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Are you comparing John Williams to Bach and Beethoven? Williams is a very skilled film composer who's great at borrowing ideas from better composers and reshaping them for film. But his music is very unoriginal on its own.
Is this your analysis? I'm far from a novice in Music Theory (only knowledgeable it exists), but thing I'd love to see next would be generating a song through a Markov Chain, or even by applying a genetic algorithm and having viewers vote on their favorite renditions.

I've always wanted to take the lyrics of popular songs and run them through a Markov Chain, just to see what could get produced. Ultimate goal would be to generate a song, the lyrics and then have users upload videos of themselves singing it out.
Do you already have a development stack picked? Is there one you either know or can learn the basics of?

You can get in contact with me on twitter @spinuplabs
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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I don't want to name call anyone here, but just as full disclosure from your hn bio: Founder of Parse (YC S2011) and Gamador (YC W2010).

- Submitter of one of the threads you want to get killed.
I agree. Moderators, know that if you kill this thread too, you have my support. HN isn't a democracy, and anyone who thinks the readers somehow own it is welcome to go somewhere else.
What exactly is bad about it? It seems as if it should be bad, but if you think about it, why?
a (vi) over d (ii) comes as a surprise to me. I notice a lot of jam players will substitute II or II7 for ii but I thought this work was based on tabs. I didn't think the relative minor was all that common in pop music.
Nobody forces you to click the links and read them, pass over them and click the ones you want to read.. Like stated before, that subject got 427 upvotes, apparently it's a big concern of many users of the community.
Is this really that big a deal? Not all administrative details should be a matter of public debate. I hope this thread gets killed too.
patio11, I'd like to say much of my stance on negotiating rates with people has come directly from reading comments you've made on hacker news in the past. Thank you!

If anything I still think I'm too lenient but this I'm sure will grow as my confidence dealing with clients grows.
Those won't encourage or discourage any jewish people to visit Sweden. Because jewish people, like pretty much any other people, mostly not idiots and understand that stupid trolling by one person doesn't mean anything and does not reflect on the whole country. It is mildly annoying to read this, it is even more annoying to understand "omg, I just spent 10 minutes of my time on this crap", but that's it.
I'm not a moderator, but I think the problem with such threads is that they are too easy. They are too self-referential. Bad title edits happen. I'm sure even bad article killing happens. It is also true that there is no good feedback mechanism for bad title edits. Life isn't perfect, and sometimes you really have to consider the cost/benefit of petty injustices like this.

If it becomes systematic abuse, rather than occasional mistakes, then yes, make a stink. But so far the damage is pretty limited, and HN seems to be working pretty well.

It does sort of point out the need for those who value HN to have some redundancy in their social networking.
Ahhhhhhh. I see now. Kind of funny how I completely misprocessed the "Bat costs 1.00 more than the ball" bit.

Always hated word problems in school :P
I would guess that people aren't aware that it doesn't require moderators to kill an item. There are plenty of people on HN who don't want to see meta, or meta-on-meta, and who will happily flag meta items.

Enough flags, and it's dead.

Other submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102948

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102977
That's certainly one possible explanation. Another possible explanation is that their brains are just faster in general, so that even though their type 2 systems are faster than others', their type 1 systems are faster yet and manage to override even more consistently than in others. In any case, I don't think it's something that's "obvious" or "expected" by any means, and I do think that it should bear further investigation.
While I do think the phenomena is really cool, the article states how it may be used to forewarn of earthquakes and bridge collapses. I'm curious how much benefit could be gained from knowing of an earthquake a few seconds in advance?
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Stanford's Saxophone Man & Moderated Differential Pairwise Tallying
I studied "Choice & Behavior" at Penn -- the names Kahneman and Tversky were a common refrain. If you're looking to self-teach, my prof Jon Baron has a great course outline online: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/p153.html
FYI the tallest tree in the world is ~ 116 m or 379 feet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(tree)
This article should have been titled "Time to Retire the High-Animal-Fat Diet Fad".

