skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vertical axis wind turbines are pretty well studied, if less widely deployed compared to HAWTs. Reading the article it isn't clear to me what they propose that is fundamentally new or different from existing technology. There is brief mention of:

> the speed of the blades can be adjusted to ensure they don’t spin out of
control during a storm.

But a VAWT relying on huge torque during a typhoon would still seem to require huge investment into, well, typhoon-proofing. As is always the case with wind power generation, the real issue is energy storage which isn't touched on at all.

The entire article reads like fluff at best and clickbait at worst.
>If you aren't engaging with those arguments, proving them invalid or providing a well-reasoned protection, you aren't representing a coherent point of view.

Since when does refusing to engage with fear mongering make you incoherent?
I believe they also had another cartridge adapter to play Sega Master System games on the Genesis aka Mega Drive.
A practical definition of intelligence is the ability to successfully abstract and predict the outcome of interactions with an organism's environment in ways that aid long-term survivability of the organism's species.

With this definition, a Go playing robot has extremely limited intelligence. It can't model anything except the Go game in front of it.

Any single-talent AI is going to have the same limitation.

Most mammals are somewhat intelligent. It's not clear if dolphins and whales do much abstraction, or even if they need to do much abstraction to survive. Some basic heuristics are enough to get by, and - so far as we know, which isn't much - life in the oceans is less varied and challenging than in all the many different habitats on land.

Even so, dolphins and other animals can learn and improvise, which suggests a basic ability to model and predict reality through internal mental representations.

Humans are modestly intelligent. We've learned how to do basic abstraction and social learning, but we're still stuck in a bottleneck of individual competition, and are only just beginning to consider the possibility that it could be useful to model and predict our future as a species.

I would guess - based on no evidence at all - that at some point an intelligent species breaks through the bottleneck and starts being able to model the interactions of the species as a whole with the environment as a whole. That likely means starting with planetary environments and terraforming, but for all anyone knows it may expand to something much broader - because a species will have to understand itself extremely well to survive successfully the bottleneck.

So a true multi-talent AI will have to model the physical world - i.e. understand and improvise its own science - and also do the same with the human world. Which means it would understand and improvise human politics, psychology, and culture.

That would be quite something - light years from the current machine learning classifier projects that are so popular.

It's worth remembering that the benchmark for that AI isn't any one human, but all of human culture as a whole.

Most humans can't play Go, never mind win at it. The average human is also pretty terrible at music, psychology, science, art, coding, and so on. Worse, the average human will take a very long time to learn any of the above, and will still be averagely mediocre, even after a lot of time and effort.

But an average human is still good at being human - i.e. understanding and generating, possibly improvising, correct social and conversational responses for a variety of set situations.

AI theory seems to get this ability confused with intelligence. In fact a single-talent social AI should be possible. But even if it appears averagely human, it won't necessarily be a good general self-directed multi-talent AI that can quickly learn to beat the best human in in any problem domain.
Without digging into sources, since Node is single-threaded, that drastic a performance difference for an IO-bound task would have me looking at whether logging is synchronous. Node's APIs discourage synchronous IO, but don't prevent it.
You should get one of those hotstring expansion apps like expander and program ' bc ' to make ' because '. I keep reading it as British Colombia
We constantly have HN comments about how underpaid software engineers are, how companies are colluding to keep salaries down, etc, etc, etc. Then when someone asks if a salary is in the right ballpark for the local market, they're humble-bragging?
>CS 101 is not basic. Even a high school CS class is not basic. Especially at some places. You're lacking perspective here.

I had literally 0 CS prior to college. I am not a programmer and have no desire to ever be one and I would likely be a mediocre programmer at best if forced to do so for a living - CS101 was literally the easiest class I had in college. If you're claiming it's not basic I guess we're just at an impasse. I have NEVER met a person who failed out of CS101 and had any place trying to become a professional programmer. I assume you have statistics backing up this wide swath of the population who have failed out of CS101 due to a lack of previous experience who have gone on to be successful programmers? If not, you are making such a massive leap of faith - you're right, I can't get there.

As for the conclusion, based on what? You've got scientific evidence proving the chemical make-up of men and women are identical? You're rejecting... reality? I assume you're advocating millions of dollars be pledged towards the funding of a program to increase the population of male nurses, correct?
I don't know if you got a girlfriend, but if you are thinking of finding a girl in Seattle I'd reconsider, seriously reconsider and reassess your info network. I don't hear good things at all about the place.

Other than that if you have a woman, i heard there'll be alot of dudes that will try to take her from ya, but that is minor issue compared to going to Seattle area single.

