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Synth whizzes Bob Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil co-produced the album with Stevie and would continue to work with him through Fulfillingness’ First Finale

The involvement of Margouleff and Cecil needs to be further highlighted. They were not only talented musicians, they were also engineers, producers, and pioneers in early synthesizer experimentation. They patched together a massive electronic synthesizer dubbed TONTO that consisted of various components including a Moog, which Stevie Wonder heard on their avant-garde 1971 synth album Zero Time. He literally showed up at their studio with the album under his arm and asked how TONTO worked. The story is told here (1):

So he takes my elbow and I escort him to the studio. We went down to the studio and I showed him the instrument. I put his hands over it and he realized that it wasn’t something that he could easily play. He tried to play it, but he couldn’t get it to sound like a normal keyboard, because in those days you could only get one note at a time. He asked me, “What is wrong with this keyboard?” I told him, “That’s how it works. It only plays one note at a time.” And then he got it. He asked me if we could record. I went upstairs and got my test tape and we put it on the two-inch machine. At this time, the Moog had been moved to Studio B in the basement. We ended up recording the entire weekend. I had to break into the tape store, and I had no authority to do it, but I did it anyway. I told Stevie, “Someone is going to have to pay for this tape at least.” He said, “Oh, don’t worry. I just got money put into my trust fund from Motown because I just turned twenty-one. I don’t have any contracts.” He explained the whole thing. He told Bob and me that he wanted us to be musical directors for his company and to help him get his music out there. He liked working with us, and we liked working with him. We got seventeen songs done that first weekend. And that’s how it all started.

In films from that era, you can see Wonder performing with TONTO in the background, with Cecil or Margouleff patching together components on the fly.

I saw an interview with one of them (see Soundbreaking, below) who says that they recorded something like 250 songs with Wonder, and they picked the best ones to go on the albums. I would love to hear some of the stuff that didn't make it onto vinyl!

PBS recently released an eight-part series on music production called Soundbreaking that includes clips and interviews with Cecil and Margouleff. It was co-produced by the late George Martin, and includes so many stories about the production of pop music from the 1950s to the present, including early multitrack recording with Les Paul, The Beach Boys and The Beatles, the synth era, disco, sampling, rap, the impact of music videos, EDM, laptop-based production, and more. It's amazing. Some short clips are here (2) but I urge readers to seek out the full program!

1. http://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/malcolm-cec...

2. http://www.pbs.org/show/soundbreaking/
The worst place for security bugs in drivers is mobile, for the normal mobile reason (try getting security updates for any OS component!), and there's no crapware there.
What do we need our passion for? To motivate ourselves? IMO, we have a problem when we expect to feel motivated to do stuff.

I think we need to learn to do stuff even if we "don't feel it" yet, that state comes later as a reward for doing.

Long ago I read an article that made me think about this: http://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need-...
People here are really missing the point with these things asking, "why should I care?"

It should be clear to the HN crowd. One day, ambient voice technology is going to be everywhere. In your car. In the supermarket. Everywhere. The Amazon Echo is an early example of it. That it's connected to the largest goods distribution network has the potential to enhance modern living in an obvious way.

It's so typical with new technology to see a bunch of naysayers and ho-hum attitudes until one day it hits mainstream and everyone is like, "oh yeah, I knew it all along"
> I think it works very well.

This seems to be the crux of our disagreement. I don't think the current setup works very well, at least not for the bottom 3/4 of the US population.

Basically, it was working OK until circa 1975, after which point any gains in improved productivity started accruing to owners of capital almost exclusively. And the more capital you have, the larger your share of those gains, in a superlinear fashion. Meanwhile worker compensation (as measured in constant dollars) has stagnated and even shrunk somewhat recently.
Technical debt or coding conventions?
I am still loyal to AMD CPU's, but I haven't been loyal to AMD GPU's since they were ATI. I always found their driver stack to be more cumbersome in the past, and I had a rash of bad cards that left a bad taste in my mouth. Not sure if it's changed since, but I still have faith in their CPU's. The way I see it, the benefit of supporting innovation that drives Intel to improve outweighs the benefit of having an arguably faster computer for arguably the same amount of money.

Without Chevrolet we'd be driving Model-T's. Without AMD we'd by running 8080's. Support the little guy, even though they've historically not always made the right choices.
I wouldn't underestimate the cost of spending 8+ hours a day doing something you hate though. Depression is an effective road block to any sort of development (socially or professionally) and no matter how much money you make you can't buy years of your life back. YMMV
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Another question is: who will be getting their money?

And then: is that fair?

In the long run, shouldn't technological progress benefit us all equally?
This is close to theological discussion territory, and I can see both sides of the argument, so I'm just going to mention that there is an interesting paper[1] from a couple years ago that uses a rigorous concept design process to attempt to simplify Git, and results in a VCS that does indeed require a simpler mental model (Gitless).

