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davidrusu

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mail: davidrusu.me@gmail.com

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davidrusu··on Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve
Wow sucks to be in the Philippians right now :D

I fear that having very localized problems will end up killing the site. Most people can't act on these problems but they are taking up valuable space on the front page.

davidrusu··on Author’s Note 119: Shameless Blegging
That wikipedia/peer-review replacement sounds fascinating, can't wait to see what he's come up with.
davidrusu··on Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web browser
For people doubting if this will work, check out OnLive[1], you can try game demo's for free, the experience was very good for me

[1]https://games.onlive.com/

davidrusu··on Scientists Have Created Artificial Sunlight: Real Enough to Trick Your Brain
Why so pessimistic, Think about all the great use cases of this tech eg. When Elon Musk gets his Mars project going these will be invaluable to have on the spaceship. Or imagine a nyc with all buildings below ground, above ground, the entire city could be a park.
davidrusu··on “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”
But they both link to the same comments section
davidrusu··on “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”
Anyone else seeing this post as the 1st and 2nd link on the front page of HN?
davidrusu··on “Discuss latest changes to master before releasing”
I like Ramda as well, currying was a feature I didn't expect to use as often as I did.
davidrusu··on Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
really.. how am I supposed to be a millionaire if I throw money away like that??
davidrusu··on Microsoft's Bill Gates insists AI is a threat
good luck: http://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/
davidrusu··on Microsoft's Bill Gates insists AI is a threat
Ironically, from the head of Microsoft Research: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/artific...
davidrusu··on Microsoft's Bill Gates insists AI is a threat
There are smart people working on it, see miri: https://intelligence.org/

But it's a very hard problem. To get a better feel for the problem I suggest you read Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, it's what convinced Elon Musk of the dangers of AI: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/495759307346952192

davidrusu··on Getting the Band Back Together: Why the Justin.TV Mafia Returned to Y Combinator
I wonder how the atmosphere at yc has changed over the years? I would imagine there to be more competition between groups nowadays as compared to the first few batches.
davidrusu··on Show HN: PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns
looks like it could be interesting but very obnoxious ads
davidrusu··on AI will not kill us, says Microsoft Research chief
It's not that humans will program AI's to kill us, but having more influence would probably be a very efficient way of maximizing it's utility function
davidrusu··on Students Gain Access to Files on Admission to Stanford
Looks like we've got something similar in Canada,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Information_Protection...

I'm excited to try it out at my university!

davidrusu··on Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind
Maybe they are using Siri to launch apps
davidrusu··on Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)
Hah, imagine a system where processes were placed in an arena and they battle it out for cpu time. Programmers will not only have to build their applications but also write an AI to protect itself, an IDE could be a fortress where processes could be relatively safe.
davidrusu··on Show HN: Type the Web – Practice typing as you browse
Glad you're liking it, as for the bug, you currently can't backspace over different blocks of text, that's probably what you are referring to. This will probably be fixed in upcoming releases.
davidrusu··on Show HN: Type the Web – Practice typing as you browse
Direct link to addon store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/type-the-web/...
davidrusu··on Elm 0.14 – Simpler Core, Better Tools
There's actually 2 dices, so there are quite a few more ways to get a 7 than to get a 2

7 = 1+6, 2+5, 3+4, 4+3, 5+2, 6+1

2 = 1+1, 1+1

davidrusu··on Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier
(< a (>= b c)) same number of operators but a few extra parens
davidrusu··on Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier
I've done this before, I think of it as a more powerful form of a switch statement.

I'd love to hear why you think it's not ideal.

davidrusu··on Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
That is a beautiful theme, thanks
davidrusu··on Post Mortem: A single whitespace character
Why? it's just pizza
davidrusu··on Even Tetris is hard to test
well, if your code coverage scope is one line that's true, but it would make more sense to scope on statements.
davidrusu··on About My Yosemite Review
Off topic: The font rendering is very wonky for me, Any one else getting this, http://i.imgur.com/LkuHUYX.png (chromium on nixos)
davidrusu··on KaTeX: Math typesetting for the web
This is what you want:

http://webdemo.myscript.com/#/demo/equation

davidrusu··on Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp
It's the trigger happiness
davidrusu··on Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp
> can we expect a planned airstrike in this location any time soon?

I hope your not serious

davidrusu··on Show HN: λ Bubble Pop, an educational toy built using λ Lessons
That looks totally unrelated.
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