Also, I hope it is not one of the drone corps... They will use you up then spit you out and sell your job to the Indians.
I worked for IMDb in Los Angeles for under a year, and they didn't require me to pay back any of the sign-on or relocation.
Indeed. People who go the regular route are punished and have to wait and wait, get denied, etc. meanwhile irregular immigrants blow right past them.
Not in my location. Check GlassDoor.
I can't imagine there would actually be much trade between the planets. I'd think the two would develop separately. The monetary factor which allows it to get started is that people simply want to go, but it's hard to imagine it costing less to purchase something from Mars in the next century.
Okay, even if I play along momentarily with what you're saying, 8 AM and 4 PM is still pretty bad... 4 PM?! Ouch...

But keep in mind that the definitions of sunrise and sunset here do not include dawn and dusk -- at 4 PM, the sun has _completely_ set, which means that at 3 PM, it's already well into starting to set.
This Old Ass Commodore 64 Is Still Being Used to Run an Auto Shop in Poland
>Some people are good at imagining what a house will look like after painting. Most are not.

Baseless conjecture. If what you were saying was true, we wouldn't be in the situation of having so many "blank slate" colors as the housing standard.
Was the trial week paid? If so, that's becoming a more common practice. Unpaid trial week? Pfft no way.
There's a dig going on in Jianchuan, Yunnan, China right now - http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-07/22/content_686517... / http://www.kaogu.cn/en/backup_new/new/2013/1026/42529.html / http://www.kaogu.cn/en/Special_Events/Archaeology_Forum_2008... / http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTotal-KAGU200908003.htm - that is apparently the first place they've found with stilted houses (now found right across the tropics of Southeast Asia, first documented in Han Dynasty tomb carvings of the neighboring Sichuan region), rivalled only by a site in Switzerland in terms of scale at this vintage.

The location is in a natural depression above the first major bend in the upper Yangtze river, an ancient corridor for trade and ideas between central China, Tibet and South Asia. It was no doubt an artery through which the first knowledge of rice cultivation spread, given that there are still debates about where it began but they are essentially between or in proximity to river valleys that converge at this point (Yangtze, Brahmaputra, Red River, Salween, Mekong). Ancient history is truly fascinating!

Also I am translating a 1000 year old text from the region, 2 days ago it was talking about dyeing silk thread indigo/vermillion: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Manshu/Chapter_7#...
Sadly that's not how it works for Amazon Seattle.
You're welcome! Despite all the debate, it IS super cool, even if it's just because they're literally making a bunch of parts super-cool.

But it's not as awesome as scifi QCs :/
$80K/month in revenue, not profit. Didn't see any mention of costs, so it's hard to tell if this is a success or not. Can't criticize though, nice story.
> I'm concerned from a statistical perspective that trees vs. no trees could be strongly correlated with other variables that might be more causative, like building type and density.

Wasn't that why he mentioned using the tree request program, to provide controls?
That sounds a lot like blackmail
Not sure how you can say that; the Weather.com 10-day forecast looks pretty bad.

Only 1 out of 10 days is sunny:

http://imgur.com/a/BhTbn

Here is San Jose, California's (8 out of 10 days are sunny):

http://imgur.com/a/CPAbM
In Germany, 360 EUR or 16% of my salary goes to public healthcare and i still have to wait for weeks/months for the most basic appointments. Really makes me want to switch to private even though i think it will be worse in the long run.
I think of this as Google is great at creating value, and Apple is great at capturing value.
1. They used the same state emblems to create a completely different design.

2. Doesn't mean other people can use their "old" logo (which they're currently still using).

FWIW, I'm no fan of MOS (one of the reasons I posted is because they're notoriously litigious, even suing Spotify over the order of user playlists), but I'm also no fan of design work being so blatantly ripped off, particularly by companies that can easily afford to hand work to a real designer.
Optionality Is the End, Not the Means
Zeke mentions this in the comments[0] on the article:

>The console functions are synchronous when the destination is a terminal or a file (to avoid lost messages in case of premature exit) and asynchronous when it’s a pipe (to avoid blocking for long periods of time).

Which still seems to be the case in the LTS[1].

[0]: http://micheljansen.org/blog/entry/1698#comment-522124

[1]: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v4.x/docs/api/console.html#co...
Ducking Probabilistic Parser by Wit.ai
Neat! Who's "we"? I'd like to read more.
Specifically in California medical usage is already regulated and taxed.

Significant growth of tax revenue after legalization will only happen if the delta of people interested in cannabis and people who already have medical marijuana cards is large enough.

I am not opposing legalization by any means, but in the age of $49 medical evaluations via Skype what are the chances there's a huge market that's not been covered under current, fairly liberal, regime?
I am not sure I understand why we want to get to 100% Places. This is a predicate of the author but I am not sure I agree. We do need transportation and easy way to go from Places to Places. Old cities were made by people who never needed to get out.

