skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wind is pretty fickle already. I sail a lot on the Long Island Sound (25 miles north-east of NYC). On hot afternoons the bridges create thermals that completely screw with the prevailing "natural" wind. You can feel the effects 10-15 miles away.

I don't think it's a bad thing at all, it doesn't impact the macro climate just the local power of the wind and direction, but it is noticeable. There are all sorts of micro influences based on the buildings on land as well that matter to sailing, but the overall picture is dominated by the weather rolling through on any given day. A bridge or a building or a big open parking lot might shift the direction a few degrees or locally increase/decrease the wind, but that's it.

I doubt wind turbines do much more than that.
So, if wind energy doesn't create waste, doesn't require mining and enrichment and doesn't have a chance of causing a major environmental disaster, how can you claim nuclear energy is "just as environmentally friendly"?
H-1B is an employer sponsored visa, valid only for working on a specific job (though it's possible to transfer to a different employer) so it's getting a job first then getting a visa. Then your employer can sponsor your green card application. Depending on the level you apply/qualify for you wait 1-6 years for a green card.
Few people ask where politicians obtain their insights, ideas and policy positions. More should. When the current minority leader HOR, and former majority leader HOR, stated, "we have to pass the bill to see what's inside" and the individual politicians base their policy votes on the testimony of industry captains and fed economists, I hardly call the politicians independent or objective.

Politicians are mostly mouthpieces for constituent groups and don't understand any of the laws they pass at the granular, much less atomistic level. Their briefs, talking points and speeches are all prepared by others.

The individual can only be as smart as his information input and analytical framework.
Wow, that's about 10x more than in USA
And Canada (excluding Hawaii and Kentucky).

I wonder what people would choose given the option between cheap and not from natural gas, as this is going to be the situation in USA for the next 20 years due to shale gas
Yeah, actually adding a transaction to a block is trivial. But that block still has to be added to the block chain, which is exactly what mining is.
Why the juvenile mockery about "e-penis" and "ULTIMATE SPEED" and such mocking? Are we 12 year old here?

I made my case explicitly, and it's about technical limitations of CPython that can (and, at some points WILL) be overcome. PyPy is a step in that direction, though not mature yet.

Python, in the form of the standard and most used implementation for scientific, technical etc programming, CPython, DOES add integration requirements.

It necessitates the use of C/Swig/Cython etc extensions for performance critical stuff. And it necessitates it, not because it puts a gun in your head or says so in some contract clause, but in the pragmatic way, that people find it's not fast enough for their needs in pure form.

That's why all the popular related Python projects are not written in pure Python, but in C/Fortran/et al (NumPy etc).
Yeh, this is the thing I always find a bit suspicious about nuclear power. If noone is prepared to price the risk (and can also realistically pay out on a claim) then how can you ever come up with a $/KW price for comparison?
> Who will accept bitcoin if its value can fluctuate 100% in an hour[?]

If it can be cashed out immediately into another currency, that's not too big a problem, I think. Note that there's a huge difference between accepting bitcoins and listing prices in bitcoins, though.
"This game is mostly a go to the right and jump and throw hammers at birds..." Classic delivery. I love this guy.
i hope i live until the day when robots can beat games without any prior knowledge of the game logic,well actually it would be quite scary
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tiredofcareer, thanks for calling me stupid. This conversation has surely turned professional. It's quite funny when you espouse economically illiterate statements, then question the intelligence of others.

Electricity consumption depends on GDP. Just google those phrases, and you'll find a plethora of sources to confirm the relationship. I listed a graph for you [1]. Because China is growing at 7%, its electrical consumption will only continue to increase. Yes, if two countries of have similar GDPs, the one with the higher population will consume more electricity.

[1] http://notrickszone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Caryl1.gi...
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"The only winning move is not to play."

The author is humorous, poetic, and brilliant.
Every Bitcoin transaction an be tracked, and once you associate a wallet with a name you have the entire purchase history of the person.
Ron Unz's The Myth of American Meritocracy is the latest news about how elite higher education is being shaped by culture and race and how it affects high achieving immigrants and religious minorities.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-...
> "It is just as environmentally friendly." Yeah, sure.

Attributing the acts of a government to an entire technology doesn't seem appropriate.
Forget that angle for a second.

When I sitting in my graduate engineer classes, 50%+ of the students were foreign. Most of them were working with professors on projects supported by the federal government via various grants programs (NIS, DOD, etc). Most of them wanted to stay in the US after graduation.

Few of them were allowed to.

Doesn't that seem like a massive waste of our educational system? Why are we spending so much time and energy educating people and then refusing to allow them to stay in the US?
I think essentially the Austrian explanation of money is a good one.