Personally I'm not going to abandon Git and all the tooling and community it comes with just for a simpler mental model, given that I have a moderately good handle on the (mainline) features of git -- and therein lies the problem. (Although note, Gitless does work on top of Git, so you should be able to use it with Github by the looks of things [2]).

I've linked Adrian Colyer's summary of the paper to make it easier to digest:

[1]: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/24/whats-wrong-with-git-a-c...
[2]: http://gitless.com/#vs
Pretty good article. Some parts of this are very relevant to me at the moment.
I guess most NIMBYs would oppose low-income families in their vicinity.
Apple is being singled out. Politicians create this kind of loophole for their friends (giant industries like oil, defense, etc. - that are "invisible" to the public eye - and sometimes to benefit politicians themselves to put their dirty money in tax shelters) and then complain when a very visible business like Google or Apple uses it.
One reason is that shaders are stored as text and require each driver vendor to write parsers for them and not everyone implements them in the same way.
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Personally I prefer a 100 ml daily dose of snake oil.
"What do you mean widespread uptake?"

I mean a higher percentage of people with systems running macOS. Macs are currently hovering at somewhere around 10% of systems purchased in the US. That means there's 90% potential growth...

Folks with macOS systems are MUCH more likely to want iOS devices, which is where Apple is making most of its profits these days.

"I'm a dev, I work on terrabyte size databases, though I may have liked to have 32 gigs of ram, the truth of it is I hardly ever am using even half of my 16."

I frequently run into yellow or pink memory conditions in System Monitor on my 16 GB MBP. VMs in particular suck up a lot of memory. Since modern laptops can support 2x and even 4x the amount of memory, shouldn't the customer get to decide how much is optimum? Many engineers and scientists can use as much RAM as they can get their hands on...

It's also time to move to ECC as we move to these large memory sizes. HP and Lenovo both offer laptops with ECC RAM.

"What are the "pro" level graphics chips used for? Seems mostly games no?"

Nope. "Pro" level graphics chips (like, you know, the ones included with the Mac Pro) are used for CAD and other high-end professional graphics apps, as well as GPU compute.

Even the high end consumer GPUs should be offered, again why should Apple dictate to their customers what's optimal? Let the customer decide!

"Mark my words, all the brew-haha over the current gen will blow over in six to twelve months as type-c becomes more common and accessory makers get on board. Apple will rev in two years with more RAM, their fancier fitted battery and whatever the current gen proc is, but everything else will remain the same."

If so, don't expect to see Apple expand its marketshare significantly. It is not serving its customers as it should.
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I know a lot of adults who live with the assumption that they can never learn anything anymore because they are adults. It's not just kids that suffer from the idea that they cannot grow their abilities and knowledge. Some adults even revel in a static brain and view learning with suspicion.
Good breakdown of numbers in the transportation sector: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/h...
I didn't know that- I don't use any iOS devices. Sounds like Nintendo has implemented so really dumb DRM. (Well, all DRM is dumb, but this sounds really extra dumb.)
Hmmm...I would respectfully disagree :). While it would most certainly impact stores by reducing cash clerks etc. people would still be required for warehousing/monitoring etc. A lot of high volume retailers/grocers already have a self-checkout station, if they had wanted more automation, they would probably just increase the number of these stations.

Also, anything more than a basic grocer would still want real people to help people with purchasing etc.
I used to be quite loyal to AMD (and I'm typically not loyal to any companies), but their latest chips are meh. Their GPUs perform very good in benchmarks, but are buggy and poorly supported otherwise.
submitted title: "To fixate on finding work that makes us happy is a luxury"

blog actual title: "Screw Your Passion. Get a Job."

Both the submitted title and the blog's title do not pinpoint the author's main issue: don't make others (such as your parents) unfairly pay for your pursuit of passion.

It's not about "passion". It's about funding.

They are orthogonal. So... either:

1) pursue your passion part time while paying the bills with a "day job" -- which is what many musicians, poets, novelists, artists, etc do.

2) consciously downsize your lifestyle and stick to the budget of a starving artist (cheap apartment, used car, no Starbucks) while selling your artwork on the street or whatever. When the big commission money from the Guggenheim Museum comes in, you can start buying Starbucks.

Many variations of those 2 options can keep passion-seekers from burdening their parents.
Ah, so $0 income.

