Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
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#2In general, this is a question that I would ask interviewees (for any position). And answer other than shock shows that they are keeping abreast in their field.
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#3Amazon Polly wrt text-to-speech (much cheaper than Ivona and maybe better over the long-term)
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#4Unicef open sourcing RapidPro ( https://community.rapidpro.io/about-rapidpro/ )
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#5That in the past people used to deceive (delude) themselves and other fools around them with theology, speculations and metaphysics, today they do the same with statistics, probability and abstract models.
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#6In general, this is a question that I would ask interviewees (for any position). And answer other than shock shows that they are keeping abreast in their field.
Then I would fail. Not because I don't follow tech news, but because I feel what is being created now is stuff we should have had decades ago (what company is even working on flying cars?).
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#7.net core
cross platform, open source, very fast
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#8In the embedded/IoT world, I'm fairly excited about two upcoming RTOS's: mynewt (http://mynewt.apache.org/) and Zephyr (https://www.zephyrproject.org/).
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#9Deep learning is a game changer for image processing (that should be fairly obvious to anyone reading HN). It still requires a lot of expertise to use, but it's enabling people to do things that were previously extremely difficult or even impossible to achieve.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#10In general, this is a question that I would ask interviewees (for any position). And answer other than shock shows that they are keeping abreast in their field.
Then I would fail. Not because I don't follow tech news, but because I feel what is being created now is stuff we should have had decades ago (what company is even working on flying cars?).
Lots of people, apparently. http://newatlas.com/david-mayman-vtol-flying-car-jpa-intervi...