skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "soon". Anyone could have looked at the stock market in 1998 and said that it was sure to be going down soon but it took a few years for that to be the case. And anyone could have looked at the housing market even in 2003 and been waiting for it to go down "sometime soon", and been waiting half a decade for it.

Keynes may have been mistaken on a lot of things but he got one thing right: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
In Hawaii it's pretty rare to be able to buy a property fee simple. Mostly it's long term leases.
I had the same reaction. No matter how small the notes are in classical notation, I can tell if they're filled or hollow, and whether an accidental is a sharp or flat. Distinguishing between hollow, partially and directionally filled, and filled notes, with diacritical accidentals seems more difficult.
I feel like a lot of semantics are lost here. Some of the elements are partially filled -- these elements seem more challenging to classify than the traditional approach. Also, it's unintuitive how "long" a "----" line should be held for.
1. While use of ammonium hydroxide is FDA approved, approval of pink slime is really under USDA's jurisdiction.

2. Of all the failings of government regulation and the FDA in particular, pink slime is such a red herring that it's hardly even worth mentioning. If you want examples of the FDA screwing up, you can find way better examples than that.
There was a time when I would've been on board. But I think that time has passed. I have a wife, a new baby, and a nice day job that allows me to enjoy both.

A couple years ago, I spent many nights and weekends working on the academic publishing problem. The effort culminated in a massive hypermedia-style XML schema for distributed and inter-connected publishing, referencing, archiving, etc. There were hundreds of elements just in the common metadata model before I even got around to defining content modules.

Then something hit me like a ton of bricks. I think it was seeing backbone.js for the first time. I realized how quickly web technology was moving forward, how easy it was becoming, and, by contrast, how absolutely shitty it was going to be to write mountains of XSLT on top of my huge DTD. Even in my attempt to create something really different, my approach was still totally clouded by the prevailing anti-wisdom of the academic publishing technology community.

I realized I was on the wrong path. It was a great thought exercise that contributed immeasurably to my day work, but I had to move on.

Happy to share more information if you like, though I'd need to dig the files out of deep storage.
The image based collections threw me at first - I like textual information in lists, not tiles. But then I saw the phone pad like icon (top right hand corner). Tiles for image collections and lists for articles - w00t! :D
Love your thinking here, and your landing page is fantastic. Very inspiring. The 'before' and 'after' toggling is a very effective way to illustrate the value your system brings.

If you can help my mom put an Ipad on the music stand instead of a song book she has to manually flip through while playing you might just win another customer. Right now, when i do a jam session with her (I play guitar) she literally has to stop playing piano to flip the pages. She does this 3-4 times a song which is quite jarring. The humble paper song book and conventional notation system could use a 'shaking up', and you guys have started innovating this problem, so thanks!

I could easily see this becoming the tabulation (tabs) system for that piano and other instruments have not had to date.

Well done!
It definitely does! Take it from someone who's been responsible for giving the layoff list to HR as well as being a small business owner. Business leaders look at developers as a commodity. Why do you think so many companies still hold Java in such high esteem?
> "The act of trading in an asset, or conducting a financial transaction, that has a significant risk of losing most or all of the initial outlay, in expectation of a substantial gain."

Based on recent history no. But maybe based on longer history? Imagine a pandemic that wipes our a large # of population, now taxi medallions for whatever reason are not that important so they drop in value.

Medallion system is sustain by the laws. Laws can change. The bet is that the laws own't change drastically but that is just a "speculation".

Government is nice enough to offer a compensation in eminent domain, but they don't have to. What if they don't? What would you do? Sue them? You can't. Gather a militia and march towards the White House or the Senate building?

If you had asked someone 20-30 years or so ago. "Do you imagine government one day will be able to store and read all your communications, telephone, mail?" Most people would have bet it would never happen because of Free Speech and it was just something we made fun of other corrupt and evil countries of doing. Yet here we are today. If you'd somehow made a financial bet against it, it would be a losing bet.
That's a valid argument (I think some token compensation is fair, but can totally see both sides).

But if you interlaced every other word with 'fuck' and questioning the sexuality of other posters, you couldn't expect to be judged on the merits of your argument. Personally (others may disagree), I see totally unnecessary comparisons to slavery the same way.
This quack does not belong on HN. Flagged.
You're going to stay in one scale for a long time anyway (C for piano). For that duration, pitches in the notation correspond obviously to fingerings (keys, frets, whatever). This includes other instruments which have a different "natural" key (D for the viola, my other sort of instrument): their notation maps just as nicely.

