skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be some truth to this, but it also goes the other way.

The modern 6-string guitar became popular in part because it was good for the kinds of music people wanted to play. I, IV, V, and vi (C, F, G, and Am) have a long history after all.

It's an interesting idea, that the evolution of music might be guided by an interplay between people choosing and designing new instruments to suit their tastes, and people developing new musical tastes using whatever existing instruments happen to be available.
Actually, one of the coolest things, to me, about LessWrong, is the fact that the community as a whole is arguably more rational than the founder. Eliezer's own LessWrong comments have been downvoted many times, and a number of those were during the "basilisk" debacle. Many of the site's regulars were on the side of sanity in that incident.

So I think it's fair to tar Eliezer himself for that incident, but I don't think it's a good indictment of the site's community as a whole.
Isn't resistance against bias a very requirement for considering someone intelligent? What exactly is intelligence if not the ability to think clearly?

To me, this looks like a definition game. Smart/stupid is a black & white view of looking at it and hence, misleading. As one overcomes his primitive biases, we call him smart, even though he remains susceptible to other biases.

In other words, people aren't smart or stupid. People's actions are smart or stupid in a particular situation.
From a memory and hand position standpoint chords that have a black key in the middle (D maj. E maj. etc) are the easiest.

Disagree. You can move around the chords on the white keys without changing your hand shape and everything will sound harmonically related and therefore in key, plus it's easier to count on the white keys. I've been playing music as an adult for 15 years (and had 5 or 6 years of piano lessons as a kid), I know a great deal of music theory and am familiar with a wide variety of scales, modes, and alternate tuning systems, and I still find it easier to move around on the white keys. I happen to particularly like the Phrygian mode, but tend to just play things in E Major when I'm trying out ideas and then transpose afterwards, because as long as I'm playing on the white keys and remember what the root is I literally can't hit a wrong note.

Some people just stick with the original key that lets them play this way; music teachers refer it as 'white note fever.'
> For every story of landlord abuse, there is one for tenants who take advantage of the system as well.

And there are occasional stories of landlords being awesome, too - ours let us use her wifi while we waited for our net to be hooked up, for instance.
I have the opposite reaction when I have seen questions from these guys that goes something like, how do people get this stuff wrong?

X+Y = 1.10; Y + 1 = X; (Y+1)+Y = 1.1; 2y=.1, y=.05, x= 1.05;

2^48=x; 2^y=.5x; y=47
Seconded.
Read "On Writing Well" -- write something, cut it in half, then cut that in half, and then once again cut that in half.
Our Unquenchable Craving for the Illusion of Scientifically-Validated Insight
I'm not at all convinced of your claim that children aren't already getting smart phones. As far as I can see they are, and at a rapidly increasing rate.
But that doesn't preclude the possibility of keeping a box of jacks and a crimp tool, just in case.
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This. I think many people don't think they are susceptible to these biases because every time they encounter one, it is in the context of reading about biases and thus they are primed to be on the lookout for trickiness.

I guess "many people" includes me - I always thought I was good at these types of questions, maybe I'm not :(
Completely new design. Featured page is horrible, but everything else seems like an improvement.
Anyone here working on an O-1?
Interesting but a melody analysis would be way more insightful.

Pop music is all about the simple melody, in terms of impacting a recognizable pattern on the brain. That is why it's popular, and you see the same melodies repeated over and over, and over, and over.
I don't doubt it. I just thought it was funny that coffee shops were mentioned specifically in multiple posts. Probably not a good random sample.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=znga+vs+fb

Some nice charts...
SV is well ahead of the bell curve on technology domination. While conference rooms full of MacBooks may be passe' or declining in the valley, the ubiquity of Apple gear in conference rooms east of the Rockies is still a very new thing.

If it's old and tired in Oakland, its still new and shiny in Oakbrook. :-)
Sorry, Nerds: The Interstellar Vacation of Your Dreams Is 200 Yrs Away
I wish the title field was exactly eighty characters so that you would know where your title needed to be cropped, instead of bruteforcing it or piping it to wc or cut.

-<td><input type="text" name="t" size="50"></td>
+<td><input type="text" name="t" size="80"></td>
Agreed. Perhaps the "smart" people are taking shortcuts for brainteaser questions. But when it comes down to it smart people are probably smart cuz they put in the effort to sit down and think about the problem at hand at some point. Give an incentive (grades, job performance, $50), and you're right, they'll probably get the right answer.
Yes, it might be. It tends not to be behind several years behind though, particularly given the CPU's in a MBP.

The memory bandwidth, # of cores, fixed point and floating-point computational characteristics of MBP's are not that different from their desktop brethren (smaller, but they tend to be proportional). Bottom line is chewing half the power still puts you ahead after a couple of iterations of Moore's Law.

