skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should point out that both statements are true, depending on whether or not you are playing with amplification.

An electric guitar, unplugged, is perhaps the most forgiving variety of guitars, but play it too often unplugged and you'll develop bad habits that are painfully noticeable when plugged in.

I pretty much played acoustics exclusively for a couple of years, only to find out when I picked up my Les Paul that I had developed a lot of 'acoustic-only' bad habits that I had to unlearn. Little things like muting with my fretting hand -- great cheat on an acoustic, but basically acts like a double-tap on an electric.
I use a modified US layout on OS X for retaining proper touch typing posture while using emacs: http://cl.ly/image/372T2o2X0T0r

Symmetric Ctrl keys that are easily reachable from home row makes a huge difference. I've moved '\' key to 'Insert' because I never use 'Insert' key (before that I'd configured Right Shift to insert '\' when it is not used as a modifier and insert '|' when I press both Shift keys at once but I couldn't set this up using Xmodmap so I went with a cross platform solution).﻿
i run my dev enviroment in the cloud on ubuntu vms, just my editor and terminal client are on windows or osx if i happen to work on my laptop. So the OS doesnt really matter. If you run everything on the local machine, sure windows might not be ideal, but i dont consider that good practice anyway.
Lower standards or a better fit? I would find some subjects, like studio art, prohibitively difficult.
IMo, they are at least three issues with Cyprus:
donor fatigue, even though the amount is tiny relatively speaking.

EU hates small islands that act as money laundering /low tax heavens.

Lastly, this: "In 2004, Greek Cypriots again defied international expectations when they voted down a United Nations-backed reunification plan they believed was unfairly weighted against them.

A few days later, the island joined the European Union and some EU leaders were left fuming at what they saw as Greek Cypriot deceit for promising to sign up to a peace deal in exchange for EU membership.

Nearly a decade later and European acrimony at the Cypriot "no" hasn't entirely dissipated. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaueble told the Sunday edition of German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that "Cyprus was admitted to the EU in hopes that the plan of then-U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to overcome the (island's) divide would be honored."

"I interpret (that) as indicating a sense of vindictiveness rather than rational, result-oriented thinking." said University of Cyprus Associate Professor Yiannis Papadakis.
http://hosted2.ap.org/OHCAN/CREPnewswire/Article_2013-03-30-...
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I don't know who's downvoting you, but this is right. You're inspiration is the only thing that determines what will come out of any instrument.

I love my Cordoba classical guitar, but I never actually play classical stuff on it. Hell, I usually end up playing crazy metal on it most of the time. I just really like how it sounds, so I experiment with it. It is more intuitive to play fingerstyle on it given the soft strings and the string spacing, but I could still maneuver a fat 2mm pick on it just fine...
I'd love to see more detailed write up about the performance.

Over the next month there will be a series of blog posts detailing the performance numbers and the key concepts behind Titan's design and architecture.

This blog post from August 2012 (http://thinkaurelius.com/2012/08/06/titan-provides-real-time...) has some details about early tests from Titan 0.1, but notice that today's Titan 0.3 numbers dwarf the 0.1 numbers (the details of how this was accomplished will be explained in the upcoming blog posts).
Those must be long exposures with post processing. A clear sky without light pollution doesn't look anything like that, but it's beautiful. Go see one!
Determining the theoretical 'worth' of a programmer is difficult because demand for programmers is typically tied up with a firm determining how much value they can get from a particular hire. Where information regarding the value of a skill is difficult to quantify due to the largely tacit nature of the skill, valuation is difficult.

It is, however, possible to examine value by examining the differences in demand. If a firm compares their programming staff to a theoretical programmer, then determine what they would be willing to pay for wrt some specific added value that they would get at a particular level of execution, they can effectively price talent.

The take home point is that your first step to pricing is by way of comparing delivered value. The interesting part here is that programmers will likely discover that their skillsets are highly asymmetric wrt value delivery.

My question is how do we measure delivered value? Seems the push for quantifying contributions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5462622) might be related to the difficulty in value calculation.
This is the second time I have seen this claim (re cancer survival) posted to HN, both times it has been unsupported by any references-

Do you have any references?

I have been able to find this

Global Cancer Statistics, 2002 DOI 10.3322/canjclin.55.2.74
That shows essentially the same survival between the US and western Europe. (Link to table http://i.imgur.com/UWPxDEx.png )

Which contradicts the claim
Funny- I heard quite a few complaints about the quality of new hires dropping at google ever since they expanded rapidly five(?) years ago. I don't think you can always hire people better than you are, because unlike a college it was in google's best interest to multiply their work force. Stanford operates on exclusivity whereas workers are more of a resource to google.
There aren't many things that make me think I'm in the future, but the first time I saw an iPhone it was like a Star Trek device.
> All this Bitcoin crap is officially ruining Hacker News.

