skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I think I get it, but let me try telling you what I heard and you can correct where I get it wrong.

You are looking for an "introductory electronic book" that discusses the types of circuits that are used in analog synthesizers. Further, those discussions should be accessible (understandable) to someone with little or no prior understanding of linear circuit theory.

Is that a correct reading of the thing you are seeking? If so then I would start with something like the Sam's OpAmp circuits book. If you aren't put off by mathematics, and your original message suggested you were okay with that, then "The Art of Electronics" (Horowitz and Hill) the first four chapters cover pretty much all of the information you need to know to read any of the schematics on the Moog schematics web site[1]. Both books discuss filters, VCOs and VCAs, and transconductance as well.

As for precision, typically analog synthesizers are not nearly as precise as you might imagine. Like many instruments they were made to have a quality sound which may or may not be strictly accurate in terms of musical representation. One of the nice things about the Moog Model 15 was that you could tune it to different types of scales. You do want thermally stable circuits so that you aren't re-tuning all the time, but setting up in the studio I would typically use anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes with the 'high C' (1046 Hz) signal reference to tune in the various oscillators and amplifiers to get a nice 0 dB signal level at the final output and with the half dozen or so oscillators tuned to match frequencies. Not at all like a "modern" keyboard where you turn it on and blam! you're ready to play.

If I am still misunderstanding what you're asking I would like to understand that. You wrote "The application for music is sufficiently obscure ..." which sounds like you are looking for a specific tie into music in general. However the tie into music is, for the most part, entirely incidental to the mechanics of how these things are built so typically references cover the fundamental properties of these circuits without calling out their musical application which is seems to me to be fairly obvious once you know the fundamentals.

[1] https://moogfoundation.org/bob-moog-schematics-release-1-for...
In Spain you're forced to attend if they call you (supposedly they choose people at random), but they pay well.
> They show no remorse mostly because you didn't end up hurt.

I disagree with the emphasized part of your statement. Drivers seem worried about the emotional consequences of killing someone. But apparently the emotional consequences of nearly being killed don't count? Or at least they haven't been mentioned here. Nearly being killed is not harmless.

> Combine that with some short-lasting road rage and you can easily find someone that will do dangerous things all the time but be distraught if that ends in death.

I can accept that many drivers are road raging and that their behavior otherwise would be different. But I can't accept that's all of them, as that seems inconsistent with my experience in over a decade of cycling.
I did count votes a few times in my city: it's just a matter of 1 or 2h hours of your time on a sunday evening right after the vote is closed(6->8pm). And many people of all ages participate. Here we just see it a civic duty, like voting itself…
I said it's flatlined from seeing graphs like this[0] and this[1] (again, compared to GPUs).

But I'm far from an expert here (just an enthusiastic consumer), so what you're saying is news to me. The more flowers you can lay at what looks like the grave of Moore's law, the better. I don't like being a pessimist! :3

0: http://www.carestreamblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/0...

1: https://images.anandtech.com/reviews/mac/MacPro2013/cpugpu.p...
Not trying to criticize here, but if "love" becomes freely applicable to all sorts of relationships of varying intimacies and understandings and bonds, doesn't that cheapen the word?

Maybe the word doesn't need to be love -- but I think we need a word that expresses commitment. Perhaps not exclusively, but at least through-thick-and-thin support. Love without this sounds oxymoronic to me.
That’s fair. I never encountered anything like that. In my experience Touch ID was faster, more reliable, and more versatile (e.g. able to be activated with the phone lying on a table without peering over it with my face).
I'm torn on Lambda. On one hand, it seems far superior to traditional higher education, since the schools success depends on the success of the students. At the same time, profit sharing is a terrible financial decision. When compared with other bootcamps, it's basically a bet against yourself. You're willing to risk tens of thousands of dollars more money for some risk insurance.

I have such a hard time accepting that people can't just teach themselves things using free online resources. It's been shown in many studies that self directed learning doesn't work, but it worked for me. And I can't stand the idea of smart people paying thousands to learn things they could learn for free.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19770023
Although it matches the title of this article, the title of this post does not do it justice, and I'm guessing many have passed it over as a result. A better title for the post would be the subtitle of the article, "We can't tune pianos because prime numbers."
Obligatory Coupland reference
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPod
The middle is old luxury housing.
A few years ago, I was dealing with a few small business sites which were self-hosted and always had deliverability problems with the large mail services (mostly, back in the day, AOL and Yahoo).

Large providers tended to have a world view dividing all senders into two categories:
1) Bulk senders who are clearly mailing the same spam to a list of a billion addresses
2) Non-commercial individual hosts which should be sending five messages a day or less in total.

It felt like there was a huge missing third category for transactional emailers nobody wanted to acknowledge. They are probably difficult to score fairly. A hundred "Order details" emails are going to have the same level of randomness/templatedness as the old Viagra spam which had a random block of Project Gutenberg text pasted at the end to trip up filter math. You're not going to have a clear history of "this address bounced twice, let's stop sending newsletters" when most of your messages are to first time customers or once-every-few-years return ones. A lot of the messages will look generic because they use default shopping cart templates.

To the extent they provided sender guidance, it was focused around use case 1) -- sign up for feedback loops and deal with greylisting (because people really love waiting 18 hours for an acknowledgement)
The question isn't whether or not the work is easy for the intern, it's whether or not it's appropriate. And this cuts both ways: a company that is doing serious core refactoring/redevelopment on the back of an underpaid "intern" is probably exploiting that labor in an unfair way. If it's in fact an unpaid internship, then they're straight up in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

And, of course, a company that puts this kind of work on the back of a temporary worker is not treating its own codebase with the respect it deserves. This is rolling the dice with your expertise store -- you have to hope they did it well, because they aren't going to be around to answer questions if they didn't.
Didn't go to CMU, but I did take cs61 at Harvard extension last year (https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/site/2018/). It too had some self grading assignments (time bomb). Thoroughly enjoyed that class.
So basically?:

“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."

~ Bill the Bard
I doubt there is confusion. Land ownership in the US requires taxes else some level of government claims ownership. This means you do not truly own the land, just merely rent it with a complex social contract.

I agree with some forms of property taxation, for the record, but think that single family owner-occupied homes should be tax free.
This looks really neat! Seems perfect for those set-and-forget, single purpose type websites. Maybe I'll move https://xkcd.wtf over to you!

The only question is: how long will you be able to run this? There have been so many free webhosts that shut down over night, my confidence in any hosting project is limited
For what it's worth, I disagree quite strongly with that review. The book is aimed at those with a pretty mature appetite for abstract mathematical reasoning, but not much specific knowledge in the areas of statistics, machine learning, and neural networks. It's an actual graduate-level book, and one must approach it with the appropriate background and education.

The Goodfellow book is not complete as an academic intro, but no one book can be. It's not very useful as a practical tutorial, but no book seeking this could cover the mathematical arguments that Goodfellow's book does. I found Goodfellow's book extremely useful for consolidating a lot of handwaving that I'd seen elsewhere and putting it in a slightly more rigorous framework that I could make sense of and immediately work with as a (former) mathematician.

Goodfellow's treatment is especially useful for mathematicians and mathematically-trained practitioners who nevertheless lack a background in advanced statistics. The Elements of Statistical Learning, for instance, is extremely heavy on statistics-specific jargon, and I personally found it far more difficult to extract useful insights from that book than I did from Goodfellow's.
A agree that having such a comittee is essential. But (at least in hindsight) the risk assessment for the space shuttle seems very strange. The only rocket ever built that requires human pilots is also the least safe human-carrying rocket ever built, both in track record and design (no launch escape system, no abort possible for large parts of the ascend).

In a comittee maybe you can justify the human deaths as nessesary risk, after all people die in traffic all the time. But that ignores the political dimension. The Challenger Disaster was a giant blow to the entire shuttle program: The space shuttle was only funded because of support by the military. With the entire fleet grounded for 2 years and much needed performance improvements canceled that support vanished (see for example: the last DoD shuttle mission was in '92).
I remember when my University copied a couple of these, I decided to go the full mile on the one where you exploit buffer overflow. I got myself a remote connection via execve, and was going to mess around, but soon realized I could also see and edit others' scores which could get me in significant trouble, so I had to make one log-scrubbing attack then stop. I'm surprised they never fixed the hole by containerizing it or something.
Given the normal Indonesian death rate of 0.64%/a, one would expect, of the 7m people involved, about 123 to die every day.

So, the article really ought to have put that into context, and specify over which period they died.

(Note, as an aside, that UK, USA, and, say, Germany, have significantly higher death rates - the reason being the older population, presumably.)
> But Ms McRae is also concerned that programmes like Lambda School, though well-meaning, risk undermining existing educational institutions by offering a quicker route to work.

If only. We all know the majority of what we learned in school was not useful.

We should be striving to cut out the wasteful education that only serves as a signaling arms race https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-c...
I’ve been running 1MB for over half a year and it’s my passion project. I’m constantly improving and adding new features to it. 1MB makes money from Pro upgrades it’s just temporarily unavailable. I want to run this project for years to come. https://pro.1mb.site
Short answer: 1 could be counted as a prime number, and in fact it used to be counted as a prime number by some mathematicians [1]. These days, most people just choose not to do that, since this makes most proofs and definitions more convenient.

Shorter answer: Convenience.

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumber.html (3rd paragraph)
I had heard of his story in pop culture references (the van with enough acid to dose a major city) before, but did not know as much about him till I saw your comment and perused his Wikipedia page. This passage was particularly interesting to me:

> Pickard was the first American researcher to predict an epidemic of fentanyl and carfentanyl. At Harvard, he was appointed as a research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where he was a drug policy fellow in the ad hoc Harvard Initiative on Drugs and Addictions, under the Program in Mind, Brain and Behavior.[6] In a presentation at the Harvard Faculty Club in 1996, Pickard proposed that fentanyl and carfentanyl use would become epidemic, and suggested specific policies for preventing wide-spread abuse. Pickard's prediction was 20 years in advance of the 2018 opioid crisis.[6]

> In federal court on March 12-13, 2003, Pickard testified in detail on this prediction, based upon his research among more than 200 addicts in Boston and Moscow and his study of rare fentanyl use. Original overheads from the Harvard Faculty Club presentation were seized by DEA in a Boston locker in November, 2000, and retained by the agency until trial in 2003, where they were entered as defense exhibits. This testimony, as a public record, was more than 15 years before the actual epidemic occurred.[7]

Given that the man is currently imprisoned because he manufactured substances that the government deemed the harmful to specify because of their potential for abuse, it's hard not to conclude that either he is a hypocrite or the people who imprisoned him are.
Where did you read that? I believe Whatsapp used erlang because they leveraged ejabberd [0] for XMPP. Wouldn't surprise me if this is why FB originally used Erlang for the chat servers too.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejabberd
> You are probably talking about the government borrowing it instead of individuals. This tends to not end well.

It tends to end with inflation eroding the debt. Which is exactly what we want in this case, ideally over time rather than all at once, but still.

> The money has to come from somewhere.

Why can't it come from nowhere? That's where the debt it's replacing came from. Banks don't actually have the money they loan you. They're only required to keep a small fraction of it in reserve. The rest of the money is created from nothing.

We're fundamentally in a position that we have to print a lot of money and cause a nontrivial amount of inflation because we already did that throughout the housing crisis and the response to it, allowing the prices of housing, education, healthcare and stocks to enter serious bubble territory. As a result of that either the nominal prices of those things have to come down or nominal wages and the nominal prices of everything else have to go up to reach parity with them.

But lowering the nominal prices of those things can't save the people who already paid for them on credit and now hold significant debt as a result, which is nearly everybody. Moreover, reducing nominal major asset prices tends to cause much more economic damage than raising the nominal prices of some other assets, because it causes people to default on underwater mortgages, hoard cash rather than investing it because the currency then appreciates in value, etc.

So inflation is good right now and printing the money would be a completely reasonable thing to do in the short term.

What happens after that is you pay for it from taxes, the same as the subsidy for [more specific program] would otherwise. But that should be a lot easier afterwards because real wages (and therefore real tax revenues) should be significantly higher than they currently are relative to the cost of necessities like housing, education and healthcare. In other words, the real amount of UBI you would need would decline with the real cost of those necessities.

> Wealth transfer schemes are inevitably unpopular and tend to not work well.

Then why do we keep passing/expanding rather than repealing various redistributive welfare and assistance programs?
I can't claim I have a very good track record of looking into the future, but, I'd be really surprised if scooter rental (and sales) turn out to be a sustainable business in more than just a few random cities.
There's so much FUD it's hard to know where to start. You start with a rebuttal on "clearly falsified their technologies" and then transition to examples of how Tesla talked about products that people can't buy yet. Completely Apples and Oranges. Where's "The Machine" from HP? What happened to Seagate's IP-driven Key-Value Drive? Both really cool products they worked on but didn't manage to get out there as everyday products. Full-Self Driving is one example. Tesla is working on it, but they are also describing different levels of Autopilot to the media and you are just focusing on one. The products of Tesla people talk about are the ones that provide the vast majority of their revenue and profit. The ones they are currently driving and reviewing.

I didn't say Tesla could only fail due to politics. I said that's a sizable component of their early stage effort not crossing the finish line. You dismiss the many reports of very happy product owners, which doesn't fit the narrative you have developed. Apple was frequently described as a place that had employee abuse, particularly the way Jobs treated some of his engineers, but they made great products. A company could very well be poor in some aspects but can still do well.

And your Earth shattering news is my point. If the US did what Norway did, Tesla would be doing great and a number of our nascent electric car industries would definitely survive the early-stage. This also goes to political will on forcing more automated driving areas like what China is doing by building out.

