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A simplified explanation is not voodoo.

Yes, he chose to list only the intervals in the major scale. Showing the intervals in the major and minor scale at the same time would have been very confusing.

I understand now that you weren't trying to say that minor thirds were a hole in the theory he presented, but that they were a hole in the way he presented it. I took issue when I thought you were criticizing the theory itself, because what he presented is a simplified view of generally accepted foundations of harmony. I apologize for mis-characterizing your position there.

There is more that could have been said -- and it sounds like we agree on what could have been said -- but I think it's not necessary to go into all the details of the construction of scales, including temperament, just to write a blog post. Describing temperament accurately, without handwaving, requires a book.
You've got two kickstands built into your body for stopping...I'm not following what the issue is.
if there was a two-button mouse....
To build on your point, though not as bad in SFBay as elsewhere - there are neighborhoods that are only car-friendly, and don't have accessible walk/bike paths between buildings/houses that would make it efficient to bike.

The entire basis of city planning in the US has been based on cars for the last 60+ years. I don't see that changing anytime soon, unfortunately.

Cars are also designed (except for hybrids and maybe some electrics) to have jackrabbit-starts which make it intolerable at high speeds. You don't realize this until you drive a hybrid or electric, but it affects your attitude towards not only other cars but bikes and pedestrians as well.

SUVs have specific problems with their high center of gravity and visibility. I used to joke to my friends that, while renting an SUV for a week, I got flipped off about 3 times. Never happened with other rentals or my daily.
> we are seeing the ill effects of how public policy BY THE MAJORITY adversely affects all those in the minority.

That is true. But not in the way I think you meant it. The majority has made a political choice to implement a much weaker safety net than is needed end poverty. Our safety net full of holes is far from the best we could do.

> It is a problem caused from the US being a welfare state. It pays more to be homeless.

On the contrary. It's a problem caused by not enough welfare state.

People are homeless because programs like Section 8 are underfunded and horribly means-tested. To get public housing you often have to sit on a waiting list. And many people who need public housing can get kicked off the waiting list for a whole range of stupid reasons. More funding and less means-testing would get more people off the streets. Section 8 would be a better program if it was made unconditional, funded at rates which tracked with demand (to prevent waiting lists), or if it were simply replaced by an unconditional basic income.

A similar issue exists for people experiencing food insecurity. SNAP too is means-tested. Many people who qualify don't sign up because they're worried they don't qualify. Others can't get past the paperwork. If the program were universal and unconditional - if everyone had a SNAP card regardless of income, people wouldn't starve.

Those are clear ways in which more welfare state would totally end poverty. But we've made a political choice not to care because the majority of us are insensitive to poverty.
Call it nutty all you want, it's far more insightful than your original suggestion that the reason we work such long hours is because of an endless appetite for luxuries and trivialities. As Graeber points out, it may sound good and just to you, but it's actually quite unfounded.
Food trucks would be the lower end though. The article focused on the medium end that the average person might go to for a good dinner with a decent ambience without breaking the bank. That's a reasonable thing that most people do to relax at least occasionally. Sure, OK, it's a first world problem but that's not sufficient reason to dismiss a problem as trivial. It's not the biggest problem that needs to be solved, either. :-)
> you're not really a theist unless you believe in an anthropomorphic god, just believing in an abstract conception of god isn't enough

This is based on a pretty specific set of jargon that most people probably don't even consider. I have a hard time believing that there's enough evidence either way to say whether more people who claim they're theists are actually deists, but it doesn't serve any purpose to conclude either way. As far as colloquial usage is concerned, there are a lot of people who are honest in their conviction as believers in "god" in some form or another, even if it isn't as specific as you'd like it to be for the purposes of that classification.

> And similarly you're not really an atheist unless you wouldn't believe in god even if you saw him

That's just... I don't even know how to address that. Your first claim was extremely specific and conforms pretty closely to very well defined criteria, but this one drifts much further from the same set of criteria.

> a position which even Richard Dawkins admits is untenable

I wouldn't be surprised. Literally no one would find it tenable. Not even Richard Dawkins, who is wrong about nearly everything he says outside his professional career.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. You don't need to balance the bike when you're stopped - you put your foot on the floor and wait. I know it's different in every country but pedestrians and cyclists frequently wait at lights. Are you more concerned about wasting time by not having right of way or do you find bikes fall over when you stop?

Issues that are probably bigger than "balancing" when you're commuting by bike are: access to safe cycle paths, getting sweaty before work and the weather.
It doesn't really matter to me, as I'm not a Macintosh user anymore, but does it have the smart playlist feature like iTunes?

