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But even if they are willing to pay a premium, at a $100 spread there should be a lot of traders willing to jump into the market which would close the gap, unless they are prevented from doing so. If there are capital controls they are surely on USD not BTC, so if anything USD should be more valuable within China.
(Altay from 10x here.) Not exactly sure what you mean, but if you're suggesting this is a problem that can be solved with software, I actually think one of our competitive advantages is that we're approaching it as a high-touch, people-oriented, service business rather than a software problem.

Obviously, this makes it less scalable, but I do spend my nights writing software for 10x to automate the things we find ourselves doing more than once. (I spend my days working on deals... still working out the balance; see PG's essay about maker/manager schedules.) And one of the things that's always at the back of my mind is how to maintain the high-touch, personal approach as we scale.
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Here, I propose yet another take on music notation:

http://www.essential-music-theory.com/images/grand-staff-spa...

Instead of difficult to read/write symbols which map to letters, which map to pitches, why not just use the letters themselves?

I would totally love to just learn with letters written on the staff. And over time, maybe my sheet music app could randomly replace letters with black filled circles, and then eventually with standard music notation.
With UPS' consent, I'd guess.
Hummingbird notation: lots of little dots, vaguely grouped together

Traditional notation: 16th notes are tied together, with the tying actually serving to reinforce the duration of the individual notes while indicating that they should be played as a group.
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>So WireShark is now illegal in your ideal world?

If if it's not your network and/or network traffic, or you don't have the network owners permission, then yes.

Why should it be legal? Because you like playing with it?
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Certainly, that's true! As I mentioned in my other far-too-wordy response, though, if you just CPS convert and run a program, it will be far too slow (5x the funcalls != 5x the fun...). So, it's the combination of CPS conversion and later optimizations --- paired with whole-program compilation --- that make it so hard to debug.
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You say "conceptual design" and I say little more than science fiction. Potato, potato -- some kind of solid fuel rocket is going to lift a shield strong enough to protect a crew with 90 days of "emergency" supplies from small stomic bombs going off... Right. And this is for a lunar mission!

There's more detailed stuff out on the warp drive NASA has funded study on, meanwhile the grandparent made it sound like someone had built one of these things (only with fusion bombs) in 1952 and it was rusting in a shed somewhere.
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HAHA! Called this as soon as I saw Perez's article...humble brag? No surprised at all.
How might you propose to compensate people who, in good faith, bought taxi medallions

I'm sure the following question was asked many times to abolitionists:

How might you propose to compensate people who, in good faith, bought other people
A 1 meter longest dimension boulder would probably weigh well over 500 pounds (conservatively). This size stone is not something you would use as ballast.
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The embedded name of the note seems to be the only thing this has going for it, and only in high-quality prints. I feel like the stems help me to distinguish where notes start and end, and the sharps and flats seem a little... small.

Also, properly typeset standard notation is proportional anyway.
If I'm not mistaken, the few bars from the homepage are Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, Op 10 No 12.

I think I prefer the way it looks in traditional notation, and I think music might be more intuitive to write as such – but heck. Always be innovating.
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Sorry, you simply didn't watch the video then. He does this in the video linked, and also in Scaling and Computation (which are more than 10 years apart; it's something he deeply believes).

One quote is, "this is what happens when you let physicists play with computers" -- but that's not all. I am paraphrasing "idiot", but he certainly heaps scorn on them for not understanding something obvious and fundamental, when he is the one who doesn't understand something obvious and fundamental.
That was not a spike in volume, rather a rocket.
Laptops traditionally come with some form of all of those items integrated into them.
Irrelevant. When you are in a restroom, you have an expectation of privacy. Period. Doesn't matter whose restroom you are at or what is going on. Hell, the door could be broken or just bad and you still have an expectation of privacy.

Consider, someone could have a camera mounted onto their foot or on a poll to get over the standard stall doors. Would you just claim that folks should be ok with this? Because, "hey, it was possible? Quite easily done, actually."

I am pushing this point so heavily especially because a large company is pushing cameras that are mounted on people's faces. If someone were going into a restroom taking pictures, people would feel rightfully violated. Soon, this is likely to be happening more than you'd care to consider. The ease with which it can be done is irrelevant to the legality of it.
I see your point, but respectfully disagree. When someone posts a review on Amazon about a product or on Yelp about a restaurant or service, how is that different? I also don't think I was overly critical and hopefully provided some valid points and advice, and wanted to jot everything down while it was fresh in my mind.
It's now at $159. It was at $164 one minute ago, and $142 a minute before that. This volatility is making some people really really rich, I imagine.

