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https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/59378...

This is really missing a MIDI export! I'm actually kinda digging this little groove I came up with. I will probably take the time to draw this back into Ableton and see where that leads.

jrickerton Quiet for Android – TCP over sound

I had a similar personal experience. For years growing up I slept to a white noise machine that played a 3-second recording of a mountain stream. I became intimately familiar with the clip and could anticipate every trickle, the changing pitches of different water droplets, and the length of the loop. I can still conjure it from memory in great detail.

Intriguingly, on a single night I experienced some sort of hypnogogic auditory hallucination that caused the sound to lose all familiarity. Instead, I perceived the sound of a male singer arpeggiating rapidly. I found it highly disturbing.

jrickerton Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression

Search for #depression on Instagram and see what happens.

jrickerton Ask HN: Freelance Management Services/Apps

I have a settled on Toggl for time tracking and Zoho Books for invoicing. Toggl supports csv export and Zoho Books has an import feature that makes getting data from one to the next fairly simple, with the help of a simple script I wrote to transform the data (https://github.com/joshrickert/toggl-zoho-books-timesheet-co...).

I did a pretty exhaustive search when I set out to solve this problem a couple years ago, and ended up with a considerable amount of research that I summarized on my blog (https://joshrickert.com/blog/invoicing-apps-for-freelancers/).

jrickerton Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

And we have AI that can play Super Mario now.

jrickerton Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

I hand them out frequently. Sometimes to people I already know who want my contact information. It's easier to hand someone a card versus disrupting an interesting conversation to exchange details.

jrickerton Apple Said to Work on Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role

Good news for Apple and overall progress, but sad news for those of us in the Hackintosh community. Apple's support for Intel CPUs is really what enabled the whole movement to get traction. I really prefer to see Apple moving toward standardized vs proprietary hardware options.

jrickerton Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple

I knew Roger through a meetup group and a mutual friend. I'm sad that our community has lost such a bright and talented person. He was a big inspiration and will continue to be. I'm glad to hear that people are mobilizing to keep Shard going.

jrickerton One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light

I discovered I had this many years ago. A gif someone had posted was making a periodic noise as it looped that stopped if it was scrolled off the screen. It inspired a fun video art project for me: https://joshrickert.com/blog/threshold/

It's interesting that they point out that trained musicians exhibit the effect more often. I wonder if psychedelic drug use would correlate to it as well, since those drugs are known to cause an acute version of this effect. And would the correlation to musicians hold up if we control for drug use?

jrickerton $682 Hackintosh Mac Mini vs. $1,300 Apple Mac Mini

I have been running hacktinoshes as my daily drivers since 2011. Certainly there are trade offs, but I am surprised I don't see more love for them here on HN given Apple's recent lackluster hardware offerings.

jrickerton Elbowing JavaScript out

Indeed, Hacker News' one piece of JavaScript is for the upvote mechanic.

jrickerton Ansible Vagrant Examples

Vagrant is a tool that simplifies the management of virtual machines for development. You create a configuration file for a project, and then with one command pull down an image, provision it, and open it up to network connections. It provides a cross-platform layer of abstraction above VirtualBox (or VMware).

Vagrant gives you your choice of provisioning tools, so you can run shell scripts, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or even Docker containers to get your virtual machine set up to match your production environment (or however else you need it).

Vagrant and Ansible make a great pair for the same reasons Ansible is great for provisioning other environments. It speeds up the provisioning process, leaves no extra dependencies installed on your virtual machine, and runs idempotently making it easy to work out the kinks in your server configurations.