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I really, really hope this is satire. But I think it may be serious.

The author is pushing the same ideas in other places (sorry for the signup-walled Quora link):

http://jeffmeyerson.quora.com/Musicians-and-Engineers?srid=p...

As the OP appears to be the original author, I will ask the following: Do you really believe the "engineer mindset" is the best way of thinking in all situations? If so, why are engineers not the top musicians in the world? Many engineers are/have been in bands. But the majority of successful musicians follow at least some of the "bad traits" you list. Wouldn't the basic laws of consumer choice and capitalism bring "engineer musicians" to the top of the charts every time if those habits were really bad?
By that logic, copyrighting APIs is not really a problem either: Each API can have arbitrarily different concepts, paradigms, organization, and naming and calling conventions. Hence even APIs for doing the exact same things can (and do) look completely different from each other. Compare, for examples, the Java APIs with those for C++, C#, Python, Ruby, Go, etc. etc.
One of the most important blog posts I have read this year.

I wouldn't be surprised that Peter Theil is masquerading as Startup L Jackson.
I just hope they don't sniff my searches, as I google 'anal' and 'face' most every day.
I'm a little confused. Are you proposing a new framework for composing songs? Or are you hiring musicians interested in your cause?
See bim ("bad imitation of vim") in toaruos

https://github.com/klange/toaruos/blob/strawberry-dev/usersp...

mentioned in these comments in HN a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566217
iOS 8.1 cydia download and iOS 8.1.1 cydia download with pangu8 1.2.1
Post-downtime explanation and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8579089
Why was Microsoft's J thing an illegal Java bastardization, but Google's Dalvik/Android is not?
When I visit a national park the last thing I want to see -- or hear -- is a drone flying around. Even worse when said drone is being flown by someone who has no idea what they're doing like this guy: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-usa-drones-yell...
The article doesn't take into consideration at all the dramatic negative effects that the introduction of crack cocaine into black communities had. It's very easy to say that legislators irresponsibly put back mandatory minimums after they were carefully considered and removed in the 1970's, if you don't see the crack epidemic of the 1980's as the hugely significant event that it was. I don't think it was hysteria, it was a huge problem.
This is the author.

It isn't satire. Have you ever tried to write electronic music with a group of people?
As far as copyright law is concerned, yes.

However, you would be in violation of trademark law.
I don't know, that seems bad just in a different way. Maybe if IEEE hosted those documents themselves it would make sense to link to them but even then the copyright notice on the draft looks pretty onerous.
Also Fermilab outside Chicago is not on here. Pretty sure you're not allowed to fly over it. Nor am I seeing no fly zones over Illinois's nuclear plants.
Why didn’t the universally enfranchised citizens of France vote in politicians who would take on the rentier class? Well, then as now great wealth purchased great influence—not just over policies, but over public discourse. Upton Sinclair famously declared that “it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Piketty, looking at his own nation’s history, arrives at a similar observation: “The experience of France in the Belle Époque proves, if proof were needed, that no hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.”

This is why Ronald Reagan is referred to as "The Great Communicator" by the right. He turned "greed is good, greed works" into something that could be sold to the white working class.
Yes. I will hurriedly agree that the process is not perfect. But your followups to that first axiom are a little insane, and will alienate almost every musician.

You basically argue musicians should act more like you. Do you really want a world of yous? Because I don't, I believe there is room for every mindset. If you really want to improve electronic music production, try starting with the users. Find out what their needs are. I would hesitate to separate you from your users, but you appear to do that yourself in this article.
As in many industries, we settle for the best music we have. I posit that our music would be better if it were written with some engineering principles.

Yes there are many good engineer+musicians. But I've never seen a group of musicians use a KANBAN board.
Check out the PyCall[1] and PyPlot[2] packages, then. Julia has pretty good integration with python. I've been pretty happy calling matplotlib from julia. (You probably already know about these packages, but just in case you didn't...)

[1]: https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl

[2]: https://github.com/stevengj/PyPlot.jl
"Think of thousands of fires breaking out simultaneously over a circle of forty miles in diameter for every bomb dropped.
Japan could have been devastated, yet with small loss of life." - Dr. Lytle S. Adams

I guess Dr. Adams wasn't counting the actual bats here.
X-series tablet models have a 'T' at the end.
im in vancouver too. interesting you are in to sports gambling are the odds anything like poker? you should write an article on it.
Very cool. A couple questions: is the song really the right vehicle to pass around? By analogy isn't that like moving the binary instead of the code? I understand the lack of DAW cross-compatibility but it seems like you might need all of the components that make up a song along the way in order to work on a subsequent task.

