skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man I love this subject. For me music is to code what condiments are to food. It gives aroma.
It also helps me get/stay in the zone and boost productivity.
Only listen to electronic music, but depending on the mood very different:

- Stressed? => ambient, glitch (like Tim Hecker) calms me down

- Unmotivated/Mind Wandering? => some old school goa trance picks me up (like Shakta)

- On a normal day => maybe psybient (CBL, Solar Fields...) or some modern progressive (Frisky radio has some good stuff)

New stuff doesn't bother me, but words/verses do, hence there are almost none in what I listen.
I love youarelistening.to's concept: http://youarelistening.to/newyork. Keeps me comfort during late night coding sessions.
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> Asked if he was genuinely intimidated by NHTSA's letter, he said, "I've got two words for you: stealth mode."

I've got two words for you: knob end
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Distractions mean that I need to work longer. I could get the amount of work that I do per day done in six hours. Instead, because of the distractions (including @here gif messages), I work ten hours, and have little time for my friends.
It's easier to get the soundcard to work on my netbook with Linux + DosBox than using FreeDOS.
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Lenovo ideapad (cheap ones, superfish, avoid) and Lenovo Thinkpad (no superfish, mostly good) should be thought separate manufacturers. They're not comparable.

For quality and reliability. This is astonishingly subjective and quite probably wrong :p

1. Thinkpad. Not as good as they were, but appear to be trying to improve again. Usually a fairly safe bet for BSD & Linux drivers. Support (UK) have been excellent.

2. Dell
2. HP
(Like with Lenovo separate the cheap consumer crap, and the well made professional ranges)

3. The rest

4. Apple. Well made, hopeless for upgrade, now very overpriced. New keyboard seems to be disliked on reviews so far.

99. Acer - Pet hate brand that always seems to have far more than fair share of issues, and support (UK) terrible.

No experience of clevo or system76. Not sure MS have been around long enough with Surface to judge well yet. Personally I would be wary of Razer, though I've not owned a laptop of theirs, which might be superb. None of their mice and keyboards seem to last 5 minutes. Santa will bring the kids no more Razer Nagas.
Anyone of those making touchpads that come close to Apple?
You mean this?

http://www.cultofmac.com/255618/how-apples-blacklist-manipul...
I have seen some users file system calls stall due to the EFS quotas.

This was on a workload much tougher than WordPress.

I haven't run my own NFS for comparison.

I recommend reading the NFS v4 spec. AWS has all the pieces to implement the protocol as well as anyone can.
iTunes link https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/music-for-programming/id...
> I'm interested in margins and revenues, but not units shipped.

In that case Panasonic's Toughbooks would be the clear winner in the general-market space. Their low-end 'business rugged' laptops start at £1800 for an i5 spec... though with a three-year warranty.

Once you move into specialist fields such as mediical and defence there are vendors whose laptops have margins that would make Apple cry, but who 'earn' those through jumping through many many regulatory hoops. Dell played-around in that space in the late 2000s, their mil-cert laptops started around $5000 with standard Latitude innards.
Not sure. I only let it expire once, but I just assumed it wouldn't work and uninstalled and went back to SublimeText (and obviously I came running back!)
Surely there's room in Unicode for Marain characters?
When I have to work unpaid overtime on the weekends, I get to work at home. I'm so much more productive then.
I've been waiting on this for awhile, currently I run most sites through jekyll and for clients that need CMS options I hook them up with http://cloudcannon.com/

I've gone the WP a number of times and it's been more headaches then it's worth. Everything seems like a hack on a hack. There are things like sage/roots that make it a "little" better.
I heart radio has local radio stations so I can listen to my favorite station over the air or thru streaming, via my PC, mobile device or Apple TV.
Been running a cheap Ideapad for 4 years - waiting for it to die so I can upgrade but it refuses to do so.
They are hiring [0], so they have money from somewhere?

[0] http://www.minocacorp.com/careers/
Huh. I am using The Economist as an example of something with viewpoint that mostly manages to be unbiased, so I don't understand why you're telling me so vigorously that it has a viewpoint but mostly manages to be unbiased. I too have read it for decades and am familiar with its origin. What were you hoping I'd learn from this comment?
I've run a sporadically popular (100s of thousands of uniques on some days) blog on Wordpress for years. All running on a single spot instance (if it was killed I have a script to roll over in minutes).

The database, Wordpress, the file storage. Entirely self contained.

I occasionally persist the AMI so I can spin up a new updated system base, and have regular backups of the files and database. My monthly cost is ~$9 on AWS. I've had literally minutes of downtime over the past several years.