When you get beyond that, "mapping relative pitches to a scale" is, IMO, the correct approach. The "offset to each pitch" thing obscures what's really going on, as if they were all weird derivatives of the key of C. I can see how it might be harder, among other reasons because you have to understand how a scale works more clearly, but I suspect it would be worth it.

Of course, it's hard to really know without getting people to switch for a couple generations.
isn't not publishing contact info. a good enough solution?

There is this belief that missed opportunities are the end of the world. They are far from it.
We heard about this a year ago and cut almost 95% of the rice in our diet. Now we have a rice dish about once a month or less. There were even warnings that small children should avoid rice completely.

Unfortunately you just need to be proactive about what you put in your mouth, and don't assume that since you live in a "developed" country that everything sold is safe to eat.

Don't even get me started on the FDA's stance of "all chemicals used in consumer goods are considered safe until proven otherwise" stuff.
There's an extension that does this for all sites:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/language-immersion...
I like the idea a lot. Especially the embedding of note-name in the note itself as an additional measure to the spacial line-distance, as I'm not terribly great at dealing with interpreting the spacial gaps (especially when the note is more than 3 or so lines away).

But I find the symbols confusing in their own way, and not because of the language barrier others have mentioned (they're just a mnemonic, the words cease to matter after a certain point and other mnemonics can probably be devised for other languages). I find them confusing because I think there should be a progression to them. And the progression of A and B I find doubly confusing, because in music the notes go up, but in this the darkened part goes down. I look at a B and intuitively think it's an A and vice-versa.

I think I'd prefer a system where they look like clock hands, more or less. A is 10:30, B is 1:30, C is 4:30, D is 7:30, E is a slash going through 10:30 and 4:30, and F is a slash going through 1:30 and 7:30. I think I'd find that more intuitive. (note: all diagonal so they don't conflict with the spacial lines)
Sure. It would also help if the exchange took less than 10 minutes to execute trades.
Microsoft's Adam Orth, The "Always-On" Tweeter, No Longer With The Company
Summary of the actual paper: they take a single sensor EEG sample of your brain doing some simple task and compare it to both a set of samples of your brain doing the task (this comparison results is the selfsim value) and of a bunch of other people doing the task(resuliting in the crossSim score). "if the percent di erence between selfSim and crossSim is greater than or equal to T, we accept the authentication attempt. If not, we
reject it."

Of course, this actually says nothing about the feasibility of emulating someone else's signal (which may get way easier if its a single sensor).

Im skeptical of this both that it will hold of to an adversarial attacker and that its actually right. Deciding that something is a unique identifier off a small sample size reminds me of some of the really bad forensic techniques people used (e.g. [0])

[0]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11...
I'm just gonna throw this out there, "underhanded tactics" in the depression era were probably quite a bit more underhanded (no scare quotes) than undercutting the competition on price.
"As the other poster said, consider the urinal. Whether intended or not, there are about to be a lot of images of people at the urinal taken by a capture device. Should men just get used to this idea and expect these pictures online?"

Yes, or else just walk to the stall and pee in the toilet. I see guys doing that all the time where I work -- some men want to be private about it, and urinals are not and have never been private.

"But, consider, it is trivial to build a microphone that can pick up every word you said within your house. Do you feel that police should be able to use such a device from a van outside without a warrant? Hell, it is trivial to build a camera that can see through most clothes nowdays."

I did say that closing your door should give you a reasonable expectation of privacy. I also said that things that are easy and popular should not be made illegal. If everyone walked around with a parabolic microphone or a millimeter wave scanner, we would have to adjust our laws, habits, and notions of what counts as a reasonable expectation of privacy accordingly. It is currently reasonable to expect that wearing clothes protects you from having your naked body photographed; that would have to change if it were common for people to carry cameras that could see through cotton.
Here's an abstract from the researcher, Tsanangurayi Tongesayi. Not this exact presentation, but apparently the same research:

Lead was present in all the foods samples and its concentration ranged from 4.3 to 17.9 µg/g. Some baby rice food had levels of Pb as high as 12.5±0.2 µg/g.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:d4lyxhr...

(Google Cache because of the intellectual property circus).