It looks like this is still in the experimental/conception stage. Right now it seems more like a mental model for music than actual tools. I'd be interested in seeing what analogies besides code would be applicable or might have lessons learned. For example, I know that collaboration and sharing of mechanical engineering design software is relatively less useable/mature than sharing a git repository. For artists that collaboratively work on 3D models or images I'd imagine that the workflow is passing around .psds or whatever, rather than final images because everyone is on the same platform.

I'll be paying attention as this develops.
Had a startup in Boston that went through TechStars 2010 (third startup) - got funded, fizzled on customer growth.

Now in Myrtle Beach, SC building a startup community with Startup.SC (http://Startup.SC) and promoting an alternative place to do tech through http://WhyNotTheBeach.com. Also working remotely hacking websites (InfoSec).

Looking forward to doing another startup once I build up support network, angel investors, etc.

(Actually in Boston this week for Angel Bootcamp & TechStars Demo Day) - contact me through profile if anyone wants to get a drink.)
Unless I am misunderstanding you, the above link is also behind the paywall, I'm afraid.
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You have no idea.

http://mnemnion.github.io/blog/2013/12/19/commentary-on-ax/
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AMD's A1100 is supposed to be "around 2.5x faster than AMD’s current low-power Jaguar-based server chip (the Opteron X2150), while maintaining the same TDP."[1] The X2150 seems to operate within 11-25W.[2]

On paper, this sounds like a thermal envelope that could still work within a 12.5" laptop like the venerable X220, although noted that the A1100 doesn't actually come with on-board video. Also, the A1100 dev kits seems to be currently packaged only for mini-ATX. Will all this actually somehow fit in an X220 chassis?

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/175583-amd-unveils-its-...

[2] http://www.amd.com/Documents/Kyoto2150_QRG.pdf
Curious, how do you define failure?
I think you're getting confused. MAC addresses aren't passed up-stream (in IPv4). There are many ways for websites to uniquely identify users. A MAC address isn't one of them.
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Sadly, what you describe seems to happen all the time. As an obvious example, it amazes me how many sites continue to use Proxima Nova as a web font. It renders poorly at almost any common size in almost every Windows browser.

One thing that has surprised me with web fonts is that there seem to be plenty of respectable choices available for free from the likes of Google Fonts and Font Squirrel, and relatively few fonts I would even consider for serious work from commercial font-as-a-service shops like Typekit and Cloud.Typography. After years of me telling people that professional quality results need professional quality fonts, the industry seems to be doing its best to prove me wrong.

I suspect the main difference is that the good freebies were designed for on-screen use from the start, while many of the commercial ones are adapted from existing print fonts already available from the likes of Adobe and Hoefler & Co. Unfortunately, many of those designs simply don't adapt well to the lower resolutions and anti-aliasing used for on-screen rendering.

The trouble is, I don't really care why a font on my visitor's screen doesn't look good, and neither do they. The only thing that matters is that it doesn't look good, and in many cases that seems likely to remain the case until much higher resolutions become the norm for all screen sizes. Until then, as demonstrations like the one we're talking about show very well, there are plenty of decent screen-optimised fonts available from other sources, and they don't come with the financial and legal headaches of the rent-a-font services.
I think what set me off was certain statements that he was coming from a position of authority, like that he was a language design guy. At the same time, he didn't give any statements to back up how deeply he's researched the issues. For example, there's no discussion of C's fenv.h, or how fortran's IEEE intrinsics work. Add to that the jabs on the age of the specification, and it just ended up giving the feeling of being a much more shallow piece than it could have been; it just felt like he was saying, "I don't know what to do. Internet, decide for me."
Microsoft had licensed Java, and had agreed to the terms of Sun's trademark license, including compatibility terms. Google avoided licensing Java entirely, hence the lawsuit.
Ohio is right in the middle-ish of the country and would likely be affected by fallout (as would almost everywhere.) If you don't have a few inches of dirt or concrete between you and the fallout for a few days, your odds are not good.
That's the one. Thank you
> By this argument, everything ever, including my shopping lists are creative expression and copyright eligible.

I'm not sure that necessarily follows, but if you do use creative expression in write your shopping list, why is it not copyright-eligible? Just because it's a "shopping list"? Where do you draw the line?

And what if you no creative expression is involved in writing some code... is it not covered by copyright?

Is a "Hello World" program copyright-eligible?

Is a FizzBuzz program copyright-eligible?

Is a library that implements atoi and itoa copyright-eligible?

Is a program simply implementing a detailed spec copyright-eligible?

Is a service implementing PageRank copyright-eligible?

> This would extend copyright far into the realm of methods and processes.

I'm sure you know this, but copyright expressly excludes protection for functionality (leaving that to the realm of patents), and isn't that what methods and processes are?
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Passing an entire song between phases is only one model. Within that model, the spec I prefer is: whoever is receiving the song gets to choose what format he receives it in. Lots of small files, one big wav, whatever.