So a MVP that doesn't get a paying customer is not a success to me. Getting 1 or 2 paying customers, even $20, to me validates that people will pay for it. So far, he is 13.5k in the hole for no confirmed paying customers... so still seems an expensive experiment.
I'll gladly pay the $10 once they remove the constant internet connection requirement.
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From the optimistic locking page: This locking mechanism will function inside a single Ruby process. To make it work across all web requests, the recommended approach is to add lock_version as a hidden field to your form.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, that's absolutely terrible advice, from both a security and proper layering standpoint.
better question is whether or not Twitter _should_ be turned around. it seems like at this point it's a second rate advertising platform that encourages abuse and degeneration of public discourse.
Yes, some kind of meet in the middle solution would be nice. For example, Microsoft's official updater keeping the drivers up to date. And by up to date I mean the latest from the GPU vendor and not something a bit older but certified by MS.

Getting rid of 3rd party installers and updaters should be a priority of Microsoft's anyway.

> if there are security holes in GPU driver installations, I'd bet eliminating all the crapware would do a lot more for security than any number of updates could ever do.

The "crapware" is just some unprivileged user space processes. The driver has kernel mode components, and security issues there could cause crashes, snooping memory of other processes or even kernel space remote code execution.

Not that I'm defending bundled (or optional) crapware, but I don't think that's a security problem.
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That's a very fair point. IIRC WebP uses more cpu than JPEG, so, faster transfers but will it actually enhance my customers experience with their various Android phones?
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Ask HN: Would it be valuable to you to receive 'Like' notifications by email?
A couple of years ago, I built a relatively straightforward web app that emails you every time your Facebook posts receive a "Like" (or any of the other reactjis).

The emails come at a maximum frequency of 5 minutes, which is overkill for a lot of people, but I've been using the app for more than two years and the frequency doesn't bother me. I could also make the maximum frequency configurable, with little effort.

Personally, I really enjoy getting notification emails not only for comments (which come directly from Facebook) but also for reactions (which come from my app).

At one point, I made a half-hearted effort to sell subscriptions to the app (at about $2/mo.) but had to abandon that project when something of higher priority came up.

Now that I've got more time available, I'm trying to decide whether it's a valuable enough service to a large enough number of people that it's worth it to give it a full-fledged effort as a subscription service; or whether I should just open-source it; or whether I should abandon the project entirely, except for my own personal use.

So, a few questions:

Would you find this service valuable?

If not, can you think of a market segment to whom this might appeal?

At which price do you think the app would generate the most revenue?

Do you know of any other existing services that do something similar?
>I'd start with a base image of an enterprise Linux on certified configurations of hardware.

And right there you lose, because I all but guarantee there is Microsoft-specific code running at all levels of this organization. Everyone has to be retrained, a lot of infrastructure has to be rebuilt. All of that will chew up your 1bn quickly.

This isn't some SV startup, it's the government. Typical "move fast and break things" mindset doesn't fly here. You don't get any "tear it down and start over" moments, you get to make those hairy migrations to ensure everything stays up with smooth, staged cutovers. And that's not even mentioning the red tape...
Yes, this will be a big problem to confront, but it should be noted that the NPR story is very misleading: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-truck-driver-isnt-the-mo...
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> You'll fail using that approach. The NIMBYs don't make their decisions based on data. They make their opinions based on emotion.

Note that this is equally true of both sides. "YIMBYs" are just as guilty of this.
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This is essentially the tried-and-true shareware model from the 90s that died in the era of micro-transactions and downloadable content. Albeit you sometimes got more than 3 levels, FPS games like DOOM come to mind.
Amazon Go is not much of a change from an existing store where there are self-serve checkouts in terms of staffing. The huge staff cuts have already happened in most supermarkets.
> Let's meet in the middle and do it like Apple?

Apple's OpenGL drivers (on desktop at least) are the worst in the industry, and that is not an exaggeration. I have found so many cases in which you can make shaders read random memory ([1] for example) that I'm no longer surprised.

[1]: https://github.com/servo/webrender/commit/96ac2f13b9b73dcfa0...
In a long enough timeframe, most of our jobs will become obsolete; the question is how long? As a programmer I am not worried, as AI isn't really smart enough to interpret the crap I am asked to build.
I don't recall what the actual text says, but when I became a security manager we were always told it was 10/5 years eligible.

But I've never even attempted to get a job that required a clearance after my ETS...

But I think the question being asked is not what you answered. I think he's wondering if his clearance eligibility expired last year, where does he stand in line for getting a job that requires a clearance?
Thank you for your answer. Here is the demo version http://demo.itsquiz.ai/ where you can try to create tests
Barring major infrastructure and cultural changes, or general purpose ambulatory robots, delivery trucks will still need humans on board to handle the delivery (and pickup) part. No self-driving car is delivering to the seventh floor, and I'm certainly not operating the lift gate myself for LTL pallet deliveries.

That's a pretty fair part of the commercial fleet, though vehicles with self-mobile cargo (taxis) or dedicated handlers on each end (long haul) are quite amenable to automation.
I think dkeixim misunderstood you with the last line. It seems to run code, AND can host arbitrary files.
You've just blown my bubble.

