skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newegg.com does not pay the return shipping cost for defective merchandise. We are not responsible for product defects, because we do not manufacture the products we carry.

Under the Sale Of Goods Act 1979 in the UK, that's actually illegal.
Issues with IndexedDB and Chrome
Just as an experiment, I tried looking for a trip on hipmunk that I have booked for 10 days from now. Prices start arund $1000 per leg, about 250% higher than what I paid (coincidentally for the same flight).

That's a terrible experiment, fares almost always go up as you get closer to the departure date. If you want to do that, check the same thing on the airline's own site.

In my experience hipmunk isn't more expensive than any other site. In fact, every site will quote you the same darn price for the same darn flight, because airline fares are a lot more formalized than most people seem to be assuming.
Note that he's only searching songs written in C Major. A D Major would be outside the key so naturally it would be quite rare.

The results are exactly as I would expect. F is the most common chord to follow E, because that's the primary way to resolve the dissonance of that note in C major. When E appears in other chords in C Major it will also tend to resolve to F unless there's a good reason not to (cadential 6-4).

A minor is the next most common after F, because that's the next step in a descending circle of 5ths pattern (E, A, D, G, C)
Intelligence is overrated as a metric, from the get-go. Being smart doesn't mean anything - accomplishing something, whether that be writing a book, founding a company, making a new scientific discovery, sculpting a masterpiece, etc., is a much better metric.

Unfortunately everyone seems to be hung up on the "idea" of being smart, as if having a high IQ somehow constitutes an accomplishment.
Heroku: a follow up on last week's outage
Given the absence of libraries which will follow Kotlin's philosophy of code structure, how does this improve anything? You could just use a simple subset of Java and not use any libs at all.
As others have pointed out, apparently the screen is actually being rendered at 3840 x 2400, then is downscaled to 1920 x 1200.
If you have javascript disabled you should be used to pages not rendering sometimes, not the best practice, but common enough to not be surprised if something is off.
Quite true.

Incidentally: I found myself in exactly the same position with iPad 2. It seemed as if it was all hinging on release date of the next iteration of the OS and I did wonder at tine if Apple had perfected their game of cat and mouse.

Good point dude(ette).
> I've already been turned down by a few companies at my current rate because I was too expensive.

In this market, you really, really really are not too expensive.

Some concrete sources for PHP work:

* http://hackerjobs.co.uk/ - Quality of clients that advertise there is generally high.

* If you don't mind dealing with recruiters, cwjobs.co.uk will happily email you a steady stream of PHP contracts at the £350+/day range.

* The big publishing companies seemed to be hiring both fulltime and contract staff in perpetuity. I'd follow up at PHP London, as they seem to hang around there.

You should be going to PHP London anyway, with business cards (side rant: not a single freelance developer I've met at a meetup has had a business card on hand. The same developers complain about how hard it is to find work. Don't be one of these developers).

> This put me off raising it higher

I know the feeling. There are clients in the world that can afford higher rates, but it's hard to remember this if you get turned down a few times in a row.

If you're nervous about raising your rates, I would suggest that you try raising the quote by £50 at every interview you go to. If it's too expensive for the client and you really need the work, you can always invite negotiation.

Other than that just stick to your guns, and remember that there are economic situations that clients can be in such they can afford to pay quadruple your daily rate without raising an eyebrow.

If you'd like to grab a beverage sometime and talk shop, details are on my profile :)
Very cool. Sounds like what the original Color was supposed to be, but extended way beyond photos, and leveraging already-existing online media services/networks instead of building one from scratch. And FOSS too, brilliant.

One usability issue - Edit - nm, figured it out. scroll with arrow keys.
I notice this all the time, all over the place. It drives me nuts, to the point that I am now extremely skeptical of what we call "intelligence". Taleb's "The Black Swan" really opened my eyes to this. He talks a lot about how we reason in ways that do not correspond to reality.

I don't know what right is, but I know the way we currently think about intelligence is wrong.
Worth noting: good clients tend not to pay anything for the 1-hour "oh cripes" conversation. I'm extremely unlikely to bill for an hour or two of work.

Why does this work? Because I don't bill anyone for an "hour or two of work", and don't have to worry about this level of accounting.

Clients notice. More importantly: clients are much more willing to reach out and ask questions when they know the meter isn't going to be ticking. Matasano has never employed a salesperson; we get our business from repeat customers and word of mouth, in large part because we are very easy to work with.

See what I mean about good practices emerging organically from not billing hourly?
Your article was so emotional and biased, just thought it looked like your view on this was to "strict" for the startup world.

Everything is more spontaneous and loose. I think they would respect anyone in their group who didn't think it was nice to go to that place, as I think you should respect their choice.

You just went 100% for it and I thought it was a bad choice.
I work with 2 guys and a girl and all of them are open minded to know what is and what is not going on.