Sure, there are plenty of other ways Tesla could crash and burn as a company, including being out-competed, but all of this is just side-stepping what was a completely ridiculous analogy between a fraudulent company that intentionally misrepresented their one main product, and a public company shipping product that is routinely reviewed and scrutinized. If you can't see this, you are so wrapped up in your narrative that you are blind.
And then they proceed to show the Left Engine Oil Pressure rising while the Right Engine is off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YQmkjpP6q8#t=4m45s
> its not much different conceptually than being an architect

I don't know where you are from, but in my experience the roles are very different.

As an architect you have to provide technical guidance over a domain that you know like the back of your hand.

As a PM, you have to manage a project that straddles multiple domains, some of which are completely alien to you, and you are explicitly limited by the scope, deadlines and your budget.

As a PM, you have to trust (and goad) multiple experts if you want to get anywhere.
A verifiable way to put bounds on time is a very useful thing. If you know the time within an hour or even within a day can be a big help. There are cases where I’ve used firmware build time as a lower bound for current time.
That’s actually not how it breaks down, I told the reporter I segment the company into three sections in my mind, he asked which is more important, and I said they all have to work.
I don't see how the Google example stays the same. From everything I've heard, Google's different services rely on their other services to actually work. YouTube lost them money for a long time (maybe still does?), so I'm not sure how they would uncouple this from selling ads.
Ask HN: Seeking feedback on SaaS platform landing page
Hello there HN, happy Sunday to you all.

If you have 3 min to spare, I am looking for feedback on our company website:

https://restfuldata.com

Some specific questions I have are:

1) Is it clear what we do?

2) Does it make you interested in our platform?

3) What could be improved?

Thank you for your feedback!
You're right, sorry! I write TS every day at work but for some reason I sometimes forget which languages use bool and which use boolean ;)
> Everyone has a multi-megabit home connection now.

Uh... Down maybe. Up... We're not quite there yet. Rural America (sometimes just a few miles outside a major city) can have <5meg down and under 0.5meg up. During non-peak hours that is.
When sites are heavily styled, it makes it annoying to go from site to site. On one site, text is big and navigation is at the top. On the next site, the text is smaller and lower-contrast, and navigation is on the left. On the next site there is a sticky navigation bar that follows me down the page. The result is constant adaptation. It is like (hand)writing a book, but after each page you have to reach into a big bin of pens and find a new one. Each one requires a slightly different grip, a slightly different pressure, a slightly different lift, etc. I go so far as to read most sites with the provided CSS blocked (via uMatrix) just to achieve a relatively uniform experience. Your lightly-styled, simple page design is basically my ideal.
Clickable link: https://restfuldata.com
Sharding is not just about data storage. You can shard parallel units of work across multiple CPU cores in order to prevent single CPU bottlenecks.

Erlang encourages shardable solutions from OTP concepts being so strongly integrated into Erlang.
If people can self learn they will. I think doing so is much, much more difficult than others pretend like it is.

Given that you could earn the entire cost of Lambda School (at the cap - the most expensive) in about three months of engineering time, it’s a rational decision even if you just speed up the process.
There used to be a channel devoted entirely to stuff like this, run by a guy named Jeff Quitney. YouTube recently yanked his account for reasons they (apparently) didn't disclose, even though he (apparently) had no copyright strikes at all, and wasn't breaking any other rules as far as I could tell.

Sadly, unlike some of the more popular YouTubers, he was unable to raise enough of a shitstorm on social media to draw the attention of anyone at Google who could look into it.

His channel is now on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/jeffquitney . Even though Vimeo sucks in numerous ways compared to YouTube -- no captions, no variable speed, no user comments -- they do seem to provide a valuable refuge for victims of the Google star chamber. It's well worth checking out for those who like this sort of thing.
That's half of it. The other half is that Intel has pushed the RealSense API as something that is independent of the exact technology used.

So this could be something that uses a projected dot matrix like the Xbox 360 Kinect or a time-of-flight sensor like the Xbox One Kinect or multiple conventional cameras or...

There are many neat things you could do with depth cameras in principle, in particular make computers into "sessile robots" that appear to understand the space we live in the same way we do. Unfortunately the market hasn't made this into reality yet.
It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. The repressive outcomes restricting a better timeline from proceeding earlier is so sad to witness. Speaking as an LGBT person who has witnessed suicide among peers and when this treatment likely could help the tolls of abuse in correlation to antiquated beliefs. Thanks to the dying god.
We really need a non-broken universal character set. Is anyone actually working on that?
Mine has an LED that indicates “clean” and slaves from the internal door switch. Handy source.
Who designs the project and "correctly" divides it? Some hero?
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