If your problem is bigger than that, or requires specialized hardware, it tends to make sense to support external hardware and/or distributed computation, in which case the MBP's limitations tend to matter far less.
Objective-C passed C# in TIOBE Index
I have a roommate who just missed the deadline and is trying to figure out what her options are (background is in image processing/medical imaging)--she had an offer, but the process is rather long going from J-1 to H1...
over under on the time that it takes for this to be changed?
IMHO C major / A minor, C scales, etc. start out easier, but don't necessarily stay that way: sometimes it's nice to have a couple of black notes in there as a reference point. Especially if you aren't looking at the keyboard.
Link to the BBC article instead of the blogspam: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120601-high-speed-pipedrea...

Also, easy terrorist target.
If you take out resistance against bias off it, what exactly do you mean by "intelligence" ?
New search engine pulls cameras, mics & sensors to answer real-time queries
Humanscale Freedom Task Chair:
http://humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=Free...
I've definitely seen searching by lat/lng, e.g. http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=cant%20wait%20for%20...

I would guess it's the "by time" filter that makes this unique
Basically, if you're ordering a new MBP, you'll probably want to get the full 16GB right out of the gate.
After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Faces Crisis
Ask HN: What are the technological gadgets you are craving for?
Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Google self-driven car…
Am I the only one that thinks "Ugh, not making money yet"?

Yes yes, I know about burning cash (err, growing) as fast as possible to lock down winner-take-all markets, but travel booking doesn't seem like one of those. There doesn't seem to be any switching cost other than typing a different url in the browser. I don't see any network effects. Am I missing something?

This is a business with revenue streams and cash flow. They've been around for two years. They've already raised more than $5mm. When I hear "we raised another venture round" my gut reaction is concern, not congratulations.

As far as the product goes: The UX is nice. But every time I tried hipmonk, the prices were higher than what I found elsewhere, so I stopped using it.
If founder is already worth billions, why would they seek VC for a new startup?
Anyone know about the non-retina MBPs?
The electric guitar wasn't a enw things in the 1980s. I suspect the return to simplicity was a combination of two things; punk rock musicians' antipathy to the complex arrangements and elaborate production of disco, and the availability of (relatively) cheap and reliable digital synthesizers, which led to a proliferation of electronic 'one man bands.' It's easy to make all the music in a track yourself with a few electronic instruments, but if your primary skill is in the production of said music, then the rhythm, melodies, and harmony are going to be more basic.
Why do employees leave startups for big companies
I add all my games to Steam. The Steam overlay works well with most modern non-steam games, so I can still chat with my friends on Steam.
What makes current train system a more difficult target than these tubes?
Knowledge of rudimentary music theory makes this link upsetting in what it's missing. It looks at data in the wrong way.

I hope that other articles on HN don't fall apart like this if you know a little about the subject.
Exactly. Urban navigation, solid, universal navigation, no so much. What is worse is that navigation 'sketchyness' from the likes of signal drop outs. Trying to use my Nexus to navigate from Sacramento CA to San Jose, several complete blackouts along the way, map just goes blank.

And of course its a huge data consumer if its throwing map tiles at you constantly. Clearly local storage is so cheap and geo data changes so slowly that it seems ridiculous that the phone doesn't just keep a cache and save you the net charges but that doesn't seem to be in the plans.
How To Evaluate Design
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I understand TCP enforces packet order and works really well for large transfers etc.

But when writing a game where people interact in "real time" through their browser via websockets, anything to get TCP latency down is a plus in my book.

While packet loss is bound to cause some latency issues, I just want to minimize the latency hit for packet loss as much as possible. For instance, in a high packet loss situation, to overcome double loss (where a retried packet gets lost, causing 2xRTT of extra latency), perhaps TCP can send multiple retries at once after a single lost packet. For all I know, maybe this is a standard configuration parameter that I just have to set appropriately.
Bcrypt is no longer recommended.

NIST recommends PBKDF2.

In short, it appears that advances in hardware have made it possible such that bcrypt hashes can be efficiently computed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4781/do-any-secu...
Facebook, the Perfect Startup
I sort of realized I was already primed for "gotchas"! Of course I can't sing my own praises without showing some bias, since the whole article was about bias.
Eventually, software will write music just for you. And lyrics too.
Alan Hollis is in Britain, where they do not import H1B labor, unlike the USA. Any comments from the readers on the ease of doing freelance work in the USA vs Britain???
Calculus? These problems require elementary school arithmetic or, being generous, basic algebra.
One of my (now) competitors just closed a funding round, a YC alum; for several million dollars. I have two questions.

Should I continue with development given the circumstances and just make mine better or yield?

