Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

Post by mbesto » Sat, Aug 05, 2017, 3:03 AM UTC

angryasian wrote: post #171

mbesto wrote: post #133

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ARKit seems like one of those technology breakthroughs that actually has gotten way less hype than you would think, but is legitimately a huge advancement.

why do you say this ? https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/world-lens-translates-word... World lens has been around since 2010 Layar since 2009 https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/layar-proves-the-augmented... Yelp Monocal in 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyOZBqI8FM ARKit is still the same hold your phone up to do AR. Why is it different now ?

Post by sigjuice » Sat, Aug 05, 2017, 3:34 AM UTC

exikyut wrote: post #250

sigjuice wrote: post #240

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There are many C interpreters.

I'm aware of PicoC, Cling (nee CINT), and Ch (commercial), but that's only three. What others are there? I'm curious about canonical C interpreters as well as things that aren't quite interpreting C but are somehow related.

Post by actf » Sat, Aug 05, 2017, 3:45 AM UTC

baron816 wrote: post #179

closeparen wrote: post #153

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If you want to bring people physically closer together, just lean into NIMBYism and keep housing supply small. As current trends continue and require more people to live in city centers, we'll see more and more instances of people forced to have roommates when they'd rather not, multiple families forced to share a single apartment when they'd rather have their own, etc. But somehow I think you will actually create co…

I disagree. Living in a dense city does not necessitate living in some sort of tenement and being at each other's throats. Living costs are high in cities because people who bought property early like it that way. They want their properties to appreciate, so they prevent others from increasing supply. Governments seem happy to object out of some mistaken sense of social justice or historical preservation. Still, peop…

Post by goatlover » Sat, Aug 05, 2017, 4:16 AM UTC

sigjuice wrote: post #256

goatlover wrote: post #248

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Sure, but the goal of the language creator is to create a compiled Ruby-like language. As such, Crystal is by design meant to be compiled. Which is also the case for languages like C, C++, Go, etc.

What properties of C indicate that it is meant to be compiled? The word "compiler" does not appear in the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard (aka C99) in any meaningful way (there is just one sentence in a footnote).

Post by mcgrath_sh » Sat, Aug 05, 2017, 4:27 AM UTC

aphextron wrote: post #121

Mass adoption of electric vehicles. Battery prices are plummeting and the advantages of EV are so great that the moment they break that $20k barrier with zero subsidies (which should be within the next five years) the switch will be rapid. I suspect at least 1 in 3 personal vehicles in use in major metro areas will be an EV by 2025.