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Your design is very nice, and has much to recommend it. But in my opinion, it kills the advantage Live has over many of its competitors. It takes up too much space, and is too busy.

Live's UI is busy, but not as busy as many other DAWs. It is just enough to get the job done without using up screen real-estate needlessly. This is one of its many strengths.

Electronic music production needs efficient workflow. A utilitarian, but efficient UI wins over a better-looking but less efficient UI. This is why Live hides so much functionality in small buttons which toggle additional sections of the UI. Yes, it may not be obvious to someone coming into Live cold. But it makes working with the enormous complexity of a professional DAW a breeze once you learn where all the bits and pieces are, and lets you git the bits you don't presently care about out of the way so you can focus on the current task.
And of course, Plaid is read-only, while Teller is a read/write API
exactly what I was trying to point out. It came out wrong I guess.

A statement like "if not a, then not b" is not applicable unless a "implies" b and a "is because of" b.

Correct me if I got it all wrong somehow.
It's not nonsense. You are forgetting a very important detail: "explaining".

He was not talking about writing a research paper on the simplest possible terms. Rather, about "explaining" a subject. When we are explaining, we always have to deliberately omit details to get the basic idea across, so that the other person can form the initial mental image. Sometimes we also have to resort to metaphors and comparisons from entirely different fields, or relate them to real world concepts.

Once that is done, then the lengthily process can begin on improving the fit of that mental image to the subject. This will require more explanations, more focused, in a different level of detail.

Case in point: dimensions higher than three. Most people cannot conceive what the heck a tesseract is, or why it is usually drawn the way it is. But then you can tell them to watch Feymann's Flatland scenario, and they will be able to understand the basic concept.

Are they mathematicians now? Hardly. But now they have some understanding on the subject which they did not have before, even if it is on a very high level. And can try to absorb more details, if so inclined.
>A law passed in 2015 in France [0] that makes it mandatory, starting 1/1/2018, for any business (including "auto entrepreneur", what you have to register as to be a freelancer or such in France) to used "certified" software for accounting.

Macron has been elected in 2017. Given this article is about how he is sparking a tech boom in the country, I hardly see how that's his fault, or even related.
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That's because those things are inherently tied. It's not about taking your time and making the layman an expert to understand some hard topic. It's about being able to relate it to them in simple terms.

Obviously, if you use the "hairy" physics etc terms, then the layman wont understand your explanation, because he is not familiar with them.
Hmmmm, you're right and I have been completely overlooking that aspect, can't argue with that.

I have nowt against people owning a gun in America, more case of making sure they and others are safe when they use it and with that, protecting their lives. Which I'm sure is part of the constitution and if not, then it sure does add something needed perhaps. After all it can have amendments, just need to see the prohibition of alcohol to see how that can work.

So thank you for destroying my analogy, I learned something there and that I appreciate. After all a good point has no flaws.
C++ also does do any type checking at runtime. Compile time checking is all that really matters.
> HN clearly fits the former, though; sarcasm is just about yet another norm here!

Agreed, this is why I didn't want to take a hard position on downvoting someone for missing the sarcasm. We're in a public forum which crosses cultural boundaries. I see the argument for both sides.

Although I lean more towards downvoting as the majority of people on HN will get the joke and it's an opportunity to learn for those unfamiliar with the mainstream culture.
FUD?

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It seems like the lawsuit should be thrown out for two reasons:

* They already settled the lawsuit. At the very least, Doe should forfeit the money she already received before beginning this lawsuit regarding substantially the same matter. Otherwise, what's the point of settling if you can't forget about it?

* The onus for keeping medical records private is usually on the medical provider, not on the people interested in obtaining them.
Not if it's running on a non-standard port though
The license could have been suspended after the driver had passed Uber's background check.

I don't believe you expect uber to run background checks every week/month on tens of thousands of drivers.
Neither if he was speaking about Quantum Mechanic. Feynman probably paraphrasing Bohr:
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
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To be more clear, the lecture series you are talking about is called "The Character of Physical Law" and is not the same content that one would get from reading "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", which is a rigorous course in most of undergraduate physics. But I highly recommend the "Character" series. Just wanted to avoid having people think they're the same thing.
Domesticated by whom, exactly?
(assuming your theory is correct, the physical traits are advantageous because these make us cuter, but then again, cuter for whom? while other traits like playfulness come from not needing to fight/work for food because... someone else is providing it for us).
>But then what does it mean to be understood?

The same thing that it means to hear a bad quality 8bit, 20kbps copy of a song. It's still better than NOT hearing it, and it gives you an idea about what it entails, even if you don't hear all the information in it.

