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One of the major reasons why OnLive struggled (and now failed) is because they launched their platform (20010) well after the launch of the XBox 360 (2005) and PS3 (2006).

Serious gamers, the early adopter market for OnLive, already had purchased an XBox 360 and/or PS3. Since OnLive, as far as I can tell, didn't have any compelling, exclusive titles, and provided a gaming experience that was inferior to alternatives, there was no reason for a serious gamer with a console to try (or switch to) this new platform.

OnLive needed to launch around the same time as the other consoles and deliver a superior experience, or an equivalent experience but at a lower price point (upfront and over time).
I clicked today on it for second time, thanks to the "Why I now hate HN" post. And I plan to click it more times.
Its not spam. I am the author and am linking to it from my personal blog.
Great work! A few things:

- I think your front page might be a little bit confusing. Are you providing a tool or are you explaining how documentation should be written? Upon reading more closely, it looks like you are doing both, but since the site as a whole isn't visually organized to demonstrate that, it's a little confusing. Do you actually want to do both? If so, I would recommend creating a visual organizational structure that makes that more clear. If you mostly care about the tool, I would suggest removing the documentation guidelines from the homepage entirely and putting them somewhere else.

- For a documentation site, I think you could really use some more thorough documentation. I understand you are in the early stages of this project, but right now, the question I have (following the line of thinking on your homepage) is "I understand how to install and make an index page, but how do I really use this tool to document a project?"

- In fact, I don't really even know what kind of documentation this tool is designed for. Documenting programming projects? From the example questions you give in the documentation guidelines section, I suppose that's correct. I think you should better flesh out exactly why your project is the one to go with for documenting my next project. You start to get into this in the second paragraph, but really, by the end of the introduction, all I have is that your project will help me understand how to start writing good documentation and it decouples design and content. I think you can do better.

Again, I like what you are doing here, and congrats on shipping!
For me it's not about wall clock quicker, but perceived quicker. I use a couple of different keyboards throughout the day, and they all have the arrows in slightly different places (more variation than letter keys...) which makes it similar to the mouse...

Namely, the amount of concentration required to hit an arrow or get the mouse to do what I want feels slower because I have to pause my thoughts, rather than just queue up a nerve message to my fingers to "then go over there and...". Stopping the train of thought to manipulate the mouse - which requires a lot more visual feedback and focus than just knowing that the cursor will get there - makes me overall slower because I'm context switching.
Anything to substantiate the rumor?
Very unlikely, unless that had been imposed on the group by an external, blame-oriented entity.

Left to its own devices, the group would most certainly have operated as it did every time it found fault in its output: find out how The Process had allowed for a fault to be introduced and reach output, find out how to make The Process prevent the introduction and/or release of such faults, fix The Process.

So no, the "exact same accountability process" would most definitely not have been initiated within the group, a very different one would have taken place.
Cool deal - good luck with it, I'll keep an eye as you move forward. Could be useful to us!
Tor is the solution to getting hellbanned at HN.

That is "censorship", no?

Tor is also the solution to your Twitter API woes. Like it or not. I'm sure many SEO people use it to get around Google's restrictions. These are not necessarily uses that infringe anyone's IP. Twitter is UGC. And Google caches the entire web, indiscriminantly.

Tor, like the 'net itself, is controversial. It can be used for bad things. It can also be used for good things. It could be used to break criminal laws, or to enable copyright infringment. It could be used to violate TOS that may or may not be enforceable in civil court. Or it could be used just to evade idiosyncratic censorship by some webmaster that has no legal basis whatsoever. (This comment itself is being posted through Tor.) It is, however, any way you look at it, useful.

There may be an "intended purpose" for Tor. But as with almost all software, that means little. Users decide how they will use it. And that is unpredictable.

Did the folks at MIT, when they developed Tor, say to themselves, "You know, this will be used to commit crime"? Probably. But they also probably envisioned some other uses that were of undisputed benefit to society.

As someone else said, MIT is still behind Tor. Grep the source for the Tor client for IP numbers. You will find that some belong to MIT. My understanding is that Tor is controlled by a small group (maybe only one person) because like anything else that uses a network, there has to be a bootstrap, a "root" that hands out the initial addresses. And anyone that uses the Tor trusts that root. Somewhere there is/are a few people with a great responsibility on their hands: they make Tor possible, for better, or worse.

More people need to use Tor for non-criminal purposes. Using Tor as a workaround for censorship, whether it is on HN, or in some oppressed country is to be expected. If you are the censor, and you don't like it, ban Tor. It is not difficult.
HN does not ban Tor.

