skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. I totally agree that you need to have client approval over what you end up using. But my point is that if the client wants you to use a language that takes you longer, or that you are miserable to use, you can reflect that in your quote.
My impression is that a tagline can be useful for Silicon Valley buzz, which can help funding, partnerships, and hiring. Also, AngelList (http://www.angel.co) requires one.
I wonder how this interacts with the right to peaceably assemble, especially given the often political nature of punk music.

Cities can police nuisances, sure, but they cannot craft statutes abrogating first amendment rights that are not narrowly tailored to the perceived harm.

There were a few laws against public dancing in the late 1800s that got struck down under this sort of reasoning.

I'm not sure what the current state of constitutional limits on nuisance laws are, but the Boston statute does seem very broad.
The six year completion rate of the 2006 cohort was 95% (http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2012). This rate has been consistent, both over time and at other top schools. Of the 5% that don't complete, it's rare that the student is incapable of completing (aaron swartz, tiger woods, etc). The admissions department will be the first to tell you that they pass on _a lot_ of qualified people. Even though most people believe that they were an 'admissions mistake', I still don't think that 'error' is the right term.
Ask PG: How Critical Should I Be? (meta - flagging)
I'm definitely in the "up-vote the good stuff" camp, but contributing to
HN includes the far less enjoyable tasks of occasionally down-voting and
flagging.

I know HN employs an "excessive flagging" threshold to prevent abusive
flagging (pg mentioned this eons ago, but I can't find the link). The
"Enough rope to hang yourself" design works well with engaged users who
care about the quality of HN, but the design seems to break down when
there's too much bad stuff to flag/down-vote. The most obvious break
down is when emotions run high on some topic, and we're flooded with bad
comments, throw-away trolling accounts, and redundant but up-voted
submissions. But on everyday terms, if I was to flag every single
violation of the site guidelines I see in the /newest queue, I'd very
quickly hang myself on the anti-abuse code.

Even seemingly well-intentioned people get hung by the anti-abuse code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5454106

Too much of a good thing is often bad, and a well-intentioned person
with an itchy mouse finger could easily flag too much. At present,
there's just no way to know where the "too much" line is, or what kind
of infractions should be flagged.

pg, could you provide more guidance on what you want to be flagged?

I've got a few ideas for potential ways to provide feedback on good/bad
flags to users in their profiles without spoiling the anti-abuse code. I
could either email them to you or post them up in the "Feature Request"
thread where they belong.

p.s. Also could you please add "gossip" and "X is down" messages to the
list of off topic stuff in the site guidelines?
I resent that my time as a functioning nexus of memory and intellect is limited by biology. It is the future I miss the most. The things I will never live to see.

I would be so pleased if, in my last moments, a friend gives me a glimpse of what's next. Even better if I am lucid enough to appreciate it. Cherry on top that a friend of MINE is involved in it and proud of it.

This is a great story.
Actually, YouTube is fairly independent within Google. And Google is more of a software company with an internal ad agency.
I'm sorry, but that's complete BS. Playing any type of guitar does not limit you to a specific style of play - you can play any style you want on any type of guitar. Some advanced techniques and progressions (i.e, solos or conversly fingerstyle) will be more comfortable on specific guitar types, but there's no technical limitation from playing anything on every guitar type. Those distinctions are mostly meaningless to beginners who will be mostly playing simple chords and melodies (to which I would say, a classical guitar is the most comfortable form factor).
Really? No appearance from Zed Shaw? This is like a perfect storm of his interests.
Actually, yes, they treat people with no insurance with cancer or other serious injuries all the time. I was literally sitting in an emergency room at Stanford when they flew in a poor illegal immigrant from Fresno and did the micro-surgical reattachment of a finger. I was there for someone with no insurance who had stage 4 liver cancer who was undergoing treatment (they survived). I grew up very poor, there was nothing unusual about this.