The FDA's recommended limit, expressed in total Pb ingested per day (only figure I could find), is

The FDA’s recommended Provisional Total Tolerable Intake Level (PTTIL) for lead in children less than 6 years of age is 6 μg lead/day. For children 7 years and older, the PTTIL is 15 μg lead/day. It increases to 75 μg lead/day for adults (USFDA 1993).

http://health.mo.gov/living/environment/hazsubstancesites/pd...

This limit can be exceeded with a fraction of a gram of rice (for small children) -- literally a single grain. You could eat a small bullet's weight of lead in a few hundred kg -- several years of eating.

And here's an FDA survey of the US food supply: 731 food products, about 10,000 samples, and nothing within orders of magnitude of this.

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodScienceResearch/TotalD...

(pp. 69-80). Notably, their rice samples (#50) had undetectable amounts of lead, at a detection threshold of 0.007 mg/kg (= µg/g).

(I'm beginning to suspect someone confused a mg/mcg/μg somewhere; that seems like the Occam's razor explanation. Otherwise, this looks really bad).
Say I sell you a house and allow you to finance it with a mortgage denominated in Bitcoins. The house would normally sell for $250,000, so as of yesterday, I would have accepted 1,000 bitcoins for it. Let's then say that over the course of the next year the price tumbles to $5 per bitcoin. You can now go out and spend $5,000 to pay off the mortgage entirely. However, if I shorted bitcoins by buying put options(the right to sell them at a certain price at some point in the future) which enabled me to sell 1,000 bitcoins at $230, I would effectively insure that I will only ever lose a maximum amount of $20,000 because of the volatility as opposed to the $245,000 I would lose if I was not able to hedge my position. Similarly, if I had a price for something i wanted to sell truly denominated in bitcoins, (i.e. not dynamically changing to always reflect a constant price in USD or some other currency), there would be a similar risk, particularly if I'm keeping my earnings in the form of bitcoins instead of immediately selling them. You can start to see why options are a very important step in something becoming a true currency. It allows you to safely deal with it somewhat more independently of volatility.
Sorry, not FDA, I meant EPA.
Isn't www.evernote.com the "Evernote for The Web"?
I don't think there's a vested property right in them, but even if there is, there isn't in their scarcity. The government could issue medallions to all comers instead of abolishing the existing one.
Carnivore/Echelon will never be introduced as evidence in court. These are tools of war. When they were hunting Bin Laden, they weren't planning on taking him to court in the end and introducing his emails as evidence against him...
Kudos to the team for coming up with a viable form of alternative notation! But personally (I've been playing classical music since I was 6 so my opinion is most likely biased) I find the new notation harder to read and comprehend but that's the consequence of my classical music education. So the new notation is meant to make it easier to read and learn even the "trickiest music"; I am just curious what this notation would look like with a genuinely complex piece of classical music (think Liszt, Rachmaninov or any other bits of classical music that one would think as technically challenging).
> At 200/hr, if you gross 400K they're taking 60K? Are they really providing 60K worth of service?

It depends on what you would have been making without their help. If you otherwise would have made any less than $280K that year, they are definitely providing $60K worth of service. (Or, perhaps more properly, "value".)
Solid points, although I think you're zeroing in on too many low-level details too early even though your criticisms are valid.

Also, maybe you could make your feedback constructive by providing ideas, alternatives and suggestions instead of just ripping it apart but adding no value or solid suggestions beyond that.

The point here is much bigger and more significant than any of your individual criticisms.

The point is this - these people are rethinking the problem of notation, and redesigning it from the ground up.

I think their approach is totally badass, and I love the fact that someone is tackling this!
If you look at the guide, the key signatures are still included, but written in plain English. Look at the Fur Elise example:

http://www.hummingbirdnotation.com/songs/Fur%20Elise%20(Fina...
Archery is a fun sport, in Pasadena where I used to live, it was a favorite among engineers from NASA JPL. One of the guys brought in a high speed camera to analyze the motion of his arrows and adjust his bow accordingly. Very geek-friendly sport.
Couldn't you just buy rice grown in the USA?
Oh! Excellent. I didn't know that. Thank you.
Optimizely has a somewhat distorted perception of "statistical relevance" in terms of test results. When we put Optimizely up to the test, we found that their platform was declaring a "winner" long before sufficient data had been collected. There's nothing specifically wrong with Optimizely, but it can, at times, paint an incomplete or otherwise misleading picture.