It's also making it very dangerous to use BTC as a way to shuttle money.
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Choosing a technology is choosing a culture
Should I buy a PC or a Mac? Should I start my new project in Ruby or C#? All of these options are equivalent: they're just vegetables, they're just computers, they're just languages. So how to choose?
jesus this would have been so helpful back when i was playing music at a kid. i'm sure after a while you can swap out the letters with notes without missing a beat, just like you can remove the letters from a keyboard after learning to touch type. but, along the way you never actually are forced to "learn" the positions. (which is incredibly challenging when you are trying to learn to play at the same time.)

honestly this makes me want to re-try to learn piano with this type of notation. perhaps even a notation that would let me focus more on the piano and less on deciphering the notation.

brilliant in its simplicity, thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of macrobreweries buying microbreweries. The big guys (who make terrible beer) come in and cut costs anywhere they can to increase margins. This includes using cheaper ingredients which decreases the quality of the beer.

The same will happen here.
People buy Condo's all the time. Also, in the United States, you very often give up mineral rights. So you may own the "ground" your home is on, but you don't own whatever comes out of it.
To me, the visual cue of the name of the note is idiotic.
VERY idiotic.

He choose to use the C, D, E... system that is not the norm (the norm, maybe not in US I guess, is Do, Re, Mi...)

And then create graphical representation of words starting with those letters.

Except this works only in english.

How a portuguese speaker for example would associate the dot thing with D or Re? It looks like neither, at most it looks like a dot (that in portuguese is "ponto", thus starts with a P)

Or the above and below? Below in portuguese is "abaixo", thus starting with a A, so you have to teach someone that A actually means B.

To me this new notation might make sense in english (maybe), but in other languages is even more arbitrary and silly (and tedious to hand-write)
Increasing the number of taxis might decrease the number of cars on the street, especially in cities where public transport is not a viable option. Allowing more taxis certainly would decrease the demand for parking in already-congested central areas.
I guess I've misused the term then, I apologize. Instead, I should have said that the website is sexist, immature and a waste of bytes.

Thanks for correcting me.
Recruiters trying to hide behind the name 'Agents'. They don't add any value instead headache for developers. I would recommend staying away as far as possible from these so called 'agents' who just want your 15%.
This article makes one awesome point for regulation that would be beneficial: exchange of data on passengers and drivers. Even if opt-in (for privacy reasons) this would be awesome. As a customer, I would love for my reputation on Lyft to be usable on SideCar and vice versa. On top of that, I'd love to be able to call a car from both companies simultaneously and whichever company gets met a driver first wins my money.

Requesting a car needs to look more like the financial system where your broker puts out a buy order and a broker representing the driver takes that buy order.
Related ... for good reasons, a scrum team explicitly has the option of rejecting one of the members of the team.

(edit) presumably that includes the scrum master.
Network effects are the inhibitor. Email can't change unless everybody changes at the same time. Nobody will use a new email technology that won't communicate with their existing email partners.

The closest thing to an email revolution has been replacing email with Facebook, where users whitelist each other and use that avenue to communicate instead.
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If you're trying to do something that's already illegal (sending money to your grandmother in Iran) then you won't care if bitcoins are illegal.

The market for making politically sensitive transactions is huge. There's no need for Bitcoin to be the currency of choice for buying a Big Mac in New York.
> The amount of electricity it takes to create that currency can perhaps be seen as a price floor, which is perhaps corollary to the intrinsic value, but is not the intrinsic value itself.

Cost of production should be a price ceiling, not floor: if I can make it for $X, why would I buy it for $Y >> $X?

Edited: To hopefully head off further misunderstandings, by "should" here I mean "it makes the most sense to expect" - not any ethical imperative - and I'm speaking in broad terms, in the long run.
>Maybe it's easier to learn, but it's definitely not simpler. Probably because I'm used to reading the tradional notation, I had a hard time deciphering theirs.

If you just found out about this from HN, then you didn't have ANY time to get familiar with it.

Plus, your knowledge of traditional notation put you already at a disadvantage. You could only compare it with a control group study, or after you have spend as much time in this, as it took you to be proficient in standard notation (e.g 1-2 months at least).
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The one caveat is that obviously demand varies based on the skill. Our dealflow is steadily picking up as our network grows and as we get press like this, but customers aren't exactly knocking down our door looking for Erlang hackers... yet.

