skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while ago we thought the same thing about greenhouse gas emissions or human activity raising global atmospheric temperatures.

I like wind power, but that's not a very strong argument without numbers.
That's not what I've meant - I don't allow working after hours in my companies. But I prefer a team, which at work focus just on my project. Side projects interfere with each other and that can be deadly to productivity at work. I wouldn't ever try to tell anybody what to do with their free time, relax man :)
This is completely economically illiterate. China is a developing country. As a result, it uses less electricity than its developed counterparts. As China grows, it will be using much more electricity. Just look at their energy consumption trend since the late 70s. That applies to India, Russia, Indonesia, and any other developing country in growth mode.

Oh, and guess what. China passed the USA in energy consumption in 2010.
My last chopsticks prototype was a "ultra-lightweight" tone-arm for an old turntable back in college, haha. I think it yielded significantly less useful results than this. Good ingenuity!
I think side projects are very important. It's funny, a lot people have a hard time distinguishing between free time and work, without realizing that for some of the best engineers out there, they are the same. Just because my laptop is open, doesn't mean I have to be working. In the evening, on the weekends, or whatever you consider your free time to be, YOU go to movies, go out for dinner, go to the gym, go skiing, etc. But, as someone who really likes to build things, the time I would be doing those things (yes, I do those as well), I'm writing code.

The key is to hire people you trust to make good decisions when it comes to side projects, and the amount of time they spend on them.

But also on the employers, have you created and maintained an environment that someone wants to work for?

One of the things I think about most often while hiring, because it is true for me is that, I would be half the developer I am without side projects. My college degree and job I had out of college taught me nothing but concepts and theory, and how to be micromanaged. I WANT to hire people that have side projects because it means they ENJOY what they do, they dont just do it because someone is paying them to.

I recently wrote about this myself: http://ryanabbott.com/side-projects-learning-experience-vs-d...
If 5 million Danes can afford to build X windmills, I don't see how 60-ish times 5 million US citizens can't afford to build 60-ish times X windmills.

Population density would be an argument (on average, higher population density means less wind power per capita), but there, New York probably has more land area nearby than Denmark.
Google has a fleet of automobiles that shoot pictures of every house on the planet without an opt-in and is planning eye-glasses that record everything that a person will see and upload it to google — yet Eric Schmidt worried about individuals having that same personal power.
but person running botnet always have a choose what to do with it. and mining bitcoins with cpu would be last thing he would do I guess..
> As a result, they use less electricity than its developed counterparts.

It's almost like that's valuable information when we're discussing an electricity generation technology. You wrote this without qualification in terms of what you meant:

"Those windmills currently cover 1 million people. The world has 7 billion people and growing quickly."

I replied to exactly that, and you're calling me economically illiterate for pointing out the economic illiteracy in your original comment? You cannot be that stupid. There is absolutely no way. You have to be a troll.

> China passed the USA in energy consumption in 2010.

Total energy consumption, notably oil due to the sudden increase in automobiles in China since the 1990s once private citizens became able to own automobiles. China currently builds more automobiles than all of Europe, because demand is absolutely through the roof. So it would make sense that China passed the United States in total energy consumption rather quickly. We're discussing electric energy, remember?
Anywhere near the city? I'd be happy to chat over coffee.
As these things go, it's one of the more unobtrusive options. Compare it to, for example, an open cast coal mine. (It's even probably cheaper to knock down the turbines than it is to fill the pit back in.)
Some English gentlemen speak with what is quite stilted and not-quite-correct usage of unnecessarily antiquated vocabulary though ...

Oh well, toodle-pip.
Economics, like politics, is heavily based on axioms over which reasonable people disagree. The problem is that people value their axioms so intensely that they take them for granted and don't even share what those axioms are, let alone discuss them with people who hold opposing axioms.
I'm not very familiar with how the FED operate, related to the US government.

I just know the textbook stuff- that it takes order from the politicians (ex: obama and the congress could ask for a trillion coin, pretty please), can be forced to buy government debt, and as a goal of helping employment.

I'm most familiar with the european ECB : by construction it follows a monetarist policy (M3 grows at a fixed 4.5%), is independent of political power (you can't ask it to mint a trillion coin for you), and doesn't care about employment.

Before 2012, it also could not be forced by politicians to buy "toxic assets" like sovereign debt (greek debt anyone?), so they created the european stability mechanism, guaranteed by the "federal" EC budget to do this very same thing!

