Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

Post by qntty » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 2:31 PM UTC

charlieflowers wrote: post #315

bitshaker wrote: post #177

My field is hypnosis, or more generally, "changework" which is jargon, but essentially hacking the psychology of clients to get desired outcomes. There's been a renaissance of study in placebo effects, meditation, and general frameworks for how people change belief for therapeutic purposes or otherwise, but to me, that's been going on for a long time and is more about acceptance than being a new development. One of t…

fancy words, exciting claims, and absolutely no detail whatsoever. with all due respect, said politely, it is my opinion that you are a charlatan.

Post by jMyles » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 3:02 PM UTC

chairmankaga wrote: post #382

jMyles wrote: post #374

I live full-time on a school bus with a family. Flexible solar panels, LED lighting with open source drivers, and the new generation of DC refrigerators are all incredibly exciting and are allowing us to experiment with living without grid electricity.

Could you share pictures of the arrangements? I assume you gutted it out and did some clever interior decorating.

Post by megalodon » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 3:09 PM UTC

greggman wrote: post #376

onion2k wrote: post #19

My 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…

There's a market imo for a full solution that includes front end and entire backend including deployment, seemless scaling, seemless upgrading, seemless backups, seemless local dev, seemless staging, etc. 99% of web apps need the same features but most of this is still up to manually rolling your own. I should be able to clone some repo, enter some DO/AWS/GOOG keys and push.

Post by dimlyaware » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 3:12 PM UTC

dorianm wrote: post #284

cridenour wrote: post #211

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As someone who just struggled through writing a DICOM parser, _standardized_ doesn't always mean the same. For more examples, see RETS in the real estate world :)

For those curious: - Some RETS recorded requests/responses: https://github.com/estately/rets/blob/master/test/vcr_casset... (Basically some XML-based (SOAP?), cookie + authorization, that seems very ASP.net / Windows Server centric) - DICOM ("It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM It's basically how to imaging devices communicate and store the…

Post by Crespyl » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

jstimpfle wrote: post #259

dandare wrote: post #244

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B specific. Answer the question above, name the problem you have on mind and tell us how is brutalism solving that problem.

Did not downvote. Let's take twitter as a well known and particularly bad example. For a brutalist example, let's take HN. It works. Plus, I'm sure the code is quite simple.