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Take this with a pinch of salt but this is my ideal way of starting to play guitar.

You'll need:

A starter Eletric guitar & Amplifer - Cheapest way is to buy a combined Guitar/Amp package from the likes of Fender sold under their Squier range. Now others may hate them but for the beginner they are ideal. At worst if you hate it, stick on ebay or craigslist or if you handy with a soldering iron, upgrade the pickups. Also makes sure the amplifer has a headphone socket and use headphones for late night jams.

An electronic tuner - Guitars go out of tune. It will get you consistant results sound wise. There is nothing more off putting for a beginner for a guitar that is out of tune.

Now this is optional - get your guitar setup at your local guitar shop. It will help sound wise and playability.

Buy strings - Don't worry about breaking strings. They are cheap. Easy to replace. If you can upgrade the ram in your PC, you are competant enough to change a guitar string. It's easy, nothing to be afraid of.

For instant results, learn how to play the intro riff to the Deep Purple song, Smoke on the Water. It is easy and will give you an instant results. Then learn "Power Chords". Will get you results that will please your ears.

There are tons of youtube tutorials on how to play the guitar. Start easy, don't worry about not getting it right. Just take your time, relax and enjoy it. The chords, scales will come in time. The main thing is to practise rhythum.

An electric will give you results quickly compared to Acoustic and Classical, which due to the way they are setup. Are harder to learn on. If you are not sure, try them in your local guitar shop.

Some may hate what I suggest but I believe for a beginner, simple results will encourage you further and make it enjoyable so when you do the course above, it is not as scary.

A course like the above would be great and I believe if you add it in with what I suggest, you'll be happy.

Remember nothing is set in stone. You can learn acoustic, electric and classical at anytime in your life. Just have fun and enjoy it.

One last thing, /r/guitar sub Reddit is great if you have questions or your local music shop. Don't be afraid of asking questions. That is how we learn.
It's interesting how every other story on HN's frontpage right now seems to dwarf in relevance, compared to this. The full weight of a declaration of war simply stated like this stopped me in my tracks. And coming from a completely unpredictable and strongly armed regime, it's the stuff of legend, and a sorry situation that the world has to see it become real.

I hope South Korea has a plan to minimize civilian casualties, if it comes to that, and I wish the people didn't have to go through this; not the tension, much less actual damage. South Korea is a modern country full of technology, in those ways a peer to the US and other first world countries. Which makes it even easier to put yourself in the south koreans' shoes. Gives you some perspective.
Because he, as you are, is reasoning in terms of market which can only leads to failure to address the needs of the people using the service.

Remove the economist goggles, do without the gender distinction and start dealing with human beings and you'll be on the road for a successful dating service.
I work for a non-health insurance company. I believe that removing insurance companies from the equation would definitely make things more efficient - at the very least my company doesn't have the motivation to really cut down on expenses, most managers are more worried about internal power struggles, I've seen so much waste I'd start my own company in a heartbeat if only it wasn't so capital-intensive to start, and a papework and political minefield (which of course lets the old boys get by with a lot of leeway in terms of actual efficiency improvements).
Depends. People smell better though, but then we were probably desensitized to that before anyways.
It looks like a great tool.
did you hear about mycutefriend.com?
it was recently "unveiled" at Launch2013.
What has always weirded me out about post-college life is that the density of things like clubs and activities is much, much lower. I would have thought people would be social about their hobbies post-college, but somehow... not so much, in many places.
China doesn't want war. Period. I don't think you realize how many affluent Chinese tourists there are in Seoul. The moment China lets North Korea cross the DMZ is the moment China invades North Korea themselves and installs some new puppet regime. I don't think you understand what kind of uproar would occur in China should any Chinese casualties occur because of North Korea's antics.
Some examples of why .NET is a Windows technology:

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I'd like to point out that facebook friends are not the same as friends. And friends do not necessarily know the sexual preferences of each other, it's not only about straight or gay, there's a whole range of sexual preferences out there and you don't always tell your friends about yours if they tends to deviate from the traditional cultural norm.
You have a great deal of faith in China's ability to control the DPRK. Given that China is now part of the international community behind the latest sanctions (which this action is at least partly a response to), why do you think the DPRK leadership will require Beijing's approval for their actions?

Have you visited the North? When I was there last year the Juche philosophy was as much a part of everyone as the casual references to the Great Leader being the Sun of the World; the attitude amongst the people I spoke to was that China was, whilst a friendly neighbour, not necessary to the wellbeing of the DPRK (no comment on how true that actually is - just on what I gathered of people's attitudes).

