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Applicable for many here on HN: for analytical, curious thinkers learning any instrument, I recommend the following approach in combination with other resources:

Learn and play simple chords (e.g. take a-minor on a guitar), and then identify the individual notes that are played by using any fretboard diagram or guitar chord finder app.

Obviously chords are not magic but consist mainly of a root note, a third and a fifth (look up "minor chords" and "major chords" if needed). You can find other occurences of the relevant notes all over the fretboard and make your own chords or at least understand what you are doing.

Example: For example, check out "Drive" from Incubus. What the heck is the guitarist playing at the beginning and how did he ever come up with that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpwsuhOUAkk

You can check out what he plays here and identify the names of the first notes:
http://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/incubus-drive-tab-s327t0

It's just another way to play e-minor!

The intros to Stairway to heaven, Nothing else matters, Bach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6haO4rO7rk? That's all just chord notes played one by one. Don't hesitate, compose a legendary rock ballad intro TODAY!

I'm writing that because most teachers and students feel that this is too theoretical and complicated, and the classicaly trained musicians I know read their sheet music, but don't usually identify nor instantly recognize the chord that they're in while playing Vivaldi either.

I found it really helpful to understand that all that wonderful music is made of basic bulding blocks that I can understand and play, and it's a nice excercise that you can do while your hands recover from those little beginner muscular cramps or pain in the finger tips cut by steel strings.

Then however switch it all off and just play :-)
I believe this course may give just a brief outline of what exactly music is. 6 weeks to master Music is really a short time. He may teach you alphabet, words or even grammar.

But you will have to find your own way to write your own novel.
Prices sometimes also change depending on which site you're visiting. Generally these are just a few pennies, but I've seen differences of more than two or three pounds between the .com and .co.uk prices for the same book, even though theoretically they should be exactly the same.
Blog spam (adds nothing to original) and endless coverage of the same
topic by everyone in the supposed "press" is still a big problem, and
I'm not convinced there's much difference between the two.

There's the mostly unsolvable problem of "old-news versus news-to-me" at
work which can skew voting and unfairly reward reposting or posting
some new regurgitation (blog-spam/press-spam). The reason why the
blog/press spam exists is to take advantage of incomplete knowledge, and
sadly, it works. And worse, the better the echo-chamber works, the
louder the noise gets.

As for giving an incentive to spam, it's a tough balancing act. Any new
event is by definition, news, even if it is also promoting something.
The litmus test is the voting, and HN as a whole still does fair job of
up-voting interesting stories most of the time.
Original link at [0], with a very nice illustration why it is helpful to distinguish between percentages and percentage points.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/showing...
> does it need to have iPhoto like polish?

i actually prefer my apps to look good - its a psychological thing. Using a good looking app makes you happier, and thus more productive.
There's a reason why this can be more effective than many other online free guitar courses: it requires you to put 6 to 8 hours every week, which is actually a reasonable time to effectively learn to play an instrument.

When you spend only a couple of hours a week practicing, the progress is often glacial or non-existent, which can be demotivating.
Ignore all the advice about what books and what model of guitar to buy. Get a guitar, whatever you can, then play as much as possible. Play with other people if you can and often. I'm at my happiest when jamming with other good musicians, I'm pretty sure, once you've got the muscle stuff down, you'll feel the same.

A guitar is just a convenient way to express music. It's the music that you make and the enjoyment that you derive from it that truly matters.
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I'm an American living and working in the UK. I think it's telling that I pay less in NHS contributions than I did for Medicare & Medicaid in the USA, and I can use the NHS now.
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The number of employees on each department, even if you knew it, is totally irrelevant.

NY Times is a newspaper and totally different from Google which has Adsense, Doubleclick and Adwords. Google essentially controls online advertising and 95+% of their revenue is from....ads! Now with Google going 100% pay-to-play on eCommerce and transactional keywords it's even more of an ad company (milking the search goodwill.) You can call them whatever you want of course
http://www.statisticbrain.com/online-dating-statistics/
Very pleased to see this. F# is a really exciting language, hamstrung by being tied to the MS platform. Hoping we'll see more opensource F# projects as a result.
Look, I think the point is this:

We have universal healthcare coverage in the USA, the difference between the USA and everywhere else is we'll bankrupt you first in order for you to access it.

This is an incredibly inefficient, heartless, and needless way to run things, yet it's what we have. I see a few comments below you talk about no access to cancer or chronic care if you're poor but there are tons of programs, grants, etc. that you can access, except you must be genuinely poor. And spend a lot of time finding them, and filling out paperwork, and on and on and on. You'll get care, but it will be psychologically, financially and physically demanding for you and everyone around you.
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WebWorker with native threads is available on Node.js: https://github.com/audreyt/node-webworker-threads

For an alternate model of parallel computing, WebCL (OpenCL) has been ported to Node.js as well: https://github.com/fifield/node-webcl
Virool is apparently now a controlled substance.
Here's the Korean version, in case the North Korean website goes down, or for South Koreans whose country is blocking it: (apologies if I've damaged the formatting)

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5276280/raw/4ce722bf2f5cc4...

The English version seems to be a North Korean translation. The KCNA site published it in 5 languages. It's on page 2 of the main list of articles (page NaN actually, but it's second in navigation).

No copyright infringement intended.
So either save time or improve hygiene. A win in either case, no?
Thanks Sam. While not directly relevant, your employment is probably how you can afford to answer the questions of social-media-know-nothings like myself on the internet.

Tumblr frustrates me because I'm not 'in the stream' so to speak. The whole thing seems to be designed to just whisk you away to more Tumblrs. That could be great, but when you arrive at a page and have no clue who penned the words you're looking at or where you can go to find more of their work... it borders on infuriating.

Anyway, the reason I asked is I liked the post and found it tangentially relevant to a project I'm working on with a friend. Gave me a new way of thinking about a few things. So again, Thank You.
And yet the World Food Programme continues shipping food and other basic supplies to North Korea to avoid further famines.

Surely such famines would not be particularly nice, but on the other hand, recent events in the Middle East have demonstrated yet again that no government can establish itself permanently without the support of its people; hence rendering the North Korean people responsible for these nuclear threats just as much as their government.
Peculiar explosions could be a new type of supernova
To be honest, windows NT is a whole load more complicated than Linux variants at every level. It's almost a framework for building operating systems upon. NT architecture is actually really super nice - shame about win32 being thrown on top.

20MiB is impressive.
I think this is getting ridiculous, everything Steve Jobs did or said is getting blown out of proportions.

Yeah, it was nice of him to let this guy take the device to his friend, but let's not make him a saint or martyr or what not. Don't forget the poor bastards in China living on the edge of humanity to make the said devices..
you can put it more simply by just realizing that money is essentially a promise for some goods or services made by somebody, to be delivered at some point in the future. I.e., keeping money is a liability.

If a society (or a large number of individuals/institutes, incl gov'ts) fails to deliver on their promise of goods and services, then the money looses its value. And this is what seems to be happening a lot more everywhere - more and more money is promised (or printed), but the amount of goods and services hasn't really grown in proportion, and so at some point this is gonna have to fail somewhere...
As an absolute novice, I bought a $30 acoustic after a $150 electric. My goal with the guitar is to just learn Asturias, I don't really care about other things. I have the intro down, it does feel like I'm fighting the guitar and it doesn't make as good a sound as some friends' more expensive ones I've tried, but it's great for seeing whether you like it and will stick with it rather than stick it in a shelf.

Also, I have more fun with the acoustic, due to Asturias, so I guess it's relative.
>Nuclear in the context of regime with a history of irrational behavior that's been insulated from the consequences of its actions for so long it may actually believe some of the nonsense its official communications machinery puts out.

Funny how all this could also translate directly to the US.
What I can't fathom is that ReFS drops very useful (and commonly used) features: transactions, sparse files, hard-links, extended attributes, and quotas.
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> the men are overwhelmingly fit, handsome, and great in general

I'm not ashamed to say I've used online dating with great success :) I'm by no means "fit", "handsome" or otherwise awesome - and my dating successes before OKCupid amount to very little.

However... I'm a pretty nice guy. And a lot of the guys on dating sites, especially those that actively message people, are jerks that no one wants to date. The secret is that many guys are on there because they have no alternative either!

As you say, there are many less women on these sites. But when you filter out the creepers and jerks it's probably about even.

Everyone I've dated from websites (~6 dates, 2 of which turned into relationships) has said something like "well, I was going to give up on it because everyone was a jerk, but then your message was so nice".

The key is to take an interest and be pleasant. It's ridiculous how many doors that opens in real life, let alone online dating!

> When you meet online dates, it has to be about dating.

Isn't that the appeal? There is none of the "are we on a date" mechanics. Both of you are there looking for something.
NT has had VFS from day one (volume manager). You just don't get to see it from the UI and win32 abstraction. In fact NT has mounts, a single tree, case sensitivity and no concept of drive letters. sounds a bit unixy doesn't it?