Yes, discussion about technology, math, physics, crypto, P2P and the markets they're creating have no place here on Hacker News.
I found the rankings immensely helpful in selecting a college. Since then I've realized how little the rankings mean for much of the top 50, 100 colleges. A startup that allowed the user to define their own rankings could make bank.
if you're looking for a good deal on an electric, I recommend checking out http://www.rondomusic.com/electricguitar.html . Their guitars are surprisingly good quality for the price, especially once you get into their 'Agile' brand. If for whatever reason you want a more 'well-known' brand, I've found Ibanez, Dean, and Schecter to have pretty consistent quality on their budget guitars, and the PRS SE series is excellent if you can afford to go that route.

Otherwise if you don't want an electric, I would recommend a good nylon string guitar. Yamaha makes pretty good ones, but as with any acoustic, it's a lot harder to judge how you'll like them without actually trying them first.
I did this exact same thing starting back starting in 2007 with the Hacker's Diet and building out my own spreadsheet with a 10 day moving average I only need to lose about 40 lbs, but I got down to less than 11% bodyfat using it too. I was so amazed at seeing the curves of my abs.

Then I got married and the withings scale and stopped using my spreadsheet and I put back on a lot of the weight.

That 10 day moving average in your face is a huge helper.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5464028&title=testi... - you can just hack it in. maybe someone could put together a simple bookmarklet to get the title appended to the url
Those videos seem completely pointless.

I use bash, and can customise my prompt to show my current working directory, and the current github branch - and it's trivial to do.

I use screen a lot, and I can flick between different screen windows to do any task required just as easily and he can. It also, I believe supports split panes, but I haven't found the need to use them myself yet, as I use iTerm2 which is perfectly fine for that in itself.
One difference is that each musical instrument has its own personality like each person/player.
Classical, acoustic and electrical guitar are totally different.
It is important that _you_ like the instrument. That is a matter of personal taste.
Important is the joy to play.
Therefore pick that up that you like most, whatever this is.
Where do those 30% come from?

DeltaBlue:

100 / 320.84 * 512.74 = 159.81 -> +60%

Richards:

100 / 444.00 * 814.09 = 183.35 -> +83%
Fast_blank: String#blank? in C
you can get android on a stick for $24
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Well, you're probably right. There's a conflict of interest with respect to developing an employee's career from the perspective of the employee and the firm. Both want what's best for themselves.

One of the big concepts in negotiation theory, has been the rise of interest harmonization, wherein parties attempt to figure out how to make their dealings with others create shared interests. If successful these efforts might make career development efforts live up to their name.
> I have friends who were just accepted to Harvard and rejected from Stanford, vice versa, accepted to Yale and neither Harvard nor Stanford, etc.

There has always been speculation that the elite schools get together and do a little horse trading in regards to whom they will accept. Other than those truly exceptional students that they all want, they'll pretty much make sure people get into one or two but not all of the top universities. This is to keep them from wasting too many slots on the same people. They'll deny it of course, but it seems a little too coincidental given how often it happens.
100% agreed. As a matter of fact, just about all schools on the top USNWR rankings are a crap shoot (http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...)

You can get in one and not get in 20, get in 20 and not get in the one you really wanted to get into. I go to one of those schools and I personally know people that got into Berkeley and wanted to go to UCLA or got into Caltech when they wanted to go to Stanford, or didn't get into the state schools and got into Stanford. A friend of mine wanted to go to MIT for undergrad, but instead got into Cornell (and later went to MIT for grad school.) The undergraduate admission process at elite schools really makes zero sense.

All (most?) elite schools use a "holistic" method of evaluating applications. Which is basically a magical black box that spits out yes's and no's.
That's unbelievable - my wife had our child at no financial cost other than taxes and had a terrible experience. If we had used an obstetrician that we paid for out our pocket and she had a Caesarian (I only we had taken that option) it would have cost US$2500 - that's all inclusive with pre birth and post delivery visit and checks. New Zealand.
Stanford's MBA program accepts less than 5.7% if I recall correctly. Closer to 4.5%
Maybe I read it wrong, but to me it sounded like: we got the best content creators, but they only could make beautiful content. All the amateurs were creating the best content.
Is some music better than it can be played, and does some music need help?
That's what the parent poster is saying with "(I'm just talking dart vs. JavaScript, not dart2js generated code vs JavaScript)". If you look at the graph, the top line (dart vm) is running about 400-500 "Runtime Score". V8's moseying along at ±300.