That's the biggest thing I miss in most music players, including my current one, Google Play Music (with my all-access).
The node app had stalled. It is up now.
Open a food truck! It's a relatively low risk thing compared to opening a restaurant. Still a lot of work though your idea reduces that quite a bit. :-)
Here are my sources. I kinda find it hard to believe a happy country would choose Trump as its Presidential candidate.

Truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

http://happyplanetindex.org/countries/united-states-of-ameri...
As someone who got to use a PowerBook G4 (running 10.5.8) from time to time (in fact, I'm typing this very comment on it), I fail to see how their current UI is any more undiscoverable than the UI from 7 years ago.

The trash icon was there in the Dock in 10.5, and still there in 10.11. The search function in help was there in 10.5, and still there in 10.11. To remove things from the Dock, right click the icon and the "Remove from dock" is still there in both versions. Any menu items that will open a dialog still indicates with three dots ("...") in both versions. Shortcut for opening dictionary is still not very discoverable in both versions (Cmd-Ctrl-D). I still don't know how to trigger Space/Expose without either using gesture (in 10.11) or look up the shortcut key (in 10.5).

I always see people saying Apple UI got worse in discoverability for the past few years and make it sounds like earlier releases were perfect, but I don't believe that is true. The bad part of the UI interaction was always there (e.g. drag icon from the dock to somewhere to remove it). The main difference I see is that 10.11 has a LOT more features than the 10.5, but the core interaction remain the same in regard to discoverability. In 10.11, we're exposed more to gestures, because it's quick, but there is always alternative way to trigger something without gesture.
Yes, a Kickstarter shut down by a suspicious robbery.[1]

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fusion-high-performance-e...
Right-click? On a mouse with one button?
Ha, that's timely. I started writing an online tutorial just today and settled on org-mode. Reading your config is immensely helpful. Thanks!
It's a sobering thought that we are still thinking about some as 'tin foil hat types', which makes you wonder what we'll think of them years from now.
"Trying to control home prices is like trying to control the tide of the sea. It's pointless."

Vienna has been controlling the home prices by building houses with great success for decades. [1]

Vienna is the largest apartment owner in Europe and 220,000 community dwellings also the largest property management company in Europe. Hardly any other European city is so valued for their social housing as Vienna.

https://www.wien.gv.at/english/housing/promotion/pdf/socialh...
Thank you so much for this.
> You're probably outside the 95th percentile on that one

In what way? If you mean one handed usage, it's pretty common here when people are standing on public transport, you need to hold on with one hand. If you mean the infrequency I need it, take a look through you're list of installed apps and tell me how many require zooming? Almost all are designed specifically to avoid it.
Speaking of, Apple is to blame for the absolute worst case of discoverability I've ever encountered: getting the iOS App Store app to list all apps labeled "Essentials".

Dug around, couldn't find it. Googled it, found a few forum threads where everybody concluded it couldn't be done. Went into an Apple store, gave an employee a few minutes to figure it out, and he gave up.

And yet, it's possible.

Rather than just tell you, I'm going to leave this as a challenge. See how long it takes you to figure this out.
You've quoted that so out of context it now has a different meaning.
What is wrong with African cities?
As far as the math and wave theory components of music theory go... OP covered everything except a discussion of harmonics.

For example, third harmonic (3f in OP's terms) of a note is the perfect fifth of that same note. You can find similar relationships with higher harmonics.

This is why chords sound nice, playing the perfect fifth reinforces the 3rd harmonic, the major third reinforces the 5th harmonic, etc.
Aren't most kickstands made from lightweight plastic now?
> The real question is, is a human death tragic? ... Dying is not the worse thing that can happen.

It's very easy to say this on HN.

I'd like to see you say that with a straight face to a war widow or a mother who just lost her child though.
I don't think the comparison is valid. The specification of lisp as a meta-circular interpreter is less than a single page.

It is surpringly easy to bootstrap computation. Not diminishing the great work being done with Red of course.
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The mountain bike you've got sitting in the garage (or a $50 eBay/CraigsList special) and something like this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/24V-36V-500W-26-Rear-Wheel-E...

Plus an hour or so with some spanners and zipties, gets you one of these:

https://flic.kr/p/MjzMDN

For well under $500. (I think including the battery and the bike, that one owes me under $300.)
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I was expecting something significantly different from HTML but this is really just pre-CSS HTML with different tags. At this point, I can't imagine another SGML based language for formatting is necessary.

