Hacker News: Kip9000

New comment by Kip9000 in "A recommender system in 30 lines of Clojure"

Kip9000 — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:31:57 +0000

Awesome! A pseudo code of the algorithm would make it easier for someone to understand it better I guess.

New comment by Kip9000 in "Show HN: Privacy preserving notes and journal webapp with personal analytics"

Kip9000 — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:45:19 +0000

Not at the moment, but working on it

New comment by Kip9000 in "Show HN: Privacy preserving notes and journal webapp with personal analytics"

Kip9000 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:28:58 +0000

This probably need rewording. This refers to the content on the landing page. Journal entries are locally stored.

New comment by Kip9000 in "Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman"

Kip9000 — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:03:14 +0000

why is this tech news?!

New comment by Kip9000 in "Nim 1.0"

Kip9000 — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:08:54 +0000

Christmas had come early!!

New comment by Kip9000 in "TypeScript vs. ReasonML"

Kip9000 — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:43:50 +0000

You speak with authority, but with ignorance. MS had a lot of JavaScript and needed to put some semblance to the madness of development. Read early history. Watch some talks of Hejlsberg, they are insightful and makes you a better developer.

New comment by Kip9000 in "Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account"

Kip9000 — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 22:58:29 +0000

Deleting accounts opens for hijacking and impersonation. Best is to just log out and abandon them.

New comment by Kip9000 in "Show HN: A dead-simple Trello-like TODO manager"

Kip9000 — Sun, 26 May 2019 10:35:27 +0000

Cool, great if you could slow down the animation so we can understand what each action means. (It's hard to see this from your side as you've seen this perhaps hundreds of times)

New comment by Kip9000 in "Jsonpath – a query language for JSON in Postgres [pdf]"

Kip9000 — Sat, 18 May 2019 22:45:49 +0000

Looks like an inferior subset of XPath which is much cleaner and powerful

New comment by Kip9000 in "Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out?"

Kip9000 — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 07:36:15 +0000

This is not about buying or renting, it's about an alternative to Spreadsheet for model building. But not much info on the process itself.. can creators expand on this.

New comment by Kip9000 in "Show HN: Grassland – Real-Life SimCity"

Kip9000 — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:50:44 +0000

This is incredibly interesting! Real time simulation at scale!!

New comment by Kip9000 in "Godot 3.1 Released"

Kip9000 — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:23:47 +0000

lot of people won't get this :D

New comment by Kip9000 in "John Von Neumann"

Kip9000 — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:59:49 +0000

I would give anything to see his abilities that marvelled the geniuses of his time. I imagine this would be like when an AGI finally comes to be and creates dozens of fields of science we have no idea of today..

New comment by Kip9000 in "Deep learning may need a new programming language"

Kip9000 — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:13:07 +0000

There's already Nim (https://nim-lang.org/), which is Python like syntax and statically typed, with easy parallelisations etc already. What's lacking is the adoption as it wasn't hyped up. There's rarely a need to create yet another language and wait till it becomes mature and fixed all the issues with the eco system etc. If at all what's required is a way of translating all the Python libs to Nim or some similar effort.

New comment by Kip9000 in "About V, the language Volt is written in"

Kip9000 — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:31:16 +0000

I'm excited about this.. Feature list seems almost too good to be true. :)

New comment by Kip9000 in "Dyson moves vacuum giant's HQ to Singapore"

Kip9000 — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:41:52 +0000

Brexit will only affect the ordinary working class and the poor. The rich who funds this debacle will always have options cope or profit from it.

New comment by Kip9000 in "The Early History of F# [pdf]"

Kip9000 — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:21:57 +0000

C++ package manager written in F#. This should be the tagline :P

New comment by Kip9000 in "Ask HN: Can we write a programming language for biology?"

Kip9000 — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:16:55 +0000

Microsoft Research Cambridge, has been doing this for a long while.

"It turns out that there are lots of similarities between modelling concurrent systems and biological systems. Just like a computer, biological systems perform information processing, which determines how they grow, reproduce and survive in a hostile environment. Understanding this biological information processing is key to our understanding of life itself.

It’s probably easier to understand some of the output of this work – specifically the Stochastic Pi Machine, or SPiM as it’s often referred to. SPiM is a programming language for designing and simulating models of biological processes. The language features a simple, graphical notation for modelling a range of biological systems – meaning a biologist does not have to write code to create a model, they just draw pictures.

You can think of SPiM as a visual programming language for biology. In addition, SPiM can be used to model large systems incrementally, by directly composing simpler models of subsystems. Historically, the field of biology has struggled with systems so complex they become unwieldy to analyse. The modular approach that is often used in computer programming is directly applicable to this challenge."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/biological-co...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/spim/

New comment by Kip9000 in "ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier"

Kip9000 — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:18:43 +0000

What problem does this solve? Why is it necessary to sort a unique id?

New comment by Kip9000 in "Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?"

Kip9000 — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:42:27 +0000

Perhaps the most valuable part of this whole thing are the tests. Perhaps with that test bank, one could start from scratch to write a new database.