(The bioinformaticist happens to also be a kickass iOS dev.)

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Yup. If I was teaching a 6 year old to play piano, I wouldn't start by teaching them how to read standard notation.

The key is to make it fun and easy in the beginning, so that piano players don't give up! Then, make it harder once they are motivated to learn.... and you can show them why standard notation is more expressive/compact/better than the letter notation they started out with.
The mnemonics are also anglocentric visual puns (e is for empty). I'd suggest a set of symbols with natural ordering that can be distinguished by shape (vs. all circles)
These are the kind of issues that I hate dealing with and would make me consider hosting on a platform as a service like Heroku. Does Heroku have auto sharding IDs built in?
Property taxes make a ton of sense for buildings which are not primary residences. If you don't live on a piece of land or operate a business there then the property taxes need to be high enough to discourage ownership and should promote highest and best use.
I think the real problem is with the metaphysical implications inherent in the word "intrinsic."

There it is, folks. We aren't talking about a simple concept, we are talking about the metaphysical and the deeper implications of words. What is a "word", anyway? Let's take a moment to consider.
I see this as just a toy. No serious artist/rapper write lyrics like this or would even attempt to.
>He choose to use the C, D, E... system that is not the norm (the norm, maybe not in US I guess, is Do, Re, Mi...)

A musician is usually able to use both. The A/B/C/D/E/F/G is used even in European notation, for chords and stuff.

>How a portuguese speaker for example would associate the dot thing with D or Re? It looks like neither, at most it looks like a dot (that in portuguese is "ponto", thus starts with a P)

He would either have to learn 7 words in English, that almost everybody in the planet under 30 already knows, or just learn the visual shapes, which are distinct and take about 10 minutes to memorize. It's not as if "Do, Re, Mi" means anything in Portuguese either.
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Shri,

Thanks for your response, I will indeed e-mail you tonight. I can assure you that this blog post wasn't meant to incite a mob or belittle what you guys have accomplished in such a short time. I wouldn't have used FlightCar if I didn't think it had potential and genuinely wanted to try it.

For many people, rental cars aren't always a solution and the savings that FlightCar offers is huge. We all know the adage Rome (and services like AirBnB and Uber) weren't built in a day, and I wish you and your team the best of luck. Thanks again for the response and your apology, and will be in touch with you offline.

Ed
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When people don't argue in good faith, I think it's more important to make sure others following along see so and aren't misled by FUD and ignorance. I value that over being sensitive to the person who is participating in bad faith, as this user is.

Being pleasant and gentle to everyone is not the most important part of discourse, not even on HN.

As to the accusation of ad hominem: every single point I made was directed at - and based solely on - the arguments made by the other user. Once these arguments were ultimately found to be made in bad faith, I ended the discussion. That's not an ad hominem argument, that's ending an argument because of a negative evaluation of the other person's state of mind. Two very different things - almost unrelated, honestly.
Here is something I came across at PyCon. This technique uses genetic algorithm to minimize the CSS. The author claims 10% improvement over the standard CSS minimizer.

Links:

- https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/presentation/178/

- https://github.com/ryansb/genetic-css
Yes, I realized I misunderstood those, and edited my comment a bit.
To be honest, I don't know much about UK history.
But living in London now.. I googled a bit and found this link.
Agreed the content doesn't belong on HN but I found interesting the approach of person who built it.
No long story, no comments ... just a list of fact select randomly. Very instructive.
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Maybe I come from a different musical background as the authors of this, but none of this make any sense to me.

"Long notes are longer; sharps point up and flats down."
- Having notes take up more space is about the worst possible thing in the world for me; as a pit musician, the last thing I need is more wasted space on a page, giving me more page turns to deal with while I'm changing instruments and key signatures.

"...rhythms have the same spacing" - I don't know what this means. Rhythms don't have spacing. The spaces between the notes has nothing to do with the music that's played.