Obviously this guide is geared to a more serious installation, but there is the danger that the more reliable a system becomes, often the less reliable it becomes. EFS and NLB configuration changes or problems taking the system offline, for instance.
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Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikileaks
Right, corruption is not a problem as long as it stays secret? And they keep telling us "if you got nothing to hide..." WTF?! Who cares where the truth comes from. Shooting the messenger is old as the hills if its something you don't like. I hope every one hacks everyone else and get all their shit public. The the people of all nations see the crap their leaders and the elite have gotten away with..
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My laptop, my girlfriend's laptop and my previous laptop all came with FreeDOS installed. It's very common.
Very little if anything about booting DOS from usb has changed. U/EFI is about it and that usually rules out DOS.
Ask HN: Why do people leave their engines running while stopped?
There's a van outside my house right now, that's been parked there for some five minutes with its engine running. I can see the driver from my window, he's having a sandwich and filling in something on a clipboard. It's 13:00 in the UK, so he's taking his lunch break, I presume.

This sort of thing happens all the time. Taxis do it, vans do it, private vehicles do it. It's like, once or twice a week just outside my house so it must be a very, very common thing. And not on lunch breaks only- it happens any time of day.

What the hell is up with that? I mean, OK, climate change is of no concern (we can all breathe underwater, after all) but isn't there, you know, a cost associated with keeping your engine running?

Why do people do this?

(Note: I don't drive; I might be missing something.)
Just installed this on our company website. fastbill.com is now paying its tribute.

Lots of Pratchett Fans in our company, if we would have known about this earlier, we would have done it earlier.
Pencil/paper although I upgraded" to whiteboard/dry erase recently would like to have a digital drawing tablet though cough* surface studio haha! Something like a wacom would be nice.

There's that Latin or French thing... For sample paragraphs forget what it's called. Starts with a couple phrases, ellipsis, but it expands to a whole paragraph or more.
YANG has a distinctly different purpose. XSD, RelaxNG, and some other alternatives were considered during the development of what eventually became YANG back in 2007. We spent quite a bit of time with XML grey beards on this topic in the IETF, and eventually realized that YANG had too many domain specific requirements that it wasn't worth trying to bend existing languages for it.

In my mind, there were two major things that influenced the final decision. First; we wanted it to be easily readable by humans first and foremost, as schemas are written once but read many times. Second; it needed to be able to separate between configuration and state data, and describe Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and notifications.
I thought Rufus was a Windows program you had run on Windows? I would really prefer an image file.
You should try something like "Baby Mozart"[1] which has with fewer dynamics. Then again you might fall asleep. :)

[1] e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEEizbmU-hU
That's all I needed to hear to know that 2016 (and probably 2017) is still not "the year of the Linux desktop" (coming from a Linux desktop guy until 2004: switched to the Mac because I value my time, I keep monitoring any new developments in my old camp but if I had held my breath I'd be dead.)
> I can't see anything obvious that would make a certain kernel immune to high load induced issues, but then I'm largely ignorant about L4 et al.

The typical system call in a modern microkernel costs on the order of hundreds of cycles. Fine-grained locking would by itself probably double this cost for almost no gain. Just waiting the hundreds of cycles is likely to be just as good as a fine-grained lock in such kernels, and the complexity savings are significant.
I took the above content to mean that a Democratic president would already have ties to the Whitehouse, and maybe be familiar w/the tool already, hence more comfortable with it and willing to keep using. It didn't read to me like an ideological motivation. Rather it's like when companies get a new CEO they come in and change everything and move the company headquarters to be closer to their house. Or when many programmers first start working with a new codebase. "What the hell? That last guy had no idea what he was doing!"
My remote clients were pleased when I told them I was considering being available an hour earlier every day.

Just one of the bonuses of moving to a cheaper, warmer timezone.
We are doing something very similar to enable new use cases on a large database that has many hard to change applications already talking to it. That is its a legacy migration approach. It gets a 'generic' form of the data into an eventing system all at once that would have taken an unreasonable amount of dev resources to get any other way. New producers can talk to the events system in a more straightforward way and consumers can get all the data they need, legacy and modern, from the same place.

That said, I'll warn you, we didn't find Bottled Water to be anywhere near robust enough for our use cases. It seems to make assumptions about the size of your database, the size of your transactions, and the downside risks of logical replication backing up that certainly didn't meet our requirements.
Dell and HP have separate business and consumer laptop lines and they're not comparable in terms of quality. A Dell Latitude (historically good) is nothing like an Inspiron or XPS (inferior).

Also one mustn't discount post sale service in evaluating options. The value of a particular laptop is more than the box itself. What happens if you have problems? How easy is it to get it fixed? How long will you be without it for in the meantime?
That's my understanding of the popular usage, however I have noticed people also using it to refer to people who take advantage of known security issues using "simplistic" programming languages and techniques.

