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In the spirit of releasing things before they're ready... I've been working on Violin.io ( https://violin.io ) since 2015. It's eventually intended to be interactive sheet music in…

I welcome it. I enjoy the challenge of staying focused when I notice out of the corner of my eye a crowd forming or people filming. Sometimes I cope by playing with my eyes closed.…

Steve here. Indeed, I already play at least four orchestra concerts per year and a number of chamber performances. Busking provides a performance opportunity of a different sort by…

Steve here. That guy is great! Perfect idea for a trumpet. He's always standing on a bench/podium in the northwest corner of Union Square. His sound really projects; you can hear h…

I think that's a great idea. Electronic aids, despite the overhead, have a higher ceiling than a feeble acoustic violin. It can be more unique, more exotic, and more easily heard. …

Steve here. Thanks for reading! Those earnings are certainly not sustainable over eight hours in a day, nor over every day of the week. But they are attainable in strategically tim…

For anyone interested in this area, the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) [1] is full of papers on the so-called area of image forensics -- the identif…

My first experience with Persona was through my mobile phone provider, Ting. They still use Persona: https://ting.com/account/login . I loved it then, and I love it now.

Off-topic, but your article's design looks beautiful. What did you use to generate it, e.g. a converted IPython notebook, or homemade CSS plus MathJax? And what did you use for the…

I glanced through the entire PDF. While it looks like an outstanding comprehensive overview to neural networks, it doesn't appear to really address NLP all that much, despite the t…

Hmm, interesting. Perhaps it is not worth it to "hire" a spectator to donate, but I think simply a spectator to stand around like an audience member can be more effective. That's a…

I busk solo violin in San Francisco's Powell Station -- 45 times since January 4, 2014. I last played on September 20 and made $51.02 per hour. My friends have encouraged me to wri…

Slightly off-topic, but because I love this topic so much: there is a wonderful documentary called Pianomania about a piano tuner ("piano technician", if you will) to the stars. Th…

Nowhere did they mention http://www.baseball.com/ , the website I would have guessed was referred to by the title before I read the article.

... in part due to some hilariously complicit Hacker News accounts that are making serious-sounding comments. Not gonna lie; I was initially fooled.

http://musicinformationretrieval.com A collection of instructional IPython notebooks related to music information retrieval.

Forgive the comment hijack, but for those interested in the basics of music information retrieval (MIR), I started to compile some notes on MIR as IPython notebooks here: http://mu…

For small personal transactions, I like Square Cash [1] because I can pay by sending a simple email. Deposits also seem to be pretty fast. [1] https://squareup.com/help/us/en/artic…

Great idea! Although it appears that the Audio widget does not display correctly. Compare: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/stevetjoa/stanford-mir/bl... https://github.com/stevet…

Brief HN discussion on the same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8124560 Recent HN discussion on another article about orchestral conductors: https://news.ycombinator.…

I have yet to go through it, but there is OnlineStatBook: http://onlinestatbook.com/index.html Chapter 1: http://onlinestatbook.com/2/introduction/introduction.html

I'm sorry to report that, according to the Associated Press, Hari Simran Singh Khalsa has been found dead "in one of the narrow gorges or ravines that crisscross the rugged mountai…

A collection of IPython notebooks for music information retrieval (MIR). Work in progress: https://github.com/stevetjoa/stanford-mir We began using these as instructional material …