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So I bought an acoustic guitar a couple years ago because I've always wanted to learn to play. After sitting in storage for a year and a half I picked it up again a couple months ago. It's fine and all but then I bought an electric (Epiphone SG Cherry Red), an amp and a good set of headphones.

The electric is way more fun to play[1]! If you really want to learn and are willing to "put in the work" I recommend justinguitar.com. It's all boring stuff, scales, fundamentals, etc., but I pick up my electric at least once a day for an hour just to practice. I'll never be a musician but it's a heck of a lot of fun just jamming out in my headphones.

[1] "fun" is of course subjective. Acoustic guitars require more hand strength and coordination since the action is a bit higher, the strings a bit thicker than electric. But it has a beautiful sound I really love. But in an apartment, electric + headphones is the best.
It does not matter. My first guitar was some entry level model of Les Paul made by Epiphone. Best way is to drag some friend who knows how to play guitar to the music store and try a few models. Pick something cheap and make sure that neck is not twisted, which is reason why you dragging guitar friend.

This cheap guitar should be fine for first year (or five).
Hank Green of VlogBrothers, EcoGeek, VidCon, 2D Glasses and like a dozen other cool things, many connected to YouTube.
Is Ubuntu going downhill?
Amazing photos! What is the streak of light in the sky of the Central Park (?) photo? An airplane or meteor?
> Application fees are something like $100, marketing costs are definitely an order of magnitude smaller

32,000 applicants * $100 = $3.2M

That's chump change for Stanford. They have an $18B endowment and massive tuition revenue.

The idea that they run their application program as a profit center is ridiculous.

And while some schools may "game the school rankings system," Stanford hardly needs to.
True. Having applied to one of the two I'd like to point out that this is (with very few exceptions) only true for domestic students.
I am using me at myname dot com, hosted on google apps (free) and registered with godaddy. If google tries to integrate my hosted mail with G+ or some such nonsense I will immediately delete my google account and switch to another email provider.
i can't imagine Google expected to recoup that capital. i would guess they want YouTube to become TV - all of it. there is a lot of money in TV advertising. it's a company-doubling oppertunity. and they might need TV-quality production to get there. my last start-up was aquired by a major media company. i would guess $5M was the smallest amount of money they could get them to pay attention to.
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I learned with a Squier starter pack (Squier is Fender's low-end brand if that name rings a bell). Basically anything on this page: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitar-value-packages

Those kits are nice because they come with a cheap guitar, case, and amp, plus usually an instructional book/DVD. This means that if you bail you're not out too much money, and at an intro skill level you likely won't notice the difference in quality anyway.

I took a few lessons, but honestly I kind of bailed on those and moved on to teaching myself through tabs online. Go to http://ultimate-guitar.com/ and find simple songs you like (Iron Man, Smoke on the Water, etc.) and just keep trying them til you learn. Eventually you move on to chords (my first song with chords was American Pie) and you just going from there. I'm in the process of teaching myself music theory on the guitar to help myself, but I've gotten busy and it's kind of petered off.
What about Android Laptop? I may come already come with thousands of apps...
As I understand it, another contributing factor is 9: the spread of diseases such as parasitic mites. Sometimes a hive weakened by pesticides may be finished off by disease even if it could have survived either alone.
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Two things:

- They are just as happy with a random selection of 7% from the top 15-20% of applications

- There is zero "error". They select who they select, and are not just looking for exactly the top applicants - in fact that has little meaning. What does top mean? Is someone with incredible musical talent but slightly weaker than another applicant in math better or worse? They want a solid diverse group of amazing students. This is not angel investing, where they are afraid of missing out on the one big hit.
I agree that Command-R is a silly thing to remap to. Remapping to Control (which can be done through System Preferences) helps not only with bash and vim but with emacs keystrokes which are standard throughout the Cocoa text controls. This is one of the very first things I do when I set up a new Mac.
Best wishes to all Summer 2013 Y Combinator applicants
Looks like applications are closed for the latest batch.
Reminds me of my grade 10 computer science teacher. This was in 1996, coding in qbasic iirc. Anyway, he was biiiiig on comments. Consistently the only marks lost on my submissions were for insufficient comments. But these grade 10 assignments were pretty simplistic. I mean, if the assignment is to print the numbers 1 to 10 on the screen, wtf are you supposed to comment? I eventually got a perfect score by inline commenting every fucking line of the program.

Glad to see the article make the distinction between well written, well commented code, and over-commented code. Not once through high school or university was I taught the basic concept of 'comment the why'; the what should be self-explanatory.
Is that what the sky literally looks like with no light pollution, or are they time lapsed at all?
he refers to the funding as an "advance" that he doesn't expect to earn out for three years - i'm guessing that means he's not pulling in any revenue from youtube, as they've already paid him.
You're assuming all of the applicants are American. That's a very incorrect assumption. I would guess nearly all of the increase is international with China accounting for > 50% by itself.
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Online video isn’t about how good it looks, it’s about how good it is. People who make online video are much better at making online video than people who make TV shows

When people go to youtube the bar is set quite low, they don't expect the same as when they watch a show from a well established TV network that has a brand to protect and pristine "quality" to portray. That would be a good reason of whey this type of funding did not work out.
(I've been playing the guitar for 16 years) - beginners should definitely start with a classical guitar, not an acoustic or an electric guitar. Acoustic is the hardest to play correctly, while electric has more setup and cost involved (amplifier, cables, etc). A basic classical guitar is the simplest way to start playing and producing decent sounds.
100+ friends required to join?

I'd be reluctant to date anyone who has 100+ friends on Facebook, that seems to me to indicate a degree of shallowness. After 7 years I have 59 and I honestly need to pare that way down. (Wow pruning my friends list, amazing how many people have closed their FB account! A good 10% of past "friends" no longer have accounts)

But hey, thanks for excluding introverts! Really nice of you.

My primary issue is that I only have about 3 or 4 people on Facebook who actually know me well and who interact with me on a regular basis that I'd trust to help fill out my profile.

In addition to that, the entire "guys only look at pictures" thing is BS. Yes I look at pictures first, right after that I read the profile. If the woman in question doesn't have indicators that we are a match in ethics and values, then I am not going to bother sending a message.

Indeed the primary problem I suspect your dating site has is the same problem sites like match.com have, they really don't allow for filtering by value systems. This is OKCupid's single strength that nearly makes up for everything else that is wrong with it.

I really don't care if a woman's friends say she is fun to hang out with. I do care what books she reads and what her feelings on various social and political issues are.
That's a healthy attitude. It's one that Stanford won't be getting. Their loss.

Best of luck to your other endeavors!
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When i open hacker news then in my account there is written(1) beside my username. What does it mean actually? And also how could i be able to understand if Ycombinator ask me any query regarding my application.
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And after a dozen paragraphs on how ZFS is unlikely to get corrupted, the meat of the conent: "my opinion is that you shouldn't try to repair it anyway".

Anyway: You do not repair the state last state of the data. And in my opinion: You should not try to repair it ... at least not by automatic means. Such a repair would be risky in any case. [..] In this situation i would just take my money from the table and call it a day. You may lose the last few changes, but your tapes are older.

This "you do not need an emergency repair tool because in an emergency I think you should just forget it" is exactly the claim that this blog post was supposed to be countering. Explaining why a do-the-best-you-can repair utility is not necessary, and the argument it boils down to is "because I don't think you should do that".
I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

It's a little depressing to see how much of any discussion of charity is centered around "what if they use it for something pleasurable instead of investing it?"
One big problem is that laws often restrict the ratio that insurance companies charge older people to younger people to at most 5 to 1. Starting in 2014, Obamacare lowers this to 3 to 1, so younger people with insurance are heavily subsidizing their elders (yet again). You'll be paying significantly more, with no direct benefit.

[0] http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/obama-healthcare-young-peop...
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This is more or less the same point that Stephen Jay Gould made in "The Median Isn't the Message:"

http://people.umass.edu/biep540w/pdf/Stephen%20Jay%20Gould.p...
Even though they look a bit fake, I like these photos. The atmosphere reminds me of Alan Weisman's book "the world without us". The cities appear as ghost cities, everything dark, allowing natural light to be visible again. It's like the early stages after humans deserted it, before the forces of nature (combined with lack of maintenance) break through and crumble the buildings.
Agreed about the profits.

But I think you underestimate the need for Stanford to do everything it takes to get maximize their rankings. Most college applicants base their college choice largely on rankings, and the best students are going to be the most likely to give $$$ "back to the school" (whatever that means). If every other top college (I guess the "Ivy+" schools) is trying their darnedest to inflate their ranking metrics, then Stanford is eventually going to find itself towards the bottom half of the top 10 schools with respect to rankings. That will actually affect its long term student body quality in ways that it doesn't want.

Now I personally don't think rankings mean anything, but this is me, 10+ years after my own college applications. From the school's perspective, they have to protect their ranking.
Very much agree with this. It seems like a sort of analysis paralysis that specifically affects some programmers. Reminds me of a HN post a while back actually by someone who was passionate about building games, but ended up generalizing into building game engine tools, then graphical tools, etc., eventually spending years building ever more general tools, without making any real progress toward his true goal.

You can write your code with modularity in mind, without necessarily having to completely decouple and generalize everything. Once it becomes sufficiently beneficial for a particular module, the refactoring then shouldn't be too onerous.

(Regardless, this 'beautiful code checklist' is fantastic.)
Many of the comments in here are of the form "hey well of COURSE you love startups you work at one of the most successful startups in existence."

I think that's a poor representation of the talk's main points. He actually provides a level comparison of the pros (freedom of technology, ability to impact the product directly) with the cons (wake up, kid--you're not working at Luckygram, and the company might fail) of working at a startup. He doesn't characterize startup life as money tree horticulture at all!

More importantly, he spends more than a few slides discussing the human side of development. This is something I've run into recently too, and it's nice to remember that problems aren't always solved with code.
The solution is even easier. There is no need to have messages individually marked, the system knows what is being sent and can handle it automatically.

Auto detect spam messages. If a guy keeps sending out the same copy and paste, after 2 or 3 sends, just forward future copies to /dev/null.

Now this has to be personalized! If a women responds to those types of messages above some certain threshold, then hey, let her receive them, no problem.
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The one-liners thing really put me off too. I couldn't tell if they were being sarcastic. Works 10% of the time because 10% have a bar low enough for empty flattery? A friend of mine dated one of the more prolific figures in that realm (don't know his name, it was just a big deal among the group) and she said he was ultimately just making money off of his Narcissistic Personality Disorder and she never wanted to see the guy again.

I think a lot of people on dating sites are going about it the wrong way and making themselves feel worse in the process when they don't have to.

Find a forum or a chatroom about topics that interest you or that you want to know more about (for your benefit, in communities where the gender of your choosing makes up to 30-70% of the userbase). Get invested in the topic, meet people, learn some stuff and see if any connections arise. You meet people in the real world in situations that you have in common, and that's how finding relationships online should be too. Some people may want the instant-gratification of going out to a bar to meet this person or maybe they're just gunning for a one-night-stand, which is fine too. But if my friends are anything to base things off of, distance is no longer an issue for people looking for serious, long-term relationships. I've seen lots of people fly over oceans to be together, many end up staying that way.
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Interestingly though, most of the relationship advice I hear is "communicate honestly!"

Would you say that's a bad idea in general, or maybe good for long-term relationships but bad when you're in the earlier stages of dating?
Not only vim but also emacs. In fact, OS X affords an emacs readline-like capability throughout all text fields (just like bash). So you can use C-d to delete characters, C-e to go to the end of line, C-a to go to the beginning of a line, and a ton of other shortcuts mapped to Ctrl.
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> It's not the insurance companies. At least not to any great extent. Their margins are usually under 2%

I'm with Anthem Blue Cross in California. In 2011 they spent 79.9% of premiums on actual medical expenses and due to law changes had to issue a refund for 0.1% This year they raised premiums by 22%.

Various administrative expenses are hidden all over the place. eg the cost of an appendectomy also includes the cost of recovering the money charged.

The problem with the US healthcare system isn't any one part. Every single part is broken in some way, with the interoperations between them compounding to make the problem worse.
I graduated pretty recently, but I can tell you what I thought was most helpful.

-Lots of language exposure. Take classes in different languages (classes comparing languages are even better). I find it difficult to learn new languages, particularly new paradigms, without the help of someone who knows them.

-Low-level stuff. Assembly, basic electronics, C. These are the topics I found classes covered the best (compared to learning on my own). It's not directly relevant to my job, but I just have a generally better sense of how computers work.

-Work in groups. I didn't do enough of this, and I think it handicapped me a bit. This is less applicable to you than to most people entering college, since you are presumably doing that at your startup.
But the buffering is not required because of the HDMI link; a display could update each pixel as it receives it over HDMI, just like CRTs did. LCDs buffer at least one frame for many reasons, but "because HDMI requires it" is not among them.

And compressed vs. uncompressed does matter, especially when you're talking about video compression. Because compression requires some minimum amount of data before it can even begin to compress, let alone start to send the compressed bitstream over a physical link. And then you have more latency as you add a decode step. Not to mention the complete lack of latency guarantees a wifi link has...
"SCE to Aux"
The person writing it might not be a Buddhist.
Good point, however I honestly hit cmd+r more often than I hit Ctrl + anything. Whenever I do hit Control (such as in terminal for ctrl+c as you mentioned) it's much more deliberate and 'one-off'.
Different workflows I guess.
> Assuming that online dating works magically well for gay/lesbian folks but doesn't for straight people seems like a really large leap to make

Not if you live in an area with skewed gender ratios. The thing that makes gay dating in such an environment "easy" compared to straight, is that supply (gay men) and demand (people looking for gay men) is essentially the same (plus or minus a handful of bisexuals).

