skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have made a strange observation. Okay, "strange" is relative, so maybe I should say "interesting" to be as fuzzy and generic as possible.

When I program in my favorite roastery and coffee shop (http://www.roesttrommel.de/info/laufer-gasse.html) I want people, noise and background music. I can concentrate on my my code very well.

However, when I'm at home and I have to concentrate - on the exact same code - I need complete silence. If I leave music running or anything else I can't concentrate.

So there seems to be higher-level processing involved in the brain so that the complete context matters, and not just something as simple as "music/no music" (medium level processing).
He's probably just a Russian who got disturbed on his vacation, you might be overestimating the excitement.

If we're sharing, my longest one to date is:

Cuzco - Lima (long layover, we got to visit Museo Larco and eat pizza) - Panama - Dominicana (technical stop, but we had to disembark) - Frankfurt - Moscow.

It was pretty painless, I only regret missing one lunch by being asleep.
As someone who is fascinated by decentralized social networks, I always come back to email as the ultimate solution to that problem.
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My understanding was that in the early days of motion pictures, they simply borrowed most of the conventions of stage acting (for example, scenes would commonly show an actor walking into a room, and continue all the way through the action or dialogue, until they had exited the set, rather than cutting out the unnecessary parts).
So it would make sense for trained actors accustomed to projecting to a large audience (no wireless mics in those days), to continue projecting and enunciating in the same manner.
> This is incorrect anyway

Even the Wikipedia article is titled "Mid-atlantic accent": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

What is it about this article that seems to so efficiently be bringing the armchair prescriptivists out of the woodwork?
Solar panels do not work well when the car is always garaged. It seems like a gimmick rather than a solid feature that the user actually wants.
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RFC6648 is from 2012 though, but Sir Terry Pratchett died in 2015, which is when this initiative started. As such it's violating RFC6648 because it continues to use the X- prefix.
My version of the same was the word "rendezvous" which appears in many detective stories for kids (eg Hardy Boys) but doesnt often come up in daily conversation. So, in my head (to this day), it is still pronounced as it is written...
The US government has been stockpiling it since 1925 in the National Helium Reserve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve).
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Great phrasing of the feeling. I started listening to e-books, fiction, after finding that my programming thoughts don't really intersect my verbal thoughts. The benefit being I don't get distracted reading anything else because my speech center is already occupied. The only time I have to pause the music is during a planning session where I do have internal dialogue.

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I started a consulting company about 6 years ago, worked on site with a few clients, and eventually they just didnt mind me not being there as long as the work got done. So now I have complete autonomy to come and go as I please.

I usually spend at least one week in the office because I like the routine and my gym is right there, but 75% time is spent working from other places.

Moral of the story: If you consistently deliver, I dont see why this should be a problem, as long as you dont want to work for a big corporation (FB, GOOG, etc)
This is run by a friend of mine, John Datassette (not real name). He's a bomb game dev, squirty electro peacock and all round Little Lord. Check out his fiendishly hard game "Space Rubbish":

https://datassette.bandcamp.com/album/space-rubbish-game-ost

I made one of those mixes. Guess which one and i'll fax you some handmade congratulations.
There's too much appeal to consequences here. I'd rather see someone make an argument for why a set of pronunciations can't be canonical. I certainly know exactly which pronunciations are the "neutral" ones, even the ones I don't use myself. So how did those pronunciations receive their status? What does it mean for us to hear them as "unaccented", and why exactly is that misguided?
I've been working remote for about 9 years now and I'd really recommend getting your own space to work out of, somewhere that isn't your home. I didn't get my own space until a year or so ago and I wish I had done it sooner.

When your home is also your workspace it's very easy to never stop working. Being a New Yorker with most of my co-workers in SF or the valley, your 5 pm quickly becomes 9 pm. It's also very easy to isolate yourself at home, particularly during the winter. Being able to tell your co-workers you need to head home puts up boundaries.

If you live with someone the interruptions you'll get during the day are far more personal than if a co-worker comes over to talk or ask questions. People that don't code often don't realize the amount of concentration you need to get good work done, to them it's just you working on a computer, so what's the big deal if they interrupt you with life questions or tasks? It compounds and can become an issue if you're not careful.

For me a co-working space like WeWork doesn't fit my needs, but I went in on an old loft space in Brooklyn with some friends and it's great. I have a place to walk to every morning, I have a workbench with tools for any hardware things I want to hack on when I don't have client work, I have all my math and cs books here, I can take lunch with people in the space if I feel like it, etc.

And if the weather is bad or I'm feeling sick, I can always opt to work from home for the day.

