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Preface: I've been playing guitar for 9ish months now... I started on an acoustic and I've played quite a bit with my roommate's electric.

I've always seen the electric guitar as being far less forgiving than the acoustic when it comes to technical mistakes. Missing the fret by a little bit, strumming the bass strings a tad louder than you were expecting: big problems with an electric, but not really problems I've faced on the acoustic.

Perhaps you are coming from a place of far more experience than I am, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but at least that's what I've noticed in my practicing.
The number is the count of your "karma" score (acquired points).
You can view the score of anyone by clicking on their user name
and viewing their profile.

As for questions from YC, they asked you to make sure your email
address is set correctly in your profile so if they need to contact
you or any of your co-founders, they can. You can set your email
address by clicking your user name link.
I think most dating websites are shitty for heterosexual men in their early to mid twenties.

I think it is dating that is shitty for men in that range. They have a limited pool of women in an age range that most of them want to be involved with. Those women in turn have socially acceptable dating opportunities with men of a much wider age range, including many men with better financial means than most men in their early to mid twenties. The result is too many men chasing too few women.
Just launched this. Doesn't work on Safari :( Oh browser wars, what would we do without you.
I haven't tried Titan, but I've played around with neo4j a little bit in the past and found it a little frustrating to get started with.

The good part is the ACID transactions and the (beautiful) browser based interface to it. The bad part is that it was far too easy to get the database in a locked state when you perform a bad query (which you tend to do a lot as you're learning).

Graph databases are extremely powerful and will likely change the way you look at structuring a lot of data mining problems. I'd recommend trying one of them out if you ever get the chance!
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US dollars have been around for more than 200 years. The British Pound, more than 500. The Chinese renmibi/yuan is over 2000 years old. Based on this, I'm going to say that the safe money is on the US dollar being around in 100 years.

Pardon my spelling, I'm mobile.
Using this as a keypad (modular addition) would be much better than the Vigenère cipher, since there aren't such obvious correlations between key characters-- a good cellular automata is closer to a proper PRF.
Actually, this is exactly trolling, and depressingly presumptuous and untrusting of you. She wasn't your friend, she was his friend. Quit optimizing stranger's lives.
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I would argue a beginner should start with an acoustic for precisely the same reason. Transitioning from electric or classical to acoustic is difficult, but from acoustic to the other two is very simple.
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This is more about having the common core across MS platforms than about running a http server.
I'm fortunate enough to have been included in that 5.7% today. Nonetheless, the statistic is highly misleading and the entire college process is becoming increasingly arbitrary. With so many talented candidates, it is often simply a crapshoot for all but the very best applicants.

Admission to an individual school in particular is extremely difficult to predict. I have friends who were just accepted to Harvard and rejected from Stanford, vice versa, accepted to Yale and neither Harvard nor Stanford, etc. It's similar to an earlier discussion today here on HN about the applicability of group statistics to an individual situation: even if you're an exceedingly qualified applicant, your essays just might not click with a particular school's screener. Or perhaps you're not fully qualified, but someone in the admissions committee really connects with your personal story. These kinds of things happen all of the time in college admissions; with such a competitive pool, getting into any particular school often comes down to chance.

As for the acceptance rate itself, it's as much a measure of how good a school is at marketing as it is of its competitiveness. Harvard (and many others) sends pamphlets by the thousands trying to bait almost-certainly-hopeless students into sending an application, just to drive down their acceptance percentage. Many schools also reject candidates that are "too good," ("Tufts syndrome") because an admissions office will gamble that such candidates will matriculate at a better school. They would prefer to get their acceptance percentage lower than accept a student who probably wouldn't matriculate.
Just read your blog post. Thanks for the link and good luck. I may write a blog post about a few changes to the YC application. If your startup has a working prototype and you want some press, post or email me the link. I will mention it in a blog post.

My one comment for every applicant: Realize the "3% chance" is often misunderstood. It's in one of PG's essays, but I can't find which one specifically. The 3% chance doesn't mean that all applicants have a 3% chance. It means that 3% of applicants have a really great chance and 97% have no chance. So your odds of getting an interview are either really good or non-existent.
Thanks. The low level stuff certainly seems like a good thing to learn—I made an effort to read Code[0] a while back and most of it went over my head. The high level programming languages most people work in today are abstracted to a point where it's extremely hard to see their relation to the low level stuff. It would be nice to understand that link better.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...
I don't know much about this class, so I can't really say what's the difference between this class and watching a video on YouTube, but I took a couple of courses on Coursera and I have to say, there's a big difference (generally speaking). I'm not an MOOC expert, but some differences that I've noticed from my experiences:

- You can engage with people who want to learn the same thing as you do via discussion forums. Those people are basically your class mates. You have the same teacher, same assignments, you get to watch the same lectures etc. If you have a question you'd like to ask, you get to ask those questions to your class mates and you can have discussions on that very subject. Sometimes teachers get involved too and if they don't, you can ask them to get involved.