What actions can one take to increase the chance of success?
Just turned on the PS4 to play Final Fantasy XV, and was forced to update. The wireless signal was strong enough to actually complete it this time, but I ran into this bug:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXV/comments/5jh1em/103_patch_blac...

While waiting for the update, I wanted to comment on HackerNews, so I clicked on the 1Password icon in Google Chrome, and attempted to login. It crashed, and a bug report was sent to their team. I think I've come to expect that most software is poorly written. What further compounds that fact is a lot of it is not open-source. Tons of bugs are out there, with only a handful of people to actually fix them (when they have the time of course).

Also, I try to avoid consumer grade equipment when possible. I'll be switching to the Ubiquiti products soon enough, as I've heard nothing but positive remarks. The same issues exist in other fields as well. For example, a friend of mine does painting for a living. Consumer grade equipment like rollers and hand brushes can't even come close to expensive machinery such as a spray machine. Or a mechanic using a hydraulic lift on a vehicle versus common jack stands.
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No doubt going on passion alone is foolhardy, but you'll be less productive if you hate what you do.

I know more than a few people who avoid seeking jobs they enjoy because they feel "work should be miserable and hard". I don't understand them at all.
I think it applied only to Prime and to mp3's, at least after 2008 or so. This was also the reason why Skype, eBay and others had their European HQ in Luxembourg.

OTOH books had reduced VAT in most countries.
Specifically, it takes time to wind it down in a way that does not damage both parties. As you said, Brexit could have happened 100% in a day, but then trade and movement would likely be negatively effected until new deals were worked out. Much better for everyone involved to work out those new deals first, then execute the exit.
Everyone in the world will benefit from a substantial consumer surplus from not having to pay the wages of every driver involved in the supply chain of products bought and sold.

Of course, the subset of people who got fired will not have a great time, but the rest of us will benefit hugely, and hopefully our taxes will help cushion their blow with re training assistance and other benefits.
This ^! Very much so, this!

' I become a transparent eye-ball; ' -Thoreau ftw.

Thank God for beautiful sunsets.
> For example, a JPEG image at https://example.com/picture.jpg that has been converted to WebP will still have that same URL. The “Content-Type” HTTP header tells the browser the true format of an image.

So if a visitor tries to download one of those images, are they going to end up saving the image with an incorrect file extension, or is it up to browsers to fix the file extension based off of the Content-Type header?
My answer is... no? Why would that be the case? Those people don't necesarrily have any right to that money. They /arguably/ have a right to a job/food/housing, but that is a whole other discussion.

Stopping technological progress because its unfair feels absurd.
That operates under the assumptions that you are:

1) Making others pay for your pursuit of passion.

2) That having others paying for your pursuit of passion is unfair to them.

Neither of which are safe, or even good, assumptions to make.

Conversely, I am willing to assume that Santiago's father probably gladly paid for some things that allowed his son to pursue his passions, and - as stated in the piece - allowed him to do work that intersects his passions. Immigrating was probably one of those things.
I've had this stuff in my cars, phones and now laptop (siri and cortana) for years and I've never found it to be a smooth execution to the point that I just don't use it. My BMW has a horrible manual system for entering addresses into its navi (spin wheel to letters), you'd think the voice system would be an easy resolution but it's even clunkier.

I bought 2 dots last night, one to plug into my Sonos and one to use as an alarm clock. Let's see if I use them at all beyond that.

edit: I canceled the dots and bought a Google Home and a dot to compare. Mostly because I use Google Music.
Do you have any idea how big California is.
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I believe AMD's market share in consumer PC's is about to double or more with Zen, if their demo is to be believed. Their supposed < $500 CPU is on par in performance with Intel's $1100 CPU with a TDP of 95W instead of Intel's 140W.
We have a decent wifi router and it's been running for over a year now with no issues.

Our internet has gone down (Uverse fiber), but that's outside of our home and there's little we can do about it.

My phone - a Nexus 5X - is probably the flakiest bit of tech that I have. I reboot it every 10 days or so. The next worst is the AT&T DVRs. They are terribly designed, painful to use, and have bugs.

Most of the tech in my house (Canon printer, QNAP raid box, Hikvision cameras, PS4, Roku, Wii-U, Onkyo receiver, Samsung and Toshiba televisions, iPads, iPhones, Samsung Tablet, Thinkpad, MacBook, gaming PC, Kindles, etc...) have basically no recurring problems. We've had brown outs where the power goes down but not off that made me have to go reboot everything, but other than that, no real problems. Our VitaMix blender does blow one breaker, but that's not really a tech issue.
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I understand, my point was that manual shift cars are used in every discipline where such things matter like rally driving afaik
"Truck driver" is the most common profession in most US states
I feel this short (but worthwhile) video explains the problem best.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU