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Great! Will keep HN posted. Will reply to this thread once I have something up.
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I’d be interested to see if they observed patterns or deviations from the norm when comparing between music genres and perhaps even eras / decades.

My sense, as a classical and electric (contemporary rock / blues) guitarist is that you'd observe interesting deviations from the aggregate results described in the study.

Digging a bit I found the following research piece which shares some more thoughts on this topic:

http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/cunninghams/research/mozart.pdf
Why not add some more interesting visualizations of your data? Try http://d3js.org. For example http://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/ or http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111116/iris-parallel.ht... might be adapted to communicate which chords follow the others in a more dense fashion.
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I wrote this article while I was learning Ember, and in fact used it as a way of answering many of the questions I had that documentation didn't cover.
What he's really talking about is chord progression (while he doesn't really say that, it's essentially the description of his first few paragraphs). Most university-level music classes discuss common chord progressions. As he notes, the I, IV and V chords are the most common to appear in a song.

It's a great article, but I think he may have done a lot of work to find out something that is fairly common knowledge lol. Still cool though to have the supporting data. (edit: it would be cool to make this an interactive piece of data presentation to help you write songs. Also, the I, IV and V chords are so popular because they naturally make people feel good. It's why they show up so often in 'pop' music. minor chords have a more depressive quality to them)

Also, if you need proof that certain chords show up often in music, just listen to some Nickelback. Here is a fun link (that I THINK works. my speaker only works in the left side ;) )
http://dagobah.net/flash/nickelback.swf
Honestly, I wouldn't mind hearing more of your discussion about art music and the breakdown of harmony.
Unfortunately your explanation doesn't hold water if you consider other instruments.

C major / A minor are even easier on piano. (C major and A minor are relative keys – they contains the same notes, just with a different note emphasized as the root, or tonic.) They're the two keys that are made up of just playing the white keys on the piano. In contrast, G major / E minor is probably the easiest key to play in on guitar (containing G, C, D, Em and Am), and it comes in second place.
Very nice work. One suggestion: since it's obviously aimed at programmers, you should add programmer-oriented blog options besides Tumblr, especially the static blogs running from Github pages like Octopress, Jekyll, etc.

My prior blog was on Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter and all development work halted. It was truly a pain in the ass the get my blog posts and pictures out of it (they have an API, but no single API call get the entire blog in one tar/zip bundle, you have to script the whole thing).

Having experienced that I'll never use a 3rd party blog service again. I recently got everything back up and running in Octopress, and even if Tumblr or Blogspot embrace 'data liberation' and create an easy way to export your content, I don't care, it's just one thing I don't ever want to have to think about again.

Pretty sure I'm not the only programmer that feels that way, and who would otherwise love to use Syte but for its limitation to Tumblr.
My most upvoted comment (85 points) in my second most upvoted submission (554 points) is a complaint about exactly this. In my case they changed the title from:

"Lights -- impressive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs"

to:

"Lights"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3107946
Emacs, org-mode, and LaTex.

Org-mode is an Emacs mode with a first-rate outliner and a Markdown-like syntax. It easily exports to LaTex and/or to PDF.
great stuff, thank you
Or for really non-technical people who don't understand scaling and scalability at all, and expect that once you launch, all that's left is adding more features.
Looks perfect, thank you. I got its audio-book and will listen to it!

And I noticed she (Ira Levin) had written "Rosemary's Baby" - I had no idea the movie was an adaption! http://www.amazon.com/Rosemarys-Baby-Ira-Levin/dp/1605981109
My understanding with Zynga speculators is that the US may soon legalize online gambling and that Zynga is well-positioned to take advantage if that happens.
I don't see that. Actually professionals (in general, but also people I know) don't update that often. Think 5-6 years timescale. They need a stable base, and they don't even upgrade OSes or computers. So, in all the time FCPX is out, they are still 1 or 2 FCP versions behind. They might get on the FCPX bandwagon on v2 or even 3.

In another field I know even better because my brother works on it, professional music studios still use Logic 7 and 8, a lot even use G5 (G5's man!).

