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What's an example of a product that could be created with this technology that would be difficult otherwise?

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)?

nyc_cynon Ask HN: Which language to use for text analysis?

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

nyc_cynon Ask HN: What are the most thought-provoking books that you have read?

Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin

nyc_cynon Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

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?

nyc_cynon Tell HN: I just asked ~10 people to list my worst qualities

What did you learn, if you don't mind me asking?

nyc_cynon What is online pornography doing to sexual tastes and youngsters’ minds?

Well said.

nyc_cynon Why there is something rather than nothing – The finite, infinite and eternal [pdf]

Replace "universe" with "God" and this starts to feel like a philosophical argument for theism.

nyc_cynon Learn the Command Line

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?

nyc_cynon DRAKON – An algorithmic visual programming language

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.

nyc_cynon Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

http://focusr.co

nyc_cynon Ask HN : What side project are you working on?

JackDB already does this?

nyc_cynon Programs and Probability

Practical applications of Probability Programming Languages?

nyc_cynon Show HN: Nuggets – Remember everything you read or learn

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?

nyc_cynon Ask HN: Is there a way to convert web articles into human read speech?

Very cool.

nyc_cynon Ask HN: Is there a way to convert web articles into human read speech?

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.

nyc_cynon A New Theory of Distraction

A helpful tool to combat distraction: http://focusr.co

nyc_cynon Start doing more things alone

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 :).