skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would make the argument that there is little in the way of pop music that strays from traditionally accepted chord progressions. Dissonance isn't something that appeals to a broad audience, and you'll be hard pressed to find someone who can point out an interesting choice in progression for a song on the radio.
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The angles are important, but also the position relatively to the court(which is different in every venue).

The calibration is done by matching(automatically or manually) known world points to pixels from the cameras.
(This is a very common practice in image-processing systems)
Blizzard Bans Thousands of Diablo III cheaters
On occasion, I have experienced my submitted headlines being reverted back to the original source's obscure headline. More often than not these obscure headlines were made for a print newspaper or magazine where the lede (which HN readers can't see unless they click through) explains the story.

In addition, the 80-character limit sometimes makes it difficult to include the original headline for some of the more wordy publications. This forces rewriting.

I remember HN submissions used to allow headlines that were 90 or even 100 characters long. Why not bring back these limits?
Yes, but that doesn't answer the question. Sure, it makes sense that there's not much reason to hold stock when the growth is negative. The question was: how do you decide why the growth is negative? This is an important, because sometimes stocks dip for a day, and sometimes they dip for a decade. Knowing why would seem to be the best basis for investing.
Will ios6 support offline navigation? Thats one of the killer features currently missing on Android as well.
I do hear piano in Eb occasionally, but in my years of playing guitar I can't say I've ever come across it in any song I've played.
They always do. They fucked up "saving" Greece, too.
Future of Fantasy Sports, DraftKings
Just launched and wanted to share with other fantasy sports addicts -- daily draft and great freeroll offers. Started by some friends - former execs at Vistaprint
This movie is incredible. It's amazing how everyone making a game in this movie explicitly states that they feel like they are going to die or kill themselves.

Interviewer (paraphrased): What if you don't finish your game?
Phil Fish: I will kill myself, That's my incentive to finish it.
"because the people that didn't find bugs never had an excuse to contact us, so they didn't know we offered great customer service."

Exactly the point I was making.

Same applies to a service contract.

If you offer a service contract for a price and the customer never has a problem they are less likely to renew the contract.

I've noticed that the home warranty people cheerfully and quickly take care of any claims so to motivate you to renew your contract for the next year.
The app is pretty cool: http://www.hooktheory.com/analysis/view/celine-dion/my-heart... It animates the score for both "instrumental" and "youtube" sound.
Don't know about NewEgg, but I have personally received a windows PC from Staples (UK) that already had a user account for 'dave' on it.

I am not a Dave.
downvoters clearly haven't been linux users cca 1999...
I can give an example of a title change AWAY from the original article title. I was quite puzzled by that when it happened, and I've never heard an explanation of why it happened. I heard about an article from a researcher on human genetics who was writing to other human genetics researchers on an email list. I meet many of those researchers in person in a local "journal club." The researcher was asking for responses from his colleagues about the article, and I thought the article was interesting enough to bring up here on Hacker News. My submission of the article here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813270

was under the original article title, namely "23andMe disproves its own business model." The ensuing Hacker News discussion had several commenters (who apparently had paid their hard-earned money for the services of the 23andMe company) complaining about the title, which I didn't editorialize or spin in any way. I agree that the article was controversial, but a legitimate researcher in the field thought that it was a worthwhile read, which is the only reason I submitted the article to HN. After I no longer had my edit window for the submission title, some anonymous person with title-editing power changed the title to "23andMe finds Parkinsons only 24% heritable" (which is a title that reveals considerable ignorance about human genetics, and doesn't fairly represent the content of the submitted article). As I post this, the original article is not showing up to me by following the original link, but Google's cache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

confirms the original article title.

I can bear with curators here changing article titles to original article titles (or to titles that condense original article titles to less than 90 characters, which is the hard-coded length limit here), but I sure would like an explanation of what a user is to do if it's possible to submit an article with EXACTLY the original article title (my usual practice) and then have the title changed to a stupid-looking title that is still under my screen name. If curators are going to do that kind of thing, they should at least sign their edits to take accountability for them. (That is the usual practice in another online forum where I have editing powers on other people's posts, where I use this same screen name I use here. If I edit someone's submission title, an edit trail identifies that I did that.)
And yet, standalone GPS systems are still absurdly expensive. I was looking at a handheld system with topological map support for hiking this summer, and the Garmin options basically start at $250 - and don't even include the maps, which are $100 on their own.

