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Classical music theory is a rigid, structural, almost mathematical system that emerged over several centuries. In those centuries, composers learned some very powerful techniques to express ideas in their music. Although the specifics of classical music — the rhythms, the chords, the tonalities — may be antiquated, I really do think that the forces that guided their development are just as relevant to modern music. For example: why is a V7 chord so powerful? It's because you have the interval of a 5th — a tense interval with almost universal meaning vis a vis the overtone series — combined with two minor 2nd intervals that are brimming with tension to resolve to the tonic and the third. The study of intervals and of tension in voice leading is, I think, absolutely essential in jazz as well, and can help explain some extremely confusing jazz chords in analysis as almost incidental results of voice leading. This is what I mean by classical music theory offering insight into any genre of music: classical music emerged out of the study of things like intervalic tension, and even though our own century's music has diverged from this origin, I think it's very important to study the lessons learned over those hundreds of years.

(EDIT: I just noticed that you said outside of Western music. Yes, that may be correct. Many systems of music in the world are very different from our own. But I think most people writing music today are writing with Western ears in mind. After all, we've been conditioned to understand this kind of music for hundreds of years!)

As for your second point, I think what I latch on to in classical music more than anything is the use of motif, and Beethoven's 5th of course epitomizes this. Don't get me wrong — I love popular music, and I listen to it more than anything — but most of the "top 100" songs in any popular music ranking feature wandering, improvised music more than any systemic use of motif to make a rhetorical point. And that's not a bad thing! I love Stairway to Heaven. But it just "sounds good" — it doesn't really develop its musical material.

Compare to something like this[1], where every single musical detail is repeated and developed across all the voices. It's so intricate. I've never heard this level of motivic development in popular music, and I've been looking for a few years now.

I am sorry if this is not making any sense, I am having beers.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLotW5AKjg
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Listen to techno, house and tribal, and you hear Koyaanisqatsi, 18 Musicians, and the work of Glass, Reich, and Riley.

Listen to Glass, Reich, and Riley - and you hear the deconstruction of symphonic structure.

Listen to Beethoven's symphonies and you hear the struggle of form from Mozart's classical era construction to what would become Beethoven's pure romanticism.

Listen to the interplay of an Alberti Bass and melody in Mozart's Piano Sonatas, and you hear the beauty in the evolution of counterpoint as written by Bach, Scarlatti, and their band of powdered wigs.

Listen to Bach and Scarlatti, and you hear the echoes of Gregorian Chant and the Diabolus in Musica (and why Black Sabbath sounds like Black Sabbath.)

Those who forget the past are doomed to be Miley Cyrus.
it's pretty evident that people are downvoting this because they disagree

Yes, that's why people downvote a lot of things. There's no policy or even guidance against using downvoting for that reason, to the best of my knowledge. (And this is what I was told when I raised similar annoyance a few years ago ;-))
Not necessarily true. It stems from Twitter demanding they abandon their trademark.

http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/
I assume good faith, and would just google why people object (although everyone knows), and respond to the most common reasons, rather than demanding that everyone repeat themselves.

My problem is that the reply was a completely empty justification for anything, not that it was defending Poettering or systemd. The reason other people disagree with things that one agrees with is not because they are bitter, angry, hateful types who love to object (because they have never accomplished anything, and are secretly jealous, just like mom said.)
They could have left the old font for old screens. This is a push to make people buy new hardware.

It would be one thing if the hardware offered a significant improvement over 2010 for productive tasks. Not really the case these days. Hardware capability is stuck and Apple is using marketing gimmicks to sell new toys. Thinner, brighter, longer battery, more pixels, gold whatever.

This is not the future. This is General Motors making stylish status symbol cars vs Ford Model T. And they'll make the same car for decades until society needs the cars to solve an actual problem like fewer accidents, less pollution, less gas.

And it's a chicken and egg with software. Not much software really takes advantage of the $10K 10+ core MacPro. The pros are satisfied with a lot less. Only niche fields really want computers like that and even they outsource heavy lifting to cloud render farms.
I am in my first game on backstabbr and am enjoying it very much.

I love the sandboxing feature on backstabbr, but I so so wish it was faster. I would pay good money for a native Windows or iPad client that loaded the current game state and was strictly a fast sandboxing tool. Sandboxing is so heavily "what if" where you want to explore maybe a dozen paths quickly that the tool becomes frustrating when it can't keep up with your ideas.
I think it'll exercise your brain when learning new programming languages that solve problems in different ways, building up your logical and critical thinking skills. But I think learning a new spoken language will exercise the brain more broadly since it's more complex.
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...the slow realization that what was sold as a life-changing, potentially world-changing substance is really nothing more than Ensure with different marketing.