Nothing in the article cast doubts on the wisdom of avoiding fast (high-glycemic) carbs, nor did it present any reason to question the long term toxic effects of high-fructose diets.
These questions are not designed to demonstrate intelligence if you get them right. They are designed to show how our cognitive biases trip us up, often without us even noticing. You're not stupid if you get them wrong, you're completely normal.
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The grandparent is talking about modulation within a song. Unless they normalized each section of each song to C without saying so, modulation is still an issue. For instance (though I greatly doubt it's on their list) Jethro Tull's "The Whistler" has one key for the verse, a different one for the chorus, and yet another for the whistle solo...
Brag disclaimer: I'm a developer on this.
Can someone who is better versed on voting theory comment on this paper? It was published by the oddly but interesting Saxophone Man on Stanford's conference. It seems that no academic will review his work (http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/11/30/the-saxophone-mans-s...)
It seems the community was largely expressing agreement with the poster, though. From past experiences with online communities, if you want to keep the community around [let alone high-quality], you listen to feedback from its members.
time to fork it?
I feel that the headline would be better if phrased as a question.
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>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.

I'm not sure I agree. While the author may have a certain connotation in mind, "not available for legal reasons" is a simple statement of fact that can be useful for the user, regardless of whether it was a "good" or an "evil" law.

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

So it shouldn't return a 404? Are you proposing the use of 6xx codes for user error, and keep 4xx for purely client errors? How can the server distinguish between a browser and somebody using telnet? What if another program is performing automated clicks in a browser and navigates to google.com/asdfhjk?

I believe the "client" is "everything on the other end of the tcp connection."
It violated the policy stated in the submission guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."
How on earth would any test be anything more than a "socially constructed concept that ATTEMPTs [sic] [to be] a method of measuring intelligence". That just sounds like a definition to me, not an indictment. Do you have a better test?

No one claims the SAT, or any other test, is the final word. But at the same time pretty much everyone accepts that that "general intelligence" (or something like it) exists, and that tests are a reasonably good proxy for detecting it. To first approximation, students who do well on the SAT are successful in other ways associated with "intelligence".

And that -- the fact that the SAT correlates with something under study -- is all that is needed for good science. Even poor correlations can be enlightening if the data (and scientist) is good enough.
I would guess that people aren't aware that it doesn't require moderators to kill an item. There are plenty of people on HN who don't want to see meta, or meta-on-meta, and who will happily flag meta items.

Enough flags, and it's dead.

Other submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102948

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102907
Whenever I see these/those posts, I think Jeff Atwood described it best: Meta is Murder

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/meta-is-murder.html
I would guess that people aren't aware that it doesn't require moderators to kill an item. There are plenty of people on HN who don't want to see meta, or meta-on-meta, and who will happily flag meta items.

Enough flags, and it's dead.

Other submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102977

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102907
IIRC, Apple said in the keynote that the app community handles public transportation routing and other services better than they could, and so they'll provide the hooks and leave it for people to find apps that they like to handle that aspect.
It seems very strange to me that they would see these biases as inherently harmful, rather than the root difference between smart people (who can think effectively and quickly using non-linear reasoning) and stupid people (who can't.)

In general I would be reasonably satisfied with a definition of intelligence which described how usefully one is able to employ intuitive cognition.
If there's one thing you can bet on here it's negative meta-discussions disappearing quickly.

We can all guess as to the reasons why, but it's just guesses.

What it does do is:
-dampen criticism of HN
-eliminate any criticism of (or even knowledge of the existence of) the moderation
-stop "circlejerk" meta discussions that are less interesting than news stories/discussion to most of the audience but get traction because everyone has an opinion

Anyone who's reason was the first two would say it was the third. Anyone who's reason was the third would say the third. This isn't the kind of question where you learn anything new from an answer.

And really: are you going to leave HN because of heavy moderation with a bias against criticism?

Expect this post to go as well, although I have to admit if this one goes and another makes the front page asking why "the question about the thread getting killed got killed", which gets killed, and another makes the front page asking ..., I will be laughing more than I should.
Thanks cynusx. Yes I agree we need a copywriter to describe what we do.
> It claims that it could “provide 50 times more transportation per kWh (kilowatt hour) than electric cars or trains,” that construction would cost a tenth of high-speed rail and a quarter of freeways

Who knows what this claim is based on, but it is there.
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Meta posts about HN itself are useful if they help improve the quality of HN down the line. I don't come here to read "news about Hacker News", but if the news about Hacker News thread helps frontpage content become more relevant, clearer, or more interesting, that's a net win.

