skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much this. Tradition is a terrible way to measure something's merits. And even if it did 'work', that's no reason to not try and improve it (though, I'd agree that just throwing something out there that might fragment things isn't terribly helpful either).

There are some good things about traditional sheet music notation, but that doesn't take away the fact that it's bloated with historical baggage. It's really not terribly efficient at communicating the 'essence' of music, it's just that we've all gotten used to translating piano notation into practical [insert_your_instrument_here] implementation in our heads. It's neither a useful 'source code' for other instruments to interpret, nor is it an efficient 'byte code' to describe the fundamental elements of music.

That's not to say that I have a solution to these problems of course (yet -- been working on my own project for a while that will eventually try to address this), but the issues aren't hard to spot, and they certainly seem like areas that can be optimized. And there will always be the problem of adoption, but I don't think that's even an argument we should bother raising until somebody proposes either a system that's either truly an upgrade, or a system that starts getting so much traction and starts fracturing music notation without any added benefit.

Personally, I sympathize with the aims of this project here, and think some of the ideas are clever, but considering how many things it changes, I don't think it really adds much efficiency when parsing/writing it in return. It actually strikes me as odd why they wouldn't just move to a chromatic grid system if they were getting rid of key signatures, that way they'd just eliminate accidentals all together -- or if not, then just combine them into one, since the key is a big reason for why they even have 2 designations in the first place. Which brings up the point that those symbols are all really quite complicated to be able to parse very quickly; the controversial 'note names' especially, but the accidentals really did not have much of a reason to be changed other than to just look 'fancier' -- which just makes them harder to parse, and to draw (IMO, but I have terrible hand writing).

Oh well, I wish them the best anyway. This isn't a terribly progressive field so I'm just glad to see anything happening.
You simply are not even reading. Nobody said anything about maintaining any steady state. That's needed for a generator. This project is talking about doing one off detonations.

Have you heard of a hydrogen bomb? If they lost energy to creating the fusion in a hydrogen bomb, what would be the point? If you removed the fusion part of a hydrogen bomb, would you get a bigger explosion? No. You get MORE ENERGY using fusion. However, we don't have a way to harness that to make electricity yet to maintain a steady reaction. But maintaining a steady reaction is not what this project proposes doing. Do you get it yet?

Edit: smaller explosion -> bigger explosion. So many explosions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

Internet slums?

I wonder if this would bother highly-viral pop-up sites at all. Muxtape would have probably set a spammy domain positive in like a day. But, such is the nature of a transitional neighborhood—no corporations, just tons of art boutiques.
Having been in that session, no one I met thought at all highly about the second paper.

First, it was unlikely you'd actually ever enter sensitive data while using one of those EEGs( as they are only used in games). Ironically, If you deployed this authentication method, you'd actually be providing an exploit vector since you could plausibly alter the authentication game to cause to measure something more sinister

This is important because the second complaint everyone had was the usenix paper didn't actually read information covertly. They asked you to think about your PIN number and flashed digits on screen to see if you recognized them(not covert at all). Effectively this was stuff that was known to be doable with medical grade EEGs years ago.

Of course, if you basically have an authentication mechanism that mimics there awful experiment, the results might actually apply.
I think BaaS is a great solution for mobile apps. But as a back-end solution for traditional web apps, not so much. Eventually their lunch is going to be eaten by frameworks like Meteor (http://meteor.com), or products like Deployd (http://deployd.com/).
I wonder how this would interact with duress—especially considering sometimes it's especially import to log on under duress, sometime's it's especially important to NOT log on.
As far as I can tell that article implies the main goal of medallion limits was to increase prices by decreasing competition. Which is exactly what I would have expected.
I can't upvote this hard enough.
Yes. The minute things settle down to just two operating systems things will stagnate, a good example would be when the PC world settled into Windows 95 and Mac — from that moment on nothing really exciting happened on the desktop. In fact had Apple not stumbled onto the iPod it might have been just one operating system.

To me the most exciting time in the PC universe was the late 80s through the early 90s: In addition to Windows and Mac you had the Amiga, Atari, NeXT, BeOS, OS2, Solaris and I'm sure some other cool operating systems I've forgotten. That era also produced amazing desktop applications that changed my life like HyperCard, Photoshop, PageMaker, Director, MS Office, Lotus Notes, Netscape Navigator, etc.

