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Re:Polymagnets
on Sunday March 20, 2016 @06:41PM (#11325047)
What's an example of a product that could be created with this technology that would be difficult otherwise?
Re:LambdaNative
on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:26AM (#11194638)
What's the TLDR of this? Is it scheme that transpiles to LLVM? If you want to code in lisp, why use this over clojure(script)?
Re:Ask HN: Which language to use for text analysis?
on Saturday January 16, 2016 @09:07PM (#10917959)
ClojureScript targeting nodejs.
- more concise/elegant/beautiful than python
- since it targets nodejs, startup time = fast => blazing fast scripting
- clojure = fastest protoyping language around
- it's not JavaScript (but you get to use any JS module you need)
- it gives you an excuse to learn a functional lisp
Re:Ask HN: What are the most thought-provoking books that you have read?
on Saturday October 03, 2015 @02:10PM (#10324787)
Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin
Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:20PM (#10313910)
After reading Bezos' biography a few weeks ago, this sounds like something that he would never, ever do. Amazon is the everything store. What's going on?
Re:Tell HN: I just asked ~10 people to list my worst qualities
on Monday September 28, 2015 @02:26PM (#10292055)
What did you learn, if you don't mind me asking?
Re:What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ m...
on Sunday September 27, 2015 @04:43PM (#10287892)
Well said.
Re:Why there is something rather than nothing – The finite, infinite a...
on Saturday August 29, 2015 @01:11PM (#10140664)
Replace "universe" with "God" and this starts to feel like a philosophical argument for theism.
Ask HN: Is it painful for you to manage a crowdsourcing campaign?
- Forum posts (with multiple usernames and/or different email accounts)- Managing email polls- Polling friends.- Using freelance researchersAre there people who find it difficult to manage these research-oriented processes?Would it be useful if there were a central repository for these channels that you could manage from one place (instead of across multiple tabs and accounts)?
Ask HN: Is it possible to connect 2 smartphones together?
Does anyone know if this possible? In particular, I'm curious if you can do things like:1. Use the keyboard for smartphone #1 on smartphone #2.2. Copy text on smartphone #1 and paste it on smartphone #2.3. Send programs from smartphone to the other.
Re:Learn the Command Line
on Monday August 24, 2015 @03:18PM (#10112350)
What do people think about wrapping a Natural Language Processing interface around the command line (for educational purposes)?
For example: "Show me all of my files, including my hidden ones" --> "ls -a".
Good idea or not?
Re:DRAKON – An algorithmic visual programming language
on Friday August 21, 2015 @10:07PM (#10101204)
Can't we make text-based programming visual with some IDE/plugins?
It would be interesting to drag functions around (and so forth) in blocks.
Re:Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:27AM (#10086114)
Re:Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:25AM (#10086105)
JackDB already does this?
What's at the intersection of mathematics, programming, and hardware?
Are there any practical applications or new technologies at the intersection of mathematics, programming, and hardware?
Re:Programs and Probability
on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:54PM (#10063202)
Practical applications of Probability Programming Languages?
Re:Show HN: Nuggets – Remember everything you read or learn
on Thursday July 30, 2015 @11:17AM (#9975553)
In fairness, "nobody gives a shit how the sausage is made."
If this product adds value to people's lives, why does it matter if they lifted the website design?
Re:Ask HN: Is there a way to convert web articles into human read speech?
on Saturday July 04, 2015 @02:11PM (#9830992)
Very cool.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a way to convert web articles into human read speech?
on Friday July 03, 2015 @10:04PM (#9828837)
Interesting -- how was the quality? In my experience, the machine readers aren't 100% comprehensible; you always have to stop and look at the actual text and it becomes hard to get much use out of it if you're truly on the go. This is never the case with human read audiobooks, which is why they are so useful.
Ask HN: Is there a way to convert web articles into human read speech?
Is this something that would be useful to people?
Re:A New Theory of Distraction
on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @06:00AM (#9730842)
A helpful tool to combat distraction: http://focusr.co
Use technology to help you focus
Re:Start doing more things alone
on Sunday May 17, 2015 @05:15PM (#9561726)
I think "rolling solo" as a guy doing cold approach pickup is one of the most badass learning experiences you can have.
It has taught me so much about how to fearlessly socialize with strangers in a completely non-needy (not to mention non-creepy) way. Also, all of the bullsh*t that you have to deal with just in terms of getting into good clubs (at least in NYC, where you have to promote girls into the door just to get in) makes normal work challenges seem trivial.
It is not for the faint of heart, but in case anyone is wondering it will pay DIVIDENDS in terms of life skills (and the short-term "benefits" can also be good :).