The idea that poor people do not get top notch medical care in the US is largely a myth. It might not be quite as nice but it is often nearly as effective. A large part of the reason medical care is so expensive for average people is that they are subsidizing the healthcare of poor people. This is why the average survival rates for most cancers are higher in the US than anywhere else in the world; people that cannot afford it still get treated with the state of the art and the cost is passed on to people with insurance.

A poor person with cancer in the US with cancer has a much higher survival rate than the average person in the UK. Poor people may not have official insurance but that does not imply lack of healthcare in practice.
Right there with you. Patriarchy is placing all the burden of romance, shame, tenderness and gift-giving to us men, while women can get away with commoditizing us like sausages, then raping us. Cruel, cruel world for princes.
+1 for using Gremlin! Do you know of any python implementations of it?

Note that Marko is the creator of Gremlin :)

There are Gremlin implementations in various stages of development for almost every major JVM language:

Gremlin-Java (base implementation) - https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki/Using-Gremlin-thro...

Gremlin-Groovy (original) - https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki/Using-Gremlin-thro...

Gremlin-JavaScript - https://github.com/entrendipity/gremlin-js

Gremlin-Clojure - https://github.com/zmaril/ogre

Gremlin-Scala - https://github.com/mpollmeier/gremlin-scala

Within the next year (before the TinkerPop book comes out), it would be cool to have all the languages covered, including Gremlin-Jython and Gremlin-JRuby.

Gremlin-Java and Gremlin-Groovy are maintained by TinkerPop.

Gremlin-JavaScript, Gremlin-Clojure, and Gremlin-Scala are being developed/maintained by community members.

To create a Gremlin implementation, you essentially wrap Gremlin-Java in the target language's idiomatic style.

If you are interested in helping develop Gremlin-Jython or Gremlin-JRuby (or any other implementation currently in development), please post to the Gremlin Users Group (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/gremlin-...).

Right now most people use Gremlin-Groovy (it's the original) regardless of what language they're developing in (think of Gremlin as a domain-specific language like SQL you use in conjunction with your primary language).

For example, Bulbs (http://bulbflow.com) is a Python library I wrote that supports Rexster, Neo4jServer, and Titan. In Bulbs, you edit Gremlin scripts in Groovy text files, and when you create a Python Graph object, Bulbs sources your Groovy files and caches the Gremlin scripts in a library so they are readily available for when you want to execute them on the server.

See http://bulbflow.com/docs/api/bulbs/rexster/gremlin/
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While the US is relatively good at keeping the air and water clean (relative to some places I've been), both light and noise pollution are a big problem - almost unregulated.
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This post is from 1997 (16 years old). I wonder how different would it be today.
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Good stuff, thanks a lot.
Captcha. Right.
> The city would look much, much darker.

Not unless it was a moonless night. Even a quarter moon can be surprisingly bright once your eyes have adjusted to the night.
I may sound counterintuitive, but if you really want to learn, I'd recommend a high-end acoustic guitar for the following reasons:

- you make a big investment (upwards of $2000) and it motivates you not to give up

- it sounds good, it looks good, it even smells good (rosewood, mahogany, spruce, ebony - that kind of thing). If you're into guitars (or simply beautiful things) it's hard to put down and you find yourself spending more time with it than you'd initially planned. And that's the single best thing for getting better at it :)

- you get no excuse (like, "it's not the real thing, it sucks, that's why it doesn't sound right even after many hours of practice"); it helps to remove doubts and concentrate on practicing

- if nothing else, it will make a decent long-term investment (high-end guitars tend to depreciate in the first years after the purchase and appreciate afterward). Some people even claim that it's a better investment than real estate, but I don't know about that

Ask somebody to play it for you, ask their opinion of how easy it is to play, have it set up by a good guitar technician... And keep on picking :)

Also, somebody mentioned justinguitar.com; it is a great site; the guy is a great teacher and a wonderful guitar player. It's got a bunch of theory lessons, but also lessons where Justin picks apart famous guitar songs and teaches you to play them in a "dumb" way - some might say it's cheating, but it surely helps to keep the fire burning when you can learn a tune or two without pulling your hair out trying to transcribe without the required experience (it's very hard, although that's what every guitar player should try to learn eventually).
Got the same advice from some of my friends. Sounds right- try something cheap, learn the various pros and cons and the thing that suits us the best and then go for a more professional guitar.
Never thought I would see Hank Green on the front page of HN but hey there's a first time for everything!

