<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>audiosampling</author><text>Dev here! What a surprise - and honour - to find my website featured here, this morning.&lt;p&gt;I just want to add a comment: because the sounds are drawn randomly, everyone hears something different! So, comments like &amp;quot;it does sounds more like a brook&amp;quot; may be right, but just for one particular user, and particular occurence.&lt;p&gt;Today, the average visit duration time is about 30s... and it takes my engine about that same time to evolve from one sound to another. If you think that you are not hearing something that does sound like rain to you, either reload the page (it will start all over again with a new draw) or give the generator a longer listen, like two minutes (I know, this is a lot of time, on the Internet). Then, you will understand why this rain noise generator is different from others. It really shines over longer listening sessions.&lt;p&gt;How it works? Basically, I have sounds in four categories: Light Rain, Heavy Rain, Thunder, and Water sounds (like those occurring once the rain has stopped). The generator starts by choosing one of these categories (with higher probabilities for the rain, but sometimes, it can start with the water sounds - hence that user comment). For each category, there are dozens of different recordings. So, even if you keep playing rain from the same category, it will keep changing. Staying in the same category or switching to another is governed by a very simple transition probabilities matrix.&lt;p&gt;Also, you can change the spectrum of the rain (white&amp;#x2F;pink&amp;#x2F;brown) by means of the pencil (this setting affects the next draws, so its effect is not instantaneous). Being able to change the color of a natural noise, is an interesting feature, IMHO.&lt;p&gt;Cheers,&lt;p&gt;Stéphane</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stochastic rain generator from the author of myNoise.net</title><url>http://rain.today/?</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using mynoise.net regularly at home and at work to help me relax or concentrate. It&amp;#x27;s surprisingly effective, especially after you&amp;#x27;ve calibrated it to your hearing&amp;#x2F;headphones.&lt;p&gt;The basic concept is surprisingly simple: each generator is actually a collection of 10 looping sounds, each ostensibly covering a given frequency range. You can achieve really different  resulting sounds my adjusting each channel. See for example the different presets (on the middle right of the page) for the Crystal Stream generator. [1]&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m impressed by the quality of work that Stephane Pigeon put into each of these, and I&amp;#x27;m glad he&amp;#x27;s marketing it well with rain.today :)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mynoise.net&amp;#x2F;NoiseMachines&amp;#x2F;waterSpringStreamNoiseGenerator.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mynoise.net&amp;#x2F;NoiseMachines&amp;#x2F;waterSpringStreamNoiseGener...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stochastic rain generator from the author of myNoise.net</title><url>http://rain.today/?</url></story>