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My fav: "gitbr" alias, which goes:

for k in `git branch -a|perl -pe s/^..//`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k|head -n 1`\\t$k;done|sort -r

Great write-up! Could merge some useful thoughts from here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6991974

I'd certainly contribute to this if it was on Github :)

Indeed. I have trouble imagining many people turning down whatever his offer would be at the final four though.

Buffett won't have to pay a billion dollars. As he mentions in one of the articles linked, at the end:

"If you get to the Final Four with a perfect bracket, I may buy you out of your position," Buffett said. "I'll make you an offer you can't refuse."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-buffett-basketball-bet...

I'm not talking about a peer-reviewed report here - I'd appreciate just a link to a shitty youtube video, an audio clip of an interview, raw chat log, etc. - anything else than the claim itself. This slideshow isn't data, it's a report of "what's really going on". As I said earlier I'm not really familiar with the events, those numbers could have a few more trailing zeroes and I wouldn't know the difference until I see something that gives me an order of magnitude.

I wish those underlined words were links to sources or any kind of data. I haven't been following very closely and although I'm not putting in doubt what's on the slides (people on here seem to be more or less corroborating the data), there are lots of claims I'd like to read up on. Maybe a slide at the end with more info?

exactly my thoughts.

hey great tutorial! really easy to go through, super helpful.

My only suggestion : it would be great to have a small reference/cheatsheet/table to convert equivalent data structures and other syntactic details from closure to other languages. I found myself scrolling back up a lot to remember what "def" meant (coming from python this was confusing), whether "vector" was a dict or a list, etc. It interrupted the reading for a few seconds every time until "ah ha!" I found it.

I remember spending about 50% of my time learning Mongo syntax just checking out their mysql <-> mongo syntax table - I assume most people checking out your tutorial will have experience with some previous form of programming (like me).

+1 to this too. Not mentioning this very clearly somewhere at the top automatically leads me to believe (perhaps wrongly) that you haven't addressed this problem.

No social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. I think that's at least half the battle.

Good advice from YuriNiyazov too. "If I'm having a day where I am not getting much done, I stop trying.". I think it's important to pick your battles. You won't be productive 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

A bit disappointed by this. As mentioned by ceejayoz, don't upload your .pem file anywhere!

AWS has tons of weird/interesting quirks - I thought this article was going to be about those.

Here's my 5 tips for AWS...

- SQS: encodes messages by default! plan accordingly if you are going to be sending large bodies (265K max).

- ELBs: they need time to warm up if you get a huge traffic spike. ELBs won't start scaling unless that traffic is sustained for a certain time (usually minutes).

- S3: watch out for "eventual consistency" if you're going to upload lots of files and try to access them right away - they might not be available immediately.

- Cloudwatch: set up alarms to make sure your billing never goes over threshold X in time Y. If someone compromised your account (because you uploaded your .pem file in cleartext to dropbox) and is mining bitcoins on your machines, you'll be notified.

- VPC: if you're going to build a services-oriented infrastructure, consider using a VPC! Unless you need to have all your services exposed to the public internet, it could save you a lot of time and security configuration trouble.

I may be an average HN reader, but I only vaguely know what Tinder is, and how it works. Don't rely on my own half-baked idea of what another app is to make me understand your own - straight up tell me first. Good luck!

"HI HN, WE ARE BUILDING TINDER, BUT FOR LANGUAGE EDUCATION, WITH INSTITUTIONAL CERTIFICATION.

WE'RE TESTING IT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VENICE, AND WE'D LOVE NOW TO DO THIS ON HN AS WELL.

YOU THINK THAT'S A BAD IDEA, WHICH DOESN'T SOLVE A REAL PROBLEM? LET US KNOW WHY."

Your first paragraph is not informative at all. What if I don't know what Tinder is? You're suggesting that maybe your idea is bad (and we should tell you why) about 1/2 a screen before telling me what your idea actually is. How about putting that sentence "CoffeeStrap is a place..." right at the top?

p.s. I think your idea is great! But I need more help understanding what's going on :)

Missing quite a lot of PHP ones. For instance, tinyMVC is great if you want to learn how MVC works with PHP.