IMO, we need appropriately descriptive headlines. Sometimes there's a little too much spin and moderators should step in to fix it, but sometimes moderators step in and worsen the problem; that's a legitimate issue to solve for the benefit of HN.
This is a good start, I'd be more interested if these chord patterns were compared against a database of UNpopular songs to see if the what sort of differences in chord distribution correlated with popular songs (although where you'd find that, I do not know). It's difficult to understand what this really quantifies - all the "2nd chord" distribution suggests to me at this point is that there's a large difference between actually playing music vs a random sequence of chords. It's good that you're recapitulating that at least, but not really a striking observation.

Regardless, I will be keeping tabs on this. Hah, totally didn't intend that pun.
Culture can hugely impact your rate and flexibility. If your client belongs to a haggling culture and it's safe to say they haggle over everything (fairly common in some cultures), then I would recommend adjusting your base rate to compensate for the discount you will end up making.

I know if you try to sell a product in some cultures and refuse to budge on the price it could be considered an insult.
My point was that intelligence isn't easily defined. And that using the SATs as a measure of intelligence is absolutely ridiculous. The title "Why Smart People are Stupid" is misleading. The title "Why Good Standardized Test Takers are Stupid" more accurately reflects the findings of the research.
This isn't big news for me. It took me about 7 years to understand two courses of high school while finishing my master of science. If you ask me the right question or try to teach me just the right matter in just the right way, a donkey will get it sooner than I do, and I'm talking about possibly years sooner. I might just not see the problem or I might think the wrong way, I don't know. There are things I just don't get.
I don't know -- I still thought it was interesting. The author could have spent all kinds of time trying to figure out if certain chords were functioning as substitute dominants and all of that, but then the article would have been so musically technical so as not to appeal to anyone who doesn't have a fairly high-level music theory background.
The study detailed in the linked article does exactly that...
As does the pervasive use of acronyms. Not to harp on it too much, since I don't think they're bad people, but there's a cultish vibe for sure.
From my past experiences with online communities, if you want to keep a good community from regressing to the mean, you have to consciously ignore a lot of its members' wishes.

Put another way: More people like Failblog than LWN. This does not mean that LWN should listen to people who want it to be more like Failblog.

(Just so there's no confusion: This is just a general comment about online communities, not the original "Attention Moderators" thread.)
Which was the Judean People's Front, or their arch enemy the People's Front of Judea.
Everything like WebKit, LLVM/Clang, and the hundreds of projects listed here? http://www.apple.com/opensource/
In the brave new world of ACPI, the OS tells the firmware "I'll take care of that, trust me, I know what I'm doing". Your computer starts with fans at full speed for this reason, but once the OS assumes control, it's in control.
Think it through.

The first problem is operational and the second problem is change on a slope.

People use what they know to deal with problems, so facing these two they use basic math (subtraction and division) being ignorant of higher-level math concepts such as algebra or calculus. The answers they come up with appears right to their known level of logic.

If you were the type of person that got to learn about high level math concept, and are the studious type to double check answers, then these two problems are condescendingly seen as trivial.
It seems to me that there is a disconnect here. You mentioned that you were losing out on "smart engineers" with "multiple offers from cool companies". Then you discuss how your company is offering salaries in the "average or above range." It sounds to me like your company is experiencing exactly the outcome you'd expect.
"calculated based on 27 years of data on historic energy trends, societal priorities, required mission energy, and the implications of the Incessant Obsolescence Postulate "

Yes, you're right. He's assuming everything proceeds growing the way it is now. You gotta start somewhere when predicting the future.
Uh, gambling is legal all over the U.S. now. There are casino's and off track betting all over the place, keno in bars, lotto tickets and scratchers in every convenience store and supermarket. Do you actually live in the U.S.?

The issue with online gambling is that in its previous form, when it was finally and fully outlawed in 2006, the Federal and state governments weren't getting their cut of the take and many people weren't reporting winnings to the IRS.

Its not especially a moral or religious issue now, its more a taxation and revenue issue. The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill to legalize online poker and some other forms of online gambling in 2009, it just hasn't made it all the way through Congress yet. I imagine there will be some Republicans opposed to it on religious grounds but once Congress figures out how to tax and regulate it and how much revenue they can rake in off it, it will be back.
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That's surprising, given that the only other Rihanna song I know ("Umbrella") is... well, it's a bit annoying, but it's got significantly more going on musically.
I have had HP India refuse servicing my laptop (its speakers went kaput) because I had VLC installed. According to them, greater than 100% sound amplification in VLC was to blame.
They assume an upper limit with 100% efficient conversion of matter to energy, so changing the energy production method shouldn't make a material difference. EDIT/UPDATE: Realized you might be talking about the total energy budget (i.e., their total energy budget that is then multiplied by the "Space Devotion Ratio.") Yeah, that could advance the timetable by some amount.
For all of the high and mightiness of this article, this bugged me:

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?