I have no idea why they came to these conclusions.
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It's using a WP theme called 'wp-svtle', so I imagine that's probably why.
>hundreds of thousands of Fugitives

Damn. Somebody better call the US Marshals!
How about math? Being a programmer helped my get up to speed on math. And there are so many wonderful resources out there. My advice, do not buy a textbook and try to kind of linearly take in math from a single author. Pick a topic and then move around with Google following your interest and questions. Fill in the gaps with Google searches as you move along. This has been tremendously useful to me, and, yes, I am very grateful to Google.
When I started, my interest had been piqued by machine learning. I did not expect to get as far as I did, hitting a wall sooner or later, but not so. There are really really great authors and blogs out there, explaining in plain language what you may not understand. You just have to find them and they are by no means all Ivy League. Although my current favorite is Steven G. Johnson from MIT.
As interesting as this is do we really need to discuss this on HN ?
It almost is. Windows 2008 Server Core was a result of this. It doesn't have a GUI. Ita also what they run Azure on.
Why would there be a lot more single men than women around? That don't really match the statistics (assuming you are from the US or Europe at least).
Only the powerless public. The guys at the top seem to behave very rationally in their looting of the country.
Most of these aren't used frequently. I imagine they will make a reappearance in ReFS2 if required
"If you want to sound credible, wrap it in quotes."

-- Me, a developer.
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They have a better chance of getting away with this than anyone else has had in recent past.

- The North Korean military is a serious conventional force.

- Their army is considered to be highly motivated, given the years of indoctrination and virtually no access to a real news channel. They will probably fight to death.

- They have an over-sized, capable special ops team.

- Nukes. It may or may not work well, but the rest of the world can't take this chance. We (rest of the world) are also just guessing how many they have.

- Seoul is within range of artillery fire. Also will be the first thing to get flattened. About 24 million people live in and around it.

- I doubt if their strategic targets will be sitting ducks for aerial bombing. Given that war and military is the only thing that country thinks about.

So yeah, the truth is that the rest of the world is just very scared. South Korean defense personnel have been repeated targeted in recent years; and nothing could be done. :(
Better x86/x64 support I'd imagine. Despite being a rabid Linux fanboy, I've had way more driver availability issues with Linux over the years than windows.

To be honest, windows just pretty much works these days.
How does mono's F# coverage compare to this?
There is a bit of irony in the timing. Living Socials first product was visual bookshelf. They pivoted to daily deals business.

Fast forward 6 years, amazon acquires goodreads while all daily deal sites are struggling.
I'd actually blame it on idiots writing C myself.

You can't really have a totally safe systems programming language (correct me if I'm wrong here).
Just so I can defuse lots of the commentary that always comes up whenever North Korea is mentioned:

1) Most of NK's artillery is not in range of Seoul, the few that are in range of Seoul are in range of the northern part of Greater Seoul (essentially suburbs), which are nowhere near as populated as Seoul proper. NK has a very small amount mobile artillery which could be repositioned, but US/SK artillery and reconnaissance will be able to hit mobile artillery attempted to move within range of Seoul before it can get close enough to do any damage. Our missiles go further, hit harder, hit more accurately, than theirs do.

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.

3) North Korea will likely try to hit a few small islands as part of their saber rattling in order to receive aid and will not escalate any further without North Korea losing everything in a matter of moments.

4) I'm in South Korea right now (Seoul actually) and I can tell you there is no tension in the air over this issue on the part of Koreans.

5) North Korea has no way to remotely deliver a nuclear device. The only countries that have developed miniturized nukes that the North Koreans could "carry" into the country are the US, Soviet Union, and possibly Israel. They have no "suitcase nuke" nor the technology to develop one. The only way they could "nuke" Seoul is if they build one within Seoul.
You mean, like a picture?
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This is the thing I was afraid of about OS X. I'm using Arch Linux and I'm in love with Linux per se. I would love to buy Apple computers because of all the great things they offer (I saw it as Linux with complex things somewhere hidden, plus, Windows-like support for apps and games) and I would allow myself to do it because OS X is Unix based and it has decent terminal. This article somehow destroyed my hopes — it's too much to remap a key.
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What can China do? Damned if they do and damned if they don't. China doesn't want war, but they don't want change either. They don't want DPRK to implode, they like the status quo as it is. They don't want refugees flooding in to Liaoning, and they don't want the Americans to cross that parallel in any case. But if war comes, the PLA might just strike first across the Yalu and end it quickly. The DPRK is extremely aware of this, it makes them more weary to start anything because they have no real friends.

Do not think for a second that China has some sort of dictator that can decide what side of the fence they want to be on. You have a lot of diversity in thought on what to do about the DPRK in the PRC. Many of them still don't trust the US, and its more important to check us than to preserve trade relationships.
F# has an open-source compiler and runs well on non-microsoft platforms using Mono. How is it tied to the MS platform?
I thought that, too, with car insurance for an under 25 year old... The price difference actually was about 25 euros a year (Germany)
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The situation you describe here has been fixed a couple times to my knowledge, then the monetization part kicked in and the service became broken for males who don't pay, then for pretty much everyone. The service got worst but the money keeps coming in so it will probably never be fixed.