One of the great myths on the 'net is that an IP address equates to a machine or a customer account. False. It represents an interface, which is itself an ephemeral concept. Interfaces can be created, cloned or destroyed at the blink of an eye.

This may all be frightening or it may be exciting, it all depends on how you look at it. It shouldn't matter whether you are a good samaritan or a criminal. It is just technology. Abstract tools. A hammer can be used to build something or it can be used to destroy something. It has no moral sensibility on its own.

That's up to you, the user.

As a Tor user (I can't post to HN without it), it bothers me that others are using it for criminal purposes. But when I look at hammer, I see a tool for creation, not destruction. I think like a carpenter. What can we build?

The hammer has no consciousness of its own, any more than Tor does.
It's strange a DBA managing a database ?

And you're right. Scalability isn't everything hence the popularity of NoSQL which are far more developer friendly than current SQL databases. And in most companies it is the development teams that dictate technology choices.
"Embrace and extend." -- Bill Gates

These days that would correspond to forking the spec. So unlike an open source programming, it is not nice to fork the spec.

Or is it?
For me, OS X. Great design, speed, stability... It has all the apps I need, it's great for development and under the hood is still a Unix machine with a lot of CLI utils.

But I really like Windows 7 and Ubuntu too. It's just that I like OS X more.
To be fair, most vi-like interfaces suck or worse, they are clunky, incomplete or have odd bugs when interfacing with the rest of the program.
HN does have up votes, down votes, and a third flag option.

You have to view an individual comment to get the flag option. I'm not sure what the down votes are for. "This comment does not belong on HN", maybe.

I have no idea what the flag is for. "This content is so bad it needs to be removed, not just hidden", perhaps.

I agree with your post though! I'd be wary about having too many options for marking posts.
Your blog, though, does not add anything. Hence, I call it "blog spam" even though you are the author of both (which I think is kinda strange). We prefer to have direct links to articles, not links to blogs which link to articles.
The problem is that in the list there are manned and unmanned rocket mixed. For example, the Ariane rockets are still unmanned, so if they lost one it is only an insurance problem. The Soyuz had manned and unmanned mission. But all the missions of the Shuttle were manned, so each time they had a big problem they had casualties. It would be interesting to see that includes only the manned missions.
If you are serious about encryption, you can use SSL without the Certification Authority system. Just self sign your own certs and only trust them.
Indeed what Visa did is not moral, but this is the law of the Jungle, no matter how despicable they find their opponents to be, losing is losing. They need real revolution to win the game.
Essentially what you are saying is that your want to (also) store cold rather than store just energy.

I'm not convinced it was worth it. You anyway are collecting energy from the wind, and instead of storing it as energy you stored (part of) it as (potential) cold.

But in order to do that you threw some of the energy away - I suspect that if you stored all the energy directly, and then created the cold on the spot as needed you would have higher efficiency.

If I did want to store cold I would not do it using compressed air, I would use a water tank - cool the water to ambient (no active cooling, just some pumping) then dump heat into the water when necessary.
Actually, used both quite a bit. But the UI and project layout (the subject of this post) are very similar, as they are with most IDEs.

Case in point:
http://ostatic.com/files/images/JUnit-[2].png
Unfortunately for every good user (dissident, whistleblower ,etc) you'll have 100 disgusting users. (it'd be interesting the know the ratio, but by Tor's very nature you can't!)

The promoters rationale is that the protection it provides the endangered good user is worth having to put up with the disgusting ones.
If the current rule applies that says you don't get to down-vote until you reach N karma, the "new kids" don't really get to do much. I for one would value a system that forced a down-vote to be accompanied by some sort of explanation of why. I suppose at less than a year old I am still a "new kid" so I will say in my infancy (a few months old) I had a comment down-voted for reasons that were not obvious to me. I was polite. I didn't say anything negative. Yet I was down voted. When I commented on begin down voted and inquired why, that too was down-voted. Some one was kind enough to explain to me that my original comment was "a generic compliment" and basically useless. It was a pleasant compliment (something the OP seems to be advocating here)... yet still garnered down votes. Ironic, huh?
The se kinds of things seem to be more and more common. I hope employees take note and protect themselves when they sign up in new places (read no more cliff agreements).
D'oh. Sorry. Send me an email at my username at gmail. :)
I click on it frequently; I enjoy answering questions and seeing what regular people outside of YC are working on.

