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I don't understand why Leon Chua keeps popping up first when memristors are discussed. Williams at HP is the person that made it a reality. Chua postulated the existence of the memristor but as far as I know made no progress on a working example.

That's a bit like giving da Vinci credit for the invention of the helicopter.

The Williams talk on youtube is really good. He discusses the element itself, its use in memory (as vast amounts of on-CPU memory) as well as the possibility of new CPU architectures based on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY
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as I am preparing the switch to a static site, I hope, there are interesting answers waiting out here.

Juvia is interesting, but - as you said - a bit overweight. ;-)

So I hope, that there do exist interesting alternatives, but till now, I didn't find any.
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Thousand times this. I still own a 22'' Trinitron (20'' working area) that beats any `FullHD' hands down, by resolution and by any other measure as well -- from lag to colorspace -- and it wasn't even top of the line back then. Heck, it even starts up faster than many LCDs.

I refused to let go of it for so long exactly because there was no LCD that would be an upgrade, with the sole exception of the expensive T221. Guess now's the time :-)
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> Back when WPF was still called Avalon, Microsoft were pushing the technology as a solution for the soon-to-be-arriving high-dpi displays

Although they were quieter about it, it has been quite clear that Apple was interested in resolution independence since at least 10.4, when such features started to show up.

Remember that very few third-party Windows applications use WPF. Most first-party stuff, even, doesn't use WPF. We're seeing on the retina Macbook that, while most Cocoa apps work well enough, most non-Cocoa apps are at least somewhat broken; imagine how much worse this effect would be on Windows, where so few apps use the current UI toolkits.
For the smaller graphs it might be worth fixing all the y axes to the same bounds like you do with the x axes. That way you could visually see differences, currently they all tend to resize to the same profile.
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Actually, OP is not interested in setting up a US company for fundraising purposes--the purpose of the US-entity is to easily process credit card payments.
> I don't get why it doesn't auto-update itself - if browsers like Chrome or Firefox can auto-update themselves automatically, why can't the Java plugin?

It's better that they don't. There are often subtle differences between versions. Sometimes it causes some JDBC drivers to fail. Sometimes it can cripple entire platforms like 1.7 did with Solr for instance.
Comcast is a content owner by virtue of owning NBC. I wonder if Comcast is treating NBC differently or not in this process.
Well, this is just another Visa - hardly a huge problem while Windows 7 is still available. Just wait for Windows 9.
It's not so much marketing as that _they are actually making these things_. There has been a small but rather fanatical demand for high-DPI screens for a good while, particularly since the demise of CRTs. Note how excited people got about the resolution independence features introduced (and subsequently scrapped; 10.7 does it very differently) in MacOS 10.4.
Does this provide a sane way to deal with callbacks? Obviously, in JavaScript you're writing callbacks all the time, and nested defs (think callbacks which call something that requires a callback... repeat) in Python are ugly and annoying. For example, try writing factorial in CPS style sometime in Python.
It's not just you. Could barely read it.
If Comcast only held the IP address currently assigned to its cable modems, they could argue that they don't know who had that IP address six months ago. Its true that most people leave their cable modems on-line full-time and that the lease period keeps changes to a minimum, but why keep logs. And it could all be done "in an effort to store less customer data" ... there are obviously privacy issues with customer data ;)
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For mobile apps you need a smart phone right? But when you use our REST APIs you (your end user) doesn't need a smart phone in order to use your app.
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The Smart phone market is huge, that's true.
But think of all the people in the world that have "ordinary" cell phones, and they want to spend e.g. 3 $ a month to get their emails.....or to update their Facebook status via an "old/featured" cell phone? What about does guys? That's where www.parseco.com steps in.
Can this kind of decoupling be accomplished on Windows and or Linux?

I just ask because I have a 1920x1080 (native) resolution LCD which looks wonderful in Movies and Games, but makes text and other OS artefacts unusable small.

Windows will let you set the text size (Medium, Large) but all this seems to accomplish is to break all non-native applications (e.g. force text off of the right hand side of the drawable area).

It would be wonderful if I purchased for example a 2048x1536 display which Windows could run in 1024x768 "mode" but with four times the pixels per every dot of content on the screen.
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Cheers to the Azure team for putting support behind Node.js. I've always felt that the myriad of amazing tools for *nix devs have left Windows devs light-years behind. Even if you don't like Node.js, this bodes well for Windows as development platform beyond .NET.
I got my last Dell for just about that, wth Linux pre-installed.

