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I also agree with your comment. I did both questions as fast as I could and only got the first wrong and the second right. It reminded me of a brilliant Civil Engineering professor I once had who was showing us his notes on the projector (the kind with the light bulb and magnifying glass over head) and someone asked him if he could turn off the lights. The student meant the lights, as in the classroom lights so he could see the projection better. The professor turned off the projector instead :)
It is odd. It is missing but the icon is still there in the app. It looks like it simply lists apps available in the app store that provide routing services (none are displayed though).

Walking directions work.

Also, the maps are (IMO) significantly worse in quality than Google Maps. Turn by turn is nice though. Something that Google Maps should have implemented a long time ago.

It will interesting to see what the Google Maps app introduces and whether Apple accepts it.
Another megaproject supporting my theory there's a market for promoting - not building, just promoting - projects so large, expensive and outlandish that a small team can make a decent buck thereon. A miniscule percentage of half a quadrillion dollars nets a few million for research, marketing & salaries.
Eb in original tuned guitar is very hard. But yeah detuning it 1 semitone is a good trick.
On the other hand, the predictability of the AI of RTS-Games (and the Civilization-games) gets critized quite often.

A good AI is a believable AI, in games. The AI of a game shouldn't be too powerful, the player has to have a chance to win. But predictable? I agree that the AI shouldn't be incomprehensible. The player should be be able to predict some moves. But if it really is utterly predictable, it is also frustrating.

Take Greedcorp as an example - or chess. If the player would never be baffled by the move of the AI, it would be no fun at all to play against them.

PS: But believability really is important. I always hated the moment in late-game of civ when conquering cities of advanced civilization with nothing in them but a temple. Always made it look like the AI doesn't even build properly and only can compete because of cheating, which repeatedly destroyed my motivation to beat the game.
Daryl Oster's company has submitted proposals to Florida, at least, on building and maintaining a system such as this. I think part of the requirement for submitting such a proposal is at least a cursory cost analysis. Wikipedia reads a bit like the company wrote it itself, but:

The firm fixed bid for the 96-mile (154 km) Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) system was $253M, this was less than one tenth of the cost of the bid by Global Rail Consortium to build electrified double track High Speed Rail for $2.6B. The bid by et3 contained letters of support by three entities in China to supply IP and key materials for the project. The engineering consultants hired by the authority did not dispute the validity of the et3 bid price or ETT technology, but recommended to eliminate the et3 bid from consideration for other reasons.[1]

This comment doesn't pass judgment on whether Daryl Oster is a patent troll or not, but that's also a discussion worth having.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuated_Tube_Transport
Maybe so that you can delete it locally and download it again through Steam (though I could be wrong). In the era of smaller SSDs, I find this very helpful.
The chunnel is technically under rock, not under water. It's not exposed to the ocean.
Indeed, there's already a vacuum we already have above our heads that could be used for this purpose... i.e., suborbital space flight.

I can't imagine it'd be more expensive than tunneling 3000 miles under an ocean.
that song (dunno who it's by) with the lyrics "We found love in a hopeless place"

It's by Rihanna, and I can't even understand how it got released. It's like something that got rejected from how-to-make-techno.tumblr.com for being too basic.
I stand corrected in regards to Opera. I have 9.8 (which I downloaded not so long ago) which does not support Websocket.
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I never have understood people's fears about getting on an airplane... this though I'd be scared to death of. You have any unfortunate shift in the tectonic plates (which happens daily and unpredictably) and you could be dead in an instant.
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imgsizer:

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Ok then.
The rest of your personality traits that allow you to accomplish great things (diligence, perseverance, focus, empathy, etc), as well as external factors such as being born at the right place and the right time, are also arguably a genetic / environmental dice roll.
An alternative solution might be to just sell DRM-free pdfs, mobis and epub files on a non-Amazon service, since most people hate DRM.
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I lost 8kgs on a low carb diet. Aimed to keep my carb intake between 20-30 carbs per day for about 2 months (Christmas was in the middle, so I cheated and ate all kinds of horrible foods and that screwed up my progress).

After getting down to my ideal weight I stopped the diet and now eat normally but try to avoid high carb foods.

It may be a fad, but it works if you're strict.
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>Also, the maps are (IMO) significantly worse in quality than Google Maps. Turn by turn is nice though. Something that Google Maps should have implemented a long time ago.

The build-in Android map application has had turn by turn for some time now.
I had posted the recent one and after it hit the top of the first page, I received an email to not editorialize titles in HN posts, and it was changed.