Having lived in Paris, Tokyo and Berlin, I can say that as a pedestrian I really enjoy the huge "non-place" avenues of Berlin, that are thrice the necessary width for this city.
Android / iPhone are becoming completely incompatible at a hardware level. Lightning instead of USB. No headphones. No SD card. Next it'll be some proprietary SIM card standard. It's almost like their afraid someone is going to crack iOS to run on and Android handset the way macOS can run on a PC
"And then it hit me"... ok, a great story, but you have to wonder what people would do if they didn't just guess the answer.

That much slowness may be disk I/O bound, which would show up in the USE method, or even just my Linux performance checklist[1]. It'd also show up by tracing blocking events, even an off-CPU flame graph, but that's overkill.

[1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analys...
If most - or all - of your users are Brazilian, then I'm afraid you'll have a hard time. People here don't realize the value in software/apps.

Offer a full month trial to your existing userbase, and 1 week trial to new users. The Rollbar email is a great example on how transparency can go a long way. Consider offering different pricing plans with different set of features. Power users are more likely to pay more, and casual users can continue using limited features at a smaller price.

Also, as much as I agree with traskjd comment, I don't think it holds true to Brazil. You probably know what I'm talking about. I'm afraid the strategy here must be "price as cheap as you can", unless you are dealing with a very special audience (or with enterprises).

I'm happy to know how this turns out. Consider sharing a blog post with your experience :) Good luck / boa sorte.
The effect on local businesses has been very positive in my area (southern Oregon). I'm not sure about the government. Honestly I don't think they would allocate the money in the best way. We have a state employee retirement program that is in the red billions of dollars, I suspect that is where the money will go to first.
> Deep learning is not a simple statistical clustering algorithm.

What is it, then?

In the 60s people used backpropagation to train neural networks. NN + BP is a very simple statistical clustering algorithm. I know that when I worked on neural networks in the 90s we still used backpropagation. Are they using something different now?
Another benefit of immigration (legal and illegal) you didn't mention is that they cover the population shrinkage from being heavily populated in the boomer age range. That's actually good for the economy. In some places that's a crisis.
>The ad hominem fallacy is simply a guideline to evaluate the logical consistency of an argument.

Precisely. So an argument is not logically consistent if it's just attacking the messenger instead of the content. Here's a hint: if your argument in any way relies on discounting the messenger, it's pretty weak and you should not make it.

How many times have you been swayed by someone that says, "Well I would disregard this study because it's been done by a liberal."

If you find that you don't have the time to evaluate an argument based on its merits, don't evaluate it at all. Otherwise your 'gut reaction', which is all an ad hominem is, is just dead weight on the discussion.
Las radiaciones wifi afectan a las plantas
This condescension towards mediocrity is a natural result of preaching and extolling meritocracy, which Silicon Valley and the tech scene is full of.

Geniuses and high achievers are exulted for the hard work or natural ability which sets them apart from the rest. Their superiority is widely accepted and valued, while the inferiority of the rest who can't or won't achieve as much is implied.

The puritan work ethic that's very common all over the US also contributes to this attitude. If you don't work hard, you are widely considered to be morally deficient.

The interesting thing is virtually everyone is inferior in ability, talent, or effort to someone else (even in their own specialty). The 99% aren't as good (by whatever metric) as the 1%, and even the 1% aren't as good as the 0.1%, etc. But few will openly admit their inferiority (especially at interview time), and many are eager to find faults in others.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm far from the best at what I do. I long ago realized that in order to be really, really good at what I do, I'd have to sacrifice a lot of my life, and I did want a life outside of work. As a result, my resume, accomplishments, and skills aren't as great as someone who has made those sacrifices. I pay for that in not being as good a candidate for top positions in the field, and in not being able to perform as well.

I'm also sometimes just not that interested in working on whatever widgets my company is churning out, or in their revolutionary transformations of whatever field they're conquering, and I just want to go home to do the things that do manage to grab my interest at the moment.

I confess that sometimes (even often) I am just working for the paycheck. If I had it my own way, I wouldn't work at all, and just pursue my own interests, independent of whether some company wants me to do that or not. But I'm forced by economic necessity to work.

Does this make me a bad person?
I think Amazon will use the data. USPS operator probably fills in a paper form, it get stamps and then it get filled never to be used in any meaningful way again.
(A lack of) clouds are usually what designates a day as being "sunny" -- maybe also volcanic ash?

It's not raining either, those are just water droplets condensing from the clouds.
Wiles may be a great mathematician but he seems to not really understand the programs he is talking about:

“I think computers, if they were to develop mathematics themselves, would not be worried about smallness and elegance,” Wiles pointed out. They might generate proofs that contain thousands or millions of steps. “Why would they worry how long it is?”

Well that's a constraint you can program in your heuristics: use as few steps and as few concepts as possible.

