skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you get "for the same price"? I can assure you that even if memresistors cost 1/10 to produce the equiv in other tech they would hit the market at 10x the price. Better tech can get a higher price and as long as the ability to provide market demand is limited by patents or the cost to convert/build fabs then the supplier gets to set the price.

Seems like a lot of people in this discussion failed Econ 101.
The Enterface interface is good. I would definitely pay to use this. Go forth and make this puppy real.
http://xkcd.com/1098/
have you tried http://www.mint.com
You could probably implement any of them in JavaScript, but it would be sort of silly, because the actual runtime complexity and memory usage aren't really going to be close to what they "should be" due to the interpreter.

I haven't given it a lot of thought, but I doubt it makes sense to implement "textbook" algorithms and data structures without pointers.
Is the link broken for anyone else? It just goes to resume.github.com
You can. I've done exactly this.

Some shady anesthetologists (and others) often try to bill you out of network. In-network charges are subject to insurance company price controls while out of network charges are not.

Once you make it clear you are paying in-network, as you kindly explained to the receptionist (who told you it was all covered), they back down real quick. It's just a scam they try to pull on the uninformed.
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
The last thread by the same name got a lot of attention, but seeing as it's over a year old it would be interesting to hear from new people and also get updates from some people who posted in the previous thread.

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487
MariaDB ships with XtraDB, Percona's modified InnoDB engine. If you're planning on using InnoDB (which just about everyone is) the differences are pretty minor.

The big difference is that MariaDB comes with the Aria storage engine, which is a crash safe alternative to MyISAM.

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/about-xtradb/

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/aria-faq/
Mixing breadcrumbs with a text field is a dangerous thing to do. Take for example input selections. I click in the middle of the path and then shift-end the cursor. What should I see in the content pane?

Second thing to consider is how it's going to work on the file systems with lag. Anything over-the-network. Not only moving the cursor left and right would generate a lot of traffic, it would also fail to provide feedback comparable to that of local drives.

Third, take a step back and think who would actually use this. For example, the only time I use Location field is to copy current path to be pasted elsewhere. I tried remembering when I actually typed anything except for c:\temp in there and I can't. I'm sure there are people who do type in long paths, but the question here how many of them are there and if the UI should be optimized for their usage. If they comprise a percentage point, then clearly all this optimization is pointless -- it may very well still exist, but it should be off by default. In other words, as nice as this exercise is, it jumps to the design phase without first defining the problems it is trying to solve nor its target audience.

--

As others have noted W7 has something similar in Windows Explorer, but the field switches between the breadcrumb and text input modes. This looks like a sensible solution, and yet I personally find it fairly annoying in a day-to-day use.
This transition in modern armies from soldiers to different types of drones really scares me. Drones can easily be deployed on home soil against any kind of anti-government protests. The government would need just a few hundred of loyal operators to command a huge force.

Looking at history, the only times and societies where democracies and republics were established - e.g. Ancient Greece and Rome, France, US - were those were free citizens had access and could afford weapons similar to those used by the elite. With the transition to military drones in Western society I'm afraid the democracy will also transition to totalitarianism.
I can vouch for this. This message (http://copy-cat.co/blog/a-followup-email-that-actually-works...) took maybe 10 minutes to write, has required a few dozen hours of Skyping, and has netted a huge ROI so far.

Bonus: I end up screensharing with people who are just now going through my product's onboarding process. Getting to hear "oh! so that's what that does" and "ahhhh, now I get it" equals so much win in figuring out what to tweak to make things more obvious.
oh... how i wish i would have read "Living With Roommates Tips" beforehand.
> "The data based approach to cheating detection."

I've been really impressed by this recently. Even in areas where it doesn't seem like it should be hard to plausibly fake, it turns out there's a lot of subtlety that might be missed.

Here, it was the checkpoint-by-checkpoint splits and the photographs. In a fake Minecraft game [0] it's the number of blocks that have been mined versus the materials available for building tools (if sticks are rare, you're not going to waste them making pickaxes to strip mine plain stone) and the number of structures that have been built (millions of blocks got mined, but not used?) I've thought about building a "wall transparency" detector for another video game that would track a player's orientation in relation to players behind a wall from them, profile the average player, and then show that certain players are able to track others through walls.