All the hoopla about FCPX is from amateur and semi-pro guys, that can jump around from program to program without care. It's not as if they have (much) work to do. See also the second version of the FCPX impressions (after the first updates), from some pros in Philip Bloom's site:

http://philipbloom.net/2012/02/07/fcpxeditors/
Except that C is a (the?) natural third cord to use with G and D. And then it's a bit tricky to not get something that sounds like a John Denver song.
Upvoted this submission, since it's important and we should talk about it.

At the same time, I think the title-editing as actually practiced is great. I'm pleased with the results whenever I notice the changes. (Which is usually after someone gives good reason for the changes).

This is perfect and in line with the reason we're allowed to edit our own submissions for a while. It's basic tweaking to make things fair and accurate, instead of link-baity and sensational.

I can give one personal example.

In hindsight (past few weeks' performance) the original title was right and I was wrong, but I complained about the title here or another story: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3993657

Basically, I complained that it used the word "barely above its opening price" (or another, similar word like "barely"), which I thought unfair, since 23 cents of gains in a day is perfectly normal and if sustained would be a good trend forever.

The title was changed. (In hindsight, the negative title was justified, and my complaint was out of place.)

This is a place where we are a tight community that can do things like accuse each other of stabbing one another in the back, or stealing each others' text or ideas, or whatever. People upvote. THe story comes out. Responses are written. Soon enough we know if the original, sensational title is justified or needs to be toned down either a little or quite a bit.

On the whole I think the moderators do an excellent job on the titles and it serves a really important purpose. I'm not sure how to fix the other complaints mentioned here. (Maybe put a history in there for search engines or if people want to know how it was submitted).

I know I much prefer this to the broken titles that slashdot users had to put up with (even after complaints) back when that site still had a readership... proactive is much better here.
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In the grand scheme of internet trolling?
It barely registers.
This will end up saving me about $110/month. I use a lot of minutes (2000+ minutes for me alone last month), currently have 4 lines of all family members and total data usage for everything is usually about 2GB since everyone is always near wifi.

Previous plans: $50 x 4 for unlimited voice + $30 x 4 for unlimited data + $30 for unlimited SMS = $350 before taxes and BS fees.

Share everything plan: $40 x 4 for unlimited voice & text + $80 for 6GB data (just in case) = $240/month before taxes and BS fees.
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Writing likable, memorable songs is about striking a balance between comfortable and interesting. It always irks me when people go from "this chord progression is in a lot of popular songs" to "therefore all you have to do to write a good song is use this chord progression".

The "comfortable" bit is the easy part. Making it interesting is the trick. There are thousands of songs using this same progression that are awful.

That's my main objection to the original post, and similar articles I've seen. It doesn't really tell you anything usable about how to write a good song. At no point as a developing songwriter does looking at a statistical breakdown of chord progression help you take the next step. "It's got the same chords as X, so it'll definitely be good!" is not something you hear good songwriters say.

Edit: To clarify, I think I'm agreeing with the sentiment of your last 2 sentences, as I understand them.
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What we're looking for:

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> * Clearly state in the SOW that if additional time is required beyond the quoted amount, additional person/days can be staffed at a pro-rata daily rate.

I (and I imagine a bunch of other people) am curious about this point. I worked at a previous company that ostensibly had terms like this, but it never worked out, because in practice the clients almost always bullied my bosses into giving them the extra work for free, because people don't like cost overruns. Did you guys find that you had a lot of resistance when it came to overrages?
I saw this in Seattle around the end of March. Definitely worth watching and then playing the games.
Only easy because they are traditionally taught first. This is because from a music theory standpoint the keys in which those chords are tonic have the least number of sharps and flats. From a memory and hand position standpoint chords that have a black key in the middle (D maj. E maj. etc) are the easiest.
I like the concept!
It would be more precise to say that Quora is for questions and HN isn't really.

HN is a link site with an "Ask" feature tacked on. "Ask HN" posts are actually penalized in the overall rankings, so it's relatively hard for them to get seen by many people. That's not to say that they're unwelcome, but it's just not a conducive environment for many questions.

Quora, on the other hand, is a question and answer site. Q&A is their bread and butter. That's what people go there for.
I just plucked a number out of the air, rather than picking a number which I felt was representative of web development.

Also, I've harped on this a time or two, but there are people who get $2,000 a day for something which is indistinguishable from web development in terms of activities performed but which is sold as accomplishing business goals ("making lots of money") with incidental reference to programming.

