skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they would put the resources and team in to making better ground based wind turbines, if they would achieve huge success as well.

For me those kites are gizmos, but they must be quite dangerous compared to wind turbines - they are hazard for planes, helicopters and if one get loose it can cause huge damage.

From all alternative sources I have seen so far the Hydrogen based energy looks best. You can burn it like gas, the production costs are not that high and you can make it quite easily. Connect solar panels to the mini factories in deserted area near water reservoirs and you get amazing way to creating clean energy.

I have seen recently few videos of people that use Hydrogen as an energy in their homes and cars and it seems the technology is there since few decades and they are really easy to manufacture.
The Enercons shut down for safety certain wind speeds and up to that point they will cut down their output (and thus their RPM) by furling the blades. Most of these big machines are variable pitch. I'd assume that if the Makani kite gets close to its rated speeds that they'd winch it down to the ground for safety reasons. It would be quite annoying if a thing like that became unhinged starting at 250 meters or so. It could be carried quite a way before hitting the ground again.
> and then furiously downvoting

Isn't the downvote karma threshold 750?
Just a guess: most musicians write their own lyrics which gives much more insight into who they are. Actors are always wearing masks.
> Heck, even Go programmers have to think about compile cross-platform.

Not that much in Go 1.5 :) On the last project I worked, just setting GOARCH and GOOS worked out of the box.
How much money do you need to develop and maintain a Firefox version? Can I donate? I don't want to help to enforce this idea that Chrom* is the only browser that can run certain things, is against my believes.
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> which is why Clojure is hardly used at all and why Java is everywhere.

Surely that has nothing to do with Java being 20 years old, and Clojure 1.0 being 6 years old?

> Clojure doesn't even win in the one line department against modern JVM languages (e.g. Kotlin).

Example, please.
But my favorite story about him is how he calls Kelly Lynch's husband every time Roadhouse is on TV to tell him that she's having sex with Patrick Swayze. Apparently this has gone on for years.

I'm going to have to Google this. If that's true, it's hilarious.
>LGBT rights [...] contradict biblical scripture.

As per the interpretation of Wesleyans, yes...but there are any number of denominations who don't hold to that interpretation. Even so, Christians are generally called to treat LGBT persons with respect and dignity, and at least a few LGBT rights would actually fall under that umbrella, I'd say.
Simple geese fly at FL 290...
Allen's interval algebra
We've been taking a similar approach at overleaf[1], where our rich text mode let's non-LaTeX users write papers without needing to code.

We've also had success in working with publishers to simplify the submission process for research articles, with direct one-click submission links where we pass the files plus meta data.

See e.g. https://www.overleaf.com/blog/269 for a recent example.

[1] https://www.overleaf.com
The main deposit is sand, as I understand it. That's why atolls change shape a lot. On the whole, they're not even as stable as coral. Building (with paving) is just a bad idea.
Not quite what was asked.
The intended outcome is a sequence of length 1000 where the elements are 1 * true, 2 * false, 3 * true, 4 * false and so on.

To compare it with what your code produces.

[true false false true true true false false false false ...]

[true false true false true false true false true false ...]
I once looked into getting a .kz domain. (I wanted to host comics on a site named "comi.kz".) It turns out that one of the requirements for getting a .kz is that the website be physically hosted inside Kazakhstan. (And yes, Kazakhstani hosting providers that do business with foreigners are expensive.)

Right now, I am very glad that I did not go down this route.
It breaks for me on Chrome Version 46.0.2490.86 (64-bit) on OSX Yosemite.

Error: Invalid value for <svg> attribute preserveAspectRatio="XMidYMid meet"

script.js:85 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token =
Just guessing that LIQUi|> should be pronounced "liquid."
Finally Google is releasing their best dog food as cloud service. Is better than "copy" AWS.
Upper-case eth? That would be a Ð.

I assumed it was a cyrillic glyph, but that doesn't seem to be right either; the closest I could find was ъ, which loops the wrong way. It would appear to just be a glyph the newspaper people made up, like the I-like vowel that follows it, or the one representing the ng sound, or the filliped O in "Anglo".

Why pick on the researcher? She couldn't type the invented d-like glyph, so she used an actual D. She couldn't type the invented ng-glyph either, and used an n, but you're not complaining about that.
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And yet maven does the same thing but gets no love from anyone (including me!)
Yes. A lot more than in your average tech company. You still don't see that many female executives, but at the bottom, the influx of fresh grad hires is pretty much 50/50.
What's wrong with snark?

You left out a possibility:

1. The islands were similarly submerged 23 years ago. [close to submerging, but sure]

2. The sea level data is somehow inaccurate. [always must be included]

3. Sea levels are at the same point, but geological factors may be causing the islands to sink.

4. The sea levels are generally higher, but are currently in a lower point in their regular cycle - similar to what happened in 1998.