Even in everyday language we make the distinction about understanding something fully and having a rough understanding of it.
What would you do about PHI leakers, computer operators at hospitals/clinics, who leak celebrity information. Sometimes it's not for profit and one can't just block access as access is necessary to process the patient, for example. These are often low paying jobs to boot.
French governments like to create all these grants and loopholes, but it doesn't mask the complexity and the hostility of french bureaucracy toward entrepreneurs. Don't be fooled by these PR stunts. If Macron really wants to change things he needs to start telling the tax office to stop treating every business owner as a de-facto fraudster and criminal.
This has happened to me several times (not always in interviews). Especially when someone asks about machine learning and I start the explanation with regression, they get pissed. Nothing shows that you are trying to jump on a bandwagon than expecting needless complexity in explanations.
> > People often also want information they do currently have to be expensive to other people to acquire.

> I don't think that's necessarily true.

You seem to have mistaken “often” for “always”.
>> listening to them side by side makes the difference obvious

>No, it doesn't. First, a lot of people like the Beats audio profile.

I'm no audio expert, but I believe I have a good ear and I use decent gear. I would argue that (most, maybe not all) Beats headphones are objectively worse. I don't mean worse in that people who only listen to pop and R&B are going to like them less, but rather worse at reproducing audio.

I think the way you objectively measure something that reproduces sound is by how accurate that reproduction is. Sure, some listeners are going hear the bloated bass and treble and think it sounds better than a quality pair of headphones. But bloated bass makes some music sound horrible. It works for pop, rap, etc... because there isn't much going on musically. I mostly listen to progressive metal, and it just sounds like shit on Beats headphones. The bloated bass makes everything sound muddy, the treble is way to harsh, and the mid-range is drowned out. Guitars live in the mids.

AudioTechnica M50s have a little extra bass and treble, but metal still sounds great on them. The instruments sound clear and separated. It's punchy. I know what people like is subjective, but I would consider the Beats (again, maybe not all beats) I have listened to objectively bad at reproducing music.
Ah, you beat me to it
If you can't re-write it in assembly, you don't know how it works!
Why not just abolish voting altogether?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

One of the many advantages of selecting representatives randomly from the citizenry is that it eliminates the position of professional politician.
So the headline is wrong, right? It's not just HTML. It's HTML + CSS + JavaScript.
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Desktop apps are built on top of Electron and mobile apps on top of PhoneGap.
A True Scotsman can boot his kernel from the front panel when the boot loader get mangled. That's what kind of question it is.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler -Albert Einstein.
Yeah, I think that's the first thing that came to mind for me. That said, looks like a fairly clear graphical system, aside from the lack of lighting context for some of the controls.

I'd be interested in implementing something like this and putting it in front of some artists. A lot of the time companies like Ableton face a challenge where they have to choose between changing their UI to make it more useful, and keeping it the same so as not to upset their existing userbase.

Personally I think that UI should be completely decoupled, such that you can iterate on the backend to your heart's content, and fork your UI more or less at leisure; leaving your existing users with a stable experience if they want it, and offering new users an exciting, productive, and discoverable view into the same system.
In one of his books he told this story as follows, a cab driver watched him on TV and said to him "I cant believe you actually tried to explain what did you found." Then Feynman said "Well, what would you say?" Cab driver "If i could explain it in 2 min. then it would not be worthy." Afterwards Feynman used that line. I might be wrong though, but pretty sure he told a story like this.
"Fewer people care about the ISA" is one of Intel's "real problems". Intel having a near-monopoly on the x86 architecture is a lot less valuable than it used to be.

On the other hand, while it's true that languages and runtimes provide more portability these days, there's still important handwritten assembly, and the amount of investment in compiler implementations still gives popular ISAs an edge.
Although this is an annoying effect, I'm fairly certain that isn't the problem. The Grado headphones fix the problem yet do not include a hardware crossfeed. Also, I use bs2b[1] (Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP) which fixes all but the worst mixes (i.e. old music such as the Beatles with each guitar mixed pure L/R).

[1] http://bs2b.sourceforge.net/
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It's only one way to approach things. Many good people are not great explainers. However, I do find a willingness to try and get down to first principles a good sign. I only take it badly when people seem unable to think outside their expertise, or seem unaware of the layers above and beneath the particular strata they work within.
EPIC (one of the, if not the biggest EMR providers in the US) had to be sued into not charging fees per export provider, per export, of medical records out of EPIC (on top of the 7+ digit licensing costs of EPIC itself).
To be fair, ChromeOS has a proper shell[1], you can ssh from it, etc. (of course you may be able to shell into your router, too, hopefully not via telnet...).