IE, a script kiddie is more likely to use python or php to SQL inject than to execute a timing attack against a crypto library.
Something interesting on the radio, maybe? Or perhaps it's cold outside and he likes having the heater on?
But the FreeDOS project does not publish anything which can take the place of the Odin floppy image.
Usually the fuel usage is very low per hour if parked. The advantage of having the engine running are heating or airconditioning and sometimes the fancy media system that might go into low power / radio only mode when the engine is off.
Not that I'd hold the UK up as a good example of democracy, but here there is a unique ID on each ballot paper that is noted down on a list next to your name when you vote. The ID/name list is kept securely, but can be used to find a voter's ballot paper later in the case of a dispute over the result or fraud.
Not very much, the 15-inch has a 76 Watt-hour battery [1] and putting 152 of those into Wolfram Alpha gives less energy than a gallon of gasoline [2].

[1] http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=76+watt+hours+in+tons+o...
Yes, the Republican Party has been the "money in politics" whipping boy since Reagan

How about since at least the mentioned Williams Jennings "Cross of Gold" Bryan (and if you haven't sampled his speech, I highly recommend it, probably the best political oratory in US history, even if wrong headed)? Or the Crédit Mobilier scandal a quarter century before then? And "money in politics" was one of the biggest issues with Watergate, leading to our current largely counterproductive campaign finance "reforms".

But it's "the mother's milk of politics" (credited to Democrat Jesse M. Unruh in 1966 per Wikipedia), and has been critically important for so many generations ... yeah, no one should be this naive.
> "if I get used to a tool I need to be guaranteed it will be around forever," (open source solves this)

It solves it partially, but it creates a new problem: if the supporting OSS team that does most of the maintenance of the IDE goes away, you've traded one problem for another. If you want to keep using it forever, you'll need to keep maintaining it forever.
Because, not to put too fine a point on it, but I suspect you are suggesting this standard not for people from your background, but for "those people". And America has a long, ugly history of applying voter qualification standards unequally.
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The difference is an awesome GPU (the GTX 1060) and at an affordable price. For people who wanted that I think it's a great option. Even the design looks like a MacBook Pro.

If you don't want that much graphic power the Stealth version is the way to go. Way cheaper and with 9 to 10 hours of battery.

I start to really like Razor here and I may buy one rather than the new MacBook. The ice on the cake with these 2 laptops is the external GPU they do, the Razor Core, giving you all the power of a desktop PC at home while using the same computer. No need to buy a laptop And a desktop for home. No need to do transfer and sync all the time. Just your laptop and the Core.
You don't need an elaborate guide or aws. Plenty of people use it happily on shared hosting or specialized hosting for wp. Or just click to run droplet with everything installed on DO. Plenty of easy ways.
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I'm assuming it is for heat or air-conditioning.

Makes me crazy when I see this too.
What seems to work best for me is ambient electronic stuff (Hol Baumann, Solar Fields etc.) with Rainy Mood (rain sounds) playing over it. Something about the mix of the music and the constant background noise kicks my brain into concentration mode.

And then I lose track of time and suddenly it's dark and I've missed a couple of meetings.
What a wonderful idea. I have just updated out frontend server config to include the header.

On thing though: According to RFC6648, we should not be using the X- prefix any more for custom headers (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648), but I guess it's too late to change this now.
I just rock this, https://open.spotify.com/user/123106991/playlist/2qurSPeHRlo...
Yep - happened to me too. Was working in a team where everyone was working remotely. Then a few things went wrong and one of the directors blamed the "remoteness", set up an office, and gradually forced all the remote employees to either come to the office or get out.
Or so say highly paid logo design companies anyway...
I have been using Balsamiq for a long time, you can make something presentable very fast and with very little effort : https://balsamiq.com

I have also used Moqups, which offers also a simple solution but in the browser:
https://moqups.com/

For UI data:

- Avatars : http://pravatar.cc/

- Placeholder images : https://placehold.it/

- Random names and user data : https://randomuser.me/

- Arabic names (right-to-left): https://raed.tn/php/tounsi/random/
> I wonder how many people have tried it out?

I don't know about you, but I don't need to "try out" what 16GB feels like in person.

> The 16GB RAM limit is fine for all my needs. My work laptop has 16GB and it can accommodate all my needs just fine

Will 16GB still be fine for your needs in 2-3 years time (or whatever the tail-end of your upgrade cycle is)? The only reason I can still use a computer from 2010(!) is because I was able to upgrade the RAM; the factory-installed 4GB was more than enough for me then.
I help run a distributed company with folks in NY, CA, VA, and NC. Content like this from Zapier or other successful remote-first companies provides an excellent source of ideas to apply to my own team and also helps to slowly remove the stigma against remote work. Appreciate you guys publishing these types of articles!
Ask HN: Best fan-less Ultrabook you recommend?
Size is 13-14" and very light, very powerful, long battery life, great display.

I have an obsession for super thin laptops with performance/specs.

Old though would be nice, somewhat affordable.

For example the first gen Lenovo Carbon X1's are appealing but they have a fan.