For those who haven't seen it, this is what the fire looked like, taken from an amateur cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRb3JHsiqfA. Horrifying...

This is really useful. I've been coding python projects for a few years now and was never quite sure how/when to use them. You'd run into assert when unit testing, but not that much elsewhere. This makes it clearer, I like this quote : Don't use assert for checking anything that you expect might fail in the ordinary use of your program. Assertions are for extraordinary failure conditions.

This gives you a pretty good idea of how it looks (video on page) : http://www.codeherdstudios.com/AsteroidSmash.html

True, they weren't very fast on this one. But they're usually good at quickly pushing out new services/features/apis and integrating new products from acquired companies.

looks great, thanks!

Not sure. I don't think they over dramatized it and even if they did, it might be required if they want to make sure the message gets through to a larger audience than the tech community. As you said, this is a very serious event and what's bothersome, if anything, is the way the case was handled by authorities.

I'll agree with other comments on here that the title is pretty bad, but I think this documentary is important. We'll see when it comes out.

Seriously, you created an account just to flame someone else?

What if I told you that documenting your progress actually motivates some to keep going, to do more?

Why is your generation so obsessed with "complaining" instead of actually "doing"?

yep. there are tons of factors to take into account (genetic, economical, etc.), but doing this right often means changing lifestyle altogether.

congrats on the change :)

Was thinking the same. Also

>The advice to "eat well and exercise" didn't seem particularly insightful

...but it actually makes a world of a difference. I think this is the most important advice and people tend to discard it as generic and useless - the truth is that it's very hard. Being active isn't a big deal, but for a week? For a full month? Full year? Full decade? Being consistent in eating well and exercising is challenging.

The doctor won't set goals for yourself, but if need a number, give yourself one and try improving on it constantly. There are tons of tools, apps, websites to help you. I've always been very active since I was a kid and still am now (~500 minutes of sports/week) and I can already see a big difference with my friends who aren't. And I'm not old at all.

If you decide to start exercising cause you have symptoms, it's probably too late.

I like how this looks, I definitively want to try it out.

With that being said :

> Here's the shocking part: a 1Kb library requires the least keystrokes to build the Todo MVC application

I'll decide on my own if it's shocking or not. Also I don't care that much about keystrokes, there's nothing wrong with verbose/expressive languages. I want my code to be readable and maintainable, and then concise if possible. This project looks cool but I wish its creator(s) was/were a bit more humble.

> Not only is it trivially easy to host your own email

Perhaps for you, but average Joe does not know, nor care how to do this. I've worked with "technical people" who couldn't figure out how to use PGP to encrypt emails, imagine trying to explain to random people what a VPN is.

As long as signing up with gmail stays easier than hosting your own email, nobody will ever bother - and this is the danger schneier is talking about.

Totally agree (I think temp also plays a role, if your body is working harder to preserve higher temperatures = more tired).

I was only imagining how this blog post would of been about 10x its size if the author lived in Norway or Finland. It's good to keep an eye on these things but luckily for the author, SF is one of the places where the sun hits the most, even in the winter.

Will have to agree here. As someone who's working from Canada, this post is semi-funny.

I've worked from SF October to January, and let me tell you that biking around town in a t-shirt is not winter.

Definitively. Urban planning in N-A cities is focused on how to have cars circulate/park as efficiently as possible, unlike most European cities. Car lanes are large, sidewalks and bike lanes are slim. Lights instead of roundabouts, parking garages instead of bike racks.

I wish I could use my bike all year long but the truth is that for someone living in Canada (I'm guessing it's similar for some northern states too), it's impossible to bike half the year. Some brave folks do it but it's quite dangerous. For someone who has lived in Amsterdam many years it's a sad realization that my city will never become a bike haven.

I agree with previous comment. I understand they need to take off the spine but I'd be ready to pay more even just for the unbound pages.

Great idea!