For some of us, that realization was not so slow. ;-)
The process of adding SSL to a website could be 100% automated.

1.) Start the webserver

2.) Webserver: Oh look, I have a virtual host for example.com but no valid SSL certificate in order to serve https.

3.) Webserver: Generates a key+cert. Calls out to third party trusted SSL provider and says: "I control the website for example.com, please sign the following cert"

4.) SSL provider connects back to example.com to validate that the request for a cert is authorised, then signs the cert and gives it back.

This could work today, if a trusted third party SSL provider created such an API and Nginx/Apache were updated to talk to it.

Imagine if next time everyone did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" or a "yum update", their web servers suddenly started providing a HTTPS version of their site.

[edit] Step 4 is the equivalent of the way domain verified SSL already works today, except over HTTP rather than Email.
Yes, it might be topical, and I have a strong inkling that says that it's a case google shouldn't have accepted. They seem to be taking more down than is required of them.

But it's also a far cry from "banker censors report about his malpractice": The banker most definitely would not be allowed to do that under the law in question.
What the hell? I wonder why that's the case. I can see why they wouldn't have time or money to fix it, but why is it that way in the first place?
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The only two programmer friends I have are no-go's for my company. I'm weary of going beyond my immediate network but this project is important -I don't have a choice.

I am not in a geographically advantageous spot either. Rural area, with closest major city being Houston (50 mins away).

I do have an unlimited amount of time to work on my company here. But should I forgo that privilege, head west, and find a co-founder via tech culture immersion?

What should I be considering here?
Yes. I have been using that thing too and love it, to the point that I have been contemplating learning how to make it into a Chrome extension or something (which is a bit of a hurdle - never had any interest in web programming and so I have only a cursory familiarity with the DOM). It's a very welcome alternative to the tablet-centric design trends of the last few years.
Free service yes, but if you're paying for SaaS and rely on it for your business you should really get a source code escrow agreement in place. That will allow you to get the necessary components from the provider in case they go belly-up or such.

Of course hosting the application is a whole different thing, but hey, at least you got all your data available.
I could be wrong, but I imagine most non-techie people would assume (incorrectly) that Facebook has their plaintext passwords anyway, and that that's the mechanism by which their passwords are verified at login time. I don't feel like the concept of a salted hash is familiar to most people. As a consequence, I don't think people would actually find this especially concerning.
I like the layout mainly because it helps to put more words on a page thus improving the "scrolling fatigue" by a factor of two.

Also narrow, newspaper-like columns are much easier to read.

However, quickly scrolling some content into view becomes impossible, which is kind of a dealbreaker for me.
I love the way Erlang simplifies distributed and concurrent programming.

The syntax is a bit weird though and the library support is lacking a bit but a very fine language indeed.
Nobody has mentioned hooktheory.com yet. If you're interested in why some music sounds good, check it out.
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Shouting in a crowded theater is not an analogy, it's a benchmark. This seems obvious to me - if it is an analogy, then what does the theater represent?

What it says is that some line has to be set, and this concrete situation described is something that obviously should fall on the other side of the line. (Therefore, people should be imprisoned for speaking out against the war Q.E.D.)
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And that's still the case. Twitpic's "download" link (from current the front page) is handing out 503s, and has been all day:

http://twitpic.com/account/settings

I wish I could say this will be a good lesson in not trusting startups with personal data, but it won't be.
I don't think the frozen block view of time necessitates a belief in anything traveling along a world line (how would you express the speed at which it travels?) At any given point on your world line your brain is in some state and your 'mind'/conscious experience at that instant is what it's like to be that state.
Actually 3-5 for current gen. And you don't count all other things that are necessary for practical system: PCI-E connectors, RAM, Ethernet PHYs, etc.

P.S. I believe in 64 in 2U, though.
It's more about having a moral obligation to history. Twitpic has been a home for hundreds of millions of images for a good chunk of a decade during which the most monumental shifts in communication and expression have occurred. Unique and irreplaceable moments have been captured in this place. To turn around and delete it all just because you didn't get the trademark application you wanted (and apparently can't be bothered to just think of a new name instead) is nothing other than an unprecedented act of wanton, petulant vandalism against history.