There is an incredible amount of technical knowledge even in seemingly mundane pursuits like running. That's what makes it possible to spot cheats even without spotting the exact cheating mechanism.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4413499
There's too much focus on web-based software. This type of product is ideal native, even with all the collaboration features.
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It's not a bad idea, it's just there are an awful lot of them and the average one is just average.
Thank you for taking the time to package and release this!
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I wonder if MS was able to patent that functionality in the Explorer in W7. Of course it shouldn't be patentable, but with today's system, I doubt they'll have trouble doing it.
I think the UI component details look a lot like Photoshop's... Watch for any patent suits from Adobe!
Hiding elements by applying offscreen translation - how's the support on non-iOS devices?
As a UX Designer, I'd say I've needed something like this: a true UI design app that only had the features I needed. None of Photoshop or Illustrator's extraneous features (with respect to a UI Designer's needs, anyway).

One thing that would definitely make me try it is a bundled/stock icon set that is well-integrated into the app. Finding open-license icons for my mockups (or drawing my own) is actually the most laborious part of my design process. If that was somehow shortened, or if I at least had inspiration built into my design tool, I'd be a happy camper.
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cute test, but pretty one-dimensional and short-lived. One's relationship with people changes over time, and if there's never a point where you don't dread picking up a phone call from someone, I don't think you're that involved with them emotionally, financially, businesswise or otherwise.
Does it mean that in a single project you may use two different storage solutions? SQL DB for relational data and NoSQL for queues, heaps, etc. ?

I'm asking because for me it is a kind of a paradigm shift, I have used plain files and SQL DB in the same project before, but never two different databases.
I've yet to hear a solid data-driven case for why this is a bubble

-- Is it even possible. What would this look like?
I've been working on putting my _actual_ resume on Github using Markdown (when finished, I'll have a HTML version up using Markdown and Strapdown.js, too).

https://github.com/rumblestrut/ejg-resume

I've neglected my resume for a long time and recently felt the need to update it. After considering different options, I thought "Why not just put this thing on Github?" Ultimately, I just wanted something that would withstand the test of multiple document formats over time, and a text file was the best thing I could think of.

So yes, quite literally, Github is my resume.
Journalists are human, of course.

They are also employees, and like employees everywhere they face an immense amount of pressure from above to produce more, in less time, for less cost.

I sat in a large newspaper newsroom and watched it happen around me a few years ago, when the internet tourniquet started tightening. The journalists, subs and everyone else involved in producing a quality product were at their wits end as the management tried to take us ever closer to the minimal viable product they could put advertising around. A team of 14 running five weekly papers was fired and replaced by existing labour cut'n'pasting articles from the main daily paper produced at the site.

Believe me, journalists know that their once respected profession is going to hell in a handcart. But it's not their fault, and largely there's not much they can do about it.

It's also hard for normal folk to see this because a very, very few writers get larded with resources, oodles of time to investigate stories, and big salaries, and these are the ones that are talked about. It is like assuming all CEOs are dishonest, earn a few million a year and fly everywhere by private jet.
How much does it cost to treat a dog for the most serious medical problems, like cancer? I bet it's trivial compared to the cost of a human. I bet it's so little, that we could actually think about treating everyone for everything, if we could get human treatment to that level of efficiency.

Seriously, it's the most humane way to go.

In the meantime, I'll be thinking about going to India if I or loved ones need serious medical care.
You know a great way to get the native iOS look/feel? Use Kendo Mobile. It gives you native UI without all the bugginess of other frameworks like JQuery Mobile.

Out of the box, using Kendo on iOS gives you a pretty native feeling app, esp. for things like form and image viewing type apps.

Just know going in that PhoneGap has limitations and it is not going to be 100% perfect, but it's outstanding for hitting the first 80% to prove out an idea and get it on the app store.

For an example of an app I wrote using Kendo Mobile, check out ReMeme on the app store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rememe/id536802283?mt=8
Sorry, I guess I misunderstood what you wrote.

I'm absolutely in favor of other people doing what they like with their money - diversity of entertainment choice is a great thing.

For me that meant the city, where the higher density of customers makes it viable for IRL entertainment suppliers to operate further down the long tail of demand. The things I'm interested in are right down that long tail, so I can understand when rm999 found moving to a city has improved his/her quality of life.
The bottom 4/5 of "the 1%" (and the next 19%) are the job creators and where innovation and disposable income (going back into capitalism) live.

The top-0.2% or so (and the distinction has more to do with social topology than income; many of them are not earning top-0.2% incomes) are a well-connected set of parasites who produce little innovation, hamper society by pushing the status quo, and generally produce no value. Yes, we have an upper-class problem in this society but it's not only about money. Income inequality is a symptom, but it's about connections.
That's ridiculous. When you are a tech news publication ostensibly worth millions, I, as a reader, have an expectation of editing and proof reading.

Otherwise I have much less respect for the professionalism of your outfit.

How can I take the authors on that site serious when they themselves can't even bother to read the crap they produce.
Why on earth was my title replaced? Sigh.

