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by real-hacker 9y ago
I remembered my experience learning Go: reading Go language spec for about 2 hours and start being productive. That is not quite possible with other languages, I am afraid.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Yes, we can build a local encyclopedia. But from a 'Green' viewpoint, which is more environmental-friendly: more Terabyte hard-drives sold? or a few MB of data transferring over the internet?
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Are you considering adding sentiment analysis/clustering as one feature? You know, to let people read about different opinions, most often, they only need to read one post in each cluster.
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WePhone App developer committed suicide due to romance trap(technode.com)
3 points by real-hacker 9y ago|0 comments
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by real-hacker 9y ago
They mentioned tensor2tensor, how is this related to another repo: seq2seg: https://github.com/google/seq2seq ? Which one is more general?
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Why second best? I think it is the best for almost everything. One reason is that its grammar is so intuitive, that you only need to think about the problem to solve. With other languages, you always need to look out for grammar issues.
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Ask HN: How to solve sparse linear equation with Accelerate BLAS?
1 points by real-hacker 9y ago|0 comments
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by real-hacker 9y ago
The HR person should at least understand the very basic technical terms, a.k.a, what it is and how are they related. I know HR/headhunters who think Hadoop/AWS are programming languages.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
* Swift is one of the best-designed languages out there. One feature I dislike about swift is the Optional type and the "?!" business, borrowed from Scala, I assume. It makes coding experience much less pleasant, yet providing lit
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Is there a third-party AR library that can be bundled in an android app, using existing cameras/sensors? I wonder.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
The definition of a side project is not clear. Is it just for fun/learning about new tech, and can be thrown away? Or is it a serious endeavor, and supposed to be the next big thing? These require completely different mindsets.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
I am from China. Call me selfish, but I really hope China Internet censorship is not discussed on HN. HN is one of the few sites I like that GFW (Great F king Wall) doesn't block. More threads about the 'sensitive' stuff abo
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by real-hacker 9y ago
I guess with phantomjs, the page is rendered on CGN node? Is the computation cost too large to support many users on a single node? And is there any privacy concerns?
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Yeah, why don't they just open source it, and hand it to the community?
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by real-hacker 9y ago
This is "the man" talking. The society/companies need specialized workers to be efficient and effective, and a specialist is more 'stable' than a full-stack engineer, especially when the skills he is good at is not
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Indeed, it is very frightening what the companies can do with user's data. While in U.S, the data of a user may reside in the cloud of multiple companies and needs to be aggregated to be useful, in China, companies like Tencent knows a
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by real-hacker 9y ago
I just started reading this book yesterday, and today I see this thread on HN. What are the odds... Tim's method is to approach maximum joy in life. Although money is not everything, I don't think joy is either. I tend to think of
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by real-hacker 9y ago
The only complaint about swift programming is: they keep changing the programming interfaces, so if I import a third-party code file written with earlier versions of Swift, I have to go through the errors of 'obsolete APIs', updat
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by real-hacker 9y ago
"Property" is becoming an obsolete concept. Read Paul Graham's essay 'on property', he explained it very well.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Another question has to be asked: do they have the motivation to reduce the size of apps? Earlier this year, Wechat released a revolutionary (kinda) feature called 'Miniapp', it supports releasing apps within Wechat itself (a bunc
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by real-hacker 9y ago
+1 for this. I think 16G iPhone6 exists to promote sales of models with larger memory. Now I have to uninstall an app to install a new one on my iPhone(16G), EVERY TIME, it's painful. Next time, I will definitely go for 64G.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
A major culprit of the bloat is the monolithic 3rd-party libraries/frameworks. You have to import the whole thing, even if what you need is just one simple function. Of course, you have the option of carefully studying the code, and ha
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by real-hacker 9y ago
No surprise. The value of Physical stuff is approaching zero, while virtual stuff is becoming more valuable.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
No one talks about self-driving trucks like Otto? Truck drivers' life won't be easier.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
This is especially true for Chinese businesses, but for an entirely different reason. Once a business reaches a certain size, it doesn't belong to the founder anymore, it's becoming state-owned. The founder either ends up in priso
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Perfect time to recommend a book: The Shallows. Digital information overload not only makes us less attentive, it also makes us shallow. We are exposed to so much information, that we have little time to think deeply about something.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
A frightening theory: it doesn't need to read your email anymore. It has read 10 years worth of your mail, and trained such an accurate model, that any more training data don't make much of a difference.
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Perhaps a pseudo random number generator, with the solar radiation level and the moon phase as seeds. ;)
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Platform and content providers tend to have a more healthy relationship when the platform is not a monopoly. So there is only one way to solve this - break Facebook. Otherwise, we will need to wait for many years before Facebook loses its s
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by real-hacker 9y ago
Maybe the core of so-called 'free will' or 'soul' is just a random-number generator. Other than that, we are just many layers of deep neural networks.

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