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yla92on Responder: A familiar HTTP Service Framework

Tornado[0] is not on per when it comes to features richness of Django. Yet, it's async and a joy to write. You should check it out if you have not. I would like to hear more from others about Tornado vs other Python frameworks as well.

[0]: http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/

yla92on “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

You should check out HN Replies (http://hnreplies.com). Not done by me and just a happy user. I don't comment a lot but it works pretty nicely whenever I do.

yla92on New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub

I didn't watch the whole live stream so I cannot tell whether they have mentioned about privacy specifically or not. From what I saw from the phone spec, there is a new chip called "Titan M" built custom for the Pixel 3.

"Embedded in the Pixel 3 phones is a new security chip named Titan M. Google designed, manufactured, and integrated the chip into the phone's secure boot process. It's used to protect the lock screen passcode authentication process and to strengthen disk encryption. This same security chip is used in Google's data centers, the company says, which means the Pixel phones are getting enterprise-level security."

this is the quote related to the chip from Wired.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-pixel-3/

yla92on Stripe Press

I wanted to buy the hardcover/paperback version of the "The Dream Machine" but it's all out of print everywhere. And I read on the Bloomberg article[0] about Patrick's buying the rights for the book. So I thought it would be really great if he somehow sells/republishes it. Now it's happening and I can't be happier.

On the other hand, I also ended up buying the kindle version and I can't say enough of how great the book is!

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-b...

yla92on Advice

Fixed. Thank you! It indeed might be fitting in some cases :D

yla92on Advice

For some of us who are in 20~30, I recommend Sam Altman's "The days are long but the decades are short"[0].

[0]: http://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-...

yla92on GitHub Founders Will Own More Microsoft Stock Than Its CEO

Andreessen Horowitz invested $100 million into the software startup in 2012, the single largest check it had ever written.

The firm owned about 13 percent of the company after that deal, according to Pitchbook, and made sure to take its pro rata rights — or right to follow up with more investment at a later date — when Sequoia Capital valued the company at $2 billion in its own deal in 2015. Those were the only two times that the 10-year-old company ever raised money. [0]

So, the other two winners are a16z and Sequoia?

[0]: https://www.recode.net/2018/6/4/17424664/github-microsoft-sa...

yla92on Matias Click Switches: Tactile mechanical keyswitches

The layout is a bit awkward at first, mainly due to no arrow keys. I switched to HHKB from Poker 3 (another keyboard with 40% layout). Even then I had a brief amount of hard times adjusting to HHKB. Nowadays, I use both of them at home and office and love them.

I heard Realforce are pretty good too!

yla92on Matias Click Switches: Tactile mechanical keyswitches

Did you manage to try HHKB Topre ?

yla92on Who will steal Android from Google?

> The irony being that most of the big shops are aggressively dumping it in favor of Buck — Facebook’s Android build system. Google is chasing a dying strategy here.

Igave it a try to a "small" project and there weren't any noticeable advantage over Gradle (and given that Instant Run is working quite well, it was really buggy when it comes out).

I know for a fact that aside from Facebook, Uber uses it and comes out with a nice Gradle plugin for Buck called OkBuck[0]. I wonder what other big shops use as well. And I would like to know if anyone here has used it and saw any dramatic advantage over Gradle and worth investing time integrating Buck into current projects.

[0]: https://github.com/uber/okbuck

yla92on Working remotely, 4 years in

We use zoom ( https://zoom.us ) and works quite well. Beside that, I heard a lot of good things about Jitsi ( https://jitsi.org )

yla92on Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming

The ePubs from the bundle are quite okay. I just tried one of the books with FBReader on Ubuntu.

yla92on Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

It is not "coming" from Google despite it is under Google GitHub organization. There is a disclaimer[1] at the bottom of the repo README, stating that "This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.". It's my understanding that it's Raph code and Google has nothing to do with it other than having to own the code.

[1] : https://github.com/google/xi-editor#disclaimer

yla92on Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

not the op. just my understanding is that it is raphlinus's code. It means Google has literally nothing to do with it, other than happening to own the code.

(IE it's not an experimental product, it's not a product at all. It's just raphlinus releasing some code)

yla92on Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits

I am not sure about the "best". One way is getting a hardware wallet like Leger Nano S[0]. It doesn't support "all" coins but popular coins like BTC, ETH, BCH, XLM, LTC, NEO etc are supported.[1]. I use it and it's convenient, so far.

[0]: https://www.ledgerwallet.com/products/ledger-nano-s

[1]: https://www.ledgerwallet.com/cryptocurrencies

yla92on Moving efficiently in the CLI

Here's a gist I made awhile ago for moving around and other useful shortcuts and tools.

https://gist.github.com/yelinaung/849c78c40784c56e05f5a04dde...

yla92on BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales

I believe the main concern is whether 1 tether is actually backed by 1 USD. There is a series of articles[0] about why tether and Bitfinex are scary

[0]: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed

yla92on Nike’s Two Hour Marathon Attempt

Yeah. I recently read the book and amazed by how good of a runner he is, especially his discipline and dedication. Inspiring, even might to the non-runners.

yla92on Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from Python

> gofmt is a good idea (just like clang-format or yapf), and having it is great, but the maintainers specifically refuse to add simple features, saying "running it in an automated process is not supported", despite all github projects already having it in their automated CI suite

A Golang noob here. Can you (or anyone else) expand more on this? Are there any links that I can read more about this?

yla92on YouTube Programming Channels

Some other YouTube channels I subscribed to and find interesting are

CrashCourse : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q

Stanford Graduate School of Business : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGwuxdEeCf0TIA2RbPOj-8g

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q

Y Combinator : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg

yla92on Assume positive intent

I love the concept of positive intent since the day I found out about positive intent through another blog post: The power of positive intent[0]. I was always defensive whenever I have to confront with a situation or a person. After I read the article about positive intent, I have been trying not to be defensive and instead, listen to another person first. I think this article "Assume positive intent" really complements the one that I read before.

[0] : https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-power-of-positive-intent-5d5d...

yla92on Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures

I love Firacode and use it in Android Studio/IntelliJ but it has this bug[0] where "=" is invisible in Gnome terminal. So, I had to switch to Fira Mono[1], the parent of Fira Code, from Mozilla. Fira Mono doesn't have cool ligatures but it's a good font and works pretty well.

[0] : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/162 [1] : https://github.com/mozilla/Fira

yla92on Facebook is an attack on the open web

> Do you think this will change overtime as people become familiar with technology and the internet?

Maybe. I can't say for sure. People start with Facebook and they stay with Facebook for now. Most businesses (tech agencies or startups) are also forming around Facebook. Of course, a few companies are doing okay by doing games, marketplace, and entertainment related apps/websites. For them, a big problem is an online payment method and non-existent infrastructure. For the government, there are just more important problems for the government. Eventually, online safety and education are necessary, I think.

Yeap. I see people, especially younger folks, use laptop/desktop computers for work, school and for entertainment. The margin of mobile users are desktop users is still a big gap, I suppose.

yla92on Facebook is an attack on the open web

Folk from Myanmar (but working in Singapore) here. People in my country, they regard Facebook as "The Internet". They walked into the mobile phone shop, they asked for "open Facebook for 3$" which comes with a FB account, followed the celebrity pages etc. They do everything you can imagine on FB.

Now there are "digital agencies" who take care of the celebrity/company FB pages, post click-bait articles, run campaigns and throw money for advertising.

I don't think these things are going to change anytime soon and I don't have an answer. So, either promote yourself, things you are doing, on FB or your online presence is mere. Just sad.

yla92on UIDebuggingInformationOverlay

Not the iOS dev here. I heard good things about PonyDebuggr[0] from Square:

[0] : https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger

yla92on Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

The RSS feed links are here https://changelog.com/subscribe

yla92on Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

A mix of everything

- HN Digest - http://hndigest.com/

- Hacker News Books - http://hackernewsbooks.com/

- Julie Zhuo's The Looking Glass - http://www.juliezhuo.com/design/mailinglist.html

- a16z monthly newsletter - http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=35c671b34bb40414916...

- Pointer.io - http://www.pointer.io

- Changelog Weekly - https://changelog.com/weekly

- Dan Bader's python tricks - https://dbader.org/

- The New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/newsletters

- Android Weekly - http://androidweekly.net/

- AndroidDevDigest - https://www.androiddevdigest.com/

- GitHub Explore - https://github.com/explore/subscribe

yla92on Mozilla Acquires Pocket

Nowadays, I add an article to both Instapaper and Pocket. I used to use Pocket a lot but sticking on Instapaper more.

Things I love about Pocket are

- Curated (and from other people I followed) "recommendations",

- tags "Best Of", "Quick Reads".

- beautiful android app

Instapaper has less features than Pocket but I find that

- Instapaper article parser is better,

- UI is cleaner, highlights ( I love these!),

- ability to switch style (type faces, article background)

- speed read

- they also have "Browse" (something similar to Pocket's recommendation?) but in Android app, it's a bit hidden in the drawer menu so I don't use it often.

yla92on Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

For Android dev related, I follow

Jake Wharton : https://github.com/jakewharton , https://twitter.com/JakeWharton - He is well known in Android community. He has authored a lot of great libraries personally and under Square.

Mark Murphy - https://commonsware.com/blog/

Chris Banes - https://chris.banes.me/

Cyril Mottier - https://cyrilmottier.com , https://twitter.com/cyrilmottier

Dan Lew - http://blog.danlew.net/

Donn Felker - http://www.donnfelker.com

Mark Allison - https://blog.stylingandroid.com

Jesse Wilson - https://publicobject.com/

Roman Nurik - https://twitter.com/romannurik

yla92on Ask HN: What IDE do you use?

Android Studio for the android development, with IdeaVim and a few other plugins.

Intellij for other Java related stuff. Before the dedicated IDE for golang came out from JetBrains, I also used IntelliJ for golang development with their golang plugin.

Aside from that, I use Sublime for dumping the logs/note taking etc.

Last, not least, vim!