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by hacker_9 10y ago
1. Seeing as we have never made a computer able to be conscious, or hear/see/smell/touch as good as us, or reach the same power-efficiency I'd say there is an absolutely an enormous amount we still don't know. 2. Li
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Utterly amazing what people are achieving with neural nets. The idea that 'style transfer' can be fit into an algorithm is slightly blowing my mind right now. The jumping fox video does looks a bit 'off' though, I think
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Love this quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford Very motivational. I really wish people would stop using this one though: "The best way to predict the future is to invent i
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by hacker_9 10y ago
What exactly is going to be the problem when all version control systems do is merge based on text differences? Also the block separation here could actually be used semantically and provide better merging than for existing languages.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
So my immediate thoughts are this looks very nice for designing websites with. It does look like the ideas all rely on a static webpage though (not many moving parts). As I understand it, your page is built with a set of tagged content in a
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by hacker_9 10y ago
If we create an AI that can write software, no one in any profession will ever need to work again. So far all this has shown is it can places buttons on a form. Try building a path finding algorithm with it, that is actually performant en
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> The code will tell you what is happening regardless of what is intended, the comments will tell you what was intended regardless of what is happening. Unless you write the comment, then the code, then change the code and don't upd
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I agree, if I'm writing a paragraph of english followed by a paragraph of code... what's the point? Comments at the moment are generally one liners and can quickly get outdated if not maintained.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Agree. Linux users tend to be more technical though so they are often the most vocal on the internet.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I agree with GitHub, everyone here is talking about programming languages, but the ability to search through millions of projects and basically get a 'head start' on any idea you come up with is just brilliant. The other day I nee
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> You need to allow a user to run half a dozen functions, with a syntax. You could do this with Javascript 'eval' too and I still wouldn't recommend it. Usually when this sort of requirement comes up the answer is actually
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by hacker_9 10y ago
What is with all these meta posts on HN recently by people who think they understand HN, and then need to tell everyone that they are not fitting into their idea of HN? And why are you comparing iPhones to self driving cars? That's lik
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by hacker_9 10y ago
It's a bit odd to compare self driving cars (which have to constantly evaluate their surroundings, change direction, and avoid obstacles such as parents and kids) to a machine that flies through the air with zero obstacles, has a minim
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by hacker_9 10y ago
True but humans are a known quantity. For the first time, we are letting 'something else' drive that thinks completely different to us, yet we are entrusting our lives to it. Because of our incredible image processing ability we c
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Even robots ignore the driving instructor!
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> "The person in the driver seat is only there for legal reasons" > Person gets out and let's car park itself But seriously the tech is very impressive. The journey was rather simple though, and didn't cover more d
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by hacker_9 10y ago
The .csproj msbuild file is here to stay? really? Why are we having to fit programming a build system around an archaic xml declarative language? The .csproj is the single worst point of the visual studio experience. Terrible format, editin
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Downvoted because no references to back up anything you are saying. I also tried doing a quick search on stackoverflow jobs and only got back 5 results [1]. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&searchTerm=rust
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by hacker_9 10y ago
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I have three possible theories for this: 1. Evolution saw no need for it; knowing how our eye's classify light signals into objects and figure out depth etc are not important to survival. What is important is knowing exactly if you are
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by hacker_9 10y ago
We can argue about the definition of 'understand' all day, but it's a simple fact that the computer has more of an understanding of the structure of your program with a type system, and thus can help out more.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
It's frustrating that this static vs dynamic 'battle' still goes on. The longer everyone thinks this is actually a problem, the longer we have to wait for innovations to happen. Look at the web in 2016, the technology is a co
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by hacker_9 10y ago
The difference being CSharp is actually used by a large number of people. Scala is not even in the top 10 used languages [0]. [0] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I'd disagree with you to be honest. Swift is still in it's infancy, and while it copied many of it's features from CSharp, it did so poorly and even now they continue to make breaking changes to their standard with each updat
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by hacker_9 10y ago
CSharp once again showing it is the best language in terms of features and improvements. Great job all round by the designers.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Pretty much. This IDE looks more polished on the visualization side than others, but JS is the foundation? That's just not gonna work. The language wasn't built with this kind of thing in mind.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Why you shouldn't learn Python: 1. In-consistant syntax. 2. The language uses exceptions to control flow of logic. 3. Divided community, since Python 3+ included breaking changes to the standard. 4. Un-discoverable APIs. You better hop
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by hacker_9 10y ago
We understand consciousness perfectly, being conscious beings an all. It's the physical world that doesn't make any sense.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I had a similar experience that made me quit my last job, but for me it was being in an open plan office. I just found that I felt constantly under someones gaze, and I couldn't look around without looking someone in the eye. It was a
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Depends on the definition of necessary. If you consider living a pleasant life necessary, then the answer is yes.

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