If everyone could just agree on a safe subset of HTML for email then that's all we would need.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
I'm not sure what you're asking. The staff that are hired away are presumably better off in the matter of ready cash, which is perfectly reasonable. Ethics in job choice are important--you probably shouldn't take a job supporting a CIA hit squad even if the pay is great--but poor restaurant choice, while unpleasant is hardly a human-rights issue.
Please don't create many obscure throwaway accounts. HN is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some consistent identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be an entirely different forum.
Rule 41 does away with privacy.
Hey, I'm in Tampa Bay Area too. Mind getting in touch?
There's a similar saying I like (don't know where it's from, if anywhere)

"Artificial intelligence is a group of problems that we don't know how to solve. As soon as we know how to solve one, it gets a name and is no longer AI."
Ditto. It has a UX problem.
How often have you gotten a ticket for treating a signal like a stop sign?
Personally I've never gotten that where I use it judiciously (ie, no traffic that could possibly get confused by my running the red).
I don't think really we know the answers to those questions.
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Well these rankings would be a lot easier if it was just a boolean happy or unhappy.

Phillipines is 20th. "I kinda find it hard to believe a happy country would choose Duterte as its President."

Brazil is 23rd. "I kinda find it hard to believe a happy country would impeach its President".

Palestine is 22nd. I was gonna write a sentence of that form for each one but it seems a little unnecessary.

Pakistan is 36th. Haiti is 57th. Iraq is 67th. Egypt is 86th. America does at least barely squeak by Afghanistan and Syria at 110th and 113th.

There certainly is no objective way to measure happiness and the UN method does seem flawed, but come on.
Or http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/geometry-of-music.html
Bike commuter here. Hope I never find one of these in my bike lane. If I'm pedaling hard, I go a little over 30km/h, my body is alert, full of adrenaline, and I'll get tired 20min latter. In an electric bike, you can go at this speed talking in your phone and eating something. Your heavy battery also will increase your inertia. It is really dangerous.

If you want to increase bike use, build more showers at the workplaces.
I'll get behind that argument once 100% of our population is educated and living comfortably, contributing to arts and science. And yes, living sustainably too, even if I suspect this particular goal will be easier to reach than the others.
(continued...)

It's almost a curse to be able to see all this, and be able to do very little to ameliorate it. Considering the poverty of my native tongue, it'd be very difficult for me to express it to the masses. Even if I learn the millennia old
language, no one would understand it.

[1] http://www.cultuurwetenschap.be/pages/the-heathen

Edit: Update for clarity.
How is Adobe going to do it when Windows follows the same footsteps than Mac OS X?

The only way will be the store, or why do you think Microsoft is making it easy to port Win32/WPF (legacy) applications to the store model?

When the applications that matter like Adobe are on the store, and Apple has proven the "my way or the highway" works, they will slowly disable the "legacy" model.

I have been through enough computing changes to believe this will indeed happen.
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As a car commuter who's seen a lot of accidents, quite a few are (probably newbie) motorcyclists who don't know how to split lanes (3 of the 6 I've seen in the past 4 years).

Also, sharing the road with cars means breathing their exhaust. Count me in for the e-bike takeover.
Searching for "essentials" seems to do the trick.
Not to mention that A minor is generally considered to contain two additional notes compared to the A natural minor scale (AKA the A Aeolian mode).
Not bad. Id rather build it myself with a kit like the one you linked. How reliable are these kits?
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Actually, great composers such as Beethoven and Bach and Chopin had very definite ideas about what emotions are evoked by certain keys. They even argued about it with their peers. Music is not something that is reducible to mere quanta and waves and frequency. You all are missing the human part. Sorry, but it's true.
It's obviously not a delightful piece of software, but attacking the team that works on it is mean spirited.

You know nothing about the constraints they work under.
It'd still probably be hard to convert thousands of existing computer keyboards to anything else. Every keyboard at every school, office, home, etc.
you might learn something, too.
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This usually comes up regarding books that are expensive for Indian students to purchase. Students, on the other hand, have no issues with buying "eastern economy editions" made by several publishers for sale only in India and select few countries (uses cheaper paper, B&w versus glossy colour prints).

Textbooks by Indian authors are considerably cheaper than their counterparts and availability is likely the only reason for photocopying. I recall that in high school, my friends and I all owned copies of the same math and physics books.
Wow. That was about five minutes of hunting, and I actually seriously considered the possibility that your comment was a troll. That was impressively unexpected.
20mph is slow - Fit cyclists would be able to keep up with him.

My cycle to work this morning had a top speed of 40kmph (24mph). I was feeling particularly slow this morning and am only just getting back into cycling. I expect that soon I'll be quite a bit faster.
But the article says and, we've heard this from other sources many times, that restaurants have very slim margins even in pretty good conditions. It's not so simple to say pay enough and so on. Or maybe you really saying if an industry has to pay below a living wage by so much then it's not even worth it? And if all the half decent restaurant closes does the area start to slide toward entropy with boarded up shops and decay?
Can you please elaborate? For employers, yes, but other actors? Interested to know your thoughts on this.
You can't even get a good regular bicycle for $500 new. There is the Sonders ebike, though you get what you pay for:

http://gosondors.com/

(Although you actually get quite a bit for $500, but there's no way to hit that price point without cutting corners)
This is the wisest piece I have read all week, I wish HN had a share button. This is supposed to be framed and hung on a wall somewhere so people just beginning their career can see it.
Well, two _or_ one. The melodic (two) and harmonic (one) minor scales.
Hi, thanks for posting and sharing your reaction to what I'd said. I'm going to respond to tominous next, so check for that comment too.