Motorcycle GPS? $700 please.

None of Garmin's standalone GPS products are remotely as capable as a free-on-contract Android smartphone, but they cost as much as an unsubsidized high-end handset. And you have to keep paying every year for updated maps.
Funny, I just said the same thing here a few days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4079010
Have been waiting for the release today.

Loved it. Highly recommended.
probably caused lots of people that had already visited the link once to read it and think it was something else.

Many times have I been looking for an article I read previously and cannot find it. It's a combination of headline editing, a really poor search engine, and the way things fall off the front page mix with things that haven't hit the front page yet.
Good question. No idea :-)
Monkey v/s NginX in a Raspberry Pi
Optimizing background agents in Windows Phone 7
Do you mean 'quoting' daily, or 'billing' daily?

There is a major difference. The main one being that if 'bill daily' you are putting a burden on your client to have to think about paying you every single day. At some point, it becomes annoying.

Thoughts?
I hope we've come at least a bit further since the renaissance. Diplomacy doesn't have to be a zero-sum game - indeed it rarely is in the real world. War, on the other hand, is very much that. So in that respect, war is the failure of diplomacy, not the continuation of it.
Can someone explain how do these free flight search engines make money?

In my case I search using Kayak, but never really book the ticket from Kayak (don't follow their link to the airline). I go directly to the airline site and book it there. Many people I know do the same. I despise using Orbitz/Priceline other than just a cursory glance to see if there are cheaper tickets.
I know that sometimes an itinerary involves multiple airlines and that is when there might be an advantage booking through, say Orbitz, but even in those cases I just book separate tickets.

Why is this free search/booking industry still unsaturated and is there really a demand for such capital infusion?

Update: My question is specific to flight search, because I think hotel search can be profitable model as sometimes these sites provide better rates than the hotel's site.
Can a Simple, Safe Childbirth Checklist Save Lives in Developing Countries?
It would depend entirely on the quality of the leads, though I'd definitely sign up for a one month free trial to test it out.

Many a thing like this exist, both paid and free. Jobpile has netted me some work in the past.

Jobpile: http://www.artypapers.com/jobpile/
I find it hard to believe that D major wasn't one of the more common chords to follow and E minor.
Well, like the article went into briefly, the I, IV and V chords are going to be the main ones used in a song, especially one from a rock/blues tradition. (a minor, d minor and e minor are the 1, 4, and 5 for a song in a minor key.)

C and a-minor, F and d-minor, and G and e-minor are related chords, and can be interchanged in a standard progression for a different "feel". So it makes sense that e-minor would go to F (V to IV transition) or a-minor (V to I) more than any others. It's interesting that C and d-minor are under-represented in that transition.

It's interesting that the possible chords are all simple triads, with no options for extra tones. A C6 with particular notes in the bass could be interpreted as an a-minor, for example. There's a fair amount of ambiguity there.
It may be that they feel they can charge more due to offline capabilities of dedicated GPS devices.
There are two common consulting arrangements in which a customer gets a discount for a commitment.

The first is a retainer. Retainer hours come at a significant discount because they might not get used, but are billed regardless.

The second is long-term forward-looking commitment. A monthly rate is at the short side of long-term commitment; a multi-month project feels like a more typical discounted commitment.

You should not discount for daily or weekly commitments. Daily and weekly rates are industry standard. When you offer a discount on a daily rate, you are effectively communicating a willingness to negotiate your underlying rate.

If there's a second strategic decision I want to urge everyone to make, it is "NEVER NEGOTIATE YOUR RATE". With a savvy customer, you will never get any concession on your rate back; once you establish a new floor, that floor is likely to remain there forever. This is the case at big companies and small ones, but be aware that this is such a common dynamic that Fortune 500 companies have people whose performance is evaluated by how effectively they hold the line on bill rates.

If you have to negotiate, negotiate over the total price of the engagement. I know your nerd brain can't separate the total for a project from what the hourly for that project works out to, but they are very much not the same thing.