Hank has a great point, YouTube is all about quality content! They need to invest in people that know how YouTube works not Hollywood. It takes a fresh and open perspective to understand a YouTube audience. I'm 19 and I've been making videos since the age of 15 and you learn so much about interaction and branding but you never forget that you're just some guy talking to a camera...WHICH IS PRETTY RELATABLE! I'm sorry I think I went on a random rant.

MY POINT: YouTube always should be supporting their original content creators, not trying to help all these new companies become big and successful. There is a reason I watch TV and a reason I watch YouTube. I don't need both on one platform. Alright, done.
As a baseball stat head, I can extend your analogy.

In late 1990s, when Quinton McCracken first published DIPS theory, it was postulated that pitchers had zero control over their "luck based" factors (BABIP, in this case; expanded to include LD%, LOB%, HR/FB%, etc.)

Now there exists enough data to identify outliers, to whom the theory of DIPS (Defense Independent Pitching Stats) doesn't apply. Matt Cain, for example, is acknowledged to outperform his DIPS.

No matter what the statistics suggest, people will believe they're the Matt Cain. And some will be. By definition, they're the outliers that our statistical models do not account for.
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That's what I did. I actually had to do it in incognito mode because (presumably) they use cookies to try to prevent that.

Someone ought to write an extension...
Not a bad idea to use caps lock for a different key, but i guess it is not the big time saver to use it as cmd+r - takes pretty much the same time.

i also needed a tool to remap some keys - i'm living in germany but i'm using a us-int. keyboard to have it easier on coding. but also i wanted to use german letters: äöü without holding aou pressed and then press the number i need in the overlay of special chars.

now i have it on alt+a/o/u

i used Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&...) for it - pretty easy tool, where you can create your complete own keyboard layout and set it up with your own icon and so on. And without less steps then explained in your todo list.

who might is interested in this us-german-layout (https://github.com/marvwhere/usgerman)
Those concerns are valid, but I disagree with you about college grads lacking that resilience. By your own admission you've been through some start ups. Could you handle it? What does it mean to not be able to handle it?

I think this touches on the core of the talk--people are afraid to jump into the startup world because they don't think they can handle it. It sounds like he's saying it's not that bad. Your company may fail, yes...but then you just get out there and find a new company to work for.

Zach Holman was Github employee number 9 [1]. I'd say they were a startup at that time. His perspective is obviously colored by their success, but they only sought funding 2 years later. Still, the definition of 'startup' is indeed vague, and PG wrote an essay on it [2]. I interpret PG's definition--a company designed to scale fast--to mean that so long as a company is growing by a multiplicative factor, it's still a startup.

[1] http://zachholman.com/posts/scaling-github-employees/

[2] http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
id love zmodem support... but I'm probably the only one that uses it
... says the high school senior being published in The Wall Street Journal. Can't tell if irony.
Well, I tried that. I had to click through four videos before finding one that actually linked to any external site of "lessons". Once I did find it, it linked me here:
http://www.guitarjamz.com/ytblues/

You've got to be kidding me. Surely, you actually have some real examples of learning guitar online that actually do compete, even a little, with what Coursera is offering.
If I could downvote for posting a link to a site that asks us to pay, I would. Don't have the karma unfortunately.
Yes, I know you said both those two things, and I agree - ZFS has inbuilt error detection and healing. Any code that can detect errors and heal them should be there. And if you have corruption the only long term, safe, ass-covering advice to give is to restore to a pre-corrupt state.