I vote for "keep going, make your product better, storm their castle gates, and kick a mudhole in their arses." Run them into the ground, wait for them to spend their last dollar, offer to buy their company for an old Coke can pulltab and a ball of string. Laugh at their pitiful attempts to beat you, and crush their throats under your boot-heel as you gloat maniacally.

Well, maybe not quite all that, but you get the drift...
Excellent point. Also, if you adopt that value system, you may be just as susceptible to making errors, but you will be slower to trust your own thoughts. In terms of the examples given, you may get the ball and bat thing wrong intuitively, but if you know not to trust your intuitive thought, you'll say "hang on, is that correct?" and switch to slow/analytical thinking to arrive at the correct answer. Maybe. Hopefully.
Ouch, you're absolutely right. This was also what I was thinking as I watched the ads - "Great, so my old strategy is useless now?". How quick one forgets... ;-)
Look, if you're happy, you're happy. I've read your comments for years, like them, and certainly don't want to condescend to you.

I generally think you will make more money and have less stress if you can adopt a business model that doesn't involve mopping up the low end of the market at an hourly rate.

I can obviously see how switching from low-end hourly work to daily rate or project work could be stressful. I'd just say, recognize that the stress is coming from transitioning your business, not from the difference in client expectations. Transitions are painful. Better clients, as a rule, are not; we might effectively call this "the patio11 rule": your customer service burden diminishes as your price raises.

That said, if the transition isn't worth it to you, it's not worth it! There could be lots of reasons why it wouldn't be.
Doesn't he allow for this by normalising all songs to the key of C before doing the analysis?
Axis of Awesome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
FWIW i signed up to your udemy course, but I don't particularly feel like making a disqus account to also comment on the book, that's what's bothering me. I guess I will just abstain from commenting though, it's fair enough.
I agree whole-heartedly. Moderators frequently changing titles is an annoying practice. The article's links are not descriptive (they're just id numbers), so the article titles are how I mentally keep track of which submissions I want to, or don't want to, read. Changing the the title makes me have to guess if it is a new submission to hit the front page or just an old one with new clothes, so to speak.
This isn't news. The redirect has been in place for a while. I posted a link to exactly this a few hours ago before digging around and finding that it's been up there for a while.
Quite a simple experiment to see what's limiting the web.

IFrames are a double-edged sword, but there definitely seems to be some potential in how we can leverage them to bring the web closer together :)
IOS6: Simple Photo Slideshow with File API
Using the File API and the FileReader to create a simple Slideshow. Animated with CSS (and a tiny bit of Javascript)
I hacked this together in 30min. Nothing special just a small proof of concept.
Intelligence and bias resistance are at least both cognitive traits.
It's kind of lame, but it was clear within weeks after launch that the original iPad was gimped for RAM. Apple manged to make it bearable for a while, but iOS 5 on the original iPad has always been hitchy with a crashy Mobile Safari, so it's no surprise that iOS isn't going to be supported.
I'm assuming you're in the US, and this is not at all what the ACA does (which is the closest approximation to a US version of NHS).
I parsed that as:

bat = 1.1
ball = 1.1
bat = ball + 1

It confused the hell out of me.
Mysterious electrical bursts warn of material collapse
Bit worried if honestly Apple maps can ever stack up to Google. We use directions with public transportation all the time, and if that's missing from Apple maps, it will be a significant decrease in experience.
I am surprised. I thought cognitive traits had high correlation. I did not expect laziness would factor into it so much.
Lessons Learned From Our Development/Designer Apprenticeship Program
I agree; that's one thing that I think has really gotten worse from the Slashdot model to the Digg/Reddit/HN model. The Slashdot blurbs weren't great, but a bare list of links even more emphasizes linkbait and what you might call "easy" content (articles with one clear point that can be summarized in 5 words). In that ecosystem, anything that takes even three sentences to explain the appeal of tends not to go anywhere.

I end up not submitting most of the long-form or academic things I think HN readers might find interesting as a result, since just from the headline probably nobody will know why it was submitted or why they should care. Sometimes if I think something is really good I'll make an exception and submit, followed by posting a comment explaining why I thought the submission was interesting. That occasionally works, but I think most people don't click through to comments on the New page.

I'm not really blaming the readers, because I find the same problem browsing the New page myself: in this list of cryptic headlines, the only thing that stands out are controversy-type headlines ("Why you should never X"), and the rest is hard to skim.
I am 6'4", and I recently bought a Zody, review here: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/review-haworth-zody-cha...

I actually prefer this to the Aeron chair that I use at my office. I like it so much that I bought a second one for my girlfriend.
Got the lily pad one. I still cannot believe I said 10 cents on the first one with a completely non-sarcastic chuckle.

This article reminds me of pg's reasons to have a co-founder to avoid being delusional. Better be proven wrong on the inside than on the outside.

edit: Although on second thought, I think this bias theory probably extends to organizations as well. Probably that's why big companies sometimes can't see the obvious which a startup does.
Your thinking is backwards here. It's not that the music is written like this because it is played on a guitar, it is the guitar that was created to make simple music easy to play.