It would be like the world's biggest art gallery turning around and saying 'Oh, sorry, they won't let us call our gallery McDonalds, so we're shutting down and burning all your pictures. After all, easy come, easy go.'
Maybe he's busy with other pressing matters...like all of the aspects involved with his business shutting down and how that affects him and his employees?
Couldn't see how this would help much however the first comment on the article helped clear things up. The paint jobs were not meant to hide ships, just break up their silhouette to make it more difficult to identify the ship and it's heading from a distance.
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I don't understand this blog post at all. It seems to only show the very tip of the situation because, based on the text alone, the story/situation doesn't add up. Especially the part where he says he was doing everything perfectly for the week, yet everyone still wanted him gone. It seems like there was a much deeper personality conflict or something we aren't seeing. Maybe this is my fault, but unfortunately, it also makes the lesson/point a lot weaker and more muddy.

Seriously one of the more confusing blog posts I've ever read.
In light of recent events, I'm not suggesting it's google... but I guess I'm not allowed to suggest anything here, it gets down voted.
This isn't "music theory" (although almost everyone thinks it is). This is "music jargon and notation systems". A theory is something that explains an observed phenomenon. This jargon and notation stuff doesn't explain music, it just guides you through the jargon and notation.

I have a music degree and learned all this stuff and a lot more. This presentation is an excellent, high-quality overview of this non-theory junk.

It's extremely culturally-biased and, again, offers no real theoretical explanation.

If you want real understanding of music in a useful way for real people, I recommend Bob Snyder's book "Music and Memory: An Introduction" which was actually written to teach creative artistic people about how music actually works rather than how aristocratic European music notation works.

For some other perspectives, check out http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/htmlRT/contents.html and http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/ttss.html (normally I wouldn't push these on average folks, although they are superb but the HN crowd should be fine with them)
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I guess you either didn't read the post fully, or you misunderstood it. For what it's worth, Jonathan Zdziarski literally wrote the book on iOS security and hacking (and a good book it is, too).
If to you the "Internet" is a web browser running a specific JavaScript library, then yes, Dropbox did indeed break your Internet.
This is especially relevant for flight where you probably need weather for your departure, destination, and a few places in the middle.
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Is that a hint at a 6th ending or are there only 5?
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Flashblock on Firefox does the same thing, and I run with it rather than AdBlocker. Blocking flash removes the most painful advertising, leaving more appropriate, less in-your-face advertising as a sort of compromise for the vendors. The 'net is noticably louder when I go onto a machine without flash being blocked.
> considering the possibilities of the reverse piezoelectric effect. That is, applying a current causes the material to change shape.

This is already quite common in some industries such as precise mechanical stages for scientific equipment (http://www.piezostage.net/)
I've only had a site blacklisted once. My father ran a WordPress blog on shared hosting and got hacked (probably weak password or vulnerability in one of the plugins or WP itself, who knows). His site was pretty quickly blacklisted, and even after he scrubbed it, leaving just a basic index.html ("we are coming back" type thing), it stayed blacklisted for at least several days. I am sure others have more experience with this, I've just been lucky.
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You also get to see which sites are pulling javascript from 20+ other locations. Sometimes it's an almost-fun game of 'hunt the snipe' to find the javascript source that will present the actual content to you...
Sure, but that's already a requirement for a lot of applications, and a lot more can be handled just by setting '.example.com' cookies if they don't have any untrusted subdomains.

Late edit: Ultimately this all comes down to a more general desire for better tools for segregating data and APIs into appropriate security domains. It's still way too much work, especially for small teams, to separate things into appropriate security domains with appropriate tradeoffs.
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Out of curiosity, have you studied just intonation? I'm currently reading the mostly excellent Haromonic Experience [0]. I'm reasonably well educated on music theory, but I had never looked into just intonation and the way frequency relates to our perception of pitch and harmony. I'm finding this stuff enlightening.

An ideal string (or any oscillator) when disturbed (e.g. plucked) will tend to vibrate at a fundamental frequency of x Hz as well as modes of 2x, 3x, 4x, etc. These higher frequencies at integer multiples of the fundamental frequency are called harmonic partials. This is a physical phenomena unrelated to music and human hearing.

But the basic elements of harmony come from the fact that our auditory system seems to be "tuned" to identify harmonic partials.

If we start with a fundamental frequency x Hz (let's call it C), the first partial is 2x Hz, and it is another C an octave above (multiplying or dividing a pitch by a power of 2 will give you the same pitch in another octave).

The next partial is 3x Hz, and it sounds like a G. This is the interval called a perfect fifth, and is the strongest, most stable sounding interval (other than the octave). The next partial is 4x Hz, which is just another C, two octaves above the C we started with.