It's the startup world: you can choose not only who works with you, but what works with you too.
Since most people don't get calculus they use simple math to shortcut to answers that sounds right.
For the types of testing that he's doing, I suspect he's measuring boredom more than anything else, especially since he's testing largely in a university setting. Intelligent people are accustomed to being bored with endless entry-level evaluation exams, and at first glance this looks like it's just one more of them. And because the stakes here are so low (essentially zero), lots of people will just fly through without really reading and analyzing the question.

What he's seeing isn't something new, it's something so old that it's part of popular culture: the absent-minded professor syndrome. It's the stereotype of the brilliant physicist forgets what he's supposed to buy at the supermarket because he's thinking about their quantum properties. Analytic people are horrible at things that don't interest them.

Pay the students $50 for each correct answer, and there's not a doubt in my mind that the results will be the complete opposite of what he's seeing now.
Got any other examples?

Google Plus sort of does this with it's "Nearby" stream, but I can't think of any other such services that are built around search-by-location like this.
Looks interesting! Signed up and emailed you.
I recommend asking about how important a role his bizdev played in prep for launching the site as well as signing on partners thereafter. The amount of hustle it took to get us in the door with OTAs/airlines at first is not something I see in many of my startups.
No RAM upgrade path in new Macbook Pro
TLD Applications from the Parent Company of .CO Revealed
No, they weren't. I am very socially observant and was uncomfortable well before anything too obvious happened. It allowed me to carefully sidestep trouble, in some cases such that no one had a clue I ever had an issue. In one case, the man was fired for bad behavior involving a woman more than two years after I got myself very quietly moved to avoid him. So I have plenty of evidence that I was not merely being neurotic.
A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball

bat + ball = 1.1
bat = ball + 1
2bat + ball = ball +1.1 +1
2bat = 2.1
bat = 1.05
ball =0.05
I guess that's why it's an experiment. Tourist boards are driven by marketing and PR types. It's refreshingly transparent to hear from - apparently - real people... you see the country from their viewpoint.
> It is true about x86/64, at least for the most common, non-SSE instructions and normal, non-write-combined memory

To embellish further and avoid jargon for those who didn't parse this, it basically means "It is true except for the interfaces which explicitly document where it's not.".

Intel CPUs have had a "uncached/write-combining" mode for years (originally specified through special MTRR registers, then in the Page Attribute Table, and most recently in the "non-temporal" MOV instructions in SSE) which officially relaxes the requirements for store ordering. The reason for having two sets of semantics is performance: when dealing with uncached memory (typically memory used by another device, e.g. a video framebuffer) combining a bunch of writes to the same DRAM burst unit (or set of such units) is much faster than doing each word-sized I/O individually.
ISTR that displays also squawk their DPI over EDID. I say that based on experience fiddling with point sizes to get Glass Tty VT220 working right on several different displays; but of course you can also change the dpi with a magic xorg.conf setting, command line option, or xrandr.

Does Windows use the EDID-reported DPI at all?
I'm also a long-time Linux user and while I have seen Linux destroy hardware (X11 was misconfigured and fried an LCD back in the day), it is certainly not common and pretty difficult to do these days. I don't think the risk is high enough to justify voiding the hardware warranties completely.
While it is true that comment submissions to HN give an implied license for HN to post the content, with copyright being held by the submitter, you can't copyright names, titles, or short phrases (see, e.g., the 6th entry down in this FAQ section from the Copyright Office - http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html). Because of this, there is no license needed to amend a title to an article as no one owns rights to it legally.

That said, I once had a legal submission amended to a title that was really wrong legally and therefore sympathize with the sentiments expressed by tokenadult. It is one thing to clarify or to trim fluff from a title but it is another to guess at what a better title might be for a technical area that is beyond the expertise of a moderator. Hence, caution ought to be used. On balance, though, I have found the moderators to be thoughtful when they do make such changes and so I am sure this is just one of the hazards of trying to monitor a site that can include complex materials from varying sources.
In this particular case the player has won. He just continued an ended up in this Orwellian scenario.
The article was down, but I assume this will be relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenkerian_analysis

We spent a lot of time doing this sort of stuff to flesh out harmonic and melodic patterns/meaning of pieces while at music school. To (grossly) simplify, it's essentially a form of reduction analysis, but the final step of the analysis is always I - V - I chord progression (tonic - dominant) with the 3 blind mice melody above (stepwise descending). I never found the final reduction particularly useful as, though he had a point about the prevalence of the tonic dominant relationship, it was over blown. The reduction steps were very useful for stripping away flourishes though, in order to see what was happening at a more base level in a piece (we analyzed a lot of Mahler this way).