> I'll be honest, and say that your post set off what I'd call my "Crank/Crackpot Detector".

I know, right? It's usually safe to assume that conventional practices are what they are because they're the best we have, at the present time.

> Each psychotic break is correlated with increasingly grim outcomes, such as a homelessness, permanent care, and suicide.

Robert Whitaker proposes that patients did much better before the psychiatrists had drugs to put them on: people had "episodes" from which they frequently recovered. Page 7 of "The Case Against Antipsychotics" [1] begins a discussion of studies of psychotic illnesses in the pre-drug era.

[1] http://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-C...

> It's true, chemotherapy is poison, but oftentimes it's the best we have to work with.

Sometimes science takes detours before it rediscovers that which was previously unpopular. This article demonstrates that progressive oncologists are beginning to recognize the errors of their predecessors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-an...
Yup, it does.
That may be a very good book, but I'll be honest, it doesn't look like a very gentle introduction.
I meant the peak of the hype, not the peak of the work required. What if this is like virtual reality in the 90s?
The number 12 is just a coincidence, that 3^12 = 531441 ≈ 524288 = 2^19

This means that 3/2 ≈ 2^(7/12) [accurate to about 0.1%]

And also 4/3 ≈ 2^(5/12) [also accurate to about 0.1%]

And also 9/8 = (3/2) / (4/3) ≈ 2^(2/12) [accurate to about 0.2%; putting two factors of 3 in makes the approximation only half as good]

You also get another nice coincidence, that 5^3 = 125 ≈ 128 = 2^7

This means that 5/4 ≈ 2^(4/12) [accurate to about 1%]

There are some people who have written music in a 41-note equal tempered scale, because then you get an even better approximation to the 3/2 ratio:

3^41 = 36472996377170786403 ≈ 36893488147419103232 = 2^65

(3/2) ≈ 2^(24/41) [accurate to about 0.03%]
No two Musicians take the same path to learning music.

I enjoyed this perspective. Particularly the focus on sine wave theory and frequencies (which also serves Audio Engineering).

Quite a departure from the traditional rhythm, melody, harmony, and form framework. But it works :)
I'm not learning it from wikipedia. I'm playing for 50+ years. Best resource is Jazz Piano Book by M.Levine. (I read lots of others, but... everything I learned, I learned from this one).
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It's not released - simply because it failed to even build properly.

No I have not reached out to nvidia. Don't have any contacts there
> But it's bloody impossible to notate and very difficult to orally communicate

It's really easy to orally communicate. You can just sing it!

(I know what you mean, is it's difficult to describe using a computer keyboard. Using a pen and paper it is really easy, given that you can just draw notes and time signature changes in the margin.)
> Once we get off printed paper, computerized notes should solve much of the inertia. problem

I don't know...ebooks still look a lot like treebooks.

The one example I've seen of what you're describing is I've seen jazz musicians play off ipads. This give them access to very large catalogs without lugging around giant binders, and also they can transpose their sheets into any key.

(That's more important than it might sound at first, because different instruments "play" in different keys -- if a pianist thinks the piece is in C major, the clarinetist thinks the piece is in Bb major. So now you don't have to have separate books for the different instruments in the band.)

But the music as written down in these electronic fakebooks is a lot less complex than your average classical piece, so it's a much more tractable problem.
I have been using Thimble to teach kids web development for several years via CoderDojo Silicon Valley. Kids just love it...it's simple and doesn't get in the way. I have tried Cloud9, CodePen and other cloud-based IDE's, but always keep coming back to Thimble.

Here's a sample parent+child class on building a holiday greeting card: https://thimbleprojects.org/nik/20062

Here's a canvas drawing sample: https://thimbleprojects.org/nik/102205

The published Thimble project URL used to be hackable to remove the Remix button so kids could have free Github-like hosting, but alas it was removed.

[Edit: Fixed links]
I'm... fairly certain that no one in this discussion realizes that's a Ron Swanson quote, or that /s means sarcasm.
"Democratizing AI" is the word being thrown around a lot by CEOs, PR, et al. But only time will tell whether it's true democracy.
Looks great. I've been building almost the exact same idea for fun as a side project, but initially focused on deep analysis of TypeScript and ES2015+ specifically. Runs in Docker as well, spinning up containers to do analysis work, but written in TypeScript and run via node.

Definitely going to be following the blog. Thanks for sharing!