So I hope this is the late 80s era of the medium rather than the late 90s era.
Woah, let's see if it still works when you're pissed at you're spouse.
I would love to see a city mandate something the size of the Lit Motors vehicle for the cases you mentioned. However for many of the cases you mentioned, taxis still aren't the solution. There are plenty of families and handicapped people that get by with public transportation. They can use things such as scooters, wheelchairs, motorized wheelchairs and strollers. Technology has advanced to the point where a motorized wheelchair or scooter is no longer a rare luxury.

While I can see the argument for taxies, I;m totally in agreement about private cars and especially parking. Parking has no business in the modern urban dense city.
Noob question: how do I know the selectors and inheritance rules are applied in the same way as the target platform?
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I found some sources on my own. Interesting. It looks like California rice is the safest, and white rice is better than brown.
If you can, just meet with people. Sit down, talk about their problems, and how you can help them. Far more direct than blogging and hoping someone reads it.
Doubtful. Land taxes are extremely common in Australia. All land is taxable, however exemptions exist for your own principle place of residence (ie home). If you own a holiday house or investment property then your are liable for land tax. That is the reason houses are primarily sold freehold as opposed to leasehold.
I certainly hope that in the near future, digital transcriptions are easy enough to come by that you could effectively just change the font from one notation to another.

I know there are a lot of judgement calls in typesetting music, but that's true of text too, and we have some pretty good algorithms for doing so these days.

All that said, I have a lot of reservations about this particular notation, but I think there's certainly room for improvement even inside the current system. Letting the back catalog of work hold notation back isn't healthy.
ASIC is an implementation of a circuit. They will be the fastest implementation of the logic, however they are the most expensive implementation of that logic by far.

Unlike FPGAs once logic is implemented in an ASIC the implementation is set in stone, so if there is a bug in the hardware fixing it will require producing an additional run and incur the expensive cost again.

The high cost is why FPGAs are popular for both prototyping and production units when possible as it is much cheaper for smaller quantities.

ASIC having exactly the logic necessary to target a task is why they are the most efficient at the task compared to general purpose hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrate...
We're an early-stage SaaS startup[1], and some of these metrics have proven very useful for us. Highly recommended.

Edit: Inbound leads are another important metric to track.

[1]: http://www.jackdb.com/
I think that you're a little too generous about government exercise of eminent domain.

I wrote an article about a New Jersey city which offered $49,000 for a three-bedroom rowhome, and when residents wouldn't take it, ripped up sidewalks and stopped collecting trash. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/new-jersey-developm...

Outright seizure gets headlines, but the government can harm your property through regulatory takings as well. So crazy zoning can make your property value decline, and it's not well-established practice to compensate you for your loss. See Richard Epstein's work on this.

The Supreme Court will decide this year on a potentially really important case, Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District. A landowner wanted to develop some property, but the local water protection agency denied the permit because he wouldn't pay for mitigation that was totally offsite. This stuff can be borderline extortion.
There's a solution for that. Grand Central Station. Thousands upon thousands of people commute to NYC by train everyday, leaving their cars at the suburban train station parking lot.
The process that would stop 100% in-use cabs from being diluted into fives times as many 20% in-use cabs is that the 20% in-use cabs would all be losing money.

If congestion is the problem, then directly charge for that - London has for example implemented a time-based congestion charge for the city centre.
I have always been fascinated in affecting the masses in a positive way. From there it took years to mold the concept before a small team and I took the plunge.

A year later, we realized it didn't affect the masses in the way we would have hoped.

My answer on "Why did you END your startup" would probably be much more insightful and informative. I think I'll throw that question up myself!
Actually hydrogen bombs don't use conventional explosives. They use fission. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_fusion_weapon (a hypothetical bomb).
Chirpify has been enabling in-stream commerce and payments on Twitter for over a year now. Also in-stream on Instagram and Facebook. http://chirpify.com
I made a mirror of the website.

https://mega.co.nz/#!8h4SxKqb!f7KgcRgfN1TeHJdB9-yh-iISiAdb-c...
>The countries which ban rice imports from the US are typically trying to protect their own rice farmers.

Japan's extremely inefficient agriculture sector (a model of corruption and government handouts, actually) is probably one of the most prominent offenders. (Their rice protectionism is both inefficient and corrupt)
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/congestioncharging/
Define better.
Let's make data a civic right
Why did your startup fail?
I recently stopped production on a failed startup and feel I learned SOOOO much from the experience. What was the tipping point for you to shut your startup down?
Spot on. It was a bait and switch and violation of TOS.

Chirpify has been enabling in-stream commerce and payments on Twitter for over a year now. Also in-stream on Instagram and Facebook. No TOS violations http://chirpify.com
Ask HN: what's up with half-on-the-screen design?
Lately I've been noticing a trend of having graphic elements partially going off the screen.