Kinda like Map/Reduce in some ways.
Quite a few of these online:

MC trained on classical composers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOZ2Q-Ls48U

Iannis Xenakis was a major 20th century composer who incorporated MCs into some works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTzOWKaDrVI

Haven't seen a serious effort with pop/rock though. Lyrics might be the sticking point.
Oh alrighty then. If that includes high res 5-megapixel screens being chainable, then I'm all for a hdmi port on the other side. Flexibility's where it's at.
I think the smartphone has effectively killed the P&S for me and other folks in similar ages in my circles.

It used to be a) DSLR for events + b) P&S for hiking/casual/video. But now the (b) slot is completely replaced by my iPhone. I haven't replaced the DSLR since 2004 (O.G. rebel + nifty fifty), but will probably replace that before I ever consider getting another P&S camera.
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I can't speak for pop music, but you can move from Em to C/E to F, which is basically a delayed resolution of the E to F, but the C Major is definitely there.
Is it now? http://store.steampowered.com/video/900
Probably more interesting than the actual notes would be the figured chords and their progressions.

In other words, "C G a F" isn't materially that different from "G D e C" or "F C d Bb". All three are instances of the same progression: "I V vi IV" ...which happens to be the most hackneyed (or "effective", depending on your point of view) chord progression in popular music over the last 30 years.

If you transform each chord progression into its figured representation then you can pick up more significant trends such as the above, or blues changes (e.g. "I I I I / VI VI I I / V VI I I") and then you can start to discern when they rose to popularity and which ones are falling out of favor.

For example, in the 50s and 60s, I have no doubt "I vi IV V" was more popular than "I V vi IV" but I have no way to prove it currently and would love to find out if I'm right or wrong on that.
The truth is, right now I just email the ones I am interested in. Some work out, some don't.

I definitely agree that there is value behind that process - and I have some ideas about how to solve that issue. But I first want to verify that there is a market-based need for the core product. Once people find it useful enough to pay for, then I will continue tweaking it and adding stuff on, etc.

I am not selling the software, I am just selling access to the leads. So you sign up, and my software sends you an email with 5 - 10 leads every single day.

I doubt that everybody will act on every single lead, every single day. Plus, I do agree that if we are to look at extreme cases - where I have as many freelancers as I can get, and everybody is replying to every lead - then the value of each lead decreases (or increases, depending on your perspective), but I will be tweaking it and adding sources and listening to feedback.

If the problem I am having is that too many people competing for the same leads, I think that would be a good problem to have :)
Sweden is certainly one of the most politically correct countries around; there is just one "good" way of thinking.

In short, just another stupid moral panic in Sweden. Nothing to see here, move along.
Raspberry Pwn: A pentesting release for the Raspberry Pi
That doesn't sound like a particularly good way of teaching a kid personal responsibility and how to look after themselves. I'd get my theoretical child an Android phone and teach them how to root it.
The grainy backgrounds are a subtle visual cue, aiding the user in focusing on your foreground elements (just like in real life when your eyes focus on something, the background is blurred). In my experience, this is particularly helpful in increasing engagement with media elements.
I assure you in the Valley its not just in coffee shops. I've lived here for 5+ years and the mass majority of folks I come across are Mac users. While its true Mac shares are probably still single digits, in this region, they are dominating.
Note that motorbike GPS are ruggedized and waterproof - something that doesn't apply to the regular ones. They also have to work when being used with gloves not fingers, and are a smaller market. An Android phone isn't particularly comparable.

They do include lifetime maps with many car models these days (look for LMT after the model number for lifetime maps and traffic).

For some reason Garmin do have a perverse business model for the handheld units. I think they are trying to do the whole razor (gps) and blades (maps) model, but instead consumers are routing around this by just not buying their products. What Garmin should be doing is encouraging their customers to be doing as much mapping as possible rather than pricing them out of it.
Apache and PHP were not made with Websockets in mind - they're stateless, whereas Websockets messaging typically requires stateful persistent connections. This is a big reason a lot of developers are using these new web architectures (Node, EventMachine, TwistedMatrix etc), or migrating back to JVM based systems.
That can be solved by all mods posting as "mod" and not having a 'reply' link to that comment. (I am not advocating removing 'reply' link though)
I also decided not to click through on the "Heat & Thunder" article until I saw here that it's about visualizations.
I generally did not "dread" going to work. I am very good at some things. Avoiding this type of trouble is one of those things. So while I felt it was unjustly burdensome, no, there was not typically a feeling of dread.

I live with a dread disease. I have raised very challenging children. I was sexually abused as a child. In short, I have done much harder things. But having been a homemaker for a long time, I was surprised and annoyed to run into this crap at work so much. I was there to get a paycheck, not pick up men.
He's doing stuff at a way way lower of musical theory (just saying things like "what chords occur the most?") than Schenkerian analysis. He's certainly not looking at the shape of a song as a whole.

