. Solution? Bit... wait for it... coin.
The fundamental problem is that the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) sector is in aggregate acting as a rentier and — through financial engineering, regulatory manipulation, and outright fraud — sucking up more value than it creates. This is how they manage to concentrate wealth without doing much right.
Apple is not going to let the AppleTV run iOS apps. If only because the mess of resolutions and aspect ratios you find in everyday TVs.

Thus without the iOS ecosystem Apple would be competing on specs and marketing. They could do it but they would be giving OUYA a run for its money.

Besides, 6 months is a long time in mobile land.
Considering that libor affects mortgage rates, I'd say that's a lot of people affected.

that's like saying the only people affected by oil speculation are the counter parties.
This is just one guy complaining about how The App Store search didn't help HIS timer app. They didn't interview the guys who built the other timer apps that show up first in the search results
I can think of a couple bots I knew of but can't tell you the names. And that is hardly a stat.
Lamernews?

If not that, then would you use it if I made an alternative?
In their defence:

* Who uses a free file sending service for critical docs?
* The only mention of 'secure' on their homepage has (to my mind) more of an implication of "safe and secure eg your file won't be lost" rather than "secure from hackers"

I think it's forgivable, at least for the free version of the service. Maybe they should upgrade then tout the paid version as offering https as a benefit.
"Only the idea counts."

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Redis is a key-value store. S3 is a distributed file system.

Can we stop labeling the set of "not a rdbms" data storage mechanisms with the stupid fucking "NoSQL" moniker.
We have the net outcome in front of us? Did you mean to say something other than wealth concentration to financiers, the meltdown of the world economy, the euro crisis...

Sorry, are you saying what the net benefit would be once you remove the calamities it has caused?
Does that then make somebody with an ad blocker a thief? Because I don't like the sound of that at all.
Hmm... It's a valid point, but my only addon is Adblock.
I'm having the same problem. It looks like we're not the only ones: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/13

I'm on macosx 10.7. Perhaps it works better for Linux users?
I agree wholeheartedly and that's why I was so shocked and sad and dismayed to read the comment thread here. It seems like the spirit of HN is drying up and dying. :(

Community growth is hard to manage and HN has done amazingly well avoiding previous pitfalls like falling to trolls but now it looks like something new and more subtle is befalling it. :/
I tried it several times, but IMO it is barely functional and ridiculous to configure. I know the developer does what they can, but Chrome seems to intentionally make it difficult for extensions to block ads.
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PG, that is a great response; here's a followup: How can he use his company's good standing to restore his credit, if at all?

Or is it just the typical path for him?

Assuming he is doing $1mm in revenues and VCs are interested in investing, is there anything that this investment can be leveraged for to restore credit?
You have 100k computers running this? How come I've never heard of it and don't see a place to sign up to be a host computer?
I would expect if the High Court of New Zealand decides the entire case is illegal and won't extradite him, they would stand up to the US/DOJ/FBI and try to get his assets unfrozen, property returned, etc. etc. If the US/DOJ/FBI don't do so, they would be breaking NZ law.

You might say the US will just laugh in their faces, and while that might be true, it would be horrible publicity (which the US clearly doesn't need right now) and would probably just provide another reason for the rest of the world to give the US the middle finger in general.

It wouldn't be the first time little NZ has stood up to the big guys [1] (see specifically 1984)
(This was a very, very big deal when it happened)

[1]http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/en/campaigns/nuclear/n...
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Though I'm known for wearing outlandish footwear, I'd like to have seen some comparative research regarding other ways people accessorize.

Can we decipher characteristics equally well by looking at a persons pants? watch? shirts?

I think the interesting thing about shoes is that though we may have many pair, more thought possibly goes into each decision. We go looking for the perfect pair of shoes because we think about what they have to go with. Pants and shirts, we expect (I suspect), we can match-up with the other articles in our wardrobe.
That's the terribly hard thing about building a worthwhile community and what draws us all here. You need some strong nucleus and just as you don't know me from jack, I don't know you either. PG founded this place initially and that drew most of us here. Then that community he brought kept us here. Now in some people's opinions it may be getting a bit sour, but it's also been amazing for a long (longer than average on the net?) time. That's a good accomplishment.

But as to your question? I don't know you and don't see why any clone you created would be any better than one I created. I came here as much for the commentary. And it's that I'm starting to loose respect for. I don't see how you or I could replicate that on our own.

It's not simple this community building and maintaining game.
"everyone wants that"
Well, the original commenter might've thought that they were becoming more selective, or even just letting the community select titles for final consideration.
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I don't think there is any great mystery there - mutation and copy errors create the initial conditions that lead to loss of function of tumor supressor genes or in of function in oncogenes, caused by known risk factors and some unknown risk factors we are still elucidating.

There isn't a much more fundamental understanding that can be gained. We know all of this, we are beginning to elucidate the chromosomal translocations and karyotypes that seem to appear in certain families of cancers (and a specific cancer type will have the same 'assortment' of chromosomal typings)
all that remains is to continue to design increasingly effective anti-cancer agents, one part of which this article is explaining.

I don't believe there will be a single magic bullet, however treatments that have an immunological basis (See this NEJM paper that offers incredible hope for CLL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1103849 )
Or antibody based Rx coupled to cytotoxics or radiologicals as an adjuvant Rx, as well as the success of the designed molecules such as Imatinib etc all bode well for the future.
Unfortunately the big C will evolve it's way out of many of these therapies (Imatinib etc inhibit fusion proteins created in aberrant cells that lead to proliferation, slowing but not necessarily stopping growth, so the cell evolves around it)
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I like the idea a lot. I'm not a fan of most of the themes, especially the one being used for the site itself. But the classic Bootstrap theme is starting to look quite plain (which is a good thing to be able to say about the web, mind you), and I'd like to see a few other solid options emerge.
I run a similar service, SSL is available to everyone right now, though it defaults to plain HTTP.

Your suggestion is actually what I have in the works, SSL by default for everything premium users touch (and the files they share).
There is this very amazing essay on Amateurs[1]

There's a name for people who work for the love of it: amateurs. The word now has such bad connotations that we forget its etymology, though it's staring us in the face. "Amateur" was originally rather a complimentary word. But the thing to be in the twentieth century was professional, which amateurs, by definition, are not.

That's why the business world was so surprised by one lesson from open source: that people working for love often surpass those working for money. Users don't switch from Explorer to Firefox because they want to hack the source. They switch because it's a better browser.

As in software, when professionals produce such crap, it's not surprising if amateurs can do better. Live by the channel, die by the channel: if you depend on an oligopoly, you sink into bad habits that are hard to overcome when you suddenly get competition. [4]

[1] http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html
Something else just occurred to me....by not paying users to get axs to their computers, it removes the business model headache of squabbling over revenue and violating ISP TOS. I believe it is against most TOS for most (if not all) ISPs for a consumer to resell their inet axs.

That was another consideration that I looked at two years ago - which makes the model not as attractive. Although, I imagine that the holy grail is actually reaching a place where users are making money from their inet connection - I am sure that will drive adoption at an increasing rate.
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