I have heard good things about Splice, which allows git-like collaboration.

What I want to underscore: there are great tools for individual and small-group creativity. I'm interested in processes for a large team that allows asynchronicity and scalable development.
GT agreed to some awful terms:

"Whenever Apple modifies the Specification for a Good, and notwithstanding any disagreement over the cost to implement such specification modification, GTAT will charge Authorized Purchasers, and Authorized Purchasers will pay, (1) the applicable price for a Good set forth in the Statement of Work (ii) in the absence of a SOW, the last price Authorized Purchasers paid for the applicable Good, or (iii) if Authorized Purchasers have not yet purchased the Applicable Good, a mutually agreed price for the applicable Good."

So Apple could change the specs on GT, and pay the old price until any disputes were resolved. Apple did in fact change the specs, which caused some of the problems.
MaidSafe looks more similar to the original idea of Wuala. But they noticed they basically needed storage servers anyways, because the p2p nodes on people's computers and laptops had too much churn to keep enough copies online.
This isn't exactly news and belongs on reddit under one of their conspiracy forums.. Amazon has quite a few number of people working to stop this type of stuff. If you want to help I'd shoot them this link.

Some people may be 'product testers', take a look at the person "Mystic Reviewers". She is a real person, her pics in her reviews match her facebook page. She works at a reputation management company in San Fran and only has done 5 star reviews.
One of my very first attempts was to build a tutorials site where I'd write stuff on photoshop, php, css, html, etc. Wrote a few tutorials, (re)designed website over 10 times before launch, but did not get any traction. Gave away my tutorials to other sites in the ecosystem. (https://web.archive.org/web/20050208112644/http://invano.com...)

About the same time someone told me may be I should build sites where people can contribute and I wouldn't have to worry about creating content. So, I created this search engine that would index tutorials from all other sites. Built the back-end and some front-end but gradually lost interest to another project.

Then I built this another site with tools for webmasters. This was actually launched with some modest success as by this time I had learned enough about Apache/PHP/MySQL etc. (https://web.archive.org/web/20051215081101/http://viewhtml.n...). But never figured out SEO/traction.

These were in high school and after these tries I gradually lost interest to other stuff. So that was that.

Then in college freshman year started this company to build computer hardware with my roommate. This was actually the first attempt to start a company. Everything else were just side projects. The idea was to build Dell equivalent for Linux.

I think I read this note on some mailing listing about why Linux was not widespread (Android was not mainstream, yet) because there was not any well established distribution mechanism. There was a need to build an equivalent of Dell that would ship computers with Ubuntu and provide user support.

So we bought off-the-shelf parts to build our first desktop computer to sell, built it, and installed Ubuntu. Then my roommate and I had a fallout. So that was the end of this.

And there are a couple of more things that didn't take off. But life was not really impacted drastically as all were learning experiences.
I don't get it, if they are frequently bought together, doesn't that mean people who buy it together will review both?
This "Bat Bomb" as well as other pre-atomic strategies, were the subject of a channel 4 news broadcast when I was 15

It specifically interviewed a general (and his daughter) who said that they were shut down by phone when the atomic bomb was chosen as the coup de grace for japan.
Late reply, but thanks for backing - I recognize the user name :)
Are you saying that energy consumption isn't a problem? Why not?
I can field that one. If a has A reference to B and B has a reference to C and C has a reference to A, then we have q cycle. Cycles play merry hell with garbage collectors and reference count destructors. Languages that force references to be a strict tree or DAG get cheap destruction in return - see C++ without pointers for example - I pop a local object off the stack and it's gone, along with all its children - no non-deterministic GC pause or delay, no Pythonic cycle check. Rust is built somewhat on this principle.
Yes, it is essentially an abstraction over a collection of SPMC queues (when using tokens to dequeue, it is actually a bit smart in that it tries to pair producers with consumers where possible).

If you wrapped every enqueue operation in a lock and used the same producer token, then you'd essentially have a single SPMC queue, and it would be fully FIFO. But obviously this defeats the purpose somewhat, so yes, it's not a good solution if you need that guarantee.

I honestly didn't consider external inter-thread ordering at all while I was designing the queue. I guess I was picturing more of a producer-consumer model, than a message passing system (where this dependence between messages across threads/producers is far more common, it seems).

I'd change this constraint if I could, but I can't. It's the fundamental assumption the very heart of the entire design. I'd have to start from scratch (which I'm not prepared to do, at this point). But I've changed the README to make this limitation crystal clear (you're not the only one with reservations with regards to this aspect).