The point is if you design your dating service with those issues in mind they can be efficiently addressed.
Rich is a sucker's game. What you want to be is wealthy.

that takes a lot of luck. Rich is a result of hard work, wealth is a result of hard work plus luck.

Where rich means "I can afford practically anything I want" and wealthy means "My money makes so much money I could stop actively working and have more money when I die than I do now. Possibly enough for several generations."
Are you on the West Coast of the USA? It could just be that your problem is that single-male and single-female populations have segregated themselves geographically, as in the US. Over there, the West Coast has a huge surplus of single males, the East Coast has a huge surplus of single females, and as you move towards the center of the country (where I think people are less geographically mobile, and thus less self-segregating) the surpluses disappear.
F# works very well on Mono. You can compile and use the open-source edition of the F# compiler [1] on both Linux and on OS X (though I haven't tried OS X).

This port is in very early stages, and only has the start of a lexer as far as I can see.

[1] https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp
"muscle stuff"?
To develop an "app" You need a good "emulator".
Organize world's medical info into intuitive human body simulation. Who wouldn't want to pay for using human body simulation?
>Yes the scenarios you describe are ridiculous and unacceptable. But thankfully we live in the real world where those extra steps you describe don't actually exist in apps that were programmed by actually good programmers.

I have not seen even ONE (ONE) online app or game, where most of the above steps do not exist. You might be able to find one. I doubt you'll find two, much less five.

So, straw-men? Puh-lease.

>It matters if you want more people to play your game. You are a progammer, and so you don't perceive the actual difficulty level of software installation.

For one, you sidestepped all my arguments. I proposed systems like the Mac App Store and Valve -- and even more automated solution, like the Java Web Start for the 21st century (click a button on a webpage, and it's installed and running locally).

And yet, you tell me that "for normal people with average skill levels, having to install software can present a significant barrier to entry", as if we were discussing manual installers and stuff.

You are responding not to what I said, but to the preconceived ideas you have about traditional installers. The stuff I discussed (MAS, etc) are not at all "a significant barrier to entry".

Heck, 5 year olds to 70 year olds can use them just fine on their Mac or their iPhone. I've seen that.
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It seems higher levels of trichloroethylene than this are/were common, even outdoors: (note this data is 10-20 years old)

Reported worldwide background levels vary from <17 to 109 ng/m3. In rural areas levels of 0.10–0.68 µg/m3 have been reported (4,5). In urban areas levels are higher. In European cities, the reported range is 0.04–64.1 µg/m3 (mean concentrations 0.8–18.5 µg/m3). For Germany,
5–15 µg/m3 is reported as the typical concentration range for urban areas (4). In the United States, concentrations in municipal areas ranged from 0.03 to 13.5 µg/m3 (mean
concentrations 0.5–2.1 µg/m3) (4); the average for urban areas of 2.5 µg/m3 (0.46 ppb) that resulted from a compilation of data in 1982, is in agreement with more recent measurements (3). Mean concentrations (24-hour composite samples averaged over 1–12 months) in 11 Canadian cities ranged from 0.7 to 0.96 µg/m3 (5).

The median value for indoor air from the 2031 entries in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data base on volatile organic contaminants (VOC-AMBI) is 0.68
µg/m3 (0.125 ppb); the average value was 7.36 µg/m3
(1.347 ppb) (6). In Canada, mean indoor air concentrations of up to 165 µg/m3 with an overall mean value of 1.4 µg/m3
have been reported (5). Concentrations measured in several western European countries varied from 0.76 to 1200 µg/m3
. Concentrations are generally higher in indoor air than outdoors (4). An important source for trichloroethylene in indoor air is volatilization from contaminated
water (7).

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/123069/A... (from 2000)

This article:

The problem at Google was discovered when routine air sampling found TCE at a level of 7.8 micrograms per cubic meter in a hallway of one building on Nov. 21. The EPA was notified as required. It is unclear how long the levels had been above the danger threshold. The previous sampling in September 2010 found nearly undetectable levels.

In an effort to reduce the vapors, workers sealed cracks in floors and walls where TCE might get in. But despite their efforts, samples collected on Dec. 29 found the problem was getting worse: TCE exceeded the 5-microgram safety threshold in five locations in two of the four buildings.
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It depends. There are rumors that allegies of our days are caused by exaggerated hygiene.

You have to wait of few hundred years to see all the consequences of technology in retrospect.