But the argument went:

Detractor: ZFS needs fsck.

You: No it doesn't.

Detractor: ZFS creators attitude has always been "we don't think it should exist", but there's no more reason than this. It still corrupts so it still needs an fsck tool.

You: Here is a big blog post about why it doesn't: OK so it can get corrupted but I don't think an fsck tool should exist.

You know how useful it is to post on StackExchange "help I have this situation, I know conceptually there is a way out, but how can I actually do it?" and get the replies "you shouldn't want to do that"? It's not helpful at all.
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Editor? I do not think that word means what you think it means!

Emacs is an abstraction layer for a non-preemptively threaded virtual machine, one application of which involves editing text, sound, video, images, etc.
I know this is true in case of programming for a lot of languages. I am not sure whether this applies to learning guitar as well, I don't have any experience playing a guitar myself so, I can take your point as valid until I try out something and see for myself if there is a difference.
There's less luck with getting rich than you might expect, assuming "rich" means "don't need to work anymore". Check into the early retirement scene for examples. earlyretirementextreme.com or mrmoneymustache.com are great examples.
Doctors in the U.S. make more money.

No, not really. My american, pediatrician drove a beat up Subaru. Doctors is a pretty big field that covers GPs (PCPs in the US), surgeons, anaesthesiologist, etc. Surgeons make a lot of money in the US and everywhere, but your typical GP is not ballin'. I'd even say doctors in other western countries make more because no student loans and no malpractice insurance means their take home pay is higher.

Drugs are more expensive, partially because the U.S. subsidizes R&D for everyone else.

This list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_companie... has the top 2 drug companies being in the US and 3rd, 4th, and 5th are european. The US does subsidize the worlds R&D in erectile dysfunction research ;-). There are plenty of drugs that have been approved elsewhere that haven't been seen in the US.
The difference isn't really as big as that. It'd be like starting with Perl and then moving onto Ruby or Python.
Next: adding built-in OpenGL support in Windows.
One approach would be to take a complementary major, since you'll already have the job experience. Electrical Engineering or Mathematics come to mind. Another approach would be to indulge whatever else you're passionate about, be it Philosophy, History, Literature, or whatever.

I studied Physics and ended up in this industry without any formal CS classes. I would have liked to get the formal knowledge of Algorithms, Programming Languages, and Operating Systems. Perhaps a course on databases. I'm glad I took the EE intro course on digital circuitry, and I'm glad I took the math course on graph theory. I think taking a lot of math courses is a good idea.

So all of those in the previous paragraph are my suggestions for courses to take. The other point I'd make is that college can be a lot of fun. You're around a lot of other people of the same age, and everyone has a lot of free time and not many responsibilities. College has value outside of just knowledge acquisition. But it's not for everyone, and it's fine if you decide not to go.
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A properly targeted ad is useful. By definition, if the ad works on you then it did something useful for both the advertiser and the person who saw the ad.

Ads obviously sometimes work, or else no one would do ads.
Enh...the thing is, a $300 Fender acoustic sounds good enough that you can get away with playing shows on it - you probably shouldn't, but you absolutely can. As a beginner, you're really not going to appreciate the difference between that and a high end model anyways, so why spend more?

If you're the type that needs to blow money to feel motivated, sure, you can do better, but there's a lot to be said for learning to sound good on a shitty instrument before you are good enough that spending more will actually make you sound better. That's how most pros start out...
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I like this advice, but I don't necessarily believe that it has to be a high end guitar. My first real guitar was a Seagull Cedar Maritime, and it's basically what I taught myself on. I like it for a number of reasons, namely

- It's pretty cheap. The SWS models can get up there (and I've since picked one up) but you can get a decent Seagull for under $500, and it won't break the bank.