Some examples:

http://pinterest.com/

https://delicious.com/

http://alistapart.com/

What's your opinion on this? Personally, I find it annoying - I scroll up/down and expect to see the other half.
You can now sightread pages of hummingbird after 30 seconds of cursory inspection?

Hummingbird feels like a crutch to me. Hiding key signatures stunts your understanding of how music works. Forcing time to be marked explicitly as well as by altering spacing places odd constraints on typesetters. Humans use several subtle visual cues¹ to read music quickly and efficiently, and hummingbird just throws them all away.

I'm not sure this is worth the overhaul.

1: http://lilypond.org/web/about/automated-engraving/software
Why would that be a scam? If anything, it protects the unit owners from things like the landlord selling the building and forcing everyone to move. You can't sell an entire condo building and land without clear title from every single unit owner.
Yeah I would think just stick it in Google Translate and put a disclaimer on it at the bottom that these terms are provided as a convenience only and you're bound by the Portuguese terms. Not a lawyer though.
You can start off by telling about why your startup failed?
I had you filed under "well-meaning, but mistaken", not "troll". And I prefer to call them "earnest" lectures. Potato, potato.
I don't doubt that out-of-band raises can put someone over the cost-line such that they'd get the axe at layoff time, but I think that's different than the company gunning for them as soon as they give a raise in response to a cherry-pick offer to the employee, to be actively hiring for this person's replacement ASAP.
See-through brains clarify connections
To play the devil's advocate, do you expect any privacy with postcards? It is also addressed directly to another person by means of a unique identifier... why is email any different? IMAPS et al. is just for the connection between you and your email provider, everything after that is plaintext (till the recipient's email provider gets it.)

Now, the interesting question is: is IRS entitled to access emails if both the sender and receiver are using the same provider and it doesn't leave their servers? (I'm guessing the situation is similar to delivering a note by hand through a single third party... again, I wouldn't expect any privacy there.)
The market fare is also affected by the number of cabs - if the number of cabs available significantly exceeds the demand for cabs, the market fare will fall. This means that each additional cab on the road is a double-whammy against the profitability of all cabs - it reduces the market fare and it increases the average idle time.
>these concepts can only be understood and visualised by using notation.

That attitude makes you an ass. That might be blunt, but it's true. I can't imagine someone who is actually musical thinking that for even a second.
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It's supplying an anchoring number, nothing to do with ethics.
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Godaddy shows a lower price while not logged in to your account
In the checkout stage when buying a .com domain for a year, without being logged into my account, I'm presented with this price:

http://i.imgur.com/CBUTCpg.png

As soon as I log in to be able to make the purchase I'm presented with this new price:

http://i.imgur.com/7lguXls.png

Everything being the same between the two. The lower than usual price is due to a promo code, which is applied to both of them.
Any country that actually believed that would have true allodial title.
Well, I don't have my glasses on hand so I can't really comment on what look like small smudgy bits but overall I like the idea... just can't see it. One advantage of current notation is that it is larger and easier to see plus familiar, so I know what it "should" be even when it's a tad blurry.
If anything we should realize that the government is very willing and capable of making the same mistakes over and over again..
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Looking to get a domain is the hyphen bad thing in a website?
The very concept of debt, of exchange, is one enforced by the United States. If the United States says that I owe a million dollars or none, that is just as true whether it is measured in gold, or hens, or the capricious will of the Federal Reserve. What matters is the power of the United States to force me to pay, and that power is unparalleled by any other entity that has ever existed.

To say that the word of the United States is worthless is to ignore reality.
it would be nice if google gave us a decent tool to check domains before we bought them. Currently they hide most (>90%) of back links.
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And who guarantees that an ounce of gold will buy me some amount of wheat? Or that a bushel of wheat will give me some amount of energy when eaten? Only a very powerful entity can make such guarantees.

On that basis I would say that the word of the United States is far more intrinsically valuable than any physical object.
Good call.

My startup failed because our team (who worked in the music industry, but were not musicians) assumed we knew our audience (who were musicians) and made our development decisions based off that assumption.
If we put a "minimal viable product" out to our audience sooner we would have been able to pivot heavily and possibly create a product they would want to use.
Also never work in the music space! Ever!! :)
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Looking at the first part of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, hummingbird makes it look far more complex than it actually is. A simple series of quarternotes only changing in pitch, but hummingbird is changing two things - visual complexity (filled notes) and location.