On reflection, it was quite clearly a spin and I could have made that title much better. The mods are generally looking out for the community and trying to keep titles as representative of the as possible.
Do you mean a wishlist or ones that might be in the work already (like google self driven car). I personally would like to have a flying gadget.
If I remember correctly the Apple maps are/will be based on Openstreetmap project. If that's the cas, and Apple will provide content to the open community then I think it's great idea they are moving on from Google. But with Apple's history in basically everything my hopes for them helping the Openstreetmaps are low.
I think there is a 'situational intelligence' or a set of schemas you develop for dealing with things within a certain activity; e.g. an old school photographer may not need to use a light meter at all to get well exposed negatives; a Unix administrator will know where to look when a system starts to behave oddly; a nursery nurse will know when a child needs attention and when they can be left.

I wonder what the results would look like if you wrote 'bias check questions' within a knowledge domain and some outside the domain and compared the scores of a group of practitioners and a group of non-practitioners, sort of a four way table.
A sovereign government is a monopoly on the use of force over a given territory. I would hate to have no ability to escape a government if it became tyrannical. A global government makes escape impossible.
> Debit cards carry reversal rights as well - at least in the United States.

It's provided as a service sometimes, but the legal obligation is very different (essentially absent altogether), as are the incentives.

With a credit card, the 'default' is that you don't pay the credit card company (and you have no reason to), so they lose out on the money unless they get it back from the merchant.

With a debit card, the 'default' is that the merchant wrongfully holds onto the money, and unless they get it back, you lose out on the money. Since they have no legal obligation to settle that dispute even when the customer is in the right, they may not, in which case you (the debit card consumer) lose out.
Good points. Many rules in popular music come directly from classical music (after all, it's been around for a while).

However, as you can see in the Hooktheory database, there are many progressions that seem to be unique to popular music.

You mentioned iii->IV, which is a no-no in classical music due to the parallel fifths (more common: V/vi -> IV). But also look at progressions like: C G Bb F, which is extremely common in pop. Here we have a double plagal cadence set up by the dominant that was never used by Bach or Mozart, which is probably best functionalized as: I V IV/IV IV
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By 4chan standards, it's positively noble.

Of course, anything starting with "by 4chan standards" has got to be pretty depraved already.
It's still an ugly hack.

While I agree screen densities won't increase anytime soon, it's still an unsolved problem.

IIRC, NeXT did solve it, as did Sun's NeWS.
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When I first encountered these, without the "it's going to be tricky" priming, I must admit I got the bat and ball one wrong until I revisited it. The lily pad one I got right with no deep thinking - my explanation is that experience working with bits primed me for treating "doubles" more correctly. That's post hoc and anecdotal, of course, so take it for whatever, but I thought it interesting...
i love this game. civ V roooooocks.
If US really legalizes online gambling Zynga is not the best play. IMHO MGM Resorts (MGM) or Las Vegas Sands (LVS) are better plays if you are bullish.
Don't worry, you're both right. No self-respecting researcher uses SAT scores as proxies for intelligence in the social sciences.
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Programmers do ask the community to find and fix bugs.

See, for example, Google offering bounties on Chrome exploits, or the Tarsnap bug bounties.

(http://www.tarsnap.com/bugbounty.html)

Are you suggesting these are bad things?

The scientists had weird results. They checked everything; they wrote up the results; they released the results cautiously, asking other people to check for errors.

They are not to blame for the appalling state of scientific reporting in mainstream media.
A useful app, though overshadowed by the clunky looking & feeling UI.
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Would love to see how they costed that out. Given that I don't know of a single engineering company that can build straight up light rail track for at $2.5M/mile even if you give them the land for free.

Edit: add this update --

Interestingly this link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/843626/posts claims that the ET3 bid was 1.2B$ which is $12.5M/mile which is a lot more credible (still low though since the surrounding infrastructure to keep the tube evacuated, the mag lev stuff, etc all add cost over regular fused rail electrified service (which California is considering for its fast rail) and that is looking closer to $25M/mile in the current state of the art)
This is just like Gene Roddenberry's old show Genesis II from 1973.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_(film)

I saw it when I was a kid and I thought it was awesome!
The reality is a bit murkier. Usually a hedge fund "leaks" info to the journalists (someone familiar with the matter is the standard euphemism) which is sufficiently plausible so as to become the reality
Indeed. Google could have implemented it on iOS if they had wanted to, but that was a pretty big selling point for some people to get an Android phone over iOS.

At least it was for me when I bought my Nexus One unlocked after eBaying a free-on-contract HTC Pure instead of getting the iPhone 3G(S? not sure if it was out back then)
The human brain has enormous capacity to develop in a wide variety of areas. Most of these areas are not measured in tests like the IQ tests. IQ tests mainly measure those brain functions we find beneficial in modern western society.