- Teachers provide course materials. Some of them are transcripts of video lectures but some of them contain some really good information that you probably can't find anywhere else, because they're mostly written by your teacher specifically for that class.

- Sense of accomplishment. Now this may differ from person to person, but it's nice to get some acknowledgment once you finish your course.

- Quizzes. You actually get to test your knowledge. If the course requires an assignment for you to finish the course, that's even better. For example, you take a class on International Law, you may be required to write an essay on the subject with X amount of word limit. They give you a hard deadline and that becomes your homework. You actually feel like you're a student. Plus, teachers actually read what you've written and some of them even give notes.

- You can get verified certificate, but I believe they announced that fairly early and I'm not exactly sure how that works. But seems self-explanatory.

- And the best thing is, I get to have all these things for free. I'm thousands of miles away from the US or the UK, but I can still take classes from Princeton University or University of Edinburgh, and that's just so cool. I realize the quality of education is not the same as taking an actual class by attending the school, but who cares? You watch the same lectures from the same professors (most of the time) and it's for free, in the comfort of my home and at my own convenience.
sounds so easy but those kind of jobs are rare. I currently work for a web startup in the enterprise business and they really like meetings and planning milestones to be able to show investors were we are and how we are doing. I dont like it but given that its a pretty massive project, i dont really know how to improve it.

Cool slides, but does 5 years of work experience already make someone under 30 a senior programmer? i know titles dont mean much and all, but in that case it doesnt really add any value anymore.
Haha, we've already gchatted about this.
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Exceedingly excellent post.

>The complete opacity of programmer skill and development helps and hurts us. No one knows what we're worth. We don't even know.

Times like these create huge opportunity for those who are able to navigate through the uncertainty. It truly is an exciting time.
Yeah but you have to consider the yield too, they have to "guess" the number of applicants who will choose to go to Stanford if they are admitted.
I feel like you could probably create a one page compose screen of your liking and send through SMTP.
I can't imagine that anyone's friends are as invested as they themselves are (or would put an equivalent amount of energy) in their dating success, but maybe I just have lousy friends. It's an experiment worth conducting.
>most companies will not pay much above what they're paying employees in a similar position.

And most companies are not worth working at. If you are in a position to negotiate in such a manner as described by the parent post, you aren't hurting for work.
I'm sorry, but by that logic there would seem to be little rationale for any of the courses on Coursera. As someone who has dabbled in myriad mooc offerings let me point out that signing up for a multi-week course that follows a syllabus that's been thought through by someone who actually makes a living teaching at an institutional level with regular assignments and quizzes as reinforcement tools, it's a format of learning that's proved to be pretty successful. Is it the only way to learn something? No. But I for one think it's great that Coursera is branching into other subject areas.

And by the way, can you please explain how a video on youtube is a "private course"? I'm also having trouble understanding the relevance of this abundance of free material you speak of - last I checked, Coursera courses don't cost money...
Excellent documentation - this is what a 'getting started' page should look like. All projects should have this depth of introductory material.
Do these ridiculous accept rates hurt society? That is, is there any measurable difference in human capital between the top 5.7% that got in and say the next 5.7%, or even the next 20%? But only the particular 5.7% that got in will be able to use Stanford branding to get to the top of the interview heap for the rest of their lives. For everybody else, employers will have to either invest more resources to discern their quality or will forgo the added expense and also miss the opportunity of a Stanford-quality employee that just happened to not get access to Stanford branding due to the increasingly fantastical notion that what Stanford offers is "education" which can only be supplied to a limited number of seats per year.
To All the Colleges That Rejected Me
Is anyone with a small child currently planning on how to get their kid into Stanford? My intuition is that Stanford (and the other elite schools of today) will not be so important in 20 years.
Absolutely. "MinWin" sounds so appealing people jump to the conclusion that it's running in the Azure farms or in other MSFT data centers. The next logical step from this assumption is that it could be a product.

It's almost unfortunate that the term ever leaked out.
My caps-lock gets mapped to escape. On linux, or at least the flavors I'm using, this is super easy: Just drop the following into ~/.Xmodmap

!! Delete the caps lock key
clear lock
!! Make caps lock map to <esc>
keycode 0x42 = Escape
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"In the future, we may charge for certain enhanced features, such as more robust reporting or new types of Tags, but the basic features will remain free"

Not that I'm opposed to charging, but who wants to deal with such uncertainty with a technology like this?
You should ask.