As it is, I do agree this is just more sabre-rattling and it is to be taken as seriously as all the previous sabre-rattling. The real announcement of continuing the war will be troop movements and the like, which will be very easily seen in advance.
The moment that North Korea crosses the line China will simply roll through the undefended Northern border, dismantle NK's military, and install a new puppet regime from within the current government. Simple as that.
Like a face picture, or stupid myspace/facebook picture.

You'll never thank me for this because you probably won't have to face the worst of identity theft thanks to it.
Have you been there? It seems a stretch to hold people responsible for the actions of their government when they are born and die in the same village, need permission to leave that village (and "wanting to go on a trip" doesn't count), have no way to communicate with anyone outside the village, have effectively no way to influence their government whatsoever, and the only source of information they have is the official government version of everything. You have as much influence over the DPRK government as they do.
Take the script kiddie roles, use any free time too
A) Massively over deliver.
B) Work on your own thing.

Either way if you are push the boundaries past other developers you will get noticed in your environment and that will follow through to other jobs.
This. Looking at this as a skeptic Apple user i cant help but think WTF ? Steve Jobs writes OK in an email and the worshippers go "OMG, HES SUCH A LEGEND, JUST 2 LETTERS".
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Yes that's exactly what we do. :)
Facebook only was stupid to start with, but 100+ facebook friends requirement is something else, it means the service is only open to a specific kind of profile, the one who add people without thinking.

Funny thing is in my online dating profile, I have a requirement similar to yours: that people getting in touch with me have no facebook account.
See above reply!
China has a huge number of affluent tourists in Seoul and Jeju island. If NK crosses the DMZ, it will put those tourists at risk - And if North Korea kills any Chinese tourists, you can rest assured China will breaze into the country through the undefended Northern border, dismantle NK's military, and select a new puppet regime from within the government.

North Korea knows this, so will not act without China's blessing or at least giving China time to recall Chinese citizens from Seoul. Otherwise, North Korea has to fight a war with the Chinese in the North and NATO/South Korea in the South. This is an obvious recipe for swift and utter defeat.

The alternate scenario is that China uses it's stooges in the NK government and military to stage a coup d'etat.

Doesn't really matter what the North Korean people think, they will believe whatever nonsense their government feeds them, and there is no lack of Il-Sung descendants to pick from to be the figurehead of whatever puppet regime they choose to back.

You should probably know that Kim Jong Un is entirely a figure head and all decisions are made by a faction within his government led by his uncle-in-law Chang. Not even the NK government itself is unified behind Kim Jong Un/Chang, and its likely that there will be plenty of factions happy to take the job of China's lapdog as soon as they decide NK is threatening rich Chinese citizens.
Yeah but that headline wouldn't have sold.
Take a look here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/549/tmux-vs-gnu-scre...

Some of it is arguable, but for me one of the greatest benefits is how tmux will auto-resize to the smallest terminal connected, making it useful for screen sharing or when connecting to an existing session from a mobile device.
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Is China really so big on tourists? I must say I find it odd that this comes across so strongly. Nothing about upsetting the political and military balance in the region, no inherent fear of what happens when US troops start running around the DPRK literally on the Chinese border. It's all about the the tourists.
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Yes, it does make sense.
> idiots

This is a million times wrong. It's not about humans being smart or stupid, it's about humans being bad at being careful millions and millions of times without error.

The answer isn't to tell them to be more careful. They can be more careful, but they are human, so they will still make mistakes. The answer is for them to use higher level languages that eliminate whole classes of errors.
Is the war declaration as in actually a war where North Korea has already started firing guns, shells, rockets, charging with bayonets or whatever; or this is just a declaration "declaration" of war against South Korea?

Because this:

>>From this moment, the north-south relations will be put at the state of war ....

speaks of the latter it seems.
> I don't think you realize how many affluent Chinese tourists there are in Seoul.

The PRC government could give a shit about a few tourists. Its more about the trade relations they have with the ROK (and PSY is really popular here).

> The moment China lets North Korea cross the DMZ is the moment China invades North Korea themselves and installs some new puppet regime.

Reread my post, this is exactly what I said. If you didn't know, the Yalu river forms the border between Liaoning and DPRK.

> I don't think you understand what kind of uproar would occur in China should any Chinese casualties occur because of North Korea's antics.

Now that is a weird statement to make. First of all, they are more concerned with trade relations, think of all the PRC citizens that will starve to death if the export factories have to close down because the PRC is in it bad with the US?
No. Those are examples of portability issues when your application depends on platform specific functionality:

Most code containing P/Invoke calls into native Windows Libraries (as opposed to P/Invokes done to your own C libraries) will need to be adapted to the equivalent call in Linux, or the code will have to be refactored to use a different call. <-- Means when you choose to directly link to Windows technology.