Now, I won't make any claim either way about this without doing more research. But it should be abundantly clear that the value oscillates (with several effects that have different periods) and therefore you must include those in your list of possible explanations. And also that the instantaneous value, taken in a vacuum (ignoring all predictions we can make from the periodic effects), is utterly useless for predicting what will happen in the next 1-50 years.
Sounds like the fear might be related to attachment to the outcome. But with a lot of things in life, you can't really be too attached to the outcome, at least not initially. As things gain traction and develop (rapidly or otherwise) then you can invest more of yourself in the desired outcome.

My favourite quote in recent memory is Markus Frind, of Plenty of Fish fame. I'm paraphrasing here, but he says launch something that just sort of works and then take it from there.

But it seems like you're well beyond the point of something that just works at a minimum, so I'd say don't worry about anything beyond getting these products out. A lot of people don't even get to the point of having something to launch for a variety of reasons, both internal and external.
I'm just guessing here, but I'm going to bet that defensive ECM is probably deemed better effective per pound that CWIS.

It's worth noting here that CWIS' effectiveness hasn't really been proven. But what is certain is that it's theoretical effectiveness is being questioned as missiles get faster. The original 20mm CWIS had a pretty limited range. The Europeans went to 30mm with Goalkeeper, and now both are set to be replaced with either directed energy weapons (faster tracking, better accuracy) or systems like SeaRAM, which can engage further by switching to point defense missiles instead of guns.

I can see how directed energy weapons could be attractive to aircraft once the power density issues are solved, but right now they're simply too heavy.
Nicely done :D! You're the first one to get it right.

Yeah, I'd still argue that the clojure stream api is more readable though ;).

(->> (range)
(map #(repeat % (odd? %)))
(apply concat)
(take 1000)

The thing is that these additions slowly creep into java, which is great. But you still have to wait for the mercy of the language designers.

Clojure is so flexible that it is possible to bring these things in as libraries, resulting in a very lightweight and stable core, and a very rapidly evolving ecosystem.

Also the persistent data-structures of Clojure make life so much easier. It's basically a language build around persistent maps and arrays.
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A turbine is, as the name says, massively different from a boiler.
I am not educated in this field, but anecdotally, I believe it comes from the more energetic movement of the atmosphere drawing coldfronts down from the polar regions more frequently.

I also prefer to use the phrase 'Global Weather Chaos' rather than 'Global Warming'. Much like I also prefer the term 'Waste Reducing Reactor' to 'Breeder'.
warrant/subpoena != NSL
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This is a classic problem and you're not alone. The solution is usually quite simple.

I work with people like you all the time in my coaching business.

Allow me to show you the light at the end of the tunnel.

A comment box isn't going to do this justice, so email me at Joe at thesuperhumanproject.com and I'll help you through this.

For the good of the community, we can do a write up of what we discussed or we can keep it private. It's up to you.
> IntStream.range(0, 100).filter(i -> i % 2 == 0).collect(Collectors.toList());

This has been added to java to catchup with functional programming languages.
I think the way this all going to work in the end is that people will buy and sell right-of-ways in 3-dimensional space for their drones. There will be public right-of-ways for drones like there are public roads, and flight plans will be submitted electronically to the FAA for approval before any drone enters the public right-of-way.

Energy kites should be pretty easy to deal with unless they're tethered within range of competing energy kites or things they could damage if they crashed.
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This is mainly Gurzadyan's work, and it shows such a complete lack of understanding for basic statistical analysis it's not even funny. They basically assume that if you have an i.i.d. random vector x, then a linearly transformed vector z = Q x, with Q some linear map, should also have coeffients without correlations.

For a start look here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5051 -- beyond explaining the fallacies it has references to 3 independent analyses that failed to reproduce the result on the same data set.

The only interesting discussion to be had here is one about journals and peer review practices (i.e., how A&A could let something like this slip through).

That said, the randomness (or nature of randomness) in the CMB is actively researched (such a how close the random signal is to Gaussian). And anything you think is "CMB" run the risk of being foregrounds or systematics which would not be "random" in one sense.
Big turbines are big because of one simple thing: efficiency. It takes a lot less in terms of materials and space to make a single 8 MW turbine than it takes to generate the same amount of power with a large number of smaller ones.

Yes, if they go down you lose a large amount of capacity in one go, but that does not weigh against the cost of a large number of smaller turbines that will go down much more frequently with smaller losses (they still need to be repaired). Though the cost to repair them will likely be lower per instance the people doing the service still have to be called out.