The problem with fans is sitting them on your lap/non-flat surface.
I live in Austin and I'd be shocked if all the new ride share companies (Fare, Fasten, GetMe, RideShare Austin, etc) did 100mm a year in revenue combined. I think RideShare Austin has the best chance of sticking around here. They're set up to be a non-profit. So their intent is to follow local regulations carefully and stick around for the long haul. We'll see what happens.
This is true, but there was also a significant amount of ADR/Overdubbing work with american actors, especially for the minor roles.

One of the most notable exceptions, of course, being Red Leader, a British actor doing a fantastic rendition of a midwestern american cowboy
I can only speak from the angle of memory/attention research, but a couple lines of study struck me.

1. Irrelevant speech / sounds tends to reduce memory capacity for the task at hand[a].

2. People with ADHD self-stimulate by, e.g, squirming. Music can help them with attentional tasks by providing stimulation [b].

Overall, I'm not that familiar with studies specifically on music, but I'd guess that it's a trade-off between arousal (e.g. rock music or something to pump you up) and dividing attention. Music could also set a context (e.g. put you in programming "mode"), which tends to have a small positive effect on performance on a number of cognitive tasks.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant_speech_effect

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_arousal_theory
Not sure if you've looked at Zapier recently, but they've added all sorts of functionality: multi-step zaps, filtering + logic

You can even write your own code to extend things in Python and JS.
Brain.fm has worked wonders for me, and in a double way:

1) Their sounds waves purport to actually flip some switches in your brain that help you focus.

2) It's an awesome trigger to get into "productive mode" if you start the habit.

The focus loop is great and you can try different ambiences and music (EDM and "cinematic").
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How can thinkpads reasonably be trusted after superfish though? Some security agencies don't even allow Lenovo hardware onsite, sort of implies something...
>I don't see anything objectionable in Podesta's emails

So his emails are fit to print on the cover of NYT?
I think everything boils down to finding an actual demand for your skill set. As long as some organization or an investor has a real problem to solve and you could convince them that you really have the ability and necessary training and experience, then it doesn't really matter how do you work and from where. You could always frame a contract not for hourly basis but on completion of the prototype, milestones, whatever you like.

Basically, you should imagine yourself as a specialized company doing sub-contracting in ML.

Finding a real demand and securing a contract is much harder than doing actual coding and modeling. There are literally thousands of guys who are smart enough to apply ML, especially now, when it became mainstream.

PhD is, of course, a huge advantage in the world of pointy haired bosses, HR and paper pushers. With it you, probably, are looking for a very high hourly rate instead of subcontracts. In this you probably would fail, because people who are willing to pay high hourly wages needed certain rituals to be performed publicly in return.
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Super Seed

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Tensor

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Really most CBL is good.. :) but the best albums are

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World Of Sleepers

Interloper

Hydroponic Garden

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Theres also artist like

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Asura

Solar Fields

Koan

Aes Dana

Sync24 (side project from one of the CBL guys)

Ooze

Ott

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Other good artists but a bit different ambient genre would be

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Abakus (This dude is super productive and his shit is awesome !)

Kiasmos

Krusseldorf

Bluetech

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If you like your downtempo more pop then try

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Bonobo

Emanicpator

Catching Flies

Galimatias

Shlohmo

Tycho

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That was a short list on the top of my head :)
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That's why I said it depends on the needs. Read. Stop blindly defending garbage. You can use version control with a static site generator. Otherwise there are hundreds of crud interfaces to edit content with a group that a far superior to WordPress.

JavaScript rendering is if your use case requires dynamically generated content. Again, read. It's based on your needs. Whereas you are defending WordPress because your(not your client's) bank account depends on it. Which I consider very unethical.
Why not roll your own NFS, then?

And if your cache is all on disk, a very quick win would involve moving that to memcache, no? That also makes forced expiration very easy.

Of course there are managed services for all of these things anyway.
What troubles me the most is that these emails were hacked by a foreign government are slowly being trickled out and are having a massive impact in our election.

That's not in the least clear, the foreign government part. Their InfoSec was so poor we're pretty sure many foreign governments and private actors gained access to significant parts of this data, although I suppose we only know of one to Podesta's GMail account. But the spear plishing that's though to have captured his credentials certainly didn't take a nation state to pull off. Plus wasn't his password trivial?
I have an ACER that I bought on my first year of engineering school, it refuses to die as well.

Finally gave up and now use it as a home computer (still running fine after some cleaning and hard-drive change)
> As for their peripherals, please guys, there's Roccat just down the road

Ahhhh, Roccat, the makers of the least reliable keyboard I have ever owned in 30+ years. Email support is terrible. Amazon refunded after the 4th broke.

The Kone mouse I bought at the same time has been lovely and is still going.
Plus one to di.fm. They've been around forever and have great channels.