I am generally of the mind that your rate structure is your rate structure. Clients want to push back on all sorts of stuff. They also want you to sign their master agreements unmolested. Learn to say "no" professionally: to quickly find ways to accomodate your customer's underlying concerns without budging on your price structure.
Keep in mind that, with a capo, any key becomes trivial for a guitar.
Full link: maps.apple.com
It is a typical strategy of Apple to slightly underspec desirable aspects of a product like hard drive capacity or RAM (...or ports - sigh). That way, they can release an updated version where those specs are bumped, resulting in a product that is perceived as significantly better instead of just slightly better in comparison to the previous model.

I think it's also about using components that give you the largest gross margin - A slightly outdated model of a component will always be cheaper and more readily available than the cutting edge model - which further carries the risk of being less broadly tested.

An in-between step is often to offer that option (like a larger SSD), but at significant additional cost. Particularly with things like RAM, apple sometimes charges you more than twice the regular market price: Getting a Mac Pro, for instance, you pay ~1k € extra when jumping from 6GB RAM to 32GB. Buying 32GB of RAM (yes, ECC and everything), sets you back 400€.

Their SSD prices have gotten slightly more reasonable lately (buying the regular HDD option, selling that drive and buying your own SSD often saved you hundreds), although they're still a good bit off - especially considering that Apple buys OEM from Toshiba and in bulk.

My personal conclusion is always to buy the bare minimum configuration and upgrade myself - I purchased a Macbook Pro 17" at the smallest configuration and added an SSD and an extra regular 1TB drive. Will probably add some RAM later this year. Had I gotten all that at Apple right away, I would probably have to pay 50% extra (although they don't even offer the option of exchanging the DVD Drive with an HDD).
I just mean don't have an hourly rate.
I'm amused by the fact that this person doesn't seem to know that chords per se - and the analysis of them - is practically useless because they can and actually do vary from version to version of the same song. The thing that matters is how the chords are related (modes and progressions).
I tend to agree, but when you think of it, D major isn't used that much in popular music. When you talk about country or acoustic guitar, sure, but not so much in the Billboard charts.
What I'd like to see is a plot of the number of chords used in a song versus time. Possibly even broken down by genre, or correlated to other qualities (sex of singer) et cetera.

If you start at the 1950s, you'll see very simple rock songs; your classic three-chord rock songs. As you hit the 1960s you'll see more complexity; The Beatles, for instance, had more harmonic complexity than what had come before, which continues to be imitated into the 1970s. Then what happens? I don't know, by the 1980s you're looking at a lot of very simple music again, though music is becoming more diverse genre-wise so you're probably getting a larger spread. Then by the present day you have a disturbing trend of one-chord or even no-chord music; apart from rap [which contains no singing but seems to have got simpler even in the backing tracks over the years] we now find that even sung songs are completely lacking in harmony or chord progression. A particularly annoying example I noticed the other day would be that song (dunno who it's by) with the lyrics "We found love in a hopeless place", which seems to have a melody of just four notes.

I could continue this discussion going backwards in time from the 1950s and talking about how the ever-growing harmonic sophistication of art music through Beethoven to Wagner eventually led to a complete breakdown of the idea of harmony in art music which led to music that nobody liked which led to the death of art music and the establishment of rock and roll from square one, but that's another discussion.
> Can we be careful with the term "identity theft", please?

Ok, lets be careful with it:

> "Identity theft is a form of stealing someone's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person's name. The victim of identity theft (here meaning the person whose identity has been assumed by the identity thief) can suffer adverse consequences if they are held accountable for the perpetrator's actions"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft

Taking out credit in someone else's name fits that definition exactly. Just possessing a list of email addresses does not at all.

Now, as for making a fake facebook profile with someone's name and photos:
"someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity" yes, that fits.

"typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits" - no, but note that is "typically" not "always".

"The victim of identity theft can suffer adverse consequences" - yes, that happened.

So on the whole I would say that the definition of identity theft fits in this case.
This is redirecting to google maps for me
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• Manages and improves development and production environments

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We are growing quickly and are also hiring for a number of other positions, including Software Engineer (Objective-C or Java), Software Engineer - Test, and QA engineers. All jobs are listed on our careers page: http://www.jamfsoftware.com/about/careers.