But we have to wonder as well if some proofs do not require anyway a number of steps that is out of humans' reach
Introducing Hivemapper Flight View
The ironic conclusion is that the most selective institutions could offer the worst environment and still boast about high levels of post-institutional success.
An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber's Drivers in the US (2015) [pdf]
If they shut down services, they slit their own throat and cut off their revenues as well.

Apple and Google are not the only players in this game, but Microsoft as well as others.

Rather than shut stuff off, Google or Apple if forced to pay taxes will just lawyer up and appeal it in some way.

Yeah developing on OSX/MacOS is better than GNU/Linux, but if you find a good IDE with the programming language you use on GNU/Linux it gets better. Plus GNU/Linux runs on the PC Clones out there as well as ported cross platform for ARM, PowerPC, SPARC, Etc.

A reason why I use GNU/Linux is that it is free and respects my rights as a consumer with no DRM, and if I don't like one version of GNU/Linux there are hundreds of others out there. GNU/Linux is not locked to just one brand of computers as MacOS/OSX is, nor does it have DRM and Telemetry in it like Windows 10.
Agreed. This is just Caddy with less features.
Your location must not be Seattle, which is the context of the OP's inquiry. The average SDE3 (senior engineer) at Amazon is making more than this in total comp, and Google pays more than Amazon.
Good points, though those cases hinged on the argument that Argentina had, in its bonds, expressly waived sovereign immunity and made New York the forum for any legal action. Even so, the 2nd Circuit ruled against attempts to seize Argentinian Central Bank assets, setting a reasonably high bar for future attempts at recovery.

Personally, I'm with you -- I think the Argentina cases had somewhat delicate international ramifications (traditionally, the assumption has been that international investors take their chances, and that the market would punish any country that defaulted), but even so, JASTA really does upend international law in a new and troubling way.
Scientists find evidence for alternate theory of how life arose
Whether or not people have that right outside the US doesn't mean it's our problem to enforce that right. Those people have their own countries, with their own governments organized for their benefit.

As an immigrant, this is one of those things that still perplexes me about Americans despite my having grown up here. Nobody in Bangladesh thinks they should care as much about people in Africa as they do about their own neighbors. I see that attitude in the US, but it seems to mostly be an excuse not to really care about anybody except at the most diffuse level.
Patagonia’s Philosopher-King
Hope they do not use that as an acronym.
It's a terrible law passed only because it's related to 9/11, and votes are all about optics.
I've worked at many smaller firms and never noticed any bias. Most companies just want to hire the best person for the job, regardless of race or gender. I also never noticed any pay disparity.

I disagree with the idea that we need to specifically look at minorities or women during the interview process. This makes the process non-random and non-equal to everyone involved, by design.

If there aren't enough women and minorities getting their resumes into the hands of hiring managers and recruiters, we should figure out why. Are they interested in these jobs? Do they have the right experience and education? Are they actually submitting their resumes?

Giving a specific group of people an unfair advantage by design is never a good thing. I feel like we are now crossing over the line line into systemic racism and sexism toward anyone not a minority/woman and it's by definition, not equality.
Off topic: To me, an amazing ferry would permit that you drive onto the ferry at 80 mph, and maintain speed for the duration of the trip, and then exit the ferry at 80 mph. Going slower is permissible, and pit stops are accomodated in an onboard rest area. I'd be impressed by a ferry that handles an entire freeway like that, and connects two ports separated by hundreds of miles of water.
"My wife may or may not work."

forget hobbies and the weather. you and your significant other need to sit down and work out an understanding of each other's career goals, and especially whether you plan to have kids.

i am less familiar with seattle's cost of living, but for SF/NYC for example, 170k/year will come with significant lifestyle tradeoffs to be worked out (e.g., in terms of size of home, commute time, public/private school); obviously two-income will come with its own set of decisions to be made as well.. it's worth talking all this over now.
node is meant to be used in scenarios when you give most of the work to libuv. However, if you to CPU intensive work in JavaScript itself, such as:

- serialization

- encoding

- cryptography

- compression

- etc.
... then, you are better off doing it on a lower level language. express logger counts as a form of serialization, and therefore it is slow.

If you absolutely have to do CPU intensive work... then: limit per-tick execution time and break it down into multiple ticks, otherwise you will block the node event loop and your system will degrade until it stops processing requests.

Now, you can find this faster by profiling. Just use a profiler, like nodegrind or flame graphs or whatever, you will find those bottlenecks very quickly.
Actually, it had a fairly advanced (for the time) productivity suite called "GeoWorks" available.
Apertium is another one

http://apertium.org/
>you know what kind of facts are they may be omitting, or know where to look for opposing opinions.

No, that's being lazy. If you follow that guideline you would only scrutinize things which fit into your preconceived notion of what the biases of the author would be. You should scrutinize everything rigorously. Just because someone is voting for Hillary doesn't give them free reign to say any negative thing they want about renewable energy since they "aren't biased that way".