Then there's the fact that all current musicians would have to re-learn how to read music. Perhaps someone can tell me what's drastically broken about the current system? I'm not saying it's perfect - I don't believe any system is perfect. But it's worked pretty well for the last few hundred years.
On your last question, it took me a minute to get that those various "Above" or "Below" correspond to the notes they represent, A and B. The pitch is revealed both in the symbol and in the position on the staff. I found that pretty useful, certainly easier to read than homogenous black dots where you only have spatial information.
Isn't that what their Greenhopper product is suppose to help with? It just seems so wrong for a project management software company to be using such an archaic system to manage their own projects. I can understand the need if the user experience is really bad - maybe that's why that was the focus of V6.
This already exists for beginners. See http://s.ecrater.com/stores/159585/51208eb2d0e25_159585b.jpg
The property market underwent a huge decade plus long boom in Australia, with land prices rising astronomically. There are all sorts of rules for land development in place, and limited availability for development in the major cities. It's not quite as bad as the UK, but it's not like we have huge chunks of land to spare.

I assume it's either a result of property law differences, or the sheer length of time land has been available to own in the UK. Would love to know more about it.
This was my thought as well. If you're going to create a symbol association language, why not just use the original symbols? You're just adding an extra layer of learning otherwise.

If it's because the symbols (ABCDEFG) aren't universally recognized, then you shouldn't be basing your language off of them in the first place.
So clearly similar laws should exist to protect email, encrypted or not.
Anyone see tpoem? http://tpoem.com
Thanks, turns out I totally misunderstood those at first - and edited my comment in the meantime. Sorry about that.
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Don't forget the mandate that a certain number of taxis need to be wheelchair accessible. I'm not disabled, but I would like to see both SideCar, Lift, Uber and InstantCab offer wheelchair accessible community cars.
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It depends on the instrument. For melody / monophone instruments (woodwinds, brass and to a lesser extent strings) musical notation is easy. For piano, it's easy once you master the bass clef. For guitar, it just never gets easy because the score has to be full of fingering information to make it even remotely clear where on the fretboard your fingers should go.

Musical notation can definitely be improved upon.
I found the 'above' and 'below' also confusing, as 'above' seems to make sense as a pitch 'above' C (i.e. D) and below would be a pitch below C -- which is B in their notations. Having 'A' be 'Above' yet represent a note below 'B'-'Below' is logically problematic for me.
A valuable lesson. I think I will consult a lawyer for my startup idea. Have been thinking about it but this gave me the push I needed. Really too bad this company didn't do its homework.
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C/C++ etc don't have that problem because they have loops.

TCO is a way to turn a recursion into a loop. If for every situation where you would elegantly use recursion you'd end up with real recursion and all its overhead you'd indeed end up overflowing the stack. For a C/C++ etc program it would not matter whether your loop iterator would be 10 or 10,000,000,000, the program would just run a little slower. The rust/clojure program (coded up without knowledge of the underlying mechanisms, so 'naively') would likely run out of memory. With TCO such a naive implementation would run just fine. 10,000,000,000 is merely large, not infinite and should all things otherwise being equal not come with a huge memory penalty if all you're doing is writing elegant code in the most applicable idiom for a certain language.
I don't think any journal reviews attempt to be double-blind. I could be wrong, but I've never heard of it in my field. In smaller fields, even single-blind (the author not knowing the identity of the reviewer) is difficult, the other way around would be impossible.
And the most natural notation would simply be "piano roll notation" which when oriented vertically looks like this:

http://synthesiagame.com/

The drawback is that this notation is less compact. But, it's the best notation for teaching beginners.

I'm trying to figure out how Hummingbird notation is any better than "piano roll" notation or simply putting letters on the staff. It's definitely a cool idea (infovis-wise), but I think it needs to be user tested: standard vs. hummingbird vs. letters-on-staff vs. "piano roll"...
Ugh. A very painful occurrence. A couple of recommendations, in the event that Kickstarter reads this thread:

- Run pt-table-checksum on a daily or weekly cron, and fix what it finds immediately.

* Switch off RDS.

* Your db admins will thank you for taking off the kid gloves

* You can restore from binary backups quickly.

* Performance will get better

* You can use something like pt-slave-restart to get replication running quickly and re-sync the DBs after the immediate crisis is over.

* If you don't already have it, hook up Nagios to RDS with some MySQL monitoring plugins like pmp.

Data drift, and the resultant replication downtime, is an unfortunate reality of asynchronous replication. It doesn't have to be multiple hours worth of scramble, however - if you catch it early (with monitoring) and are prepared to handle it (with pt-table-sync or binary backups).
Ahahah. Ok, ok, yes, I'm running Unity on off-the-shelf Ubuntu. I bet you're getting much better battery performance than I am!
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