It is even better : now they are not forcing the ECB to buy sovereign debt on political orders, they buy sovereign debt by themselves!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Stability_Mechanism

Could you please elaborate on the US situation? (I'm checking wikipedia at the moment)

If the Fed is a private bank, and I understand correctly your Rothschilds example, that makes the situation in the US similar to the one of the Bank of France prior to 1945 when it was nationalized - it was a private bank, with a monopoly on sovereign currency emission.

Only it's even better and more lucrative, because the Bank of France had to deal with the gold standard (even in the 1929 great depression) while the present day FED is doing fiat money.

Who are the FED shareholders who get to benefit 6% returns, backed by the US government? How do you compare that to the french situation before WW2?
This post somehow triggered me to grab "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good" this morning and I have been gorging on it since then. I've had quite a few "holy shit" moments.
isn't it funny that the first windmills are reminiscent of oil wells, and current solar projects (in the US) are large solar arrays, blending again with the existing large-scale infrastructure? maybe this similarity is lofty associated, but i find it interesting.
Calm the hell down mate.

The facts are this:

1. Dictionary attacks are generally used before brute force attacks

2. Random passwords can't be cracked via dictionary attacks

This is why I will always prefer random passwords. However I was never disputing that passphrases aren't secure either (in fact I actually said they are), just that I've seen people misinterprete that comic to mean that grouping a couple of obvious words together is more secure than random chars. My point was to illustrate how much more complicated password security is. And this argument where you've gone round in circles trying to argue your silly points actually emphasises that. (And I say 'silly' because half the time you're kicking off over comments that you've misunderstood / misinterpreted).
The US would require roughly the same amount of windmills per capita as Denmark. (There's a chance that the average Dane uses less energy than the average American, but I can't be bothered to look that up...)

The cost per capita in the US would be about the same as in Denmark. Probably less, due to economy of scale.
Cats kill FAR FAR FAR more birds than windmills do. If you actually cared about birds you would support cat kills (not just sterilize and release).

But few people do.
Financial--debt-asset--growth is exponential. Individual persons don't consume real resources geometrically, but linearly over a lifespan. Population does grow geometrically, so that is the underlying driver for geometric production and resource consumption. Unfortunately, there are a lot of service/non-producing cash-flows diluting the value of popular macro economic benchmarks like GDP and corporate benchmarks like EBITDA.

As CS engineers dominate this place, it should be standard practice to examine, both, the input and output sides of any system during load analysis.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/04/hen_s...
I deny that the return function is required to act on arbitrary data types. In Haskell, is the type [Integer] no longer a monad because it only can contain integers?
I think everyone is assuming that the side projects are for after-hours. I think we can all agree that you should focus on your job at work.
I'd talk to your fellow founders, then talk to him with them and express your concerns. Do the whole compliment sandwich thing (IE "You're clearly a genius, but we've been disappointed by your work output. We value your contributions and we wanted to get your input because we feel the current situation isn't satisfactory, and we want this company to succeed") Treat him as part of the solution, and at worst you'll be where you are right now. At best he'll take it as a friendly wakeup call.
The most compelling use case for excess energy is to store it. There's a big research area in developing batteries for temporary grid storage. Compared to standard batteries, the goal is to trade off weight for cost, so that it's practical to capture the delta between {peak demand, actual demand}. See [1] for such a battery.

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/group/cui_group/papers/Yuan_EES_2013...
I tend to agree. I would only consider partnering up if the partners would need to work at least as hard as me and the concept was already validated and making money already. It really comes down to risk/reward since no matter how much you enjoy the job/project, you still have to fulfill your needs/wants and responsibilities. Obviously there is always risk involved, but you have to weigh up this opportunity in terms of career advancement and your well-being.
As someone who lives in Kendall Square and studies at MIT, I would say that, in spite of the amount of brains, Cambridge and the whole Boston area are a terrible place to live, with few opportunities for recreation and a horrible weather...
Pausing Tetris to avoid losing was hilarious.
Distributed Computing at Airbnb
He has interest in developing but has no clear plan and as a client he doesn't know all the improvements that need to be made to a application every day in order to make it bigger so he will probably invest just in some small additions to the site like new features and stuff like that
He isn't very explicit about it, but the "time travel" that is mentioned basically allows it to go back in time if things turn out badly. This is what allows it to make such unbelievable trick moves: in short timespans it is almost a brute-force search, but over the longer term it can't backtrack as much.

If that makes sense.
That's true for this example, but when you do tree walking stuff in jQuery (like elements.children().children() ) then you have to think of it as a concatting map instead as just a regular map or filter
This interview contains some pretty amazing gems. This part[1]:

So, really good sofware is software that embodies an idea, some fabulous idea for some new thing that is possible that maybe only the guy writting the software realizes is possible. And maybe people who hear about it while he's working at it think it is the stupidiest idea

... reminded me of Peter Thiel's famous quesetion[2]:

what important truth do very few people agree with you on?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B...

