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Re:Introduction to the Pony programming language on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:54PM (#17200643)
How about things like opening a file, where there could be a variety of reasons it could fail?
Re:Introduction to the Pony programming language on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:34PM (#17200507)
I mean like

  try
    if not x() then error end
    if not y() then error end
  else
    // which error happened?
  end
Re:Introduction to the Pony programming language on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:19PM (#17200386)
Since there are no exceptions, in a try-else how can you tell what the error was?
How can it direct you to the nearest Chipotle if it doesn't know where you are? It must know who you are at least at the time of the query
Re:Do you need a blockchain? on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:50PM (#16318971)
Re:Do you need a blockchain? on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:56PM (#16317985)
Honestly expected a page that just said "No"
Re:Ask HN: Is working on online casinos unethical? on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:01PM (#15864964)
Yes.

In my opinion casinos take advantage of a loophole in human psychology to take money from people who can't afford it, so having anything to do with that is unethical.

So basically diceliving
Re:Show HN: At a glance summary of upcoming weather on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:03PM (#14623845)
About a year ago WeatherSpark got rid of their very useful dashboard - I particularly liked being able to see a combination of temperature and rain per hour for the next week.

There didn't seem to be an alternative (and there was a Reddit discussion full of people with the same problem) so I started making one.

It took me a year, but it's finally up and has its own domain and everything.

It uses the weather report API from Dark Sky, Google's chart API, free icons from Freepik and the free tier of Google App Engine. About the only thing I'm paying for is the domain name.

Because I'm using the Google chart API I'm limited in how much I can customize how it looks, but it's not too different from what I wanted.

If it sucks please let me know why :)

Accurate book recommendations - not what's popular, not something in the same genre as I've read, not by the same author I've read but something I'd actually want to read.

I think the reason this hasn't been done is that (like movies and music) books are so complex that it's hard to tell what someone liked about one book or disliked about another book, so it's hard to know what other books would have that same feature.

Which is why I think ML would be perfect for this - it's good at things like extracting common features, you just has to create one that can read and comprehend novels :)

Re:Nylas Mail is now free on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:35AM (#13418341)
People need to start saying what their product does on their website
I was disappointed that the landing page wasn't personalized as a demonstration
Re:Poll: How do you respond to addwalls on Thursday March 10, 2016 @12:42PM (#11260602)
I don't think I've ever actually run into one of these
Re:Comments on Safe Web Proposal? on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:38AM (#11217014)
I'm not sure you can do without images
What is Cryptonomicon's tombstone? I haven't read the book
Is it just me or is 1s latency terrible?
Re:Fixing Reddit on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:54PM (#11128757)
If there are no ads and no corporate sponsorships then how do they make money?
Re:Create your own HN or community with HelloBox on Friday January 22, 2016 @10:59AM (#10953432)
What's their business model?
Re:CloudFlare HTTP/2 on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @01:59PM (#10746382)
ah, the Chrome Data Saver proxy, thanks
Re:The Importance of Reading as a Software Engineer on Monday December 14, 2015 @04:34PM (#10734082)
tl;dr
Re:CloudFlare HTTP/2 on Thursday December 03, 2015 @12:07PM (#10670738)
It says my browser doesn't support HTTP/2 even though the caniuse.com link says Chrome does - not sure what's going on
For me it was far too much effort to rate movies - I'll give a thumbs up, I'll rate out of five, but having to analyze exactly what I thought about a bunch of aspects of a lot of movies is just depressing and I quit.
Re:Toomim Bros Bitcoin Mining Concern on Monday September 29, 2014 @03:43PM (#8384815)
Why would it not be more profitable for them to just mine the bitcoins for themselves?
Re:MiniLock: Chrome app for user-friendly file encryption on Monday August 04, 2014 @11:40AM (#8132227)
How is this not a MITM attack?
Re:Cool Old Terminal – Awesome emulator on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @12:24PM (#8103094)
Arg someone make a Windows version of this ASAP
Re:Show HN: A Github for writers? on Saturday October 26, 2013 @08:49AM (#6617224)
How is this different from Google Docs?
Re:Google Ad Click Prediction for Humans on Thursday September 12, 2013 @02:27PM (#6375952)
Looks like you spilled your Alphabetti Spaghetti on your blog post there

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