If a lilypad is 20 square inches (which is probably conservative), and you started with 1 lilypad, after 48 days of doubling it would cover 1.4MILLION square miles. That is 44 times the surface area of Lake Superior.

I get the point of the question, but if you're trying to play "gotcha" on people, at least ask a reasonable question.
"connects the tachyon emitter to the warp nacelles"?
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For most people, Windows 8 is really an unknown. I've seen videos and read posts, but until it's out and can be handled, it's all like a movie trailer to me. Android hasn't gained the tablet traction of iOS, so maybe Windows 8 will. It still has very large number of devs.
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> actually think they might get to live forever

And they aren't horrified at the prospect of that being possible?

Not much thinking going on there, I suppose.
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Ask: What are some of the scientific theories useful in life and career context?
10,000 hours of deliberate practice is one of the useful theories I've encountered http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/u81/Ericsson__Roring__and_Nandagopal__2007_.pdf

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid=1993-40718-001

Are there any other theories you would add to this list ?

Any theories related to the following framework would be useful too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P21_Skills.jpg

http://www.p21.org/overview/skills-framework

http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Framework_Definitions.pdf
I'd rather you just tell me what you're getting at in plain English, thanks.

Well, then you should have said so before I posted! :-)
Last quarter they made a profit, but it was a net loss after adjusting for stock-related expenses. [1]

Also, bookings were up. I think it's important to note that after FB's updated S1 everyone had worried since Zynga comprised less of Facebook's Q1 revenue. What all news outlets failed to note is that FB credit associated purchases didn't go down but actually ad impressions on Facebook's part. It's possible Zynga is trying to drive pageviews of their own network rather than Facebook. (Check the S1) [2]

[1]: http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/26/zynga-beats-q1-earnings-es...

[2]: http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/00011931251217567...
Much cheaper to go the suborbital flight route. Anywhere on earth to anywhere on earth in 2 hours.
Less infrastructure required. (And today anything requiring massive governmental infrastructure commitments is doomed to fail)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-point_sub-orbital_spac...
relevant and funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
Interestingly, the author dismisses the 0.3c matter-antimatter possibility in favor of a much more modest 0.03c, and then goes on to list "earlier", "nominal", and "later" scenarios while ignoring an entire order of magnitude of velocity.
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Reposting and replying to a deadpost:

Freshhawk>> And really: are you going to leave HN because of heavy moderation with a bias against criticism?

Yes, if it gets bad enough. I'd prefer the moderators to chime in (you know, like rational human beings responding to what is apparently a common criticism) and and let the thread run its course instead of acting like a bad Reddit mod on a trip. This is probably the LAST place on the internet that this kind of moderation should happen.
Worm sign!
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This idea's been proposed on and off for some decades, and is definitely intriguing. The crucial problem, though, doesn't seem to be the technology per se (though there are undoubtedly large risks there, too), but the back-of-an-envelope economics being anywhere near sensible enough for someone to dedicate serious money to it. Before anyone is going to build a London-to-NYC line, my guess is that you'd have to first show some kind of much smaller-scale demonstration, like how there were test maglev lines built.

In a quick Google Scholar search, I turn up a 1974 article on "Surface-guided transport systems of the future" (http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/piee.1974.0277, unfortunately not open access), where evacuated-tube transport gets a mention, but under this less-than-enthusiastic banner:

A brief mention is given of other less likely transport systems, such as travel in an evacuated tube beneath or above the ground.
"The first root cause is related to the streaming data API which connects the dyno manifold to the routing mesh. On the dyno management side, an engineer was performing a manual garbage collection process which created an unusual record in the data stream. On the routing side, a bug in the subprocess of the router which processes the incoming stream saw the record as garbage."

This is techno-babble on a scale the world has never seen!
An exercise in MVP
Well, I wish you luck. But I think you've made a mistake (unless you only plan to hold it for a short time).
Apparently "gay" & "retarded" are horribly offensive & insensitive descriptors, but "lame" is ok. Who knew?