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Read about "anonymous credentials"

No. Read about anonymous credentials ;)

What bothers me is that there are no technical people on their "team" page. Only an "R&D manager".

what does it mean?

Some ideas are worthless. Not all of them, and the hard task is to distinguish. And an idea is not simply "hey' let's have this". An idea includes specifics :)

Thanks :)

Great, thanks for the extensive tips. I'll try these. I'll probably even try the PR option. This is my side project, so I'm not super-keen on getting it to market (I'm not sure if the business model is workable), but I do like the idea and I think I can afford to thrown in some money.

Hello,

I'm contacting you, because I read an article of yours about computers and music ([article title]), and thought that you might be interested in my project as well - http://computoser.com

It provides a very simple web interface to a (practically) unlimited set of music tracks, generated without any human input. And although it is not the first algorithm to generate music, I think it's the first web-based, user-friendly interface to such an algorithm.

When I first released the project, I submitted the story to HackerNews to gather initial feedback from fellow "hackers", and the it was very positive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819269, which inspired me to make some improvements.

The improvements are already in place, and although the algorithm is not perfect, I think it's worth taking a look at. I'd be happy to get your feedback, or in a best-case scenario - get it covered.

Thanks, I knew that, that's why I also found people that could be interested because of previous related articles.

To answer the inevitable question - the ways music gets influenced are:

- speed - the faster you wave the phone, the faster the piece is

- variation - the bigger the standard deviation in the values from the accelerometer is, the more variation in the melody there is.

- light - if it's dark around, the scale is minor, if it's light - it's major.

I'm outside the US and it was no problem. Wire some money to a bank account, get the bitcoin.

Hi. I have to confess I neglected my promise to contribute to the official documentation, but I haven't found the time..

And here's my How-To for adding Persona authentication to your site: http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1056

I was surprised the other day when I was testing the bitcoin integration for a project of mine (here's a how-to: http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1114), that the price is so high. I bought my bitcoin a couple of months ago at 10 times lower prices, and it was a pleasant surprise.

I'd suggest adding features to keep people coming back. E.g' rss and email subscription for 'hot' projects. Otherwise it might get pretty lonely when you get off the hn front page.

You can get some motivating stuff done even without changing the field. Specializing in something cool and strange is fine, but as someone mentioned - there will probably be a 95% repetitive task there as well. While staying at your current industry segment, you can still do interesting stuff: I've discussed that here http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1063

Arthur Clarke is one of the futurists that has imagined things right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYgdX2PxyQ

strange. It works on chrome on windows.

I'm not missing it - all three things are encoded there. They might not be that "visible", which is a point of improvement, but the theory is there. As I wrote in the blog "random" generates noise. That's why composition rules are needed.

Creative Commons is the one I picked

sure, any feedback is welcome. The thing is still in an experimental phase, and I'm trying to improve it bit by bit

Will look for a better soundbank, indeed

I've read some papers about software used to help live performers, some sort of co-performer, or accompanying robot. But I can't find the paper right now..

they sound pretty nice :) will read the paper immediately

I deliberately made it generate/play tracks with 0 user input. This thing might be good, but I couldn't make it play anything meaningful

true that, I'll try to improve the general structure, so that it sounds complete

Nope. Pretty interesting, though. Will read about it more.

Great. The composer doesn't need to have gone through emotional breakdown, drugs, or whatever, to create beautiful music. He just needs talant. And I think talant may be at some point expressed in zeroes and ones.

True that about the growing market. And true that few of these products/companies are really anything novel. But you have to do things better than the rest (I've discussed that more extensively here http://web.bozho.net/?p=125)

The idea of "liking" and "disliking" is to: 1. Get a collection of 'best' tracks that sort-of advertises the successful parts of the algorithm 2. To let me analyze which intermediate decisions in the generation process are good and which not, so that I can make the good ones happen more often.