[p.s. we have a couple desks that just opened up if any HN people in NYC need space!]
This youtube channel has some nice stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnFdFrniZSg
In fairness, there's also a market for "80-90% of the quality for 40-50% of the cost". Apple's strategy is to stick to high end and that's worked out well for them but for someone like me who uses a laptop only occasionally as a secondary computer or for mobile media stuff (dj, vj, projection art, etc) they just don't offer something I can justify buying.

Last laptop I bought was maybe 3 years ago. I was comparing everything at the local Microcenter and wanted something fairly powerful but not to the point that I was paying a hefty premium for that last "tier" of polish and quality. By sorting the options to include only i7, at least 16GB RAM, dedicated GPU, and at least 1920x1080 display, I was left with some silly Asus that looked like a Michael Bay Transformer, another Asus with a tasteful aluminum chassis, and a Macbook Pro.

The black thing with red LED lighting was out because I guess I am still a bit shallow and superficial. The other Asus had a better GPU, lower quality TN display, and spinning HDD in comparison to the lower-end GPU, nicer IPS display and SSD on the MBP. But the aluminum Asus cost $999 and the MBP was $2399.

I wouldn't have minded buying an Apple notebook if there had been a more affordable option with similar tradeoffs but as you say, they don't make ones like that. And I'd certainly like a nicer screen but not for more than double the price. A SSD was easy enough to swap into the Asus and when I upgraded the one in my desktop, I passed that older SSD down to the laptop.

I guess the main point is that these other OEMs like Asus still do decent sales and produce options with less-than-top-tier parts because there's a real market for those who are fine buying an Accord instead of a Mercedes even if the Mercedes has some superior features or build. Not sure how much of it is artificial (as far as intentionally targeting different price brackets with parts that may only cost the OEM $100-200 less to include).

Either way, as my current budget stands, I'll continue to gravitate toward whatever company can sell me "not quite the best" for half the cost of the top tier.
Not only that, the editor (which seems to be one of the main points of this Show HN) is a plan version of Quill.js: http://quilljs.com/playground/

I am all about reusing components, but what's original in here to make it a Show HN?

Edit: after thinking about it and trying it I think the main point is about simplicity to generate a PDF with decent default styles, which is a good point. So I retract my previous opinion; it's about a good experience and nice output using pre-made tools. Well done (:
Hey thanks for your work, I wanted to mention wp-cli, too, which is especially excellent. Especially with one of my applications where the content portion of the site is wordpress, and the "app" portion is other tech, I needed a way to integrate with the wordpress site, and found wp-cli made some tasks incredibly easily.
They'll even let you run 2 VMs per license!

I found that clang did super weird things under VirtualBox though (I know, wrong host software for this...) and needed to be patched for anything to build.
I understand the tendency to think face time is infinitely more valuable. For my managers, I completely understand it is one of their few options for insight into the deep work they've tasked me with. However, I've found the reality is that these face time meetings are just a stand in for actually understanding what it is you've asked me to build and how what I've done might be related. I spend all of that meeting rehashing design concepts and essentially catching them up. So then they can finally parse what is essentially an extra-long commit message.

They'll laud the meeting as "We met in person and got so much done!" I'll remember it as yet another round in the lecture circuit of a design.

In the end, face time is probably always going to better for collaborative work. Speed up communication time and processing time improves as a result. But for single-worker tasks, I've found the opposite to be the case. The overhead of the conversations makes it take an hour instead of the 15 minutes for essentially a "long commit report" email.
It crashes constantly. When will they fix that?
General American is still an accent, albeit a neutral one, and it's hard to find people who still speak it on a daily basis outside the Pacific Northwest. Even in the region where it was allegedly first spoken (Iowa), the average person today speaks with an Inland Northern accent, or central Canadian further north.
I think people are much more complicated than the simple introverted / extroverted. I’ve personally come to the conclusion that very few people really fall exactly into either category and most people just seem to be a semi-random assortment of traits associated with one or the other. It’s really difficult to disprove things that don’t exist but I feel like the two categories aren’t an accurate descriptor for most people.
It might be tough trying to be a full-time Android freelancer right out of college, unless you are working on your own revenue-generating project. But don't let me dissuade you -- sounds like you have a good start. Like other commenter says, you have a desirable skill-set which makes you easily employable.
Shall I fetch your smoking jacket and a brandy so you may tell us how real adults write?