- Seagulls generally have wider nut widths, which gives a little more breathing room between the strings, and is great for finger style and the 'fat finger' feeling new guitarists have.

- They sound AMAZING. For my last guitar, I was dead set on buying a Taylor 514CE, but playing it side by side next to Martins and solid body Seagulls, I ended up getting another Seagull. Obviously, this is as subjective as the ongoing 'Martin vs Taylor' holy war, but I took a neutral party to blind listen to me playing so as to mitigate the confirmation bias, and they picked the Seagull too (though obviously, I was more keen on the Seagull architecture, which I'm sure did bias things).

All that aside, I don't think I got really serious about learning guitar until I ultimately picked myself up a Les Paul (per your advice) to effectively "get more skin in the game", as well as to know that whatever mistakes I made were mine, and couldn't be blamed on the guitar.

Also, in addition to justinguitar.com, I would add Marty Schwartz, who has a Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/guitarjamzdotcom.

He teaches a lot of beginner level, few-chord songs that people know and recognize, and even though I know that it's a Youtube video, and not interactive, the videos are recorded with a great deal of patience.
Yes, something like that. If you are proficient with the acoustic guitar, you'll probably be able to pick up an electric for the first time in your life and play.

On the other hand, if all you've ever played is an electric (with its low action and lighter strings), playing an acoustic will probably require some time getting used to.

I would compare electric to something like Python and acoustic to C :)
Our team is in the same boat and I think you're entirely right regarding how beneficial the application process has been.

The concision required of some of the questions was cleansing: Even if I couldn't hit 120, I know I took a scalpel to the ideas we were tossing around in order to pull out those few nuggets of gold.

Best of luck, Adrian. Maybe we'll meet over the summer!
My dislike was due to its odd shape in my hand - my hands are quite large. It was so small and I struggled to click with accuracy too.

I also dislike the current cordless one too - people I work with leave the mouse in all sorts of strange places and almost always I seem to start driving it upside down. And the lack of proper scroll wheel is infuriating when trying to scroll through a CT scan or MRI - using the fantastic DICOM/image viewer Osirix and trying to scroll 1 image either way is quite tricky.
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Electrics are often much more fun to play, but I found, early on, that the acoustic gave me better habits, and made me a better all around guitarist.

I bought probably the exact same cherry Epi SG a long time ago to start off with, and I can still remember how embarrassed I was the first time I tried to play an acoustic.

Conversely, for a long time, whenever I was having trouble learning something on the acoustic, I could swap it out for an electric and usually just bang it out. Perhaps psychosomatically, this then made it easier to play on acoustic, just knowing that it was playable.
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Maybe if you have tons of disposable income, but you can get a damn good sounding acoustic guitar for under a grand that sounds better than most that cost twice that if you don't mind shopping around.

I've found a classical that sounded better than everything else in the (rather large) store. That one cost 600 while the cheapest competitor was 1700. This is taking string age, etc into account. Similar for acoustics if you add a few hundred to both ends. It really comes down to the luck of the draw on wood quality and combinations of different trees an instrument is made of.

Now, you can get an electric of craigslist for three hundred that'll play like butter after a competent setup with some 9 gauge strings on it. You do have to buy an amp, but if you don't want really nice metal distortion it shouldn't cost you too much. Distortion and effects can get costly.

And then, we could always talk about how if you really want to understand music you should just learn to play bass.....
I'm obviously a bit simple if I'm willing to admit it - but I still feel like I'm in the future when I pull the iPad out the bookcase/bag/couch crack. It's a computer, its only a few mm thick, and its now!
It was really the exact opposite of that. The thesis was exactly that, it's all about the content, so get the best content creators in the world. It turned out to be all about the medium, and there are still only a few people who know what do in the medium of online video.
What he wrote in the email wasn't that he wanted to show the iPad, he wanted to show her photos on the iPad.
Man says OK to simple human request. Big deal.
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