It's not an employee's 'opinion' based on an emotional decision on whether they can share something with an individual that has cost millions (billions?) to produce.
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Unless there is a 100% pass rate, there is definitely "error." Picking someone who you couldn't find a problem with but who is incapable of passing your courses counts as picking the wrong person.
I meant private courses that also publish some free material to YouTube. Just go to that site and search for 'guitar lessons' and you'll see many videos that link to structured offerings, both free and paid-for.

I know perfectly well what MOOCs are and what the attraction is. I'm pointing out that I don't see anything especially distinctive or valuable about this particular offering; rather it seems to lower the bar somewhat, by offering rather less than existing alternatives.

Put another way, enrolling in a MOOC is an excellent way to participate in a course that might not otherwise be accessible for reasons of cost or geography. There's great value in learning about Machine Learning from professors at Stanford or economics from the University of Chicago or (fill in your own example here). But it's not hard to find lessons in things like playing the guitar. And because playing music is so interactive and performance-oriented as opposed to abstract and cerebral, I actually think most people would be rather better off studying it with a real person than by enrolling in a MOOC. Even if one doesn't want to do that, this particular Coursera offering looks worse than existing internet resources for musical instruction.
Thats the attitude, I wish you the best of luck!
The only response I could come up with: "stupid is as stupid does."
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The basic problem of filesystem repair is the point that you repair the metadata, but it can do nothing about your data. So when your filesystem enables you to fall back to a known consistent state of metadata and data by the COW, you should fall back to a known consistent state. And not to something that is repaired by a generic tool. How do you know in such a situation that somewhere in you thousands and thousands of files the repair got something wrong. The copy on write behaviour of ZFS has it's advantages.

And as i already wrote in a different comment: If there is a bug in the stuff writing the on-disk state, the bug should be addressed on the exact knowledge of the bug in the code reading the on-disk-state and thus doesn't make assumption what could be halfway correct, but by some piece of code that does the correct with the incorrect on-disk-state.
I'd say don't buy a guitar right away. Ask around among your friends, I'm sure someone will have an old unused acoustic lying around.. use that.
When you get good, you'll have a better idea about the kind of guitar you want to buy. Its also a good way to check if the guitar is your thing (if it isn't, that shiny 300$ Les Paul copy you just bought is going to become the ultimate source of guilt. This has happened to far too many people I know.)
Also, its quite likely the old beat up guitar isn't setup perfectly - the upside of this is that its going to help you build calluses like magic.
They gone full retard.
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Yeah, my brother lives outside Flagstaff, which has strict light pollution laws and is at 7000 ft. On clear nights the view from his front yard is ridiculously gorgeous.
tl;dr version:

ZFS doesn't need fsck because it has virtual log-structured metadata and can therefore always recover itself.
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It's certainly not difficult once you are proficient enough. I got my first acoustic after 2 years playing a classical guitar and 1 year playing an electric one. It was very similar to playing a classical guitar once your fingers are broken in.

On the other hand, for beginners which usually struggle at first producing clean sounds, an acoustic presents a much bigger challenge and for no added benefits.
YouTube is a young company, it does not need to convert 100% of its value to dollars. Please, let the advertisers figure out for themselves how to tackle this very new medium instead of trying to shape the medium to meet their needs.

Yeah but there's no Youtube, it was sold to Google, a 14-15 year old and publicly traded company. As for advertisers and ads, Google is an ad agency so they'll probably not going to take your advice.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Isn't a ceasefire still a state of war? Meaning that they're just stating the obvious, since they've been in a state of war for half a century?

Less seriously... "oooh ooh ooh! I declare war on scala! Long live haskell!"
I'm seeing a lot of tweets about this from people who are just tuning in for the first time. This is par for the course for North Korea; they have been doing it for literally decades. Nothing to see here. A good analysis of likely outcomes in here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/29/north-korea-atta...
Thanks. I really needed that in my head.
Perhaps the OP thought the iPad was a piece of the future and showing it to his friend is way of living a little more?