The next partial is 5x Hz, which sounds like an E. This is a major third, which is another strong and stable interval which is ubiquitous in most music.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892815604/ref=oh_aui_detai...
Well, there's no enforcement aside from your own conscience (or peer pressure, if that applies to you) so yes, it's an honor system. That doesn't stop it from also being a marketing move.
I agree. I've thought about how to implement this and it's definitely on my radar.

It's also possible to adjust the range (under the options menu), so that far away stations aren't shown and don't get included in the "worst" calculation.
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You're making plenty of sense, beers or no

I would say that the V7 gets it's power from the flatted fifth interval, aka the tritone, aka the most dissonant interval this side of a minor second. And like you say, it can be understood in terms of voice leading, e.g.the 7th (the "leading tone"!) "wants" to resolve up to the tonic.

It's interesting that you mentioned motif because I think that fits well with what I was saying about the length of the pieces. Seems to me that one isn't going to have much room to develop motifs unless writing in an extended form. But for me personally, this doesn't seem like a good requirement for a piece to be satisfying in the way that I think we are talking about. If you are seeking that kind of intricacy from modern music, have you checked out Bela Fleck & the Flecktones? Also, have you explored Zappa at all?
I really wish the submission URL had been better, because this is wildly cool and very hacker oriented. It deserves more than 10 upvotes.

Background:

1) A Pinoccio Scout is a web-enabled microcontroller for DIY projects. Think Arduino, but with a network focus.

2) Minecraft is an open world game where you build everything out of blocks (or at least block-like objects). There are many, many different block types available (from wood to stone, to fences, to special blocks). One class of blocks, called Redstone, allow for the generation and transmission of power within Redstone circuits. Because of the way the game rules are written, it is possible to build very complex Redstone circuits.

Summary:

Pinoccio Craft couples the Pinoccio Scout to a "mod" for Minecraft. This means that virtual events which occur in game can cause real events on the microcontroller, providing a link between the Minecraft world and the real world.

Comments:

This is cool. This is beyond cool. This is stupendously cool. Anyone who has a son/daughter/niece/nephew/grandkid/whatever between the ages of five and fifteen can tell you that Minecraft is all the rage amongst kids. I never gained more street cred from the tween crowd than the day I set up a Bukkit Minecraft server and installed a handful of mods for my niece. If you ask her, she'll tell you with a straight face that I am, in actual fact, a wizard.

I've contemplated an Arduino as an xmas gift for her on several occasions, but I worry that she'll lack the stamina and interest to complete a project. Her sustained attention for real world projects is in short supply... She'll build a 300 meter high replica of her Minecraft character entirely out of blocks of wool in the game though. I'm willing to bet that if I pick up a Pinoccio Scout, install this mod, and do something as trivial as turn on a light when she presses a button, she'll be over the moon about it, and that will lead to her learning a very valuable skill.
It says about technical specs of the product, and it says about how they looked for the hardware that would work for them, but it never says they soldered the board themselves. At least I don't see any of such language on the Kickstarter page, maybe they claimed this in AMA, I didn't read that. The product is what is sold, and if 95% was already there, I personally see no problem in that - a lot of great things were done as adding the final 5% to what already existed but was not as practical. I'm also not sure why anybody would care where the board comes from - as long as it works as a consumer product that didn't exist before, what's the problem?
Nice attitude you have there. No, you don't have to do illegal or grey area things - and yes, I consider myself an entrepreneur.
> In this case though there is nothing obvious, so i am honestly curious what about my post someone disagreed with strong enough to click that button.

Seriously, don't spend the CPU cycles on it. See this post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8363269. Sure it has 10 points now, but someone down voted it minutes after I posted it. I have no idea why. Maybe a bad day at work, maybe the down voter is just an asshole taking advantage of their 500 karma and anonymity. But you'll rarely get an answer, so move on and let them seethe about it ("I'll show that asshole, with my might power of Down Arrow!") instead of you.
There's even plenty of music theory to learn with Miley Cyrus, particularly if you want to know about just intonation and harmonic theory. Even the simplest and most ubiquitous pop chord progressions with just I IV and V require a fair amount of harmonic theory to reason about.
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I think you get there by going back after successfully conversing about the storm and learning about the uncle.

EDIT: Nope, just tried it and it's not that simple, at least.

My favorite is if you go straight back into the kitchen. Your friend's parents (or, their false avatars) are frozen in time.
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To clarify, what you mean is to do a search and have the results add to the current result list instead of replacing it? Or you could mark individual stations on a result list as pinned and they would remain regardless of what searches were performed? That does sound useful. Thanks.
Same goes for me! It's sometimes annoying when I have to log into DUATS and I'm in kind of a rush...