I love this google project and I'm really curious what will come out but what with wind being my life-long side interest and having seen a large number of fantastic designs come with a hurricane of fanfare and go again without a breeze I'm not going to bet on this until there is much more hard data to compare to 'conventional' systems.

Three blade conventional machines are anything but, they're engineering marvels with a ton of materials science behind them, it took nearly 40 years to go from the 10 KW prototypes at Petten (in NH, NL), to the giants you see today. That's a lot of R&D invested over a very long period of time.

Now these kites can leverage some of that knowledge and they no longer have to validate the concept of windpower for regular consumption, that trail has already been blazed so they should have an easier time of it.

Here's to hoping that it works, and that it won't end up next to 'windtree' or the 'windbelt' or a hundred other revolutionary wind technologies that ended up being stillborn.
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Perhaps he's thinking of his legacy.
Just drop fresh meme text on 'em and Bob's your uncle!
“I Was Told There Would Be No Math”
For me, readability is directly tied to good abstractions (and meta/programming facilities for making good abstractions) and a certain degree of conciseness.

If I have to read 5-10 lines of intermediate code to figure out what's going on, it's less readable than if there's a short expression.

Some languages seem to be driven by fear that if you provide programmers powerful facilities for abstraction that rise to the level of augmenting the language that developers will no longer be able to figure out what's going on without reading a lot of code, so they solve this problem by forcing developers to write (and therefore read) a lot of code.

Java seems to be one of those languages.
I saw him utter it on this show[0]. I thought it was more funny how long it took him to show his hand regarding liking Roadhouse so much.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/11/10/bourdain-charleston-...
Its core lives in Lisp dialects like Emacs Lisp just fine.

Try GNU Emacs and the REPL:

M-x ielm

*** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help.
ELISP> (append '(this is a Lisp) '(REPL))
(this is a Lisp REPL)

ELISP> (cons 'This (append '(is a) (list 'Lisp 'REPL)))
(This is a Lisp REPL)

This code is from McCarthy's Lisp 1.5 Programmer's manual, from 1962, running in Common Lisp:

CL-USER 6 > (defun my-length (l)
(prog (u v)
(setq v 0)
(setq u l)
a
(cond ((null u) (return v)))
(setq u (cdr u))
(setq v (+ v 1))
(go a)))
MY-LENGTH

CL-USER 7 > (my-length '(1 2 3 4 5))
5

That's why it's called a 'Lisp' -> it runs Lisp code.
There is an ad-hoc comparison of a few of top existing services here:

http://imagga.com/blog/imagga-and-6-alternative-image-recogn...

and here:
http://imagga.com/blog/some-more-image-recognition-tests-som...

Disclaimer: I'm CEO & CTO of Imagga.
Only if the cert also has code signing EKU. Then, in case of code signing trust bit not disabled in the cert manager, signed EXEs will appear with "verified publisher".
Subtitle: "A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity."

This is a classic that everyone should read, utterly destroying a shameless self-promoter gifted with some intelligence and a grasp of jargon.
Horrible branding is a hallmark of GNU. Even the name "GNU" is cringe-worthy.

It's a systemic problem. Some of their software is really top notch but they seemingly remain clueless about making something that looks compelling.

Technical merits alone don't win hearts and minds.
To paraphrase Hickey, "I find German less readable than English; that doesn't mean it's unreadable."
I implemented this in my online book[1] and it wasn't too bad. Try resizing the window to see.

The entirety of the JS (not including jQuery) is:

$(document).ready(function() {
$(window).resize(refreshAsides);

// Since we may not have the height correct for the images, adjust the asides
// too when an image is loaded.
$('img').load(function() {
refreshAsides();
});

// On the off chance the browser supports the new font loader API, use it.
if (document.fontloader) {
document.fontloader.notifyWhenFontsReady(function() {
refreshAsides();
});
}

// Lame. Just do another refresh after a second when the font is *probably*
// loaded to hack around the fact that the metrics changed a bit.
window.setTimeout(refreshAsides, 200);

refreshAsides();
});

function refreshAsides() {
// Don't position them if they're inline.
if ($(document).width() < 800) return;

// Vertically position the asides next to the span they annotate.
$("aside").each(function() {
var aside = $(this);

// Find the span the aside should be anchored next to.
var name = aside.attr("name");
var span = $("span[name='" + name + "']");
if (span == null) {
window.console.log("Could not find span for '" + name + "'");
return;
}

aside.offset({top: span.position().top - 3});
});
}

In my book, the asides are positioned very precisely next to certain lines. If you don't need that level of precision, a pure CSS solution is possible, I think.

Overlapping footnotes could be a problem, but to me that's a case where trying to completely separate design from content is a bad idea. Design should optimize for the actual prose you have and not all possible copy you might write. Likewise, it's often worth tweaking copy a bit to make it look better with your design.

