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How come people with papers on machine learning are doing internships? Is this absolutely necessary before landing a job?

Been using Slate as well but it's not maintained anymore. I wanted to switch to Phoenix - https://github.com/sdegutis/Phoenix/ which is from the same guy that this Hydra. I think the idea of Hydra was the rewrite it in Lua but I can't speak for him. Will definitely try it out asap!

As a heavy Ableton user and coder I would like to have a coding environment that also has powerful gui libraries so I can quickly implement faders and knobs and stuff when needed but also be able to change code on the fly. Kind of get the best of both worlds for the ultimate hacking music environment. This is something similar and very interesting but for visual stuff based on openFrameworks: https://media.usfca.edu/app/plugin/embed.aspx?ID=mjWcGbE4DUK...

As someone who's looking for an internship, could you briefly go over the skills you are looking for in an intern. I have a hard time judging myself and don't know exactly how much an intern should be capable of for a YC company or really any company with similar status/success. Obviously, it depends from company to company but still would be interesting to hear your thoughts. Thanks

I cannot be any happier that they did.

That. Was. Awesome. Totally Bret Victor type of stuff. I was just meaning to play with Light Table but as an iOS developer.. oh my god.

Thanks, I feel completely useless now. Wouldn't even know where to start with something like this.

London, Internship

Stack: Node.js/iOS Development

Resume: http://lnkd.in/bZ33xKK

Contact: nicknikolov at icloud dot com

Thanks, that's an interesting topic

Ah, your internship offer looks awesome! Applying this weekend, hopefully its still open.

Could you elaborate. I'm curious why interactive programming isn't more popular.

I just read his Wikipedia page and his early life. What's the point in even trying at life...

I wonder if it's a good idea to read SICP for the first time in a... let's say a language that people have mixed feelings about rather than the original version of the book. I guess nothing wrong with learning Scheme but as a JavaScripter this looks too good.

It's funny how nobody implied that.

That actually is a very simple approach but makes a lot of sense, I'll definitely think about it, thanks for writing it down.

I rarely hear devs saying they use much of what they studied, except some general programming techniques. I do think having a degree is awesome but I'm not sure who is actually wary of self-taught programmers.

Anyone know a good movie/book on his life?

Does anyone have a good read on generators? I have no idea what that is.

How does Knex compare to https://github.com/brianc/node-sql

That's why you don't see us caring about some new javascript framework or RoR or Azure, or any other "new" (and usually unproven) technology. We're too busy kicking ass and finding beauty in mature, established languages and frameworks that actually have all the features (and then some) of "newer" technologies.

Comments like these saying 'Oh you are a stupid hipster using node/ror whatever' are basically in the same spirit as 'Oh I'm cooler than you because I use this and that and you are using Java' just the other way round. Thanks for your childish negativity and adding to unneeded stereotypes in the tech community. If you are one of those 'wise' devs that use what is mature and stable and whatnot instead of chasing new trends you should be smart enough to preach that all technologies have their use case and people should use the best tool for the job etc etc… but hating is fun, isn't it.

What's your point? We should just not try out new things? It's not like HN is representative of the industry as a whole anyway. Platforms, languages, frameworks etc etc learn and copy from each other, imo people switching technologies are helping these processes.

If by an 'archaic contextual experience' you mean real world objects and by 'unnecessary tradition' - body movements, then I don't know what kind of future you want to live in.

Does lifting weights really fix your posture if it's already bad? Also, where do you guys read about proper eating?

Thanks. I'll definitely check it out.

I just graduated high school, I always thought Math was amazingly interesting and I couldn't understand why I wasn't doing so good in school and why topics that I thought would be very interesting appeared boring after the teacher told I had to learn some rules and apply them over and over again to get good grades (I'm oversimplifiyng but you get the idea). We were thought the 'what' and not the 'why'. I was in a computer science high school so we had subjects that you'd find in a CS curriculum in any university - EE, C, OOP and a bunch of other random stuff. So for example when it was time our math teacher had to tell us about sin and cosine the explanation was merely 'oh here's a bunch of ways to calculate your angles, remember them for the next exam'. It was in some other class (something related to EE) that the teacher went deeper and and explained all the magic behind it. I mean, seriously, the Wikipedia page has animations that make it easier to understand than my math books. I always thought I was stupid for not having good math grades, I question the sharpness of my brain to this day. Essays like this make me want to pick up Math again and this time learning it the proper (whatever that means) way... learn to think analytical and in terms of pattern making/matching etc etc... not even sure where to start though.

Sorry for my English.

Holy crap... my upgrade from Live 8 to Live 9 costs 250 euro. And this is 200 bucks. I wish I was not so deeply in love with Ableton so I could move to Logic.