Whereas straight dating is fractured into two supplies and two demands, and

straight women = demand for straight men

straight men = demand for straight women

What you really want is for the diagonals (supply and matched demand) to be equal, but they aren't in a lot of places.
I do think meeting people out (at bars and things) is critical and the dating sites now don't take advantage of that - the check into places idea.

Yep. We weren't sure at first, so we asked girls: would you rather meet a group of guys at an event or a venue, or would you rather just go to bars? They want to go to bars because there's alcohol and it acts as a social lubricant. Everyone becomes more sociable.

Meeting people with groups of friends is hands down the single best experience out there. Figuring out how to replicate the experience on CWF is going to be a real challenge. It might not even happen, we might leave that to Flock. But what we do still solves a vast majority of the problems with all online dating sites, mainly the identity problem.

There's a natural filter when you go out to bars. It takes some courage--probably some alcohol too--to go up and start talking to girls. But it also requires some degree of social proof to get friends to comment on your profile, so I think it carries a similar effect. You're right that most dating sites suck for men in their 20s, but that's what we're trying to fix.
Story is about the simple straight to the point reply.
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I use my caps as both ctrl and escape by having it mapped to control. Then if you need escape ctrl+[. It requires one finger from each hand and is very quick to press. Then if I want to page up or down in vim I still have the ctrl button easily reachable for ctrl+d and ctrl+u, etc.
No, is the insurance companies.

Not the insurance companies as the entity which takes all that money, no, everyone here knows that.

It is the insurance companies in the sense that the insurance companies are in no way brake on costs, they are an accelerator. They take a cut of the whole and have an incentive to keep the whole high.
I second the recommendation for a basic classical (i.e. nylon-string) guitar. Keep it simple. In the US, you can find a perfectly decent made-in-China classical guitar new for under $100, or used on Craigslist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/con-certificate-o...

Where these exist (most states) you'll have a hard time opening a new facility whose purpose to charge less than the incumbents. (In theory they'd have to charge more to make up for the business you take away so you'll be raising prices.)
I'd love to see more detailed write up about the performance. I'm working on a natural language parsing problem and have had some success using graphs to perform chunking in the past.

+1 for using Gremlin! Do you know of any python implementations of it?
The recent articles on ZFS made me wonder if MS had anything planned for Windows. I was curious so I checked and they apparently have ReFS[1] in Windows 8 Server.

I think it's separate from the BaseFS referenced here though. ReFS is not likely to be in the client release until the next version of the OS.

[1] - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-n...
I've done multiple startups at this point, so I'm not as ignorant as you would suspect. Sometimes I wonder why I still do startups. I know exactly what I'm getting myself into, the only reason I'm willing to take it on is because I felt the pain from the end of my last relationship, followed by the pain of trying online dating. It's something I genuinely want to solve, and I know that it won't be easy.

"User growth" will flatline next week. Engagement will be low. But we're going to figure it out.
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That may be true, however what really hurts Adria's argument is a tweet she made earlier: https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

Now, if women are being excluded due to sexual jokes (and I'll note that the joke she responded to was specifically about comparing technology to a part of the male anatomy, not the female anatomy, so it's not objectification of women that's the issue here), then Adria's tweet here is causing the exact same problem she's crusading against.
this thread is an exhaustive list of things to examine on used bass, most applies to guitars

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bass/comments/mbbn9/things_to_look_f...

The most important thing on a used or inexpensive instrument is checking that the frets aren't deeply worn and are level (put a capo on at frets 3,6,9,12 and play chromatic scales), uneven forces a choice of fret buzz or high action.

At big dealers e.g. Guitar Center, you'll see used $150 guitars that are playable, and brand new Les Paul Studios and American strats ($650 and up) that need fretwork if you want really low action(full recrown is around $150)

You also want to check trussrod works, neck is not twisted or warped, and the neck joint is sound (no big shims in a bolt-on, no separation between the pieces of a "set" neck, like a Les Paul or acoustic).

Most other defects can be fixed at reasonable cost.
Sounds like they knew each other from working at Adobe and perhaps they were really interested in this type of advancement. She may have been really interested in where computing for the consumer was heading and the iPad was more than a toy to him, he was probably working on it non-stop for a year or two.

Just think, instead of being your average tech consumer they are the type of people that built these devices and thus he felt she may have been glad to have a look at where things were before she left.

Its a nice gesture, "Look at this thing that no one even knows about yet".I thought it was a bit sweet.