What he or she is wondering is why one would bother with dart if it's not much, much more Runtime Scorey than JavaScript (V8).
A cool thing that PCKeyboardHack can do is have key remapping only apply when you're in a certain app. So, for example, I have Caps Lock mapped to <C-a> but only when I'm in iTerm2 (for switching between windows in screen)
Can you start off in a market that you are deeply familiar with? It takes way too damn long to break into a new market and understanding it to a point where you have an unfair advantage. At least if you start off with something you're already an expert in you'll have a leg up.
Note the graph on drug cost. New Zealand is cheap because of pharmac. This is a government owned company that buys in bulk for the country. By negotiating like this, good deals are made. As part if so-called fair trade agreement TPP there is pressure to drop this model. Gee, I wonder why...
Call it Quuid.
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See:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/spacetravel.html
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.pdf
I have a very hard time believing that you're not able to find any kind of structured guitar lessons via YouTube. I play bass* and I've found it to be awash in quality resources, but I'll take your word for it that it's a complete wasteland for guitar players.

Well, I don't want to seem to be promoting any commercial courses, but here's a good free one - which, incidentally, was the top web result for a search on 'guitar lessons'. http://youtubeguitarlessons.net/

* very very badly
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When i leverage the copyonwrite-ness (which is more redirect-on-write) of the filesystem to recover from a defunct state of the on-disk state to a known state, a filesystem check is just a suboptimal solution. That what i wanted to express with the article. Of course - most filesystems are not COW and can't use it, and thus the notion that a filesystem check is needed prevails. But at the end a filesystem check is just about forcing a filesystem into a state of metadata correctness, without caring much about the data. I wouldn't count that as a way out, when there are better ways.

I think the situation is pretty much similar to the "shoot the messenger" problem of ZFS. Some people are annoyed that ZFS reports errors because of corruption and blocks access to the data (of course without having any redundancy). However the alternative would be reading incorrect data. What's worse. Knowing that you have to recover data or processing incorrect data without knowing it.
There is absolutely no meat in that article. We have no idea about the technical details of what Microsoft has done. All we have is the aspirational witterings of a couple of seasoned industry bloggers. There is no use comparing vague Windows rumours of a not even released product with what Linux has been able to do since its inception.

And BaseFS sounds like VFS, the virtual filesystem layer in Linux also - you'd think it was the most novel idea to abstract away common functionality to a shared core, this design pattern is as old as the hills. These pieces of news carry next to no information, it's pointless that this got onto the front page of HN.
I think the noidea idea was quite good, but quite possibly what struck me as the worst thing about it was the philosophy it implied "oh you don't need an idea to be an entrepreneur, just start a company anywayy!lol". I know that's not the whole truth of it and that many people wind up changing their idea, but that's the feeling it gave me (and I feel many others).
I went to Caltech for undergrad. I know people who got "burnt out" and switched to non-science majors, but the core curriculum would still require everyone (even an English major) to take quantum mechanics, differential equations, etc. They've made some changes to the core curriculum requirements in the last few years, but I think this is still the case.
I suspect that the main reason the single-payer healthcare system is so efficient is simply that there are less players involved.
Stanford et al are a huge leg up when getting your first job out of school. But do they really matter once you have a few years of job experience? When I'm hiring I care vastly more about a candidate's last two jobs than where he or she went to school.
I have two acoustic guitars: my favorite to play is a Takimine I bought off a random dude for $175 over 20 years ago. A few years a decided to "upgrade" with an $1800 Taylor. It's not a bad guitar, somehow the cheaper one is just more fun to play.

If I had to draw a lesson from this: when you play a guitar you will have a "feeling" about whether you like it, and I think that's the most important thing.

Which also means don't buy a guitar without playing it!
Even if the admission process had no "error" as you call it, there would still be kids who fail. Future behavior and circumstances are not predictable or controllable to that extent, no matter how good the admissions process is.

Regardless, the goal of admissions is not to pick the exact top students, but to create a solid class. That may involve taking some chances on kids who provide diversity or experience in areas other than pure academics. If those kids fail, it is not error, but intentional risk. Even the "best" (whatever that means) kid carries some risk, and may fail due to personal or incidental circumstances that could not have been known during the admissions process.
Brian from OkCupid Labs here...

This post contains some really interesting and spot on insights. Some of the data doesn't line up with our (match + okcupid, etc) internal estimates/figures. For example, our estimates are closer to 50% of US have tried online dating, and 50% havent; significantly lower than that in other geographies. The idea of serendipity is definitely a real issue, and a frustrating one, because just the concept in people's minds and expectations alone prevents them from trying solutions that might work for them.

The simple fact is that, for most people finding work is just like anything else: it takes a little bit of attention and work to find the best person for you. That's not romantic, but its real.

I'm not sold that the solution is having your friends help you create a profile, introduce you to their friends, or attest for you. It seems like a lot of work for them, to be honest, with very limited returns. At the labs, our minds are focused on finding the future of dating in mobile, big data, leveraging social networks, and discovering how to create serendipitous connections through the above.

