Self-driving cars, it will majorly change how we transport. People in 100 years will look back to manually driven cars as we look back to horse-drawn carriages
And after say 200 yrs, what's your prediction?
Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?
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#202Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone
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#203Self-driving cars that really work and are safe. Google/Waymo is just about there. Automatic language translation everywhere. Big Brother everywhere. (Excited about, yes; happy about, no.) Batteries + solar as the predominant energy source. Electric cars getting some real market share.
I'm curious as to what exactly excites you about Big Brother being everywhere?
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#204better search, always Find me: - an aggregation of everything I have to know to run a porcelain store in my country (taxes, suppliers, how to find staff or better yet: showing candidates directly, best location in my town, etc.) - Fuzzy stuff like: the pic of that tree I took when I was on hollidays in XY a few years ago; or the note I took a few days ago about that band with some greek name - a ready to paste, non-a…
Would you need above info instantly or would you be fine waiting like 10mins for the results to arrive? Also, would you be willing to pay for it ?
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think AR will become a "thing"? Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? If you'd ask me, this idea could just as well end the same way as 3D TV.
ARKit what these guys are talking about isn't even that. Its just holding up your phone. This functionality has been around forever. From Worldlens, to Yelp to the Ikea app. I don't know why all of the sudden its considered "Around the corner"
> I don't know why all of the sudden its considered "Around the corner"
Because at the end of the Summer hundreds of millions of users will upgrade to an OS that has the ARKit API built in and developers will have a standard solution that works well. That's with the hardware out now, enhanced AR friendly sensors will probably start shipping on the new iPhone and then in subsequent model years it's anyone's guess.
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#206Lenovo ThinkPad Retro! That's certainly right around the corner: two months and one day until pre-order opens.
Hadn't heard of this until now! Thanks!
https://xkcd.com/1053/
I am glad you have heard it now! I am typing this on a T420s because I refuse to use anything but the old seven row keyboard and hope I can move to the Retro in October :)
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#207Without doubt, GraphQL is the next technologo I will learn. The idea is so brillant compared to REST. If you are convinced by SQL and in general by Domain Specific Languages, I think you should give GraphQL a try.
I was really not sold by GraphQL, I'm totally down to not use REST as I think that's daft but GraphQL seems to be less powerful than SQL and only really useful if the thing you're querying really is a graph, and not lots of rows of relational data. I do work with data all the time so it's not actually that useful, I wish someone would invent something similar but with a more logical foundation (joins and aggregations…
Personally, I believe that someone needs to build some kind of a scalable, security-hardened SQL interface that can be queried directly from the browser using actual SQL. Part of that need involves federated data from multiple services/data sources. We already have a query language that can even handle nested values (see ISO SQL:2016 standard), why not just adapt it for use in the browser?
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#208Ethereum's Casper https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/casper4/pap... It aims for more economically secure public blockchains with shorter confirmation times and less cost (electricity/hardware/inflation). I haven't delved deep enough into it to be fully convinced, but what I've gotten through so far is promising. AFAIK its the only proof of stake algorithm thats been formally documented.
For me it is Raiden, I believe Ethereum should be able to beat Bitcoin in their lightening network implementation, and for the cryptocurrency of future, Raiden is very important for Ethereum. PS: So you don't support Ethereum Classic anymore?
Also more excited about Raiden. Sad there isn't much more information about it.
From my understanding, the thing I like about payment channels is that the capacity of the payment channel depends on how much of the cryptocurrency is deposited/locked away under it.
So with everyone competing for a payment channel toll, they have taken large amounts of crypto off the market, constricting the supply, while distributing the marketing out for their own use case, some of which will be successful at increasing the demand. Any limited supply commodity performs the same under these circumstances, up, and that is exciting because the capacity can also scale for the new attention, while the "centralized" payment channels stay optional ways to transact on the network at all.
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#209Fully & Quickly Reusable Rockets (refuel & refly, like jets) Obviously both SpaceX and Blue Origin are the leaders here, but once they do it the other majors will either have to build the same thing or drop out of the industry. There are so many things about space that we just assume are true, but are actually only true because access to orbit has always been so expensive. If we can get the cost to reach orbit down t…
Arguably the third thing is ISRU (In-Space Resource Utilization), aka, mining asteroids for fuel and materials. But that's not immediately necessary and doesn't count as "around the corner".
My understanding is that "ISRU" normally stands for "In Situ Resource Utilization", which can include mining asteroids (if your locale is 'asteroid belt'), but also includes using fuel that can be generated from resources found on a planet or moon.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me it is Raiden, I believe Ethereum should be able to beat Bitcoin in their lightening network implementation, and for the cryptocurrency of future, Raiden is very important for Ethereum. PS: So you don't support Ethereum Classic anymore?
I don't know much about Raiden, is there anything preventing a side chain of bitcoin from implementing it?
Bitcoin-style blockchains have Lightning, same thing