[2] http://blakemasters.com/post/22866240816/peter-thiels-cs183-...
>In case you didn't realize it, you're arguing that wind power doesn't "make much sense" on an article describing an entire nation implementing almost 25% of its total electric power demand via wind, and planning to raise that to 50% within a decade.

So your argument is that if a country uses wind power, then that's evidence that it's better than other forms of energy production? That's a non-sequiter. There are many countries that produce 25% or more of the electricity using coal, nuclear, hydro etc. I'm not arguing that wind power cannot be used at a large scale. I'm arguing that other forms or energy production are better.

>The only problem described in the article

I didn't claim that the article provides the arguments that I hold for my opinions.
"The only way to win is not to play"
They all have big dev centers around the world. FB opened a big engineering office in the UK
You should be getting paid to get your work done and perform at a certain level. Everything above that is hopefully grounds for a bonus, salary bump, promotion, and/or equity. Hopefully it's not X hours a week as the criteria.
Nginx direct file upload without passing them through backend
Big files upload diet, how to do it without passing file through back-end.
I got the point of the cartoon and I never argued that Randalls figures were wrong. I just think it's bad advice to give none technical people to say common words are secure because there's a risk that they won't use a sufficiently long (read: number of words) password.

At the end of the day, the whole password model is broken, and Randall summed that part up succinctly.
> Would the doctor have known what gene sequences to look for if Myriad hadn't done the R&D and published the results?

That question implies a very confused version of history. BRCA1/2 were discovered by NIH-funded researchers at universities. Some of these co-discoverers went on to found Myriad. Other co-discoverers, such as Mary-Claire King, did not.

Also, after the first large-scale GWAS studies in the late 2000s, a high school student with enough funding could have discovered the BRCA1/2 - breast cancer association.
It does not work for desktop applications, since all the requests come from clients IP. If your product got popular enough, I am sure they would send you with legal motivation to stop.
>"Just as environmentally friendly"? Since when did Wind power require long term storage of waste?

Never claimed it did. However, the single property/factor of "does it require long term storage of waste" does not determine environmental friendliness, although it's certainly a factor. There are a multitude of factors that people base different weights on. Carbon emissions is a good starting point, and nuclear is even with wind on that one.
If you are a nuclear power plant, you have very little operational flexibility. If there is too much electricity, it's less expensive to pay someone to take it than it is to reduce the output of your inflexible generating asset.
i like ejs
Can't they just switch off unneeded windmills?
Nope. The GPUs get plenty hot. The difference is that with Litecoin, your CPU gets hot too! I have not dug into the technical details, but at a glance it looks as if Litecoin motivated research that fairly successfully overcame the GPU-unfriendliness of Scrypt. If anyone here can confirm or deny this, I'd love to hear it.
I've been thinking about the general business plan problem for years. Not only because it's a very real problem, but also because as I'm walking through a swap meet or a grocery store I'm perpetually curious about margins and return on capital for the many tiny to medium businesses for which almost no intelligence exists. If I could figure out a way to bootstrap a crowd sourced resource for these I'd be working on it right now...but alas.

In your case, if you haven't done so already, I'd suggest attempting to buy advertising from a site similar to the one you'd like the build. Maybe even invest some dollars advertising your own product (non-profits are interesting guinea pigs too) to get some idea of the volume of traffic they enjoy and the prevailing rate that advertisers are willing to pay for access to their audience. Once you have data you can start building some models and establishing ranges inside which the business makes sense to pursue. I've done this kind of research myself and for clients on multiple occasions, it's not bulletproof but it's a valuable start.
>"It is just as environmentally friendly." Yeah, sure.

Bad policies implemented in a single country doesn't determine environmental friendliess of a energy production technology as a whole. Obviously a nuclear power plant is not environmentally friendly if the waste is not taken care of.
France built out a system of hydro dams and nuclear power plants in the 70s, and they store excess nuclear power by pumping from reservoirs downstream to ones upstream, for later hydro power generation. Unlike Denmark, however, France has the Alps, and thus a suitable location for dams.

Seems like an ideal arrangement would be to use Norwegian hydro power installations as a buffer for Danish wind power output.
Wind density over shallow water is the real reason.
ob·strep·er·ous
/əbˈstrepərəs/

Adjective
Noisy and difficult to control: "the boy is cocky and obstreperous".
I didn't make an argument in that paragraph. I pointed out that a nation of people is making 25% of their power from wind, and plans to increase that to 50% before the decade is out, and you came here to argue that it doesn't make sense. It's surely making sense for them, so what can we learn from that?