Simplified version...
Ask yourself this question: Why is money valuable. Answer: because I can buy stuff with it. Why can I buy stuff with money? Because it's valuable doh.
This is circular of course, von Mises solved this by turning it into an infinite regress i.e. money is valuable because it was valuable before and moving the chain of reasoning backwards and arriving at the fact that money must have been valuable as a commodity before it became a money. There are certain characteristics that make one commodity more likely than another to become a money and to make a long story short that's why Austrians tend to favour the gold standard (because gold used to be a commodity then turned into a money).
This would suggest bitcoins (and dollars, Euros and so forth) are bubbles. In the case of bitcoins one could even argue that if you could redeem them for the computational input you used when mining there is some commodity behind it.

With that and the disclaimer that Austrians are fringe at best and laughed at by many mainstream economists out of the way let's get to my opinion on bitcoins and fiat money.

I think that fiat money which is just backed by the word of the government that it's solid somehow works. Why and how I cannot explain nor do I seek to. But essentially I think that's why bitcoins could very well work, too.
The backing is not by any government but rather by "internet consensus of sorts". In the information age that could essentially become a more powerful word of mouth backing (if enough people believe it it'll be stable) than the backing of any government.

I don't think this is the final iteration of this sort of currency but if we must have a fiat currency by all means please let it be one that allows for the privacy bitcoin has inherently built in. Ultimately though the currency that you have to pay your taxes in is the one that has the edge.

At the very least it shows that people are interested in a currency that is easy to use electronically, anonymous etc.
It doesn't make much sense to just compare the two countries by raw population numbers. Denmark has a population density of 130/km2 (or 336.7/sq mi), which is obviously vastly less than NYC, but almost 4 times that of the US. If Denmark was a country with enormous amounts of windmills and small pockets of actual humans, this wouldn't be much of a feat. But for a relatively densely populated country, it seems worth noting.

Though if you actually need land proportionate in size, and with the geography of Denmark - so flat that the highest point is no more than 171m - to service 300 million people, you might be out of luck (I don't know how much of a role this plays).
When the text of a post is greyed out, has it then received a bunch of downvotes?

// From a HN newbie who's already wondered this
As freyrs points out, GHC "desugars" all Haskell code into a very small intermediate language that is similar to the System F lambda calculus. In the slide you linked you can kind of see that: you start with two doubles for 2 and 3 (created wit the `D#` function) and then you add them with the addition operator. Notice that this exposrs the implementation of typeclasses: the overloaded + operator is actually a function of three arguments and the first argument is the "vtable" that has the actual number operations.

I don't know why he is doing all of this though. The slides themselves don't give much context...
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As a side note, Lustre seems to work fine on SSDs.
At this point, I would actually think nothing would be better. It seems like any attempt to part plain text for structured information or urls would just add noise to search results. I can seen using it as text for terms but not much else.
Actually people USE JSON blob fields to increase scalability (as far as back as FriendFeed).

Sure, doing this hampers normalization and single server speed, but if the queries are parallelizable with shards et al, what would hamper scalability?
How is this better than using Vimeo (or YouTube, for that matter)?
There is an NPR podcast on this idea (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/21/172501563/three-wa...), and it kind of skeeved me out. It just sounds like indentured servitude to me.
Most likely the www servers are serving almost entirely static, cached content. Hell, they might not actually see any actual public traffic - they might just serve as CDN origins.
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Or perhaps the economists are far more familiar with BTC's precursors in spirit and practice than you are. Very few concepts are truly original. That you can't imagine them does not mean that the economists are wrong.

(Granted, they could be still, but arguing from a lack of imagination is far less convincing.)
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Brute force search with time in one dimension is equivalent to this "time travel", isn't it?
Interesting thing here: Google Glass could end up proving to be a really influential product, one that changes a lot of social patterns and app design.

This article seems to suggest that the core UX work could be replicated in a day, just by having normal engineers playing with clay and having a rough idea of what they want.

So, it seems to me, we must ask ourselves: how could you possibly justify patents for such a thing, given how simple it is to come up with?
How to Parse (nearly) Everything - Clojure
Created by a bored japanese man
He made me laugh repeatedly.
If I were in control of a sovereign entity, I might be motivated to create a cryptocurrency at this point. This could be a way to increase a small country's currency reserves. The US government and other major powers would be against this, however, for the same reason why they squashed bearer bonds.

Also, given how bad Bitcoin is in some ways, I could believe it wasn't created by crypto experts working for a government. There is no good theoretical basis for secure hashing algorithms.
I don't know enough about the system but is it also possible to mine for "lost" coins?