P.S. Charge more for emergency engagements. The business stopping for a day is worth more than $1,000 even if the business is a taco truck. Don't do professional work for taco trucks.
What happens if Ted becomes Sally's boss? Can you understand that this has now moved from "two regular people, one asking another on a date" to "two people where one has power over the other"? You can see that perhaps there's a possibility of friction and even lawsuits if Sally feels Ted is punishing her.

It's not about whether people are robust enough to deal with this crap. It's about whether they should have to put up with it, and how it affects the company.
Truth be told, you moderators are obsolete. I know that changing titles makes you feel like you are important. But the only thing you are really needed for is stopping spam. Stop ruining peoples post titles with your false fear of "gratuitous editorial spin".

You should only change titles if the title doesn't even remotely match up with the content.
e.g. Title: Heat win championship / Content: Thunder win championship
This graph tells me whether a guy prefers to post up on the right side or the left side... high post or low post... shoot mid-range jumpers or drop back to the three point line.

A colored dot at the free throw line would tell me where he shoots his free throws from, but I already know that.
Cool! Lots of neat discussion there. I must say however, that "If I work an hour for you I can't work for anyone the rest of the day" argument is one I wouldn't want to pitch to a prospect. Seriously? If you work for 1 hour on project X you're done for the day? I know it's super inefficient to switch contexts and I agree about the "bill full day" assertion, but I wouldn't phrase it as "I can't ever do any context switching. Ever."
I'm going to have to disagree with you pretty strongly. F is just about the most difficult basic chord to play. In fact, besides B flat, it's the only one on the graph that requires four fingers (or a barre). Similarly, A minor is much easier to play than C, yet it is far less common.

The popularity of C and Em as keys is undoubtedly a result of what's easy to play on a standard guitar with no capo, but I see no correlation between chord popularity and ease of playing.
You're thinking large scale projects & clients here, though. For smaller scale work and titchy clients (a massive marketplace where some of the most successful consultants I know operate), "daily rate" just doesn't work (YMMV). Neither does fixed price, really.

I spent a period charging daily and half day rates based on the advice of someone else - it was a pain for me more than anything. I spent more time asserting to clients that this was better for them than actually pitching for the work :) (bear in mind that for small scale projects the client is probably unused to the traditional consultancy models, at least in my experience).

As an individual developer, if someone is asking me for less than 6 hours worth of work a month it is better for me (in terms of scheduling, justifying my timescales and actually obtaining work) to bill hourly.

I've tried various methods of billing and hourly has always resulted in the most work, less stress and highest revenue. But, obviously, this is only as an individual.

Many people poo poo such bit-part clients - but they have always been my most reliable revenue stream; in terms of follow on work and referrals. Larger more consultancy minded clients (billed daily) hardly ever end up with follow up and are way more aggressive in obtaining completion.

But as with all things YMMV; most of the developer consultants I know have their own individual viewpoint (and we're all fairly evenly successful).
I'd love it if a moderator would post something when they change a title so it's clear what happened and who did it, but it would probably generate a lot of useless meta threads debating the change (and of course, it would actually reveal who the moderators are).
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As will IE10 - http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/prototypes/webs...

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No way. Em7add11 is waaaayyy easier if you use the right voicing.
Why wouldn't he believe the statistic? It's a scientifically conducted poll. People answered their phone and said "Yes, I don't believe in evolution."

You could make some arguments about culture vs education but I doubt those individuals are very educated, so it's an uphill battle for you.

If someone says that the earth is 5,000 years old, you should take him at his word that he believes it.
Definitely agree. I have been following light table religiously and missed the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3875857 story because I probably saw it after the change. If a submission gets up-votes it is a sort of validation for the submitted title. Tailoring a post title to the HN community is an excellent way to bring attention to articles the community most definitely enjoys, but would otherwise miss.
wonder why hotels haven't caught up with the airline industry in having a fairly realistic price listing on their own site?

What do you mean? Most hotels nowadays give you exactly the same price on their site as you'd get from orbitz/expedia/hipmunk.

If you mean a price list rather than a get-a-quote-for-a-particular-day, then that's not in their interests (they don't really want you to know how much they're gouging you on busy nights), but it's been a fair while since I stayed in a hotel which didn't have a price search thing on their site.