Registry <-- If you choose to use it. I haven't written any registry dependent code for the last ten years and don't even miss anything about it.

you should not assume the order of bytes <-- Not .Net's problem.

... the list goes on.
Not yet, but it might be illegal because they're charging for a show without being licensed, or a myriad of other reasons. There have always been narcs, though. The kids may find @notpolice funny because of their experiences online, but in the 90s I ran into that guy a lot on the street.
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Nobody is taking this seriously in the press. The DPRK says crap like this all the time, its hard to tell if they are serious this time; it seems like they probably aren't. Now that could change as we get more information, but for now...its just the same-old-same-old. But us expats who live relatively near the DPRK (in the PRC or ROK) will always pay attention to stuff like this.
>Washing Machines did not save time! This is because with the advent of these machines also our hygiene habits changed. We wash a lot more than before, and therefore there is no time saving but cleaner clothes.

That's not true. The ratio is not at all the same. Except if you take something like 17th century hygiene habits (and for the poor classes, at that) and compare it to modern day habits.

But we had the frequent clothes washing far before the advent of the washing machine. Not to mention that what you said could also be solved with bigger washing machines and more clothing (so that you can still wash at longer intervals, but you have stuff to wear in between).
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I enjoyed the game as well. I remember the thrill of achievement when I figured out it was possible to go backwards through two of the refuelling tunnels.

Also, there's a bug in the bounds checker. When going backwards, hold the joystick up. This lets you go off the left side of the screen and over to the right side, behind the ships attacking you.
node.js is single threaded and EC2 large instance has 4 CPUs. So to be fair you must either:

a) bench on a single core processor (a small EC2 instance)

b) configure node.js as a cluster with as many instances as processors.
>I'd actually blame it on idiots writing C myself.

Couldn't be more wrong though.

The people that wrote UNIX and its whole C userland were far from idiots -- more like geniuses. People like K&R, Bill Joy, etc (and until the 90s they weren't even that many, mainly people from elite computing schools and research centers).

It's not like some moron high school dropout, "Learn C in 24 hours"-reading people wrote UNIX and the common server stuff we use (Bind, Sendmail, etc).
The form of the content is perfect for me, I don't see why he says it's a wall of text. It was very clear and easy to follow. Extracting the key takeaways to make the discussion richer was easy: http://tldr.io/tldrs/5156cd92b0eb7fae5800016b/lessons-learne...
Has anyone tried running the F# through IKVM[1] (.Net <-> java)? That wouldn't solve this, but it should be possible to run F# on a JavaVM.

[1] http://weblog.ikvm.net/
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The question is whether PCs are approaching the advantages of consoles from the other side. Are hardware requirements and iterations stabilizing? Are operating systems stabilizing?Are gaming APIs stabilizing?

I bought a gaming computer last summer and was quite impressed with it until its SSD died (I have to get it shipped to me and replace that SSD at some point). With an ordinary Windows 7 installation it ran a full gamut of emulators, ran the Source engine with the quality settings turned pretty far up, and ran everything else available on Steam with good quality, too. It also played DVDs and downloaded movies in high-def and with good sound, as well.

My real question is: over how many years of usage can I amortize the cost of that gaming PC? Because a lightly-used or "last year" gaming PC costs $600-$800, while a new one with top of the line hardware costs about $1000-$1200. If I can keep it for 6 years like I would with a console, the new console can match the one-year-old gaming PC for price, while the PC has general media functions, retains backwards compatibility via emulation, and gives me choice of peripherals.

Hmmm... but the traditional disadvantage of PCs was having to upgrade your hardware, operating system, and APIs continually to keep up with new features in the gaming world, whereas with a console you'd just drop $200-$300 every 4-6 years for the new system. With a PC, upgrading the graphics card, motherboard or the hard drive might easily cost that much, depending on just how up-to-date you keep it.

Seems to me there's a space for a "Ship of Theseus" model of PC, where the cost of hardware upgrades made every few years can approach the cost of a new console with the same frequency while retaining backwards compatibility.
That has always been the assumption anyway. Currently nobody actually knows the condition of their conventional artillery or how much ammo they really have. We don't even really know their soldiers' or military command's willingness to fight a prolonged war. Kim of course doesn't run the country, there's no mythology surrounding him for the military leadership, and they're not going to fight a battle to the death for him.