The tab I find nearly useless is Comments as it provides no context (unlike New where submissions do not need context.) I assume the purpose of Comments is to give moderators a way to spot check for obvious spam and other poor behaviors.
I agree. A simple search on Fallujah Children and Depleted Uranium yields some truly shocking pictures. I just wonder how far and wide the winds have taken and are taking this uranium oxide dust. People who say DU is no risk are totally off their rocker.
The problem there is the fundamental misalignment between a boring CRUD project and a technical founder. If the project isn't technically challenging, then the success of the business doesn't even depend on the technical skills, so equity isn't an appropriate incentive for the technical contributor. What they really need is a contract/salary programmer, but are attempting to sell it as "you'll get rich with equity" to avoid paying up front. In essence, they're attempting to raise seed funding from a naive engineer.
How about giving an option to OP to judge which comment is being helpful for him one way or other. If a member is constantly being penalized by OP for giving negative/useless comment then revoke voting rights.

Stackoverflow model could also work.

My 2 Cents.
I strongly suspect that anti-CP laws have an exemption for people engaged in law enforcement and the judicial system engaged in real investigations. Otherwise it would be impossible for anyone to be prosecuted for CP. The law makers aren't thad silly.
This is why tech people should really begin negotiating severance into their compensation. Yeah, yeah - how do you get rid of people who aren't a good fit? I dunno. Maybe, make the formula for calculating severance account for employment duration. What happens when you got hired a week ago and the whole company is now being fired? I dunno. Perhaps a mass firing clause.

I don't have the answers, but severance pay sounds like a great way to protect against these kinds of assholes.
Just guessing but:

-I don't think they are aiming to make a profit
-They have a lot of corporate sponsors
-Economies of scale: large membership, large building = lower fixed cost per head
-Most (all?) of the staff are member volunteers, so low (no?) labor costs.
-It's in a converted industrial warehouse, not A1 office space, so it's probably fairly inexpensive rent, relative to a place like PARISOMA (which charges 3x more).
We currently try to push people towards pointing the script tag to us so that we can more rapidly iterate on the product.
Funny that you chose to reply to me instead of the parent. Learning just PostgreSQL is also poor advice.

Most DBAs will already know Oracle and MySQL and my point was that they would be much better advised learning a NoSQL database. Of course if you're a new DBA you should learn a relational database I just fail to see why on earth anybody would recommend PostgreSQL over Oracle/MySQL which are far, far, more popular.
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I think and really hope it's Google. Onlive is a threat to Apple's walled garden model. Apple might just want to shut it down.
> a tank of compressed air is lighter than batteries

Joule for joule, it's not. The best compressed air tanks you'll find roughly reach lead/acid batteries in energy/weight (~100kJ/kg). Lithium-Ion batteries have 4 to 9 times the energy density.
In another thread, the rumor is that they were going out of business, not getting acquired.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4398439
How do they get paper views/downloads data from the journals (besides the ones that already make it public like PLoS)?
I agree with you. Maybe I'm part of the problem, but I actually see nothing wrong with those comments.

Now, if that were a 'Show HN' post I could see where people may want the comments to offer constructive feedback, but that thread seems like a matter-of-fact discussion of the business model of the business.
Very very hard lesson: "You can be 100% right and 0% effective."
That doesn't sound like a Catch 22, that sounds like someone interfering with evidence. The absurd thing is if the company or lawyer would be prosecuted for not deleting the evidence. I'd hope not, cause they didn't do anything wrong if their employee did the wrong thing.
The fallacy here is that only serious gamers play on consoles. PC gaming is back on the upswing, and one could argue that PC gamers are just as serious or even more so than console gamers.

The thing that OnLive offered was a way to play high quality AAA game titles on basically any device that has a internet connection and can play video. Where they failed I think was the pricing model, prices were too close to retail products, and it was an ala carte service. If the moved to a subscription based model similar to gamefly I think they could have had more success.
Something I wish they took into account was diversity in locations. I'm not sure it would matter, but buying ALL 100 tickets from the same store is probably not the same odds as buying them in chunks from different stores.

My thinking is: lottery ticket producers will never produce 100 winning tickets in a row, but they will most likely produce many losing tickets in a row because they expect, at most, 3-5 being bought at once.

But I could be just out of my element.
Or is too old to 'get it.'
You MAY be able to do this with Selenium, although I've never used Selenium to scrape streaming requests. It's going to depend quite a bit on how the page is structured.

I have used Selenium to scrape dynamic content before by waiting for new DOM elements to be populated by AJAX, so I know this sort of thing is possible in a way you couldn't do with wget.
I posted some days ago an appendix by Feynman in the Challenger report, "Appendix F - Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle"[1] for those interested. Also, half of "Why do you care what people think?" is about his experience investigating the safety of the shuttle.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4371024
what trumps the other two os's then? Any specific favorite's like Textmate or Objective-C that make you prefer it?
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Good. Something needs to be done. Every time I click on a link about a start up or a new site, I see the negative feedback and I cringe at the thought of putting anything I do on here only to reach an inevitable fate that could permanently damage the reputation of the project during its launch phase.
Why would that be any different from a weapons market?

If either existed (in brick and motor or amazon style stores) I would frequent both regularly.
"Cool, now there're two ways for me to punish someone I don't like." The flaw, if you want to call it that, with this suggestion is that it is a mechanism based on the idea that people are decent, reasonable, and well-informed. Which is not a bad thing, but it is not well suited to fixing a problem caused be people behaving indecently, unreasonably, and/or with little experience being "Good HN Citizens."
The blog has most of them http://ycombinator.posterous.com/
Plasmids are still commonly sent in the mail dried on paper. At least they were when I dropped out of my Ph.D. program a few years ago.
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>Still, the average restaurant worker, at least around here, is very young, and by definition, unless you're going to an upscale restaurant, likely not getting much money.

Since when is the definition of a restaurant worker someone who does not make much money? Especially those not working fast food?
Actually, no you wouldn't. You'd be able to answer why Alexandra Gelber, Assistant Deputy Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, thinks violence/violent imagery is different than sexual abuse/sexual imagery. The only citations are to law (both statutory and case law) but in a memo arguing for the justification of the law, citing the law is begging the question. She does make reference to a number of specific cases, but one could just as easily pick out examples of violent acts being committed by people exposed to violent imagery. In order to refute the analogy, you must show why the two situations are different; Ms. Gelber makes an effort to connect sexual images of children with sexual abuse of children but fails to show (rather than state) how that differs from the case with violence.

Consider the passage you quoted.

"no one who watches Saw believes that the images of violence are actually happening"

Actually, you do believe it, at least for the duration of the film; the concept is known as "suspension of disbelief". Rationally, you know better, but your mind takes a temporary lapse of its senses for the sake of enjoyment. That doesn't change the fact that the violence is realistic enough to pass for the real thing.

"where in child pornography images, real children are actually being abused."

What about animated images or self-taken images? There is plenty of content produced that involves no actual depiction of children, nonetheless the abuse of children. Yet the law seems to state and the courts seem to think, for the most part, possession of images not depicting abuse constitutes the same offense as possession of the genuine article.

"Furthermore, what is the point of any pornography if not to stoke the fires of sexual desire"

I could just as easily say: what is the point of any pornography if not to satisfy sexual desire? Since I too am providing no citations for my claim, one cannot objectively state which of our two statements holds more water.

I appreciate the contribution to the discussion, but ultimately what we have (as is often the case in such matters, to be fair) is a dispute between opinions, lacking any hard evidence for either position. Remember that the position is about child pornography/pedophilia in general, so you can't just cite specific offenders; exceptional cases do not a trend make. Statistics are needed here, but obviously they're going to be hard to come by.

Also, even if we take Ms. Gelber's argument at face value, it essentially boils down to: images of child pornography are very highly correlated with acts of child abuse. If that is true, then I would certainly say it, coupled with the necessary accusations, justifies a police investigation and the issuance of a warrant. However, I do not believe that makes a compelling argument for the act in and of itself to be illegal. Sexual abuse of minors is the crime; possession of its depiction is, at best, a minor offense (invasion of a child's privacy).
Are people banned/ghosted here? I'm assuming so, because that's how most forums work, but I'm not sure since this seems to be custom built.

While I don't think that HN has hit this level yet, one solution that I've read about involved people who trolled or posted general nastiness. When people had reached a certain threshold or pissed off the wrong high-level mod, they got "ghosted". What this meant was that people who were "alive" or considered "living" could see "living" contributors' posts, but could not see "ghost" posts. Ghosts, however, could see other ghosts' posts, so they could, for what it was worth, writhe in their own debauchery and piss each other off, but not the pleasant and constructive members. I thought it was an interesting solution and apparently it worked very well.
Even if OSS isn't an option, I think it would be a nice idea for Light Table to provide low level API/Interface so that eco system grow like emacs/vim/eclipse.
Perhaps Chris has already considered this idea.
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This makes a lot of sense, and is worth experimenting. The comment/reply box should have some simple placeholder text, along the lines of: Don't be a dick.
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Stability and design mainly. I like to see that all the interfaces are consistent and pleasing to the eye. And well, I think the Magic Trackpad + BetterTouchTool (I have a Macbook) does a lot for OSX.
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