And everything, from IDEs to LibreOffice, to R, to programming languages, to databases came for free.
Material implication is the usual propositional logic that is used in generate-sink kinds of gate design.

I think maybe you mean strict implication? I read a paper a few years back that showed how you can use strict implication to design regular propositional logics that can house resource sensitive logics like linear logic.
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What do you think the voting system on HN does? It promotes good content, thus also demotes bad content. The author is saying "Here is a reason that content X is bad. If you agree with me, downvote it".
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Falsely claiming that Apple gear follows function over form is my pet peeve at the moment. John Gruber thought the Steve Jobs biography missed this vital element and therefore was ruined.

I'd suggest designing staircases out of glass, adding non-functional screws to balance a design, painting a titanium laptop (with paint that bubbled and flaked) because you didn't like the color, using platonic solids, and making storefronts symmetrical and having the windows aligned with outside paving stones suggest an obsession with form, almost to the point of OCD.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!, but please don't tell me that a totally symmetrical design makes it easy to find the volume up and down when fumbling in your pocket, that's just silly. As is listing pressing the center button three times to skip to previous track under the heading "Less is more" generates intuitiveness. Minimal? Yes. Beautiful? Yes. Functional? Not really.
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Exactly. Claiming that Philosophy never answers anything makes one hell of a selection bias. When Philosophy answers something, it ceases to be Philosophy.
In Chrome I cannot read it, but the text appears fine in Firefox.
Don't forget people use Windows because that's what comes with their new computers. Almost nobody installs a fresh OS.
By this logic, HN'ers should downvote any anecdote describing successfully exiting a startup because statistics show that the vast majority of startups fail and these anecdotes describing success unduly influence the thinking of entrepreneurs.
1. Couldn't you always have guaranteed this by being aware of which JAVA_HOME was on your path or which java executable your startup script ran? Having multiple java installations on a server you manage has always been trivial.

2. Isn't this announcement only for JavaFX?
You can't use the volume up and down in your pocket, since it's very close to the actual headphone (because of the microphone). :)

Otherwise, fair comment.
Don't know about windows, but it certainly can be on Linux. The only problem is the marketing: people buy "HD" screens now.

Apple sells "retina" screens, and people buy them.

Our world is quite sad.
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Well I think Stalin summed up the perils of totally ignoring anecdotes pretty well:

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."

This topic sort of came up the other day in the thread about the girl losing the iPad software she needs to talk (Silencing Maya).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103344

Some commenters thought the story should be ignored as a data point about the societal value of patents.
I disagree in that case because I don't believe economics or social sciences have anywhere near the amount of rigor and theory to make a good claim on whether the patent system is a net benefit to society. Deciding such a thing is a very old, and classic problem in philosophy.
The OP seems to implicitly relying on a variant of utilitarianism, which IMO is wholefully inadequate to rely on for moral decisions.

Since science is so hard, there is a lot of bad science out there. What gets reported in the wider media has all sorts of weird selection bias, never mind what gets picked for publication in journals.
Anecdotes are human stories and they are deeply connected to why we care. Statiscal tools can be used in ways that justify harm people in the name of greater good.
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Anyone reading this probably gets that one can't exactly counter balance the effect of anecdotes within themselves. But it can still be countered some, I think it's worth it to hear stories (that are relaxant to the topic).
Now what is the basis of my beliefs? Mostly intuition, not rationality. But I don't think it's possible to undermine my ideas with some kind of experimentally bases argument. There's
just way to many variables!
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Maybe they're a bit late to the party if JavaFX is meant specifically for mobile applications. There are lots, literally tons of solutions out there, e.g. Appcelerator Titanium, PhoneGap, and others.
Sure, because the most socially calibrated response to this article was to use it as an opportunity to remind us all that you're one of the few of us who isn't socially retarded. Good job chief!
Define normal. ;)
No free stuff.

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> I understand that the BBC is the voice of the state

You understand incorrectly. The BBC is funded by a compulsory license fee, but it's certainly not a communist era Pravda-like entity.

Each of the UK's political parties generally thinks that the BBC is biased against them. and the BBC is often regarded as being biased against the left wing and the right wing simultaneously.
The simplification in the title is dangerous without a 'when' attached. Mindlessly downvoting contrarian anecdotes will lead to a hive-mind. Beware.