IQ tests, SATs, ACTs and other standardized test like them are improperly named. They should be called "Tests That Predict Success or Failure in the School System From Which the Questions Have Been Derived."
Sounds great, hopefully someone ported this to emacs :-)
The worst part is that it comes by email, which is plaintext everywhere.

However, "encrypted in a database" is not "plaintext". It's certainly not ideal or recommended, that's for sure, but it's not the worst way to handle passwords. If properly implemented, a bunch of AES encrypted passwords without a key are nearly as useless to an adversary as a bunch of bcrypt hashes.

Just don't reuse passwords (at least for accounts you care about) and it really doesn't matter.
I saw a pound coin and a 10p coin (UK) and got the first one wrong, I saw a bar graph with a lot of doubling bars, and saw the long history of doubling and got the second one right. I saw the money by denomination, and not as a quantity perhaps. Interesting.
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Great. More parasites.
As a longtime gamer, this article really struck a chord with me. Dragon magazine used to print playable adventures, and in August 1981 (I just went and looked it up), there was a Gamma World adventure called "Cavern of the Sub-Train."

The player characters in their post-apocalyptic world come across a abandoned series of tunnels they can't explain, but which are described for the game master in the notes:

The system once spanned the North American continent and was used primarily as a method of high-speed transportation of freight. The sub-train system is something like a 20th-century subway system, in that it consists of a self-propelled train moving through an underground tunnel. Unlike the 20th- century system, however, the “trains” moved through a vacuum while being supported on super-conducting magnetic rails at very high speeds.
bat - ball = 1

1 - .1 = .9

1.05 - .05 = 1
Always bet on stupidity.
Yeah, I'd be part of that 90%, too...
Assuming the poster means Google Maps on the iPhone, which doesn't have turn by turn?

(fwiw, turn by turn and maps are great on my Android)
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I think this is the funniest thing i've ever seen. Troll or not, this is hilarious
I've never had a debit card. Every time I've opened a bank account, I've asked for a plain ATM card with no Visa or MasterCard logo instead. It's safer because there's a mandatory PIN and an enforced daily withdrawal limit.
I think the parent comment uses the term "intelligence" to describe a very different concept than what you have in mind. It probably has to do with high IQ, long and short term memory, problem solving skills, etc.

As a matter of fact, it would be worthwhile to avoid using the term "intelligence" in this discussion altogether. Please read this reference to understand why: http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/

The whole point is that people assume that "problem solving" and "memory" skills automatically protect you against bias. This assumption is false, since "bias prevention" is a different kind of cognitive skill that must be practiced and developed independently.
I think one of the primary issues with popular music is that it's often ambiguous whether it's in a major or minor mode, even when the song starts on a minor chord. Classically, one would mark the transition to a minor mode by the existence of an authentic cadence: V/vi -> vi, or by the raised scale degree 5, but neither of those clues exist in either song that you mentioned.

In songs like My Heart Will Go On, it appears that the verse tonicizes I, where as the chorus centers around the relative minor. However does it make sense to say it switches modes every time the section changes? Maybe not
Is this a troll, or are you misinformed?
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Surely any tunnel built will be surrounded with rock/concrete as its structure, ultimately it will still be a case of people surrounded by solid material surrounded by water.
You're subbing in 1.00 for Bat when you should be subbing in 1.00 + Bal for Bat so that you have 1.00 + Bal + Bal = 1.10
I wonder what the RIAA thinks of someone amassing a database of the chord patterns of 1300 popular songs.
If he had his wits about him, he would have titled it "What Intelligence Tests Skip".
It's got a strong hook- something I have come to believe is nine-tenths of a pop single's success.
No, as a swede i dont this this is that bad, I believe that gay people has the same rights as all other humans and I believe this is a common swedish mindset. Sweden is a highly secularized and liberal country in the subjects of gay and religion. These comments on jews and gays are just inflammatory and made to make page views. As outsiders that have a more sensitive view on gay and religion these views may be offensive. but to many swedes these comments are recognized as attention craving and irrelevant.
The "gambit" is offering $70,000 worth of grants with the ultimate goal being, hopefully, to recruit the graduates.

If I'm understanding correctly, the people that would go to Hacker School aren't necessarily ready for a job at Etsy (the goal being "turn people with a passion for programming into professional engineers").

So it could fail in several ways and the money would go to waste (at least from the perspective of hiring). Now, I would imagine $70,000 isn't much to a company like Etsy, but "gambit" is still an appropriate way to put it.
> Why is it that people who have a greater capacity to overcome bias have a greater vulnerability to bias?