1: https://www.howtogeek.com/170648/10-commands-included-in-chr...
> most real processors actually have some ternary logic

Was he referring to the Z state? If so, it's not really ternary logic but rather a "no result" state for cases where there is a control signal involved (e.g., in a tri-state buffer).
Eh, I suspect part of the reason is that once a topic crosses a certain level of difficulty, trying to convey an exact explanation for it in a reasonable amount of time becomes impossible and experts just fall back on analogies and hand-waving.

I'm a physicist, and if you asked me to explain Newton's laws or classical thermodynamics to someone, I could probably give them a reasonably complete overview in a few hours. And in doing so I'd probably introduce and explain some jargon (entropy, derivatives, etc) along the way to make it easier.

On the otherhand, if you asked me to explain Quantum Field Theory or General Relativity in the same time, I'd basically just give up and throw out some friendly but inexact analogies about stretched rubber sheets and the like, and hope the walked away with some vague sense of the outlines of the subject.
I think maybe you have to be 12 to actually even successfully use that UI.
I think maybe you have to be 12 to actually even understand that UI.
I'll echo other replies and agree that we should put different people in prison, not more. I'd argue that white collar crime hurts more people than consensual and most violent crimes and it should be punished as such.
Nenad does account for this a bit in the Display Zoom and Detail Level sliders. Presumably moving the detail level up would present the single-click options which make Ableton a useful product, without necessarily exposing everyone to those at all times.
Not hubris. Feynman won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965. Here's his Nobel Prize lecture.[1] This gives some insight into how he thought.

[1] http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/196...
Amongst other things, the "War on Terror" diverted an enormous fraction of law enforcement resources away from this.

As I said in another comment, today, from my perspective, the average American faces much greater terror from being screwed over by "too big to punish (let alone fail)" corporations, than they do from actual terrorists -- manufactured fear aside.

Fines mostly don't hurt corporate members, individually, and often represent a fraction of the profit they've gained by breaking laws and regulations.

Pierce the corporate veil. Lock them up.

Assign law enforcement resources to relevant crime that weakens our society -- not in overwhelming numbers to another "War on..." fearscape.
I personally prefer tabs for the reason mentioned above... also, before JS minimizers, it meant less characters in the output. Now, I'll set my editor to whatever is the convention in the team, and/or the greater community (JS is 2 spaces, mostly, C#/VB 4, etc.).

As others have mentioned, having a required auto-linting step helps a lot. But it really depends on your specific needs.
Not true; the government has an enormous impact on the cost of health care. The American health care system is enormously inefficient, costing almost twice as much for less effective care than most other developed nations. How can this be other than because of the government?

One source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_healthcare_s...
We all want this. Guess since I'm on parental leave it's my duty to try it out.
"To start with, it runs Linux, which has a steep learning curve associated with it and isn’t suited to beginners."

I couldn't take the article seriously after this. "Beginners" click icons and run applications. This works under Linux like any other OS. Anything more complex than that isn't going to be done by a "beginner" no matter what OS you're using.
The types do the actually speed up execution but I find them useful in various parts of my codebase when I work on a project (for exaple when defining classes which represent more advanced and complex data types for my specific project). It help staying organized and making sure your not ambiguously passing in wrong data types. Also pycharm uses them to understand custom classes and functions you define and provide suggestions.
Still, you understand how it works. Is it enough to build one? Of course not.

You'd be missing a lot of experimental data that has been collected for decades. You'd be missing the metallurgy, etc.

The basic principle is very simple. Maybe you could even build a low powered version, given materials and time.

If you insist that understand how to obtain the proper air to fuel ratio is required to understand how an internal combustion engine operates, then I'd say we don't really understand anything at all. Can you mine and refine the ore to create the allows it is made of? Can you program the ignition (or alternatively, build a carburator)?

We all need to stop at some point.
I really enjoyed reading the blog posts about the build of this. Gave me so much insight into the inner workings of those machines.
Is there a good place or study explaining what accounts for "good" headphone audio quality ? I mean how do you quantify good and bad audio quality ? I can feel and get it, just not sure if there's a way to measure it.
Well, yeah, but the technical detail doesn't have to remain low. When you first explain something to someone you keep it simple so that they get the broad picture, you use analogies and what not. As they learn you can start introducing more and more detail.

It's about explaining in a way the recipient can understand so "simple terms" becomes "terms your recipient can understand".
> ...why not provide your view of how this is helping anything?

Because humor is a good mechanism for talking about topics we might not otherwise talk about, but should be.

By "adversarial discourse", do you mean the site or the HN comments?
And here is the standard: http://www.nrscstandards.org/SG/NRSC-5-C.pdf
100% of $0 is $0.

I'm not saying that should be the only punishment. I don't even think it should technically count as part of the punishment. I'm just saying that if the prosecution can demonstrate that you (or your employer) profited from a crime, then you should always lose those profits in addition to whatever punishment the court deems appropriate.
Exactly. Countries definitely lose out because of these policies.

