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Great! In the google developer console where you can configure the android play store entry for your app, some special pictures require a fixed size:

1024 x 500 (functional graphic) 180 x 120 (advertisement graphic) 1.280 x 720 (TV banner)

It would be immensely useful if I could directly download them in that size.


I've made an app & website that lets you quickly try out java snippets on android, e.g. if you see a code snippet on stack overflow you can just copy paste it and throw it in and let it run on your phone. But I didn't continue with it because no one uses it :) https://runondroid.com/


Yo that's pretty neat right there...


Nice. It looks useful to me.


I always wanted this, typing paths is so annoying. I think the command line got stuck in the last millennium. So much things could be automated there, especially command completion. Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever. Computers should be like magic.

What could be improved: if I type "nano <ctrl f> index." I see some index.js files but not my index.html file from my node project.

Ah ok it's in a different folder, but it would be cool if it showed anyways.


Just add this to your .[bash/zsh]rc:

  ex ()
  {
    if [ -f $1 ] ; then
        case $1 in
            *.tar.bz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
            *.tar.gz) tar xzf $1 ;;
            *.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
            *.rar) unrar x $1 ;;
            *.gz) gunzip $1 ;;
            *.tar) tar xf $1 ;;
            *.tbz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
            *.tgz) tar xzf $1 ;;
            *.zip) unzip $1 ;;
            *.Z) uncompress $1;;
            *.7z) 7z x $1 ;;
            *) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via ex()" ;;
       esac
    else
        echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
    fi
}


>Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever.

A quite popular handy tool for that: http://www.nongnu.org/atool/


When I think about it, it feels like there is some sort of mental barrier that I have to overcome to make plans with strangers. Maybe when the meetups would be less personal like 20 random people going to a bar or club, I'd rather join in on something. Then nobody would realize if I leave, but if I bond with some people its fine.


When you meet a stranger, the actual purpose of small talk is to try to find some common ground. Some people are better at it than others (I am horrible)... but if some common ground can be established, both people will have an easier time making conversation. That's why so many meetups are centered around an activity/topic. I would much rather attend a group of "20 random people that list kayaking as a sport they enjoy" than "20 random people".


That's a good point, completely random would be too much, at least the age should be somewhat similar and maybe the place to meet is also a context, e.g. a bar already indicates a form of interest, different than meeting in the water park.


So I need friends to find friends, and an iPhone. Damn. But It looks cool, if I had friends and an iPhone I'd probably use it.


Hey jetpm- I totally agree. I wish we had an android version, but it's too hard for me to manage two codebases at once.

You can leave your email at http://www.friendstonightapp.com/#download in the android request section and we'll let you know asap when it's out!


I'm sure the HN community can help you with this issue. There are a few platforms like PhoneGap that allow you to develop mobile apps on multiple devices using one codebase.


Nice, I see you use neural networks, can you explain a bit how you are training them?


It searches reddit for whatever the user queries. Reddit returns up to 100 threads. I then choose a thread and take the top comment.

The neural network predicts which thread is most likely to produce a satisfying answer. The main features are number of n-gram matches with the question, the score, the number of comments, and some other metadata.

It's far from optimal but it does improve it a bit.


I made a bash function for easier alias binding. It makes aliases immediately available and permanent. Also you don't need quotes so you can use tab completion etc. It goes like this:

ali <name of alias> <command>

to get it put this in your .bashrc

  function ali() {  
   echo "alias $1='${@:2}'" >> ~/.bashrc   #in ubuntu use   ~/.bash_aliases  
   echo "made alias:";  
   echo "alias $1='${@:2}'";  
   source ~/.bashrc;  #reload bashrc  
  }

When I realize I type a command often, I just push the up arrow to get the command again, append "ali" infront of it and turn it to an alias. Works direclty.

And of course the alias to show the list of all aliases:

  alias alis='cat ~/.bash_aliases'


> alias alis='cat ~/.bash_aliases'

That only lists what's in .bash_aliases, along with any comments.

Why not just run alias without arguments? It lists all active aliases, however and whenever they were defined.

  $ man bash
  /^SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS
  ...
  alias [-p] [name[=value] ...]
"Alias with no arguments or with the -p option prints the list of aliases in the form alias name=value on standard output."


I also made a chat app, it's like the exact opposite of this, its totally distracting http://quatshy.com


Once you get past how hard it is to find the thread of conversation, this thing is awesome.

It is basically like chatting accompanied by automatically selected reaction GIFS. If it were converted to a forum of some sort, you'd basically have an even lower-effort 4chan.


Spot on. "This is like /b/ but realtime" was something I saw chatted in there...


Well, I have been using your app for about 20 minutes now, and it sure does what it is supposed to do. The most annoying thing I have used in a long time!


Wow, this is probably the future, but for an old guy like me its horrible.


It's fun for a while, but boy do I hope this chat is not the future.


young guy here, can confirm this is not the future we want.


How young? I'm 24 and I think this is the best thing ever


Maybe it's not about age, but class?


Am I allowed to say "Ouch" on HN? Probably not, but "Ouch".


Why? Could you reason about that?


This is kinda the coolest thing in the world, I've always wanted automated gif emotions!


Jumping on the bandwagon by saying I helped make another distracting gif thing that scrapes Twitter instead: http://www.gifpeek.com/


Welcome to the bandwagon, enjoy your ride.

http://media2.giphy.com/media/XiaRQAeLCR8Y0/200.gif?_=143656...



It's about 6 AM on a Friday. I just spent the week writing boring documentation, and I'm taking the day off to watch some movies.

Yeah, pancakes are pretty valuable right about now: http://www.scorethings.com/scores/51246719


or 💩.com


there was only one (maybe two) TLDs that would allow emoji domains names.. that was the famous .la TLD

and so you saw http://💩.la

that was my inspiration for http://shizz.it shizz.it allows people to create http://👿.shizz.it or any other emoji character mix, as a subdomain, which is then redirected to any other URL. Thus link forwarding.

By making use of emoji in subdomains, you can get around the restriction of no emoji in domains or TLDs.

;)


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