I agree that North Korea can outlay a large amount of artillery fire immediately, but I think South Korea + the US can wipe out 90% of it within the first week of combat. After that it becomes strictly a ground war for the north. I also believe a lot less people will die in the south than typically proclaimed, and South Korea can rebuild quickly - meanwhile, the North Korean regime will be finished forever.
Well, if it is as you say, in a way it worries me more. Maybe they have declared all-out war in these terms before, I wouldn't know. In any case, if it isn't this time, for how long more? If nobody takes them seriously, the defenses will be lowered when they finally strike. I have little doubt NK is a country which could put all to risk because of it's dictator's crazy whims. It's a high risk the world is taking by dismissing it.
I do my share of spreading the good word. :)
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>>why do you think the DPRK leadership will require Beijing's approval for their actions?

Well, food is one reason. China, NK being almost cut-off from most of world, practically feeds NK and some other nations keep sending ration in aid from time to time.

>>no comment on how true that actually is

China was one support that helped North Korean Kim family rule NK for so long and strategically keep the nation cut-off from rest of the world, effectively pushing it into a modern stone-age. Now, it's up to everyone to debate what was China's ulterior motive behind this. Maybe they wanted a loose cannon or a time bomb in the neighbourhood under their (virtual) control. But now, it seems the pumpkin prince has actually lost it and if China is true in its demonstration and expression that NK really doesn't listen to it anymore, it is a matter of grave concern.

You were there. Can you comment the lifestyle and standard of living of common people, middle class(if there's one) and the ruling elite(i.e. military elite)? Or in what conditions the majority of people live? I see one reason to keep the nation cut off from the world is that the ruling elite (other than the Kims) can retain their status and aristocrat like clout in the country while their kids studies overseas(current Kim probably studied in Switzerland/Europe) and prospers.
Or 'just a social worker,' rather.
Totally safe I doubt there is. It seems there are safer languages (and OS designs).

However, there are pratical considerations (e.g performance impact and stuff like that) which make such approaches unattractive for production use.
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To save anyone the trouble, this project is totally empty yet.

It doesn't say anything about the ability of the owner to port F# to the JVM, but just know that it is just a readme, three almost empty java classes, and the beginning of an ANTLR parser.

So to answer other questions here, you can't even compare it to F# on Mono. F# on Mono works perfectly. The F# compiler and runtime is huge, and getting to parity will probably take at least a year to a very dedicated team.
When one looks for some information, he never knows when he should stop scrolling. He may even well scroll too fast, and miss the portion he was looking for. However, when he can zoom out, he gets a glance at the page structure, can read section titles that are still legible, and directly zoom to his spot.
>>Is China really so big on tourists?

I doubt that too. but as he mentioned >>rich Chinese citizens. this might be a catch because rich and influential people wield more clout in communist China than in pure capitalist nations like USA.

Given that they don't have real nukes or ways to deliver them the real worry is what happens when NK is run down and then China enters the stage, says NK was my cousin - I will take over of the family and house.
Everyone takes them seriously, just no one pays attention to what they say anymore, which is basically not useful information. We can only go by what they actually do.
Every rational country has a big problem with their citizens getting murdered.

Killing just 1,000 Chinese in Seoul would be enough reason for China to permanently end North Korea's current regime.
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Seems to me like the past year YouTube is being swallowed by Google+. (And with that, by the advertising company that Google so obviously has become.)

Especially the way in which users are pressured into using their "real name" and the dramatic shift in discover/recommendations (from content-based to social-based) seems more than just a matter of integration. Both are things that are the opposite of what YouTube was about a until recently.

Google is all about advertising. Software is just a means to that end.
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"it might be illegal because they're charging for a show without being licensed, or a myriad of other reasons"

That's exactly what's the "worse than USSR" part is about.
IKVM runs JVM code on .NET, not the other way around.
What you are saying here is: your standups are poisonous. Ours on a 8 man team only take 10 minutes on average, and we have no team lead. They don't all have to be, if yours are, change them.
Ask HN: HN for non-techies?
What do you guys consider the most "non-geek" site that has the same or a similar format to HN?

I constantly rave about HN to my friends, but nobody is interested in the contents here. Wouldnt this format also work for other news?
> 2) North Korea will not engage in a mainland war before receiving authorization or warning China, at which point Chinese tourists will be recalled from Seoul and Jeju. China will not allow North Korea to threaten the affluent Chinese tourists that frequent those area, and should North Korea attempt to do so it will be facing an invasion from the Chinese border, and most likely Russian border.

Are you Chinese? The PRC government is not very paternalistic on any tourists abroad, who are basically on their own; China is not going to sacrifice any intelligence advantages to protect a few tourists (and neither would the US).

The DPRK is also not close enough to the PRC to ask for permission, though I'm sure they know what the PRC desires in terms of this.
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I'm pretty sure te_chris means this: Once you have the basic movements in muscle memory and can do them without concentrating, then you can really play.