I should know better than to get involved in threads like these since they're just mud-sling contests. Between you and penny500, I'm about out of HN patience for the day.
I can tell you the sound is NOT purely psychological. I used to around 1-2km away from one. When the wind came from "the right" direction, it sounded like a thunderstorm.

I can't even imagine what it is like living even closer to one.
I think the basic idea is that you have a whole bunch of people who want to launder money (and maybe some who don't). They all transfer into a single wallet, then they all pay separately from that wallet. Now it's impossible to tell who paid what on the other side
To support this point (and this is just in the US):

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/29/170588511/killer-kitties-cats-...

"Previous studies had suggested that cats kill about 500 million birds a year. Marra's group came up with something very different. "We estimate that cats kill somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds a year," Marra says. "For mammals, it's upward of about 15 billion."

"Marra says based on those new figures, cat-caused mortality far exceeds deaths from other sources, like collisions with cars or wind turbines.
I've heard that within the discipline, this isn't really the case -- most academics understand there are a lot of issues very far from being settled.

It's the outward facing economists, the ones who you actually hear from, that project a kind of false confidence in their models.
No offense, but I'm not sure that the Language Shootout is the best showcase, the SBCL code submitted there could hardly be called idiomatic Common Lisp. Mandelbrot is one of the most egrerious offenders in that regard [1], compare that with the Java submission [2] which is both cleaner and faster...

[1]http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test...

[2]http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test...
No, I'm sorry, you're wrong. return(return(1))::[[Int]] gives you [[1]]. For something to be a monad, it must be a polymorphic type of kind * -> * . That means it must be a type constructor which takes any type as a parameter. Any type, including a concrete type constructed from the type constructor you are declaring an instance of Monad.
The Invisible Hand Illusion
The bigger ones seem to rotate slower which helps a lot aesthetically. I'm pretty sure the tip is still moving the same speed, but the RPM is lower.
From memory, BRCA1 was discovered at UC Berkeley; BRCA2 was discovered at the University of Utah. Public money did fund this research.
But since the end game of bitcoin is that basically no new coins will be mined, how does that matter?
If your numbers are going up, it means you are having more fun!

http://radgeek.com/gt/2006/04/28/antieconometrix_comix/

It's too bad that game that need more lookahead - Tetris, etc, are not amenable to this approach.
I am sure that was deliberate design. They want the common case to be as frictionless as possible.
I'm saying that there aren't cancer cure-all properties, which is not "zero medicinal benefits". I think medical marijuana has objective benefits. "Big pharm"/"Big cancer" conspiracy theories and the DEA's influence are irrelevant.
That's what they say here http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-federal-bank-near-zero-143...
Myriad has a patent on the BRCA genes in isolation. It does not have a patent on just a test. If it did, then nobody would care, because we could perform alternative tests to acquire the same information in a different, non-infringing way.
Ah yes, because most people in Denmark know whether Rhode Island is actually an island or not, and they know all about Oregon (or Oklahoma, or New Mexico or Nebraska or Ohio).

I don't see how one journalist's mistake leads to that comment.
Hmm. I read the chart as price for the entire drive, not the 'raw materials' of the drive.
And I reiterate, that's not what people care about. We don't, primarily, target drug users; we target dealers. You can't receive and then spend bitcoins without there being patterns in the network that should be worrisome for anyone wishing to retain strict anonymity. This can be attacked further through policy (merchants must register accounts and can only deal with registered accounts), &c, to undermine flow of anonymous value. From an anonymity standpoint it is certainly a better situation than using your mastercard (or even someone else's mastercard, maybe) but it's not as anonymous as physical transfer of value with no record.
No, a monad is not something that implements the Haskell typeclass Monad. A monad is anything that satisfies the monadic laws - and they don't say anything about polymorphism, only associativity and left/right identity.
I assert that you can implement a structure that satisfies those laws without having return(return(x)).

Can you disprove that?

(P.S. you are wronger)
While that is true, pen testers are still rattling off ~60% of passwords from dictionary attacks in just 3 weeks.

This is why I would rather see emphasis placed on password length and irregularity than simply saying "memorable words can be secure", which is what most people will take away from that comic.

So I was never arguing against passphrases per se. Though I appreciate I want very clear on that. (Like I said before, hangover + phone surfing != best platform for a complex discussion. :-)
So where does energy from wind hitting a building or a car go? It just dissipates into the ground?
This is actually one of the strangest things about it tbh. How can there be over 1 million unsold early adopter bitcoins? They can't all be lost and the people who held on to them through the $250 peak have some serious self-restraint