Regardless of what Optimizely's reporting dashboard tells you, you should always verify the data yourself to ensure that the result is accurate. http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html

Optimizely is a really excellent tool and it provides an essential service to our company. Prior to Optimizely, we used an in-house a/b engine which required constant support by technical resources. With Optimizely, the company can make snap decisions and test them immediately.
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Sure, Lab-Grown Petri Dish Meat© is perfectly safe.

*Name still pending, all rights reserved, GloboCorp Inc.
A corporate mutiny needs to be able to appeal to someone in authority to remove the problematic employee/manager. If the problem is the owner, you have no one above them to appeal to - your only hope is to convince the owner to step aside or suddenly transform from as you describe a very active role to a very passive one. The chances of success here sound incredibly low.
Dear Developers: Play by the Platform Rules, or Expect a Smackdown
There's a bunch of clubs close to SF, there's a great one called Bowhunters Unlimited in Santa Clara. There's a good one in Los Angeles as well - Pasadena Roving Archers.
> later this year

I play a much shorter game than that. If it is justified, I will likely jump back in. This isn't the first time i've bought and then sold BitCoins.

It has run out of new buyers to drive it to that level. The support from those who believe in the currency isn't worth more than $100 - much less than that.

Everybody else is an amateur investor who read about BitCoin in USA Today and believes in it for the profit potential, not as a currency. These people scurried at the slightest smell of a price shock.
There's a lot of great ranges in Santa Clara county.

Mount Madonna Park has a breathtaking range.
No, even US-grown rice suffers the same problem (not as the article, though). Basically rice in the southern US is grown in fields that used to be used for cotton, and the use of arsenic as a pesticide was allowed back then.

Fast forward and they're using the same fields to grow rice, and the metals are still in the soil...

I'll try and dig up some sources when I'm not mobile.
There's a lot of nonsense in this article, and it's important to take this source in context. Joseph Mercola is a crackpot who claims that microwaving food is dangerous[1], that HIV is not the cause of AIDS[2], that vaccines cause autism[3], and a lot of other patently false bullshit. That doesn't mean everything he says is false, but it does mean that what he says has about as much chance of being true as what you hear shouted by a crazy guy on the subway.

[1] http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards2.htm

[2] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/07/1...

[3] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/0...
That's precisely why ordinary people don't need to worry about what information is collected by Carnivore/Echelon. The results are too valuable to risk disclosure by introducing them into evidence for prosecuting run of the mill crimes. It's highly unlikely that agencies like the IRS even have access to this information for those reasons.
Unscrupulous landlords will increase the rent.
I love this, but for all the wrong reasons.
I got all of my clients via word of mouth. It sounds weird on the surface, but honestly, as a web developer, I didn't even have my own website. I can't think of a single client who didn't approach me first.

I guess it is a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but there's always a way to get those first couple clients. Reach out to your personal network, everyone knows someone who needs a website. Price the first couple of jobs cheap, do good work, and your name is bound to get passed around. Also after you build your first dozen sites, many of them are bound to require maintenance--eventually you end up with fairly consistant work even if you aren't closing new deals all the time.

After a year or so I had enough work to support me full time, and after 2 years I had enough work to bring on a second person.
Canonical made such a deal with Yahoo a few years ago and the pushback was significant enough that they backtracked before the final release.

It seems that technical people will prefer the better solution.
I should have been slightly more precise, the advice was specifically about taking an internship in aerospace as a kid. I don't have any advice about having a career in aerospace industry... Haven't had one. I only had a short internship as a high school student at aero/space R&D company back in Russia. But that [aero/space R&D, not Russia ;)], I can highly recommend.

I think actually, a more general advice is to take an internship in any high tech industry area in which a cost of software or design failures is very, very high.
> Also, maybe you could make your feedback constructive by providing ideas, alternatives and suggestions instead of just ripping it apart but adding no value or solid suggestions beyond that.

Pointing out flaws IS constructive criticism. This happens all the time and it bugs me:

person A comes up with an idea
person B gives good reasons why it's flawed
person A - the one who wants to innovate - says that fixing those flaws isn't his problem, and that person B should fix them.

WRONG.

The person who generates an idea, the person who wants to do something new, is the one who is responsible for brainstorming, finding problems, finding solutions, and pivoting as needed.

To say "your criticisms should be bundled with solutions" just raises the bar on criticism, and when it costs more to generate criticism, you get less of it.

We should all encourage criticism, and then we should make finding solutions OUR problem.