In a couple of cases with my book, I tweaked or rearranged asides to avoid them overlapping.

[1]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/introduction.html
Yes, but it is not a diesel engine.

So there are other means of propulsion for large ships besides diesel.

Oh, and even steam turbines are still used (on natural gas carriers, they simply burn some of the cargo!).
Things like this always leave me feeling stupid. How is one supposed to wrap their mind around the idea of space emerging from an underlying "network"?

What exactly is being networked; what is the "stuff" of the network? He describes the network in terms of connections, which in my mind requires a topology, or space within which to exist; yet space does not apparently exist at this level. If there is no space, then what separates the nodes in the network? If no space separates the nodes, what defines the distinct connections between them?

Yes, i'm completely lost.
That's a matter of perspective. Inconsistency is not objective and Lua has PLENTY of warts (46 max upvalues?)
I think you may be on to something here.
So quantum effects like entanglement are distortions in the structure of the network. So basically quantum effects are due to distortions in space-time, i.e. there is a 'worm hole' type structure connecting entangled particles?

This is getting out of my depth, but isn't that basically what Loop Quantum Gravity proposes?
Savannah is currently docked in Baltimore [1] and usually open to the public on National Maritime Day in May and Labor Day [2].

[1] http://imgur.com/TMXfrKU

[2] http://www.ns-savannah.org/
That is exactly the reason I stopped reading halfway through. I couldn't take any more of his narcissism.
AMEX has much broader acceptance than it used to, given that more retailers are going to CC services that accept all. In fact, of those places that accept only 3 cards, Discover was left out more than AMEX.

One of the few that don't accept AMEX but do Discover is the San Francisco Giants (for tickets).
You're right. It is a mental block. It's usually one you get when you believe that what you've made is going to take off like a rocket. Whether or not it does, now that pressure is on you.

Pick one of them. Launch it. See it through a few iterations, because (spoiler alert!) it won't be perfect at the beginning. What you launch will probably not get traction. If you've never launched anything before, you won't believe me. But this is both a liberating and terrifying thing, so it's important to accept that you will fail to live up to your hopes.

The more you're convinced that you won't fail, the less you'll risk actually failing at something. The more you'll fall back on your conviction of being smart enough to delay launch. The more you'll build features instead of launching shit to make things that people will use.

Today, say to yourself that you will adapt. That the biggest adventure is yet to come, and that you don't know what will happen, but even then, you will face every challenge down.

Then tomorrow, JUST FUCKING LAUNCH IT.
29, why?
Sorry I was referring to the second part of your comment.

Even if you happen to be in majority with your progressive views, in this instance, there is no guarantee for that generally, especially if we consider the entire global populace.. is what I was trying to point out.
I find the readability is where Java's verbosity really hurts it. E.g. if you bring up the horribly verbose getters/setters in Java many people will respond that you can autogenerate them - which is true as far as it goes. But you can't "autoread" them, and if you have a thousand getters/setters of which ten provide different functionality to the standard field access, that makes the code very hard to read.
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I don't think an interview strategy of the form "has the same values and opinions as stcredzero" is going to work for everyone.
I really appreciated his tone. I'm incredibly fascinated by ideas like quantum physics and basic building blocks of the universe, but am often left behind when I read articles about them due to a lack of understanding of the core mathematics. His tone makes this complicated subject understandable.
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I joined a startup as an early employee a few months ago, with a fairly complex funding situation, and my compensation package consists primarily of options. ("equity incentive plan")

I want to talk to a lawyer and/or accountant in NYC who has lots of experience in this subject. I do not have a ton of money but I am willing to spend up to $500 for a consultation.

Does anyone have recommendations on whom to approach, or where to find someone?
Yes, as I said in my original response, "not necessarily for NSLs".
>Kazakh here. Fuck, what do we do? Any suggestions other than trying to raise awareness?

Revolution or leaving the country are your only choices. There is no democracy so there is probably no way to resolve this grievance, and I doubt it would be anywhere near the top of list for most citizens.

You can speak english and probably have computer skills, so I hope it would be possible for you to get out.
> I /ignore/ the normal python syntax

Is it not normal to do that? I always lay out the nested ones, and even single comprehensions if the conditional is complex.
Yes, because an overwhelming majority of Americans dislike Snowden. Not a slim majority, an overwhelming one. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/21/edward-snowde...
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What's interesting is how to cast Bill Murray for a movie. He doesn't have an agent, lawyer, personal phone number, or email address. Only a mythical anonymous 1-800 number where you leave a voicemail describing your script and hope he calls back. He's known to check his voicemail only once in a while..
He's also a nomad, so if he's interested, the script is sent through snail mail to his variable current location.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/09/05/casting...