Interested? The first step is to check out our careers page and submit your resume to our recruiting team. If you could mention that you saw the job posting here, I would appreciate it. I've asked them to keep their eyes open for resumes that mention HN.
Meanwhile in Norway http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1740707/
What the actual hell?
If you remember the great HN "iOS is faster; you're wrong because Android isn't slow" debate of a few months back, the primary reason that android runs slower than you'd expect is that apps have absolutely no access to each other's frame buffers. Apps can't take screen shots of other apps (for exactly this reason)
> The 'hanging out' part was key, and I am convinced that if
> Blizzard could figure out a way for folks to sit down and play
> cards or checkers or something it would be popular.

The problem with Zynga is that they built up casual games around a general purpose social network. I agree that social-oriented minigames would provide a much better user experience if they were built around a larger game environment, like a high-quality MMO. People who form groups in games want to be able to socialize, so social mini-games built around such a game is a good idea.

Another advantage, of course, is that you don't necessarily have to tie your full real life identity to your social identity. This allows people to be freer about what they can say or do, and might be more appealing.[a]

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[a] Yes, an argument can be made that attaching one's RL name to a post makes abuse less likely, but I believe that effective moderation of a community is a much stronger factor in having a quality community than simply requiring real names. I've seen places on the Internet where people were happy to flame using their full name and identity because of no moderators. On the other hand, HN is a good example of a civil online environment where real names are not required.
Interesting that this seems to redirect to Google Maps for me although we can infer with some degree of certainty that Apple has some future plans for this subdomain.

Apropos to Apple's shift to Open Street Map I feel both excited and apprehensive: for instance someone pointed out to me that the new maps won't display transit information (or don't currently, we'll have to see what happens after iOS 6 is launched) but at the same time I'm happy to see OSM gaining traction.

Edit, here's what dig tells us:

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3 <<>> maps.apple.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 742
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;maps.apple.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
maps.apple.com.	2918	IN	CNAME gsps28.ls.apple.com.
gsps28.ls.apple.com.	219	IN	CNAME	gsps28.isg-apple.com.akadns.net.
gsps28.isg-apple.com.akadns.net. 272 IN	A	17.174.2.104
Agreed. Admittedly - I am working on increasing the signal to noise ratio - but I never realized how valuable it was to have a constant stream of leads coming to me daily was, until I stopped doing it.

I am also thinking of finding a way to make the entire process more efficient - but all it takes is a handful of leads a year and it has more than paid for itself.

Does jobpile email you links - or is it just a search engine that you go to?
"In my case I search using Kayak, but never really book the ticket from Kayak."

A lot of people do book from Kayak just because it's easier. So, don't assume you are the typical customer here. Also, I am not familiar with Hipmunk's numbers but I believe that hotel search is the real revenue generator for these sites, and flight search just acts to get people in the door.
This will work fine in Europe as long as we stay in our own country. The prohibitive rooming costs make us all turn off data when we cross the border.
Long life to GPS devices over here!
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Could be. It's definitely possible to do everything offline with a smartphone, but it isn't easy yet. I ended up buying a couple of topo map apps on my iPhone, and they did everything I needed.
Quoted daily ("Work is on a time and materials basis. Rate: $2,000 per day."). Invoices will typically cover a few weeks of work, depending on the tempo of your engagements, your relationship with a customer, etc.
I tend to agree with you but it's fair to say there were a lot of prominent voices out there predicting its demise -- for more reasons than just the bubble, like security issues or looming government regulation (if that was ever even really feasible.)

But you do have a point, the tone is rather skeptical. ;]

Again, I find Bitcoin super intriguing. I think the buzz from Wall Street/prop desks is telling. Bitcoin's going mainstream.
They need to put presser on Newegg managers. It's simply ridiculous.
Would be more interested in senior/visually impaired solutions.

Last time i checked 3yrl olds didn't have any problem playing games on any they could grasp.

Yet, a cataract eye can't even answer a call on modern phones
I use the NDrive app for offline mode (pay-per-country-map). Never had a problem with it in several countries, and I go back to Google Navigation when I'm back where data access is. I couldn't imagine using a second GPS unit now after how well the Android is working for me.
If you're thinking 500 pages, consider breaking it into two books. One for the core functionality and one for Canvas and its uses. The audience for one is not necessarily the audience for the other.