I think it's still useful, perhaps not for all applications, but for many. Sorry if I came across as trying to purport it as something that it wasn't; that was not my intention at all.
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You are right - package documentation has some ways to go. Currently we don't yet have a mechanism to do `help()` on a package function, but we expect that to change in 0.4.
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That would be pretty damned impressive. I ran into that line and stopped reading, but the thrust of this is that there are fake reviews on the Internet. Who knew.

The real mystery is...how does something like this wind up on the front page of HN?
I haven't really found a true best way to collaborate on writing a song. Here are some of the ways I've written my songs:

Sit down at the piano, press record, and make up a piano piece on the spot. This is a fun creative exercise - the results often suck but sometimes something good comes out of it. You can't be super-original harmonically or you'll lose the thread and stop - but it's good for practicing discipline. [1]

Sit down with a couple of people you get along with, press record, and jam. Same thing as above - you can't get too crazy harmonically, but you can definitely mess around with layering and intensity. [2]

Write some lyrics and then try and write some music by yourself to fit around it. I'm not sure, but I think this sort of music leads to simpler song forms. [3]

Write some music to the point that they suggest syllables and vowel sounds, and then pound your head against the wall trying to find words that fit those musical moments you want. This is really, really hard but eventually rewarding. [4]

Sit in a room with your bandmates, jam together to come up with material, and then work/argue together to craft it into a song form. I haven't done this but I think it ends up with stuff that can be cohesive (good) or homogenous (bad). This can be done over a distance through dropbox etc also.

Come up with some electronica beats and then hire someone to come in and yell out phrases she reads from magazine ads, punctuated by dirty talk and sexual grunts. I haven't done this either, but it's responsible for a good percentage of the top 40.

(Links just for examples from my own history, listen or don't - I don't intend this as self-promotion.)

[1] https://soundcloud.com/curtsiffert/slowrain
[2] http://thesalvagery.bandcamp.com
[3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/damn-my-eyes/id899061469?i...
[4] https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/she-believes/id899061469?i...
Thanks for replying. The Opterons are the dev model, right? I can't see them selling retail for 3k. That said, it could be interesting for those who want to get a head start to use something like a shared A57, for the right price.
Anyhow, what about storage? These things aren't running on cards are they?
You are wrong. They are passed up. Can't send you the screen shot at this moment - but trust me... I have inspected the URL and it includes the mac address - for real, no lie. Anyone who knows how to do this please share.
Or if Go and Rust had a FOR loop guaranteed to stop at 0, as with a Wirthian language, no?
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pretty neat, could I have multiple versions of my resume?
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I disagree. Having gnu utils available from CMD is a God send. Sometimes a batch script is the right tool but you need the capabilities of something from gnu utils. It's much simpler to just invoke the tool than to rewrite the script as a windows flavored bash script you run from Cygwin.

Additionally you'll find a lot of scripting language libraries just wrap gnu utils and invoke commands using a sub shell. Being able to run those scripts/libraries from batch files or other windows processes without dealing with Cygwin is awesome too.
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It sees you when you're sleeping. It knows when you're awake. It knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake. You better watch out. Brought to you by Google and the U.S Department of Homeland Security.
Estoppel. Since everyone acted in good faith when they availed themselves of Microsoft's pledge, the court will look very poorly on an attempt by Microsoft to rescind it.
Drug companies patent both compounds and processes.

Your post seems to argue for patenting an API, not copyrighting it. I can't think of why an API can't be a patentable process. The claim tree might be rather complex.
Show HN: Use WebMidi(keyboard) to learn music
... Really?

Can anyone else corroborate any of this? Or cite sources. Certainly interesting stuff if true.
Because the blockchain is awesome and the government is bad. They'd use bubble sort, efficiency be damned, if they could find a way to keep the bankers out of it.
This is a very good framing.
> Still, it's pretty amazing what Windows doesn't include by default in this day and age, so a simple, lightweight set of tools like this definitely has its place.

Others have already mentioned Powershell. Not by default, but Microsoft has offered Windows Services for UNIX for some time. Free download too: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=274

Truthfully, I've never used it myself, because Cygwin exists and it actually provides full POSIX on Windows, unlike GOW et al.
But on POSIX systems, there's a reason for that. There's only one success (Since "success" should do the same thing every time), but many types of errors which can be indicated by the return value. You could argue that 1 should be success, and >1 should be failure, but that's a minor quibble.

Conversely, here it's just because "it's different". I feel that this is a bit if a shame - some of the other parts of the project appear quite interesting, but making fundamental decisions in downright wrong ways just to mess with expectations comes across as silly to say the least. Why deliberately increase the learning barrier and drive people away?
this is where I got my hn name from. I've actually spent a lot of time at dugway. One of my favorite parts about it is the german counterpart of they japanese village mentioned in the article, the German village. There's still a few building (still in use!) out there that were modeled after European villas so the army could test weapons during ww2.