Priceline and hotwire are, of course, always cheaper than getting a named hotel, if you're clever about it.

I have to say, though, if hotel search is the real cash cow (as I suspect it is) then I think hipmunk should spend some more time working on it. Their interface for flight search is the greatest, and I use it all the time. But the hotel search I find to be confusing and clunky so I rarely use it.
My intuition is that the accuracy would drop a fair bit in later stages and anecdotes support this too.

My intuition is that for ask the audience to be useful the number of people who know the answer has to be well above the noise or you don't get any wisdom from the crowd.

So that means that enough people have to know the right answer AND the wrong answers should be distributed as evenly as possible.

People don't often answer multiple choice trivia questions wrong in an evenly distributed way so this makes sense to me.

It would be cool to see some actual data on this though, I thought I remembered seeing something back when the show was huge but it's a vague memory.
Is either stupidity, insanity, tasteless and surrealistic trolling, or brilliant satire. And I've got no idea which at this point.
Who's "pitching" this to a prospect? You make it sound like something you'd put on your website and in your proposals. Your terms are your terms. A client asks, "I think we'd just like you for an hour or two today, so can we just pay for that", and you say "no, sorry".
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Just as a point of clarification, you can share your photostream with people not using Apple devices. Your stream can be viewed on the internet if that person chooses.

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/#photostreams
It's a big one, though.
If you have a bunch of leads sitting in your inbox, can you discuss how you rapidly qualify all your leads?

Surely there must be value around the process behind that.

[Aside: I'm on the fence about you selling this software. Once everyone has it, the value of it decreases, because everyone is competing for the same leads.]
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If someone is telling you that the US 'may soon legalize online gambling' then you are not listening to someone who understands US policy making. I expect that the US will legalize marijuana before they legalize gambling, and making pot legal is at least a decade away, maybe two.

The reasoning is two fold, first gambling is considered a 'sin' by many religions (which is why Las Vegas was sometimes called 'sin city') as was same sex marriage. There is a chance we will finally clear the way for same sex marriage after a decade of staunch resistance by religious interests, and if they 'lose' that fight they will certainly try to draw a line in the sand with gambling. These same interests have been trying over turn the right to privacy ruling which made abortion legal.

EDIT: add reasoning.
I think there is one thing you are overlooking: IMO, the reason the 1980s had simple music wasn't anything complicated; it was the electric guitar. Power chords are super easy to use, and with an electric guitar they still sound good.
I think it's mostly some YC staff/partners/alumni who are mods.
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I have no idea what the site was waiting for, but until that request completed, all of the text was invisible: http://i.imgur.com/HO0oW.png
The only time I tried to reqest a chargeback for a debit card (one order charged twice because of an application glitch in the card processor's system) the bank asked me to prove that I did not receive the goods. It's not easy to prove a negation.
The people taking this action are in charge of how the content should be presented here. You can always vote with your feet.
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Every single Ira Levin novel [1] except This Perfect Day has been made into a movie...

IIRC this instance of an Ira is a "he" not a "she"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Levin#Novels
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The industry standard project in my field is 2 people, 2 weeks. We do one-week projects, we do sub-week projects, and we do multi-month projects, but the modal project staffing is 4 person-weeks. These aren't huge projects. We work with as many startups as we do with large financial companies.

I'm having a hard time understanding how a simple daily rate causes you more stress. Why were you discussing with your clients how a "daily rate was better for them"? It's perfectly OK for the daily rate to be better for you, full stop.

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.

What makes me nervous is the overwhelmingly obvious fact that nerds like us are all too happy to leave money on the table. "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". Well, you just left a new iPad on the table; if your clients are forcing you to do this because they are fucking assholes, then get better clients. It is a seller's market right now.
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Apart from the really good ones, who we put on tv.
The book mentioned, "Thinking, Fast and Slow", despite the boring title, is quite good. If you're the sort to hang around lesswrong.com it won't blow your mind, those less exposed to those ideas will find it fascinating (and probably a bit more accessible in book form).
Charting chord progressions definitely sounds interesting. Would also like to see that based on musical style -- i.e. "blues" vs. "rock".