I think it's bold and interesting, but ultimately I think it hasn't got legs.
I just googled "rice arsenic" and read the first page of results.
Similar to buying a dedicated host, and the previous host was spamming emails and the IP is blacklisted.
I have a friend who can derive no value from unit tests. He works on a thing that--by no fault of his own, but just by the very nature of physical reality--cannot be automatically tested.

What is he, a quantum cryptographer?
totally agreed, gets me every time
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So is there a source of rice that is reliably free from Arsenic contamination?
Basically the same way Pandora recommends music based on your musical tastes, we want to do with food.

An app that based on your tastes will recommend food you might like, anywhere around the world.
I'm upvoting this is for the cleverly redundant title that repeats itself and causes me to vote it up.
The flat symbols are tiny. I'm supposed to read this on a music stand?

I dunno, I already learned how to read sheet music, so maybe I'm biased, but my gut reaction is that it's not an improvement.
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Over a period of several years at a large corporation I tested different approaches to "benign" change as I was watching dark clouds duke it out at the SVP level above us. The way to move things was to propose an opportunity that was infectious (aka the person pitching it could see benefit to passing it on) and to spread it widely fast, so it works like a trend everyone is talking about, rather than a one sided push. If everyone thought it was their idea, things moved.

The organization seemed to work like an organism - every new idea was treated like a foreign body. Rightly so, because when you have that many jobs at stake, the wrong idea can get the whole business sick. The projects that went through acted like a virus in that environment... until they reached the political cloud.

At levels below VP, we operated as a relative meritocracy. At levels above that, power was limited, so for someone to win others had to lose. If you wanted to push an initiative above that level, you had to bet on the right SVP. At that point you start seeing them play out the House of Cards mutiny style in action: the "Piss sideways to avoid splashing and to lessen the noise" kind. Needless to say, I left to do a startup.
The government does overregulate damned near everything. Even worse, it fails to regulate the right things. You can't buy Kinder Eggs in the US because of FDA regulations, and yet the FDA lets in literally tons of rice that is tainted with lead or arsenic.

Does that seem like a problem to you? It seems like a problem to me.
Or fire back by asking them what they make.
They won't see it that way when they do a little research and find your actual salary.
Solution: Stop using Godaddy and sponsoring their awful business practices.
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Say what you want about Git, GitHub is awesome.
Why are good Podcasts so hard to find?
From a branding point of view the bad thing is that when you say the name of the domain over the phone you always have to say bla-hyphen-bla.com which is a pain.
Yes, virtually everything. Out of about 10,000 samples of 731 different food products, the FDA found nothing within orders of magnitude of these lead levels.

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

pp. 69-80
If anyone else is wondering what the acronyms stand for:

KPI : Key Performance Indicator

MRR : Monthly recurring revenue

CAC : Customer Acquisition Cost

CTLV : Customer Lifetime Value

ARPA : Average monthly recurring revenue (MRR) per customer
Not all musicians work in plain English. There's the German note H, for example, or half of Europe using solfege: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge#Fixed_do_solf.C3.A...

Musical notation needs to be spoken-language-free.
This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Short answer, Yes.

A hyphen screams unprofessional to me. @michaelpinto has covered most of the rest.
What can we learn from the last 200 million things that happened in the world?
We most certainly do have yearly property taxes in Australia. Your principal place of residence is exempt. Your holiday house, or your office building is not.

That is why residential property is almost entirely freehold not leasehold.
What if its one of those names that its rare to even find hyphen. take the chance?
Sure, but I'd argue that's because the key signature is wrong. The correct way to notate that is with either a modal key signature a la Bartok or notate it as D with a constant natural on the C, showing that the tonal center is D while clearly notating the departure from the traditional major scale.
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I am constantly amazed how little Bitcoin fans value large, stable, global financial and legal institutions like the US or EU.

Without them, Bitcoin, the Internet, and most of the other aspects of their comfortable lives would exist.
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Say what you want about GitHub, Git is awesome. (Not sure why we're comparing them but I'll throw in my opposing opinion. I actually like both but Git itself is much more important to me than GitHub.)
Hummingbird is fatally flawed for anything beyond beginner level stuff. It's not going to deal well with any sort of complicated rhythm. I'd love to see you accurately notate something at all complex, like say this, a snippet from a Beethoven piano sonata:

http://www.conknet.com/~proscore/samples/lgcplxpiano.gif

While it might have some minimal value for beginners, you might as well teach them real notation.

Let me present a metaphore.

You're in charge of the foreign language curricula in, say, Japan. You can offer either Esperanto or English but not both. Esperanto is easier to learn, but English is infinitely more useful.
What level musician would you rate yourself?