I was touched by what the OP did more than what Steve did. What Steve did was alright, any decent person would have done the same.
It sounds like a person who is in tune with their audience. The reverse problem is more common

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-users-read-on-the-web/
Isn't this a similar argument to "people should learn to program with machine code/assembler/C because it's easy to move to other languages then"?
Wow. I'm going to e-mail you this weekend. You've really thought about this stuff, and I think you've got some great ideas. Would love to chat with you some more.
I believe MacBooks do the same thing with the Power on/off key as well. It's a good idea.
This is just like any highly-selective admissions process. They (Stanford, but it could be any Ivy, or a company like Google) has accepted the fact that they will turn down many good candidates. It doesn't really matter as they can't accept more than a certain number anyway. Hiring/acceptance policies are more about guaranteeing low false positives, not preventing false negatives.

However, with college admissions, the schools have a lot to gain by increasing the number of applicants. Colleges charge $50-$100 per application, so some revenue is generated to cover the application process's costs. Schools like Stanford can brag about how low their acceptance rates are, just by increasing the number of applicants.
Side note: is the only way to bypass the wsj paywell via a google search?
The only elite college in the US with a failure rate higher than 2% is Cal Tech. Everyone else provides ample opportunities to switch to less rigorous majors with lower standards. Given that they're admitting 18 year olds with no previous experience of living away from home they're not realisitically going to approach elite professional school levels of graduation unless they make it really easy to pass.
Definitely not a classical guitar unless you intend to play classical only. It's a whole different style of play, and you'll have to relearn everything if you change over to a steel string acoustic or electric. The fretboard is much wider and the nylon strings are stretchy and play differently.

I suggest going for a moderately-priced decent-quality imported steel-string acoustic like a Yamaha or Sigma (low-end line of the Martin Company, made in Korea).

It's good to start with acoustic even if you plan on mainly playing electric. It's the common denominator of the guitar world, and you'll be so glad you can just pick one up and play something cool on it at will.

You might want to consider starting with lighter gauge strings than the ones that come of the guitar while you are developing calluses and learning bar chords.
Simplicity is always the solution, but for the powers that be money is in complexity. Taxes, law, banking: if all this stuff was straightforward, a lot of very rich and powerful people wouldn't be able to gravy-train on the complexity.

Which is why, if history is a guide, things will continue to get more and more complicated until they finally collapse.
It's funny. I've never understood the hatred of the hockey puck mouse, I always loved mine.

I think the answer was in how you held it. I held it very lightly with the tips of my fingers and so could throw it around with real speed and accuracy. I thought it's shape made it far more manoeuvrable. Because it had a chord I never had any problems with orientation either. I liked it's solidity too.

For a long time I assumed that the criticisms came from people who had either never used it (or had used it very briefly at a reseller's). I still believe this to a certain degree. There was a lot of irrational and ill-informed Apple bashing at the time and, to me, this was just one of the anti-Apple style-over-substance mantras.
I fail to see how that is not reference counting, even if implemented at library level.
You can learn that with any language that compiles to native code, nothing special about C.
> it's also useful to note that the shift key allows the user to shift capslock off temporarily

MacBook Pro doesn't do this - I found that frustrating. There's probably a setting buried somewhere that I haven't found yet.
Fuzzy set theory makes sense again when you realize it's not about classifying uncertainty or partial truth at all, but merely denoting partial set membership.

Goertzel's et aliorum PLN book and framework that I mentioned before use fuzzy values in exactly that way actually. There's a brief high-level overview on the differences between PLN and other approaches to uncertain inference early on in the book. In PLN, all of these four sentences are uniquely distinguished, whereas in a fuzzy framework it's not so clear what's going on beyond the first sentence:

"Jim belongs to degree 0.6 to the fuzzy set of tall people.", "Jim shares 0.6 of the properties shared by people belonging to the set of tall people (where the different properties may be weighted).", "Jim has a 0.6 chance of being judged as belonging to the set of tall people, once more information about Jim is obtained (where this may be weighted as to the degree of membership that is expected to be estimated once the additional information is obtained).", and "Jim has an overall 0.6 amount of tallness, defined as a weighted average of extensional and intensional information."
If you are moving from screen to tmux, it's very easy to configure tmux to behave like screen. Also, for split panes, I like vim bindings('C-a l' for left pane, 'C-a r' for right pane, 'C-a <' for resize pane...). I have bindings for copying tmux buffer to and from clipboard(needs xclip).

https://gist.github.com/rahulkmr/5275679
Linux and BSD distributions, embedded systems, on other domains developers have moved on.
To me the message here is: it's all about content.

And a lot of people underestimate this. A beautiful website without good content is worth nothing (well maybe it's worth inspiration for designers). A newspaper without content is worth gossip and sensation.

That's why some blogs are better than high profile newspapers and that's why some home made Youtube movies provide more information (and are thus better) than big money productions.
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