Revolutionary memristors purposely delayed to prevent cannibalization of flash

It's 100% accurate and more relevant.
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It's also not a Siri killer because they are going to sell it to businesses while Siri is mainly a consumer toy.
Will help a lot for UX designers..is it cloud based or a desktop app???
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Scalability can only be a commodity if all big sites were built the same way. But they never are. A scalable read-only system is entirely different from a system with a mix of read/write which is different again from a message routing system like Twitter or Facebook.
Blog posts like this remind me how badly CSS needs to catch up to where preprocessors like Less and SCSS are at.

I read things like this:

Just because your menus and your buttons share the same border radius
and font size doesn’t mean those styles should be
abstracted away into some third class that gets
applied to both elements.

and want to shout out: "Just use a mixin!"
This would be REST level 2[0]: it uses HTTP verbs and is defined in terms of resources. It is not level 3, because of those damned "_id" keys lying around.

[0] http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...
Of course. Simple. Why didn't anyone else think of it. Let's just invent hard AI. Doh!

Er, how do we do that again?
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Maybe something HN does automatically to prevent editorializing. Not saying that your title in particular was doing that.
But isn't it like dropping the F-bomb at work? It's a matter of professional standards, just something one doesn't do.
I used to use http://www.buxfer.com
Googling around, I see a number of implementations. What's wrong with them, and why do you feel this is impossible?

(And hint: it's guaranteed not to be impossible since JS is Turing complete)
This is a stupid article. The author makes the assumption that HP and Hynix COULD ramp to high volume production, however it is clear from HP's statement that this is not true:

"As with many other ground-breaking technologies being developed at HP Labs, HP has not yet committed to a specific product roadmap for memristor-based products,"

Let me also say that I worked in the non-volatile memory business for seven years. Any organization that can scale better than its competitors will do so, unless they don't like making money. End of story. If HP and Hynix are not ramping to high volume, it's because they are not ready, not some stupid conspiracy theory that they want to stagnate the development of cloud-buzzword "technology".
Is there a way I can use a gun to protect myself from "health care" tyranny (other than shooting myself in the head)?
Misleading title... the article explicitly states they are trying to figure out how to do make it work on mobile platforms and that it could enhance Siri...
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This is awesome.

If I can suggest something - it'd be amazing to export some kind of layer-based file format (PSD, really, though that tends to be hard). Your concept looks great for wireframing at a very refined level, but inevitably UI designers will want to go deeper with all the fanciness Photoshop provides.

It'd be incredibly powerful for them to pull in a PSD where all the layers are already in place and ready to be chopped.
"it seems more likely to me that it was simply a mistake, and one they'll walk back at some point."

How do you explain removing access to the source repository then? Or the fact that the documentation is not free to redistribute?
Run Python under strace sometime. Laugh as it attempts to open thousands of non-existent files just to start up. Cry when you imagine that happening on a thousand-node scientific computing cluster with an NFS root. IIRC we saw something on the order of 10-20 minutes to get Python started on every node of a Blue Gene allocation.
Sorry, but anybody who says anything never done before in space is 'trivially easy' has a serious credibility deficit.
Emulating pointers in JS is pretty easy; you just wrap the values in objects or arrays.
There are other open source projects at Oracle that are still "alive". Like Netbeans.
Here's a dime, go buy yourself an AMD64.
An LOL at "this is why you don't see much innovation from the big companies" followed by a what-if-Apple-did-this example. Apple is a big company. The biggest.

The article is B.S. If the release of this technology will replace all RAM, Flash memory, and other memory storage technologies as the author expects, they wouldn't need to delay it.

And lastly, if you believe the article, it says it's not in HP's control anyways. It's the manufacture partner Hynix fault.
Forget MSP430 Launchpad - TI ARM Cortex-M4 Launchpad at $4.99
If you're using mainly InnoDB and want more reliability / performance / less variance in execution time - go for Percona, that's what they're specialising in. Also you can use the company for support when needed.
He does no longer own the exclusive rights to the code (they are Oracle's now) and so can only publish under the GPL.
Having just worked on a mobile site using this technique: it's fine. The one issue we found is that some older Android browsers support 2D translation but not 3D. We ended up using translate(x, 0) for the actual movement, but kept translate3d(0, 0, 0) around for the performance boost.
They are correct. iFile works great for giving you a Finder styled file manager inside the idevice. iFile is also the best utility for doing things like decompressing etc.

