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by joelg 10y ago
I feel like the most accurate predictions start as satire or comedy, not as serious bets. Satire plays to our gut instinct of what we suspect from the nature of future, and is shielded from technical criticism, so people feel more comfortab
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by joelg 10y ago
Ironically, I grew up in Minnesota. My only hope is that I can retire from a career of ignoring climate change to a tropical, palm-treed Duluth.
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by joelg 10y ago
So what can we - the average HN crowd - actually do? Bret Victor's essay on what a technologist can do about climate is a well-reasoned perspective targeted at people in the tech industry, and it's at least a start. What else? ht
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by joelg 10y ago
And it would be. The use case is when you need one function and want as small an import as possible.
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by joelg 10y ago
1. Google no longer owns Niantic, they spun off as their own company last year. 2. The security risk isn't that Niantic is going to turn evil, it's that Niantic becomes an access point for other (evil) hackers.
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by joelg 10y ago
Tim Berners-Lee loves to wax poetic on the evolution of our mental model of what's important and what we consider to be the nodes in the computing graph: TCP/IP: "It's not the wires, it's the computers!" HTTP&#
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by joelg 10y ago
Haha - not my project, I just work on it for now. But thanks for the great ideas!
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by joelg 10y ago
That’s fair. We think it’s important to be able to reference anything within the system with arbitrary resolution, so that’s our goal. Whether that implements well or not is certainly a technical challenge, but hard problems are the fun one
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by joelg 10y ago
Plugins and views! We're currently working on a significant architecture refactor that will enable 3rd party plugins to view arbitrary data assets inline, like a reactive spreadsheet or a D3 visualization. We're also working on de
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by joelg 10y ago
Of course! Importing from markdown/latex/git, export to PDF/XML/etc, and lots more are coming (not in that order). We're still in very active development, so there's a lot left ahead on our roadmap. If anyone
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by joelg 10y ago
Everything is open-sourced, and we've tried to document as much as possible to make it easy for people to host their own instances! Alternatively, you can just create arbitrarily many drafts without publishing any of them. https:&#x2F
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by joelg 10y ago
Shameless plug: I'm working at the MIT Media Lab on the PubPub project ( http://www.pubpub.org ), a free platform for totally open publishing designed to solve a lot of these problems: One is peer review, which, as some have
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Notes on Computation: Languages, Lisp, and the Art of New Ideas(joelgustafson.com)
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by joelg 10y ago
I'm reminded of the title-text from this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/947/ "But Einstein said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe, and I take all my investment advice from flippant rem
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by joelg 10y ago
A more precise title would have been 'Make 101'. I also wouldn't have read an article by that title, although (not knowing any make) I'm glad that I did read this one.
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by joelg 10y ago
"Most are based on open-source software, which anybody can use without charge, so startups will have to make money with add-on services, such as updates, maintenance and subscriptions." I hope that in the next century, we'll
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by joelg 10y ago
That's really unfortunate and naive. Not everything, particularly the subtle dynamics of human interaction, can be succinctly distilled into an abstract-style paragraph. Oftentimes it takes great writing skill to set right perspective,
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Notes on Computation: Languages, Lisp, and the Art of New Ideas(pubpub.org)
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by joelg 10y ago
Lecture videos for MIT's 6.034 (Artificial Intelligence) are also freely available online: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... 6.034 emphasizes intuition over math, which might make it
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by joelg 10y ago
Given your username alone, I'm inclined to believe that you are, in fact, used to reading Lisp.
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by joelg 10y ago
I agree the analogy is loose, but your comment raises an interesting question. It seems like we're talking about talking about two different definitions of what FP is. There's a strict, technical definition of "functions whic
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by joelg 10y ago
Maybe the future of programming is a language with a highly dynamic, flexible syntax that can switch axes easily/visually/syntactically (or gasp <meta>programmatically!</meta>).
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by joelg 10y ago
Here's a weird viewpoint: OO and FP only seem different because we serialize code through text. Some languages (spoken languages) construct sentences Subject->Verb->Object, others Subject->Object->Verb, etc, etc. The underl
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by joelg 10y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11100364
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by joelg 10y ago
The Hackathon Hackers Facebook group is pretty active with 35K members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hackathonhackers/
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by joelg 10y ago
People who love to hate Facebook love to hate TV and Reddit equally.
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by joelg 10y ago
Relatedly, the courtyard outside the Stata Center at MIT has several bizarre, intersecting sidewalks that cover all of the common paths that people traverse: http://imgur.com/b1BpvlU
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by joelg 11y ago
Not sure. But it's the one that was posted in the official Facebook event.
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Live Stream: How to Start a Hard Tech Startup with Sam Altman, 6:00 EST(youtube.com)
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by joelg 11y ago
My two cents: beyond Turing-completeness, "AI" can't be well-defined. I don't believe that there is anything special about human consciousness, and that a smartphone is "conscious" to some small degree. So I t

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