Schenkerian analysis is a ton of fun, although you have to remember to just use it as a tool and not take it too seriously.
Great article!

"Battier’s game is a weird combination of obvious weaknesses and nearly invisible strengths."
> These aren't huge projects

For me, an individual, that is massive.

Where I work (now part time) that is average. But what works for a multi-person company doesn't necessarily work for individuals :)

> If your dealflow is dominated by a few recurring clients, you should consider whether you have something more analogous to a retainer or staff-aug arrangement than a true project model.

So my client list consists of around 50 regulars who will ask for work on irregular schedules, averaging around 5-7 hours a month (totting up to around 25-30 hours). Word of mouth can add 1 client per month. Together it equates to 80% of my work.

A retainer model would put off almost all of these clients.

> Why were you discussing with your clients how a "daily rate was better for them"?

Usually the discussion went like this
- Please quote us XYZ

- Here you go, X days @ £Y

- Days??? What is this?

- Sigh

(also; I noted that clients seem to see "8 hours" as lot less than "1 day", even if you're charging the same - something I tested on a couple of in-tandem clients)

> "It's stressful for me personally to effectively receive 8x$hourly instead of breaking out precisely how many hours I worked so I can justify 6x$hourly with the client without arguing"

I think your views are skewed by the sort of clients you have. The only clients I've had who didn't query daily rates are companies large enough to have a HR department. I personally hate those - they waste my billable hours on bureaucracy, and I prefer to be paid to code :)

I also don't understand the argument you are making; one of my reasons for changing back to hourly billing is that my daily rated plateaued at around £900 (and I thought I was worth more). My equivalent rate now is much higher (~£1400), and I work more "days" in the month.

> It is a seller's market right now.

Absolutely; and there are some of us mopping up the lower end of the market. Demand is outstripping my own availability to the extent that at the moment "small projects only" is my maxim.

I understand where you are coming from; but this is my viewpoint after fine tuning small-town consultancy for ~18 months, as an individual, of how I can make the most money.

For a business on the scale you operate, yes, daily rates is the standard (and best) model.

p.s. from another comment I noticed:

> Worth noting: good clients tend not to pay anything for the 1-hour "oh cripes" conversation. I'm extremely unlikely to bill for an hour or two of work.

For you, that is easy soak. For me, I make myself available these very-occasional crisis moments - but that is two hours I can't just wave off... bill!

And the client is happy with this; they don't have to pay an expensive retainer for something they use at most twice a year. They just pay when they need me. Best of all it works for me because I am not obligated to them; so if they call and I am not available they don't get snippy because they are paying me to be available (nasty experience of this).

I do have one client who retains me for high availability - and their "hourly rate" is 250% higher than normal. They tend to be quite demanding.

Again, only my 2p. :)
Honestly, I do not have salary data. However, for sure, the salaries were in average or above range.
You should check some salary stats. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141716
A simpler explanation is simply the changing market and distribution. It was really only in the last two hundred years that composers could support themselves by selling their music rather than relying on patronage, with Beethoven being the first to do so. Cheap recordings and broadcasting have changed the game entirely. You might not be able to name a single popular singer of the 19th century, but that's not because they didn't exist; the practice goes back to the troubadours of nearly a thousand years ago.

It's not that art music has had a big fall from grace and lost its grip on the public's heart, paving the way for rock and pop. It never had that grip in the first place. The musical descendants of Bach and Beethoven are alive and kicking; just look at John Williams.
Ah, interesting! I haven't seen this yet (really want to), but figured it was the opposite:

>The pic's most compelling story by far is that of four-eyed Fez designer Phil Fish, whose love of the game is so deep he can't finish it.

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117946963?refcatid=31&p...

Fish spent 5 years on the game and it definitely shows in the details.
Macbook Air CPU < MBP CPU

By a long shot.

But I'll stand corrected. I'm obviously just playing with inferior tools.
I'm pretty sure it's because of the store forwarding hardware. Intel CPUs can return a successful load of a recently-stored address with low latency (basically by keeping a special purpose cache of recent store addresses in the pipeline and returning their values before the actual commit). But that means that the "store" is viewed from the issuing CPU to have committed long before loads that might have been filled by caches on the other CPUs. There's no way to preserve both this optimization and a unified order.
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who thinks this. I think it's really telling that a community which is ostensibly concerned with the science of achieving desires spends so much time focused on the "problem" of akrasia.

It's also heartbreaking to see intelligent people getting so excited about ideas like cryonics and personality uploading. I mean, they're interesting things to talk about, but a lot of people on LW seem to actually think they might get to live forever. It's kinda sad.
I don't see why, when smart people are trained to be lazy, researchers are surprised that smart people are lazy.