If you want to see the files inside your phone in a file manager on your computer most people go with OpenSSH/Cyberduck. Personally I like Netatalk which makes your device just show up as though it was an external hard drive and breaks down the folder hierarchy the same any Linux distro.
@hakimel is Hakim El Hattab :) he's author of original idea.
but @voronianski (Dmitri Voronianski) have brought this idea to plugin that everybody can use with ease
I don't think this is a joke, but sentences like this make me wonder a bit:

If Snowman Architecture sounds too informal to you,
feel free to refer to it by it's formal name: Vertically
Aligned Synergistically Partitioned (VASP) Architecture.
I still wonder why SQLite isn't used more. Granted for busy large sites/applications SQLite is the wrong tool. But most sites using MySQL are small.
It makes no sense to me.

What's the advantage of memristor-based storage, exactly?

If it's cheaper to make, then sell storage at a price that undercuts the competition but still makes a better profi.

If it's more reliable, then sell storage at a higher price with a better warranty.

There's no sensible scenario where memristors are ready to go but they don't want to sell any memristor products yet because it will hurt existing sales. Either they can make a better product, or they can't, and if they can't make a better product then the stuff simply isn't ready.
The ridiculous thing is it's not like the original headline wasn't editorializing.
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Why do you consider it "ideal native?"

What was a good case for a desktop app even two years ago works fine on the web today (e.g., WebGL stuff, canvas-based apps.) Chances are this will be even more true 1-2 years from now (when a product like this would have become quite polished.)

A web app can offer cheap distribution, a more iterative development cycle, split testing, more monetization flexibility, piracy protection, a larger market, immunity from platform trends, and virality (share interactive designs even with stakeholders who haven't downloaded or bought a large creative application).
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Right, that's why I said "one of".
I have a feeling this will be as gamechanging as Wolfram Alpha was.

Great technology, but there are already products out there that are okay enough to placate a lot of the incentive for consumers to adapt a non-baked-in application.
I learned about them in trigonometry and again in precalculus and again in linear algebra. Also, physics 1, but that doesn't count. The stuff in that post is exteremely simple.
Sorry if this stings a bit...

We already sort of do this (without the bad bits) and have done since about 2001.

This is a little buzzword filled and doesn't deal with the system-level practicalities of enterprise architecture. It seems like an internal technical proposal written up to sell to the business rather than a practical discussion. Mind you, what can you expect from a CTO...

Regarding practicalities, it's a royal pain in the arse managing component and messaging contract versioning between "tall" architectures like this.

Also it doesn't work well with a SaaS model as the logical partitioning is more complicated with different isolation requirements for different clients. Complexity goes up O(log N).

Synergistic partitioning is pretty obvious and doesn't require an essay.

Keeping things within budget is about managing scope and coupling, that is all.

Nothing new here.
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† Some people just don't have any sense of humor whatsoever.
You will regret forgetting to put it on charge for Monday morning...
what if they have a bunch of flash products already made? They need to get rid of that product first before they make it worth less.
AoM is one of the few blogs that I feel genuinely compelled to read. Very good writing, and about skills/knowledge that we all need in our life (regardless of profession).
I'd love to see a 2012 version of this article, with SSDs as a viable option.
Competition pushes the price of a product toward the manufacturing cost of a product over time.
It probably isn't a joke. I see stuff like this all the time.
They're talking about delaying commercialization from a year out to sometime farther. There's no way they have a year's worth of flash products sitting in inventory.
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Yes. Always use the right tool for the job. Its okay to have some duplication (an object stored in postgres and also part of a mongo doc or cached in redis). Don't forget storage is cheap.
> This is going to become less and less common, if only because routers/modems distributed by ISP's typically are passworded by default now. In Germany (where I'm staying) it's almost impossible to find an open wifi network anywhere, despite having 20 to choose from at any point in town.

Germany is absolutely a Wifi nightmare, I was traveling around Europe last year, and in Poland you could get Wifi basically anywhere, hell, i got online while running form one train to another at some random train station in the middle of nowhere.

Then I arrived to Berlin, and what a change, I spent hours trying to find a place to get online.

The problem in Germany is totally insane laws, and a population too brainwashed into following every silly rule.

In any case, cracking closed Wifi networks is relatively easy, and will (which is why is silly to close your wifi, because if somebody uses it for something nasty, you will have much more trouble showing that it wasn't you, while if it is open everyone understands that anyone could have done it).
I agree with you and it's a very interesting point, but I also think that there is another one.

Let's suppose that you're developing some tool that could solve problems of a lot of people. It's natural that you try to sell this to them (there isn't free lunch).

Getting paid only by services, in my opinion it's not that sustainable, because you'll have costs with this service and you already have other costs with development. To start making some profit, the price of the service has to be high.