Overconfidence. If you've become accustomed to thinking of yourself as being better able to avoid cognitive bias, you come to be confident in your abilities, to the point where you (perhaps unconsciously) think of yourself as not susceptible to biases.
It didn't, the title got changed to "I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found."
I now try to buy all my electronics at Amazon instead of NewEgg or TigerDirect due to the poor return policies at Newegg and TigerDirect with DOA items. NewEgg used to be better than it is now but they have gone downhill in the past two years. TigerDirect has always had poor return policies.
The problem is twofold:

1) for customers price is more important than UX

2) price is a relationship, not discovery, game

You can't get access to the really deep deals without relationships, and if you are not the primary you have to undercut competition.

IMHO the best play is to build the UX and then flip it to a company like Kayak.
Every day it blows my mind how much of a tactical/strategic game basketball is. You provide some great examples! It's often hard to see as an outsider. "Why is he shooting 3's? He shoots 25% from beyond the arc!" ...well, he may be trying to draw his defender out so that he can penetrate easier. "Why is he complaining to the ref about that obvious non foul?" ...well, maybe he is priming the ref for the next posession, where he is planning on going to the rim and expects to get fouled. I would love to hear more tactial examples, those are awesome!
While we are on the subject, does anyone have a good website to find when is the cheapest time to fly to a particular city?
No, research did't show that "we do this" or "our approach is that" or "humans aren't rational" -- what the research showed is that the typical person does this or that.

A similar experiment where people draw the wrong conclusions is the Milgram experiment. Yes, most people are obedient to authority figures and do what they are told. But not everyone acts that way.

This research likes to sweep the best human beings under the rug, as if being virtuous is not something to try to emulate, but is something to hide. This explains why the majority of people act the way they do. Perhaps if they were taught that their "we're only human" vices are not the ideal to emulate, perhaps if the best that humanity had to offer were put forth as the ideal instead, then these lesser human beings who make up the majority would become what they might be and ought to be.
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Why was the HN story about changing titles killed?
Just now a submission about moderators of the site changing titles of the submission was killed. It had more than 400 votes, and had some good points, good examples, and good discussion.

Why was this killed? It seemed like a good post with a sober discussion of when and how the editors should change titles of submissions.

Original (now dead) post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102013
To expand a bit on the 1980s, certainly the average song might have gotten simpler, but there were still some challenging music being written. Most metal and hard rock might have had simpler harmonic structures, but the complexity was going up as solos became more and more challenging (something that continues into the modern day).

I might argue that the regression towards simpler music starting in the 1980s might be due to MTV and increased media coverage of music stars. Starting with MTV and music videos, to be really successful, your looks started to matter. This gave rise to acts who may not have been as musically talented, but were more marketable because they looked better on TV. That's not to say that music acts were never on TV before 1980, which is obviously not true, but MTV did change the game quite a bit and maybe started this trend of towards simpler music with prettier stars.
It really shouldn't be that bad. The cost is mainly due to it being in a dense city and having to deal with endless environmental (broad sense) concern.

A better comparison is an actual underwater tube:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbay_Tube

3.6 miles cost about $1 billion in 2012 dollars. Closer to $55k/foot.

Don't get me wrong. This is still impossibly expensive even at that lower rate: $22 trillion.

Even at using costs of the propsed high speed rail in California ($80M/mile), nyc-london would cost $280 billion.
I think it's really great to have some competition in the maps world (Google, OpenStreetMap, Apple, Bing, MapQuest), but I'm worried that Apple won't allow Google maps to put out their own app on iOS, meaning if it's inferior, we're stuck with it.
I gather that the intent is to tether the tunnel. I've seen how cables are run in tectonic-active areas: they are provided a certain elasticity and I imagine it would be similar. Earthquakes don't move much more than a few meters at a time (for a very very large event). How would this be any different than the Chunnel?

My own comment on this article:
"getting to, from and through airports is very time consuming"

I don't see how this would be any less time consuming. Security would be an equal nightmare - the only benefit would be that the citizens can utilize NYC/Londons existing transport infrastructure much like it's easier to get to the Chunnel departure station than it is to get to Gatwick.
If you're interested in learning music theory (as I am currently) and how the the Beatles' music evolved, this series of articles by Alan W. Pollack is fantastic:

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_...

They were originally Usenet postings(!) starting in 1989 or thereabouts, but have been revised a bit. Warning: you could lose hours reading through them all.

One thing that comes up many times there that I'd be interested in seeing added to a quantitative analysis like this one is how many times something can "seem" like it might be in one key but ends up really being in another, but I don't know how you would count that.