So someone started out mining and their wallet was corrupted or their hard-drive failed or what-have-you but at the time BTC were worth a few ¢. Is it possible to cryptographically reclaim those lost coins by claiming to have a hash or something and seeing if it verifies? Could one test, like a brute force check, in a separate environment so as not to leak that you're trying to reclaim a coin.

Or is this impossible within the restraints of the system.

[I can't see how it can be mathematically impossible, if a coin was verified and placed in a wallet then there's some "code" that says "I have the wallet with that coin"; perhaps though it's impossible at present to mine for that code successfully in a worthwhile way??]
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Yup. An easier route would be to get hired in Europe working for a company that has a branch in US and then do a transfer.

Yet another alternative is to start your own company in US and invest about half a million $ (officially, unofficially have seen it done for 100k).

Yet another alternative would be to get a job in academia that has H1B uncapped.
If you want it to work well you do have to be picky about hardware still, but there are absolutely entire systems that, out of the box, are well supported by linux now. My Toshiba z830 was nearly perfect out of the box for linux. Basically is most of the stuff in your computer is made by Intel you're probably golden.

This isn't really any different from OSX in that there is literally only one hardware platform on which that OS is supported out of the box.
The same systems are not used for the next election. Bitrot, differing requirements and a general distrust of technology all account for the political machine to rebuild each cycle.

This is obviously not ideal. I hope that OFA 4.0 will release a bunch of it as open source and it will help make the next cycle easier.
It's easy to envision that the creators are making lots of money off the bubble and that one wouldn't want to be linked to a ponzu scheme.
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Listening to them is problematic if they are too close to where you live. They're pretty loud, and it's a rhythmic low frequency drone sound. There are distance limits, but in places like Denmark where there is not a lot of room left to build them away from residences, there have been efforts to reduce these limits.

If I had to hear that pulsing all day, every day, during my sleep, for the rest of my life...I could see it being a problem.
FYI the video is worth a full watch. The author of the paper is painfully funny.
Negotiating 101 is to always try and do the whole thing at once rather than piecemeal. If you do the parts that everyone agrees to, there's nothing in common to build around for the hard stuff later.

Also in general, just doing the popular stuff leads to big problems later (that's how we ended up with low taxes and high spending, nobody wants to do either of the hard parts of balancing a budget).
Signs point to... yes.
I'd frequent the Kendall area when I lived in Boston 3.5 years ago. The thing that bugged me most about it was the lack of street-level places to sit down and work. There was one Starbucks and nothing else, besides semi-fast food restaurants which aren't good laptop environments.

Beautiful new high-rises were going up everywhere. There's a neat "secret" park on top of one of the buildings (Cambridge Center Roof Garden). Extremely easy to cycle around, and by far the best pedestrian-friendly traffic controls in the entire state.

However, unless you worked in one of the office buildings, or could enter MIT legally, there were few places for "outsiders" to wonder in, hang out, and hack. Is this still the case, or has it since become more welcoming to laptop nomads?
Given the context of the blog (free time), it's only natural to assume you were talking about that too, since you don't explicitly state otherwise.

I'm perfectly relaxed by the way. I swore for emphasis, not out of emotional engagement.
We used a lot of Akamai. For all user facing services.
Check out the BOINC combined stats, which includes SETI@Home and lots of other volunteer computing projects: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/project/detail/host

It says the network has about 9 million hosts, which at about 200 watts (ballpark, GPUs can consume a lot of power) would consume about 2 megawatts of electricity. Bitcoin consumes 892.54 MWh/day = 37 megawatts.
and possibly a fan of WarGames :)
So basically the first part of that argument is tryingto rebuttal an argument I never made (I had already said that passphrases -so long as they are that and not just 2 concatenated words) are secure). And you're last part of that is also agreeing with me.

Internet arguments are fucking dumb. Half the time it's just miscommunication lol
If the claim is "it sucks universally because of my anecdote," "it works fine in my anecdote" is actually a perfectly valid rebuttal.
What novel crypto is there in Bitcoin?
Ty hasn't gone out of business, and the sole owner of the company is worth 2.5 billion. I would say pretty good.
Scrip

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
It sounds to me like it's basically how deterministic a game is that determines whether this works. For a Tetris with a defined order that the pieces appear in, I bet this algorithm could do pretty well.
This (now closed) Stackoverflow question is a great resource:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1012573/getting-started-w...

Personally, I would agree with the guy that said that Learn You a Haskell and Real World Haskell are some of the best resources. LYAH is really good at explaining the language features while RWH is currently the best we have in terms of giving practical examples with real libraries and things like that.
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Yes, in Haskell the type [Integer] is not a monad. For a type to be an instance of the Monad type class, it must be of kind * -> * . As [Integer] is of kind * , it cannot possibly be an instance of Monad.
Abolish the indenture servitude H-1B program, have self applied green card program instead.
> First, a arithmetic error: it's $0.74 per CFL, not $1.74. So so the LED costs 17x as much as the CFL.