Opinions overwhelm all other forms of material in a discussion. Anecdotes are actually one up from opinions as they are concrete. You should weight them like so:

Statistical Evidence + Logic > Statistical Evidence > "Common Knowledge/Wisdom" > Anecdote + Logic > Anecdote > Opinion + Logic > Opinion
Twisted's Deferreds solve this problem for Python already. They might even work unmodified with this translator, but they are a simple enough concept to re-create if necessary.
People who derailed in 5th grade are probably unlikely to get back on track because education in the higher classes stands on the shoulders of the previous classes.

If it not a causation, this may also mean that "non motivated students" never care about math. Either in 5th grade or in high school or later.

Or maybe it is a combination of both. The article only shows correlation. But how can one study causation without destroying the futures of students?
> Not since Aristotle has such an important theory sprung forth from one man, seemingly out of thin air

I'm skeptical. Not to make light of the formalization of information theory, but it seems he was generalizing the idea that you can communicate arbitrary information using code. As inspirations for this generalization, he was able to draw upon several existing examples of such systems, including Hollerith's punch card system that had been around for half a century by that point.
95% confidence would be fine (or very nearly fine) if a requirement for funding/publication would be that all data, including negative results, be published as well.
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A helicopter is an invention but not really a discovery. The memristor is as much a discovery as it is an invention.
I doubt this is true in a lot of places. Around here it's basically Time Warner Cable or some form of wireless.
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Good question. Let me break it down for you:

Of 5,000 new compounds, you'll find 250 which are interesting enough to test in a lab (animals or in vitro), 5 which are interesting enough to test on humans, and 1 which gets approved.

It costs peanuts to find the 5,000 new compounds, and a little bit to figure out which ones are interesting (say, $50,000 each, about $250 million). Those 250 interesting drugs will cost a million each to test - subtotal $250,000. The 5 drugs which are tested on humans cost a fair bit (say $50 million each - $250 million for all 5). Getting the final compound approved takes a lot too, because you need a massive trial.

All up, it's about $1 billion per drug.

If you want to reverse engineer it, it's about $10 million dollars for a chemical engineer to read the publicly available formula, figure out how to synthesize it, and set up a small plant.

Whether it's a new drug, or a drug you copied, it costs a few cents labor / materials to make each dose once the factory is built. Yes, India could knock $0.01 off each tablet, by employing cheaper factory techs. But no-one cares about saving $0.01 off a $1 product.

India could do the R&D cheaper, but not a lot cheaper. It's like building an OS - you need experience people who know what they are doing, not just cheap process workers.

Ripping off US companies isn't a bad idea, because it lets Indian workers gain more experience, which will help them create better R&D jobs. In the long run, this might even be good for the US, because Indian R&D could create a lot of good drugs for the US to buy.
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From the introduction to The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow: "Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge"
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The interesting thing I took from it was that a real world, non-tech small business -- in some senses the polar opposite of a VC-backed startup -- still benefits from the same principles; listen to your customers, act on their feedback, etc. And every field has their new techniques and fads, not just tech; if barbers had forums, there would probably be debates between the hipster "wash sitting up" fans and the greybeard "wash lying down" advocates.

It might be an obvious point, but sometimes it's worth remembering that there's a lot of commonalities between businesses in very different industries. So talking to strangers isn't just a nice thing to do, but can actually give you some practical value.
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So from your example, ~10% contained really good information, and this was found using a meta study, conducted by scientists. And you are using that as an example of how you should give scientific research no weight at all? Why do you give weight to the scientific meta study if you think it means that you should not give weight to scientific studies in general? This position is pretty ridiculous on the face of it.
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Depends how you define it. But, X-Box (the original) was a PIII + Nvidia + Other PC Hardware... none of it made by Microsoft.

The 360 I give them more credit with, because they worked closer with partners and got off the WinTel brand... opting for PowerPC chips with ATI ... again, not manufacturing the hardware.
Also, look at corporations in general. A lot of them are inefficient and it seems like a miracle that they can make any money at all. Yet they clear big bucks. If big lumbering TPS-churning corporations can create value, then so can agile me. If someone whose job it is to shuffle papers and write memos can make a large salary, then why shouldn't my command of programming be valuable?

All in all, I think it's better to have the belief "I am worth lots of money" than the opposite.
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It kills me that you can't use this plugin fully without Emacs:

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It can't even really be accomplished well on OS-X yet. But I am delighted Apple is going for it, because the application will catch up.

Right now it works really well with Apple's font render engine, and not much else. But application developers will catch up -- as will Microsoft and Linux (some Linux mailing lists are already blowing up with how to handle it). X can handle it no problems, it is the libraries that can't.
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Yes, examining the biases and methodologies of a study is the correct way to present a contrarian opinion. Providing an anecdote is much less useful.
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