I intended to visit China in the near future -- but I've booked a trip to Taiwan instead, almost entirely because Taiwan doesn't​ require me to get a visa.

Likewise, I can't see myself ever living in the US as long as I have access to free movement in Europe.
Agreed. Fines in banking have become the cost of doing business, where one can read "crime" for the word "business". Stick these guys in jail!
But add in the increased housing costs & commute time. I'm not sure if there are additional concerns about health insurance (though California has recently passed single payer)

I don't typically see $200k salaries but expect $130k to $160k is typical.

With $110k in mind in Toronto a $2500/month net increase in rent immediately knocks off $30k. So we're looking at a salary difference between Toronto and SV of $10k (pre exchange, when compared against $150k).

Now there is an exchange rate... so you might get back to a $30k increase in the USA ... but there are dozens of other factors too. If you have a Muslim sounding name or colour to your skin do you want to send your children to school there?

There are factors which overrule the difference in salary.
>> Frequency response and total harmonic distortion aren't measured in these cases because they're useful or relevant. They're measured because they're easy to measure.

We've evolved our senses around the signal components the pay off the best: the "easy" ones. Thus it isn't surprising that "subjective quality is mostly correlated with linear (spectral) attributes instead of non-linear (distortion) metrics," a claim supported by peer reviewed papers that have vastly greater credibility than you and your anecdotal vitriol.
It's plausible and goes to show why the blog post choosing salary is itself a bad metric to begin with. It has skewed the entire discussion.
Let's apply that argument to killing humans now. Original post is getting at appreciation of this learning behavior. One may say the elk isn't doing this intelligently, drawing on examples such as dandelions which learn to not grow so tall after being mowed
This strikes me as raw arrogance. Complexity is intrinsic to many systems that are subject of expert study. To tell someone who has devoted their career to understanding a complex topic that they don't understand their subject because they can't express it in layman's terms without doing terrible violence to the underlying phenomenon is ludicrous.

This is the sort of thing you'd believe if you were an arrogant 20-something who thought they could learn any subject in a few hours, cushioned thoroughly by the illusion of understanding.

"Oh yeah, I understand the mechanisms of human vision. It's just rods and cones."

"I understand the causes of the American revolution. It was just people protecting their property."

"I understand Joyce's Ulysses. It's just follows three people from Dublin over a single day. I read the Cliffs notes."

"I understand why coffee makes me alert. It's just blocking some brain things that make you sleepy."

Now, I will agree that if you don't know how to break interactions down into teachable parts, you will probably have trouble as an engineer or scientist both advancing your own knowledge and introducing people to the field. But to suggest that your understanding of a subject hinges on being able to deliver an explanation in simple terms is just silly.
I have to say I was a bit disappointed I clicked the link expecting to find an open source electronics lab book but instead its an electronic science lab application. I was hoping someone had taken the time to write a really good open source electronics book that I could read to further improve my electrical engineering skills :-/
Cost of insurance is so unrelated to the cost of healthcare, that when my grandfather recently went in for a procedure, no one at the hospital could tell him how much it would cost. They just take the amount that was negotiated with his particular insurance company. Different people get charged different amounts, and there is no way to get a "quote" ahead of time!
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Correct, you could swipe to scroll on Microsoft's tablets, or UMPC's as they used to call them.
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> "You put Lloyd Blankfein in pound-me-in-the-ass prison for one six-month term, and all this bullshit would stop, all over Wall Street," says a former congressional aide. "That's all it would take. Just once."
All you need for preemptive multithreading is IRQ#0 to generate an interrupt. That's the entirety of it.

Preemptive multiprocessing then needs paging and such to make isolated memory a thing as well, but still doesn't need HW context switching.
How about you fuck off?
I have a hard time seeing the value in a Mandelbrot benchmark. I absolutely don't have a problem with benchmarks that make Haskell look bad (e.g. directory traversal, regex), but I would like a benchmark that provides insight into the code you'd feasibly be writing in that language.
Nassim Taleb makes a convincing argument that you first understand something implicitly and then later it becomes formalized. I'm not sure I buy into the idea that people with great communication skills have privileged understanding. The underlying assumption here is that understanding is verbal. I reject that hypothesis.
This discussion really needs a concrete example.
Dear Daughter, Dear Son, Dear Wife? I don't know what LO might be.
2017 is half over. Facebook is going to make about $14bn net income in 2017. At a PE of 10 that's $140bn.

The S&P has an average PE of 15.6. That brings us to $218bn.

It's mindboggling any of you can think FB would drop back to IPO valuation at this size. Maybe in 40 years when the world has changed dramatically and most of us are retired or dead.