Sorry, what? The linked four pack of CFLs costs $6.97. You must have been doing some very interesting taxes this week if you think 6.97 / 4 = 0.74. (Apologies if you are not American.)

> Check the efficiency of [800 lumen] LEDs that cost no more than $5

They don't exist. Even cheap direct-from-China LED bulbs* are more expensive than that. $10-$15 per bulb is the typical cost and you'll be hard pressed to find 800 lumen (60 watt equivalents) for any less. I'll gladly check their efficiency if you can show me where to get that many lumens for that price.

* Actual lumens. Many Chinese reseller sites will outright lie and you need to check the manufacture's website. Eg, http://dx.com/p/193927 says 1008 lumens while http://www.sencart.net/e27-24smd-5060-led-pure-white-lights-... says 700 lumens.
I'm in MA, go to school as a Computer Engineer. I go to NYC every so often. Hit me up on Skype: knowledgegranted.
Hey,

You mentioned that you are somewhere in New York State.

Send me an email (address in profile) with your college.

I'm actually in a similar situation (i.e. passionate about programming but lacking in the social areas) and will most likely be going to an educational institution in the state of New York next year.

If you're attending the one that I plan on attending, we can help each other out.
Why is the 1.2 million number fixed in stone? I would be happy to have 10 million a year. 1.2 million is clearly below the market demand, and the market demand is what is driving the whole thing. It was really enlightening for me that illegal immigration dropped when the economy went down in the last few years. If we align immigration with the market everything would be better.

Obviously there is a number where our infrastructure would be completely swamped, but nothing grows the economy faster than a pile of immigrants. Especially when they are permanent immigrants. The current system encourages a lot people to come for a short period and then go home, which isn't really great for the country long term.
It's pretty simple to work around the price fluctuations. You keep your money in a USD denominated account in a bitcoin exchange (MtGox or whatever) and convert just what you want to spend whenever you need to pay for something in bitcoin. It's instantaneous and easy.
My best guess would be a bunch of friends in a crypto lab cooked it up. It's not that there were no leaks. There were reviews done in the cryptography mailing list and changes were made. Just that they happened publicly online. The first idea was proposed in 2008, while the client was first launched in 2009.
> I am going to do my best.

Great :)

> One of the disputes here is that the maintainers are of the opinion that config files are actually good, on the face of them. They point to examples of well-settled uses like .gitignore to claim that config files are The Git Way.

Yes but .gitignore only configures your git client, the gitsubmodules say something about the repository instead. If that was the git way, wouldn't branch names be in a .gitbranches as well?

> I don't want to get into a big meta-meta flamewar here, but there are many people who do reject the merits of refactoring

I might be an extremist on this topic, so it's good to just leave it be.

> This is why I suspect the solution here is to have two distinct APIs, that access the same underlying storage mechanism.

I agree, but I think Ram. is correct in asserting that both ways could be achieved by having a link object with some configuration in it. (it could just be the .gitmodules file moved to the .git directory for all the end users care)

> The compatability-break burden is extremely high.

I understand, and it should not be taken lightly. But no one was suggesting this feature would be added to the master and shipped in the next release of git. It could even be delayed until there is another compatibility breaking change. Ram. never pretended his current work would be the final way of doing it.

Thank you for elaborating your understanding of the discussion :)
"They're pretty loud, and it's a rhythmic low frequency drone sound."

I've seen some studies that indicated that the infra-sound levels from city traffic are significantly stronger than the noise coming from wind turbines conforming to established noise regulations. Do people have problems with the wind turbine noise? Some perhaps do, but why isn't the even stronger car noise a reason for a radical change in car noise hygienic limits within cities? It would be a hypocrisy to tackle one due to public pressure and ignore the other.

EDIT: Oh, and I also vaguely recall that the low-frequency sound caused by the wind interacting with buildings around you is also supposed to be stronger than the same frequency sound coming from distant wind turbines. (The stronger the wind, the stronger the noise from both sources, so it's always comparable.) It makes sense, if you think about it. The law of inverse squares and all that jazz.

"If I had to hear that pulsing all day, every day, during my sleep, for the rest of my life...I could see it being a problem."

I live next to a major city exit road. Before that, I lived in a house that had a freight railway station across the street. I've never noticed any problems.
Now that's fanboyism at its worst. I mean, equating A with something X when it is not clear, how even remotely similar those are, but where X conveniently failed some time ago.

But to reply in kind, how are greenbacks these days?