I'll also not point out the elementary writing mistakes in your own comment.
Is the website generally slow OR it's getting hammered with HN traffic?
I'm surprised not to see Murcof's downtempo piano-heavy work on this excellent list
I write cursive on the whiteboard at work.
It surprises some to see this ancient practice.
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Hey, way too good an album to listen to while coding :)
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12437345
Pardon. I was looking at the 15", which doesn't offer a non-Touch Bar model:

http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MJLQ2L...

At the time, I wasn't aware that there was a new 13" non-touchbar model.
Well, ok. Reading the data here, Apple and Asus shipped about the same number of notebooks last year at 17m. This year, Asus is expected to hold the line at around 17m, while Apple shipments are predicted dropping to 13m.

I would say two things about this:

1) Except for the MacBook, it has been a year without new Apple notebooks until last week's announcement. Most of the Mac product line has been pretty crusty all year, so I imagine a lot of people have been waiting.

2) Asus ships some sub-$300 notebooks. Apple's start at $1000.

Given all that, I wouldn't say this comparison is particularly revealing.
Sorry, I forgot to include the gemination marks (and I've since edited it into GP). I was specifically talking about /e:/ and /o:/, which are monophthongs in Scottish English but diphthongs /eɪ/ and /oʊ/ in American and English English.
I've done 2(repeat same song or a couple songs) for a few hours with early foo fighter while coding.

Repeating "X-Static" and "Exhausted" which have a slow plodding droning kind of sound worked for grinding out some lotus script (that was a while ago....)
Yeah; I probably should've been more explicit in my original comment: there's definitely new VMs being written for WASM, but none are currently expecting to go into browsers, hence concerns about sandbox escapes from browsers aren't affected by them.
I agree would be nice to know :), what do you think about it?
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If it could be demonstrated to be safe, I have trouble seeing any downside to your idea!
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I remember pondering the hyper-bowl. Not insurmountable though, unlike "colonel", which I suspect a certain primate[1] would still refuse to comply with long after completing the works of Shakespeare. I also refuse, either imposing the image of a penguin or cob of corn upon the head of anyone titled thus.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Why not just say "Your privacy is taken seriously" to remove the ambiguity?
"all of them see strong correlation with voter participation"

Yeah I bet. Your boss will trade your mail in ballot for your paycheck this week. Turn it in with your calculus exam for 5 bonus points. Don't forget to take your ballot to Bible study group this Sunday, we're going to fill them out together to make sure we do it correctly. If you're in a nursing home just hand it to your favorite nurse, after all she's in charge of your medication so you have motivation to keep her happy. Your postman will simply toss it out if he doesn't like your vote but he does have a bid out for $5 if you'd like to sell, because one of the local parties is buying from him for $10 per ballot. On the other hand the gas station clerk down the street is offering $9 because his margins are lower and he paid off the cops like he paid off the health inspector and he's easier to get in touch with.

I suppose if all the dollars are concentrating in ever fewer hands, we need some kind of paper currency, and if they'd allow early voting up to perhaps 3 years and 364 days before the next election... Its possibly the only way we'll ever see the government getting a form of currency into the general public's hands to boost economic activity rather than just bailing out the bankers as usual.

Mail in is fairly banana republic tier. Its kinda like drug legalization, yeah that stuff isn't good for you, but at least if its above board and semi legalized then at least we can observe and track it, kinda, rather than underground and out of control. Actually its more like a red light district, the only way to make it worse would be to drive it underground. At least looking at vote totals we can tell how corrupt an election is based on level of mail in voting rather than knowing its bad but not how bad in total.
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I have to clarify: in which of the possible meanings do you use tge term "EDM" here? The Skrillex type of post-brostep, pop deep house inspired top40 bangers, all electronic club-friendly dance music or all electronic music in general?

Like "techno" or "dubstep", this word can mean very different things for different people.
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We really need to have a mainstream desktop microkernel operating system because:

1. no need anymore for kernel bypass mechanisms (too many to name for linux, btw)

2. decoupling of drivers from the kernel

3. instead of waiting for a backport of a new syscall to an LTS kernel, something like that will be just part of your system's stdlib

4. extremely reduced need to reboot a machine

5. driver faults can be recovered from gracefully, just like in Erlang's supervisor scheme

6. seL4's capability system allows for a safer system overall, with less hacks

Seeing how even Intel is introducing a message passing network with growing number of cores in their mainstream CPU designs, we should be over the general objections regarding a message passing design. They call it QMD, and it's something they already have in their Xeon Phi line for some time for obvious reasons, just as countless other general purpose or special purpose chip designs have had for a long time.

I wonder if one could get funding for an effort like Robigalia to reach production quality and have Servo running on it. Given the feature set of Servo, it's a safe bet that the required features would provide a reasonably complete system to replace your Linux machine.