To the OP -- if you want to chat, hit me up; would love to chat. We're in SoMa.
I agree with some of the things you've said. I actually ordered myself a Fender Jazz Bass just yesterday and I've never even played any type of guitar in my life. But even though I went with that "buy the expensive guitar then it wouldn't be easy for you to give up on it" route, I don't necessarily think that's the only way to go. I live in a small town where I don't have the option to test a lot of guitars and see whether they sound good or they're a good fit for my hands (plus I'm left handed so that doesn't help). If anyone lives in a big city where there's a big music shop, I think the safest and the cheapest way to go is to go to that shop and try as many instruments as possible.

Just because you pay a guitar more money than the other one, it doesn't mean the expensive one would sound better than the cheaper one and most importantly it doesn't mean you'd be comfortable playing it.

However, if you don't have an option to try different guitars, Fender is the way to go. Their Standard Mexican made model Strats are not that expensive, in my opinion.
Doing this is definitely worth it -- in fact, it's how vi was meant to be used [0].

Also, it's worth noting that on OSX you can do this without any additional software. Just remap it in the keyboard settings.

[0] http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys...
First off. You can learn on anything, so get whatever guitar you feel most comfortable playing (comfortable playing is the utmost requirement here). You absolutely have to go to guitar stores and have the guitar in your hands and in your lap. If you can't play, make sure to take a friend that can, as they'll be able to tell you if the guitar is "meh" or not.

Spend as much as you comfortably can, but don't kill your bank account. If you can, $500-$1000 is a good range and you have lots of good-quality options in both electric and acoustic.

I'm totally biased on the electric/acoustic debate. I've played almost exclusively acoustic for 20 years, and obviously prefer them. So from here, I'll dive into acoustic specific stuff if you decide to go that way.

Size/Nut Considerations:
Two important things to pay attention to are the body shape/size (Dreadnaught/OM/000/00/ etc), and the width of the fingerboard at the nut. These are just some huge generalizations, but if you play a lot of fingerstyle, a OM/000 with a 1 3/4" nut may be what you're looking for. Whereas if you like playing bluegrass, you'd probably like a Dreadnaught with a 1 11/16" nut.

Woods:
In addition, pay attention to woods the guitar is made of. Spruce and Cedar are going to probably be the two most common top woods, and Rosewood and Mahogany are going to be the most common back woods. Make sure to play combinations of these woods and figure out what you like. Most importantly, if you are paying more than $500 for a guitar, make sure that the top, back, and sides of the guitar are made of solid wood (no HPL, carbon fibre, laminates, plastic, etc.) If you are spending less than 500, make sure you at least get a solid top on the guitar.

Suggestions:
In the 500-1000 range check out Loar, Recording King, Blueridge and Larrivee guitars. I've also heard good things about the Epiphone Masterbilt guitars. Some specific models to check out: Loar LH-250, Blueridge BR-140 (or BR-160), Recording King RD-310, Larrivee OM-03, Martin MMV (if you can find one), Martin 000-15 (or 00-15 or OM-15 or D-15),

In the 1000-2000 range Martin 18-series, Taylor 300 and 400 series, and Larrivee 5-series guitars are great choices. Some specific models to check out: Taylor 312/314, Martin OM-16GT. Martin OM-18 (or D-18)
Take a look at http://justinguitar.com/
Justin offers a lot.
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I recognize him from an incredible blues trio I saw in this tiny bar in Harvard Square last fall.

The guy's got some serious chops. Had no idea he also taught across the river. Check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thaddeushogarth

This class should be very interesting...
The concepts are still exactly the same. Most people scan instead of read. Here's a resource I use (not affiliated) http://www.4syllables.com.au/resources/web-writing-tips/
Indeed. North Korea is playing its cards right, considering how limited its hand is. With the new UN sanctions, they are basically trying to build up such a threat, that the others will eventually budge and lessen the sanctions.

And it makes sense for them to try, because it has worked every time in the past. Effectively, their aggressive behaviour is purely a bargaining position. Although, as the US Defence Secretary correctly stated, 'you only have to be wrong once'. And that is exactly the mentality North Korea is counting on we are feeling.

The most likely break out of war in Korea would be if South Korea either wanted it or provoked North Korea deliberately. Because even North Korea knows it cannot win against South Korean and the US.
The problem I see, after receiving a screenshot from a Nexus 7, is that the responsive breakpoints seem to be ignored on some devices.

On mobile devices there shouldn't be a fixed sidebar. The content should use the whole screen with ~45 characters / line.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/388004/sams%20mobile.png
Slide 24 is a joke right? if not, I'd love to know how you've implemented Brainfuck in production code.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
Yes, they would. If you're in the middle of a remote desert during the day, you would be able to look up and see only blue sky. As the sun sets and the night becomes darker, you'll gradually see more and more stars until you see as many as you'll be able to when the sun is on the opposite side of the earth from you.