This is the reason why the guitar strings have the tuning they have, and not any of the million other possible combinations.
Not a more difficult target, just less of a damage multiplier, I suspect. Even in the high-speed train crashes of today deaths aren't too high. A train travelling at 2,500mph, however...
Intelligence and logical thinking are not naturally correlated; people have to be trained to reason clearly and deliberately (how to think not what to think).
There's a difference between interfering with how a parent raises their kid and disapproving of how a parent raises their kid...
Makes me wonder what I can do in the "educating families" space. This is not just a security hole in some app. This is a security hole in society. Sigh.
If the ball cost $0.10, the bat would need to cost $1.10 (a dollar more than $0.10), which would mean that the pair together would cost $1.20, which we know isn't true. To get the right answer, you have to solve the simple algebra equation in Retric's sibling comment.

For the lily pads, the percentage of the lake covered doubles every day, so the lower bound percentages for the last few days look roughly like this: 12.5%, 25%, 50%, 100%. On the 24th day, you'd have to double in size 24 more times in order to fill the pond, rather than the once it'd take on the 47th day.
>One of the weird things about World of Warcraft was that there are (or were) folks who would sort of hang out in that world just to socialize and sometimes, perhaps, go out and kill some stuff. 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.

Some of the most popular WoW UI mods were popcap-developed versions of Peggle and Bejeweled. Poker mods also were fairly popular.

Not sure if any of them still work, though.
I was wondering the same thing. With a precomputed voronoi diagram and only a few hundred cells, lookups should be almost instantaneous.
Strikes me more that the potential for damage is higher here. A pretty small explosive charge would compromise part of the tube, and then what happens to the pods zipping along at 2,500mph inside them when the air comes rushing in? For that matter, if they did have an underwater tube connecting London and NYC, the water would come rushing in and you know that's not going to end well.

It sounds pretty cool - it's the kind of sci-fi thing I'd love to see in the real world, but I can't believe it's as easy or as cheap as they're making it sound here.
That said, I once had a legal submission amended to a title that was really wrong legally

Because I always appreciate your posts, and I would hate to be misled by any title that was put on them by someone else, I'd love to see the link to the example you have in mind.

Thanks for your comments on the legal background to the issue at hand. Certainly my claim is not that HN cannot do whatever HN's leaders like. I am simply suggesting that I would like to be on notice, as one user among thousands, about what best behavior here is.
Raspberry Pi in the Sky
The UI is not very intuitive, but there are a lot of hidden/useful features once you start using it. Please check it out, and let me know what you think!
New York Facebook Already Thinks It’s Better Dressed Than California Facebook
If you decide to go with Python, consider a micro framework like bottle.py or Flask. There is less to learn to get productive. If you do anything non-trivial you will end up using a database. MySQL, PostgreSQL are most used. You may want to look in to a noSQL database like MongoDB. I find working with MongoDB very productive, especially when you are figuring / learning things on the go.

Recommended by others in this thread as well but try Coffeescript to write your Javascript and use JQuery for code that works in different browsers.
eGovernance: “FixMyStreet” Launches Services for Community Councils
Exactly. D Major chord is a V/V in C Major, which has only a couple of common uses in popular music according to the Hooktheory database. V/V -> V7 -> I is one common one. Another is a substitution for ii, like: I -> V/V -> IV -> V, see John mayer, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney etc.
What type of diversity are you referring to? Is this really something that factors into a decision about where to live?

I would think saying "I want to live somewhere where everybody is different than me" is almost as bad as saying "I want to live somewhere where everybody is the same as me"
I remember this one. I deliberately didn't click on that story or upvote it, because I though it was a linkbaity article - what was the f'ing submitter thinking? I have to click on that link to see if it's something even remotely interesting (and presumably profit such a nasty submitter by more ad-views)? No, thank you.

After a day, I thought maybe it's something really cool that's got so much upvotes and then clicked on it and was literally blown away.
> the "basilisk" debacle

Hadn't heard of this, just read the RationalWiki article-- and it is fabulous. LW literally derived religion and then took that seriously enough to cover it up.

That's fantastic.
> I don't think it's up to HTTP to distinguish between censorship and other kinds of laws

Yet, that's what's happening with the 451 error code. This is clearly aimed at government censorship - what the writer considers the wrong kind.

> Typing google.com/asdfhjk ...

Unless I'm mistaken, "client" means the browser, not the person operating the browser.

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RFC2616 states that a client is a program that establishes connections for the purpose of sending requests.
I find it fascinating you'd put internet cred over the safety of your theoretical child. "Show HN: How I got my kid to root an Android phone".