The bigger struggle would be getting hardware vendors to contribute to FreeBSD and Linux drivers to also provide some level of support for a non-C code base. Though, moving up to that abstraction and language level should make it easier to write working hardware drivers.
In my recollection a micro-USB has never failed. If it has failed it wasn't an issue because I've a heap of them lying around and could just grab another one.

I have had a number of lightning connectors fail on me. They're designed to fail. Pressure-held copper edge-connectors for devices went out with the Commodore 64's user port.

The fact that it is reversible is convenient but hardly worthy of consideration as a feature alongside "ubiquity" "cost" and "durability".

The old iPhone connector had it's limitations but it was established and really quite solid in my experience. Micro USB perhaps has limited features technically, and is ugly, but I don't believe the advantages that Apple presents for lightning outweigh the drawbacks.

As an interface it has a couple of niche use-cases that it fulfils but it is a step backwards in terms of connector design and in fact has a "worse" connector than the two other interfaces it purports to improve upon.

Props to Apple for padding out their profit margin and all that but they can absolutely go and shite if they think I'm going to swallow their "better connector" bullshit.

And they expect me to use it instead of a headphones jack now as well!
Wow, so many shared ideas!

I know that so many people have worked on stuff like this before. I will be the 203409283th to try and get it out there. :D
you can slide them out of view/hide them from the menu bar.
I would add the Point that XML is _the_ readable format. Just only because the seperations and nearly there is no trick-shit-thing(e.g. as in Rust, Go, C, JS, ...(that's nothing what i want to blame some language for, but seriously, nearly any language has some Tricks with it's Syntax))
Cursive? Meh. Go italic:

https://www.amazon.com/Italic-Way-Beautiful-Handwriting-Call...

(Recently back in print!!)
When I was in second grade (1992) the teacher told us if we didn't learn cursive, we'd never be able to keep up taking notes in college classes. I told her by the time we were in college we'd have computers we could take to class with us.

She scoffed at me.

I definitely got a laptop as a high school graduation gift.

In your face, second-grade-teacher-whose-name-i-dont-remember
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Except for the IP sections of the TPP, which are quite controversial, the TPP is a great piece of work. It improves labor standards, provides mechanisms for contract disputes, eliminates a ton of tariffs, and aggressively promotes protection of the Earth.

The IP sections are controversial but also expected. The fact is countries like the US make most of their money on IP. Its workers spend most of their time generating new ideas, designs, media, inventions, new products and services, etc.

Although we often complain that manufacturing and assembly has moved elsewhere, the fact is that the most profitable parts have stayed here. I hate the DMCA and I hate how patents and copyrights impinge on small company innovation. but, at the same time, without IP protections, we'd basically be giving away our hard work for free. How would we get paid?
This is exactly true for me. I've always wanted to start a business and would have done so at several points in my career. But I have a family that I need to keep covered under some sort of health insurance, so I keep working for other people.
> The major botnet of 2016 is simpler than the botnet of 1988.

That, right there, is a damning indictment not only of our industry but also of our culture. We know how to secure systems. It's not magic. But — unlike for example physical hygiene — we haven't made the decision to make computer hygiene part of our culture. We look down on people who don't wash their hands, but we don't look down on people who use poor passwords. We teach children to cover their mouths when they cough, but we don't teach children not to plug a Windows machine into a network.
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Democracy and freedom do have a tendency to be at odds with each other on occasion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
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Gitlab's handbook also has some good remote working tips: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
Plug that site into GTmetrix.
> iOS has a number of far more meaningful integration points with OS X, including iCloud and Messages.

both of which are atrocious.
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This was a tough read for me. Thinking about mortality for me is unproductive as it actually reduces my ability to do things that matter.

By ignoring the fact that there are only 8 magical experiences of Christmas, I can actually enjoy them more. Otherwise I become overwhelmed with anxiety about not using my time wisely enough.
I think the problem here is the traits associated with one or the other, not the two categories themselves. Perhaps if you read different definitions of the two, you'd think differently as well. The traits addressed in the article specifically seem particularly fluff.

I believe that while any person can easily use introverted or extroverted capacities, all people have a baseline or more natural/habitual behavior.
I managed to reply to the wrong comment, the fact that you now need to have more dongles than before. I agree that it is annoying to have to buy new dongles, but if you need this many dongles I would be looking at a USB-C hub instead.
I'd be surprized if most (popular) sci fi from China would be like that. Likewise, not all American sci fi is like Heinlein or Ayn Rand.
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