Docker, containers are crazy powerful and cool too!
Lots of cool stuff in the space like Kubernetes, Swarm, CoreOS, rkt!!
Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#72Deep 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.
Would you be up to pointing us at open-source tools with which people can do these things? And a few examples?
Tensorflow. And the artistic style transfer NN, image sharpening NNs, colorizers, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#73Field: embedded software. To me RISC-V is the most exciting thing for the next few years. The performance appears to be awesome, and free CPU IP will allow more varieties of specialized low-cost chips for specific use cases. It should also have a positive effect on development environments by encouraging wider use of free toolchains.
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#74My field is web development, and, to be honest, the most exciting thing going on is that more people are starting to complain about the complexity of development. Hopefully this will lead to people slowing down and learning how to write better web software. As an example, one survey ( https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-... ) put the number of developers who don't use any test tools at almost…
Yeah, this is one area where webdev is way behind other fields, and i think we're going to see lots of new tooling in this area soon. We're currently working on a way to help devs test web app functionality and complete user journeys without having to actually write tests in Selenium or whatever. The idea to is let devs write down what they want to test in English ("load the page", "search for a flight", "fill the fo…
Sounds intriguing. There are a few tools for recording interactions with a webpage in order to replay the actions as a test (Ghost Inspector, Selenium IDE, etc) but they tend to be pretty horrible. I've been working on my own as a Chrome extension for a little while. What you're building sounds really interesting though, especially if it can deal with complex Javascript apps. Anything that can make developers more inclined to test things is a good thing.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you be up to pointing us at open-source tools with which people can do these things? And a few examples?
Tensorflow. And the artistic style transfer NN, image sharpening NNs, colorizers, etc.
Wasn't Tensorflow only usable online, on Google's servers? I am looking for something that is fully independent and 100% runnable on my machines only.
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#76That 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.
It's all a matter of perspective. One could also claim that those who don't acknowledge God are deluding themselves with a lack of theology. I'm not trying to start a debate, but dismissing the beliefs of billions as simply delusion/deception is painting with broad strokes.
Why, evolutionary psychology and the philosophy of mind, comparative history and some sociology offers a comprehensive explanation of the mental and social forces, so to speak, which makes religions possible. It is social phenomena of language-possessing species, if you wish, misinterpretation of the instincts, co-evolution and other causes and laws, to which humans are subjected, like any other species.
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#77For a C# developer into microservices, there's a lot to be excited about.
.Net Core: Finally, cross platform .Net. Deploying .Net services to Linux is a dream come true. Can't wait for the platform to stabilize.
Windows Server 2016: For "legacy" applications forced to stay on Windows, containers and Docker on Windows is a game changer. One step closer to hopefully making Windows servers somewhat manageable.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tensorflow. And the artistic style transfer NN, image sharpening NNs, colorizers, etc.
Wasn't Tensorflow only usable online, on Google's servers? I am looking for something that is fully independent and 100% runnable on my machines only.
No. Google has a hosted version of tensorflow, called CloudML, but tensorflow is an open source project that can be run anywhere.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#79That 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.
This seems incredibly cynical in light of the current breakthroughs in machine learning, and probabilistic modelling. It really feels to me as though the AI revolution isn't something to dream about anymore, because we're living in it. I find it difficult to deny the achievement of tangible progress that is implied by, for example, the self-driving car.
Modeling is a new form of pseudo-scientific speculation. ML is closer to reality as long as the training sets are not a dogmatically interpreted noise, like it usually is in finance and other pseudo-sciences.
You could read about a fundamental difference between a properly controlled, replicable scientific experiment and computer simulation according to some abstract/unverified model and why results of such simulations cannot be substituted for experimental results or any form of evidence in my older comments.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#80Rust, webassembly and the ability to compile rust code to wasm.