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by kailuowang 11y ago
smaller light rockets with a huge tower attached to it
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by kailuowang 11y ago
I take MOOCs as a hobby. HavardX's fundamentals or neural science https://www.mcb80x.org/ is probably the best produced MOOC I've ever seen.
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by kailuowang 11y ago
I imagine it's extremely rare that someone comes to HN regularly would choose to buy Oracle with alternative options on the table. Here is the cynical view: the majority of "enterprise" S/W development happens in compani
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Why answers to some philosophical questions may lead to important insights(philosophyandai.blogspot.com)
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New York Startup Funding Applications Trump the Long-Reigning Valley(forbes.com)
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by kailuowang 11y ago
JS will probably mess up my kid's mind as much as ruby. My choices for intro programming language would probably be Haskell and Coffeescript - both has a simple but coherent set of concepts and a straightforward syntax designed around
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Google Patent Programs(google.com)
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by kailuowang 11y ago
I have a similar view, that a society (not necessarily a political concept like country, but more culturally defined group of people) is the ultimate intelligent being. And the main rationale behind that notion is that society DEFINES human
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by kailuowang 11y ago
AFAIK, the only way for javascript on a website to copy something into your clipboard is through Flash. It might be a good thing to prevent such functionality, but I wonder if Firefox took this into consideration.
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by kailuowang 11y ago
If I remember correctly, iPhone came out when most featured phone is either free with a contract or less than 50 bucks.
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by kailuowang 11y ago
You missed the most disruptive potential change that will decrease the number of cars needed: driverless cars. These cars can make car sharing so much easier and more efficient that the numbers of cars needed for getting people around will
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by kailuowang 11y ago
DoJ announcement http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-silk-road-task-force-ag...
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Silk Road investigator pleads guilty to stealing Bitcoins(engadget.com)
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by kailuowang 11y ago
I am not sure if Future is designed for doing small bit of CPU bound computation concurrently. This kind of performance benchmark, IMO doesn't represent real world applications where people either parallelize computational heavy operat
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by kailuowang 11y ago
> Yes, you can potentially move the logic normally contained in either of them into the application, but as you deal with more concurrency and as you start accumulating bugs, sooner or later your data will be messy and you will need to a
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by kailuowang 11y ago
I am not talking about a single AI. I am talking about AI as a species. A specific AI could have any drive, but ultimately (at least at current stage) what determines its survival is us. Just like how natural select the most "fit"
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by kailuowang 11y ago
Computer may have the same intelligence as human, but their fundamental inner drive will be completely different. Human like any other animal has a deep genetically programmed drive: survive and reproduce. Hunting as entertainment, for exam
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by kailuowang 11y ago
is it me or this title is a bit misleading compared to the original "Political Group Backing Joe Biden Starts Accepting Bitcoin"
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Why we picked AKKA cluster as our microservice framework(tech.iheart.com)
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by kailuowang 11y ago
This reminds me the fact that makes human brain unique against other systems is the capability of jumping out of the logic system. When composing a piece of song, the best a current AI system can do is to compose by keep adding the most log
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by kailuowang 11y ago
A major company spending so much, even risk their reputation, on a competition in a field where computer already achieved better than human performance. I start to feel that maybe the industry should start looking more on other new applicat
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by kailuowang 11y ago
The truth is that the demand for technologists across all industries is so high right now that an increase in H1B visa quota brought very little impact to the overall supply demand in the current job market. Look around, is it any easier to
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by kailuowang 11y ago
Page layout doesnt look right on my android 5.1 tablet chrome even after I requested the desktop version.
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Akka 2.4 M1 is released(letitcrash.com)
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by kailuowang 11y ago
There are 2.8* times more people in U.S. than 100 years ago. * http://www.mnforsustain.org/united_states_population_growth_...
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by kailuowang 12y ago
Yes, because having Rails serving the single page application front-end makes total sense.
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by kailuowang 12y ago
> the alternatives are The main competitive alternatives to Rails are single page application frontend frameworks combined with light API focused backend frameworks. Not a single web application framework.
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by kailuowang 12y ago
Imagine NYC to Boston in 40 minutes and the kind of boost it can bring to the innovative power in the region. It will be truly a silicon alley. And imagine two innovative centers in the country competing with each other. Unfortunately this
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by kailuowang 12y ago
Congratulations to the Elm team! As a side note scala-js provides an interesting alternative. In the new Principles of Reactive Programming, https://class.coursera.org/reactive-002/assignment , a decent RFP example usi
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by kailuowang 12y ago
Anyone familiar with the matter?

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