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If you're going to add any value to these numbers, don't leave out the estimated damages. In USD that number apparantly is 0.05.

I understand that they don't want to risk a very high electricity bill, but if the damages are about a nickel, then keeping the man in jail for 15 hours is extremely and inexcusably excessive, in my opinion. I understand that they want to send a signal not to randomly plug your electric vehicle in sockets, I sympathize with that, too, but not the resulting action taken by the police. Not over a nickel.
If I read various parts of their website correctly it sounds like they aren't in the turbine business(yet), but building this funnel thing around many existing turbines.
No. Not on the libuv project.

At the time of the controversy, the core developers of libuv were Ben Noordhuis (bnoordhuis), and Bert Belder (piscisaureus), both working for StrongLoop. Nothing is meant to be committed to the libuv tree without one of them signing off on it. To quote Ben's commit message: "@isaacs may have his commit bit but that does not mean he is at liberty to land patches at will. All patches have to be signed off by either me or Bert. Isaac, consider yourself chided."

But the very first comment on Ben's revert is from Bart: "I signed off on it. Just leave it as-is, no need to revert."

In short: Isaac did accept the pull request. He did not have the authority. Someone with authority (Bert) did accept it, however it was reverted (by Ben) under the mistaken belief that no one with authority had accepted it. A simple communication breakdown; why Bert didn't commit it himself (or why Isaac didn't note that he was committing it with Bert's authorisation) I'll never know.
> They were Microsoft functions long (6 years?) before they were standardized.

And most of what's in ANSI C (the first C standard, before ISO stepped in, from 1989) was in C compilers before ANSI C existed. I think void and void* were the only things ANSI C really added to the language.

My point is, the C standards body likes to standardize common usage, and 'what a Microsoft compiler does' is pretty close to being common in some parts of the world.
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The 5% of users with 'excellent' strength passwords must be kicking themselves. They could have chosen 12345 and been just as secure!
Two-factor authentication using USSD. I've integrated a system like that with OpenLDAP. When you attempt to authenticate, a code gets displayed on your cellphone screen. You could also prompt the user to enter a code, etc. From what I gather it is cheaper to use than SMS, and there's no trace on the phone after the modal dialog is dismissed. Also - works with every handset.
The fact that it does not understand the language.
I find it really short sighted to say the IDE should never destroy code. Yes in an ideal world. However we have VCS to ensure our code is never lost. Before and after any refactoring you should be checking in.

If the IDE got it wrong I'd revert and submit a bug report, no biggie.

I want my IDE to be stable, fast and do as much for me as possible.
I don't see anything wrong with pointing out that a famous person's work is below par, particularly when said person decides to show up in the thread and ignore what you are saying and act like a jerk in response. You shouldn't retreat so easily.
Do VW and Audi cars have the name of being unreliable in the US? Can't imagine that really..
Why would the military be needed to back the US dollar? What's backing the Hong Kong dollar, the Canadian dollar, or the Brazilian real?
I suspect the walls in between the "separate entrances" force the wind moving semi-perpendicular to those walls into the entrance as well. Removing them would lose wind.
Yup. http://business.time.com/2012/02/09/why-cant-you-discharge-s...
Sounds like the governments approach to dealing with this.
It might be best overall, but specific features can be inferior to other languages. C#'s dynamic keyword for instance.
Well the "pod" could be set up with multiple levels so that every subsequent level receives a mixed flux of natural wind and the ejecta of the previous level, no?
Lol and you are the first to be notified..
C++ is also maybe an order of magnitude harder to parse.
This is doable, and it's done in the natural gas turbine world (look up combined cycle turbine, essentially you hook up a lower-power steam turbine to the exhaust of a natural gas turbine).

The main problem is that turbines are expensive and lossy, and when the main turbine is already going off of a relatively small amount of wind energy, the amount of energy you could produce from its' output is probably very small.
The original headline doesn't tell you anything about what the post is about; when I've submitted posts under similar headlines they've sunk without trace.
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Couldn't you space them out a little and rather than backing up it would expand and flow like regular wind? (serious, just curious)
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Without the compartments/channels/separate entrances, wind blowing in from one direction would mostly just go around the central pillar, rather than down into the funnel.
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This looks much more difficult to clean, think of all the bugs, birds and sediment that will stick to the INSIDE of that funnel structure. Cleaning the blades of an ordinary wind generator seems much simpler.

On the other hand, if this is as tall as they will get, it seems a lot safer to work on than the current behemoths.
There's also the factor that pushing the turbine blades takes energy. Otherwise, you could just take any turbine based generator system, and put hundreds of turbines in a row!
Their armies and alliances. Would be interesting if altcoin networks engaged in attacks on each other, haha.
The natural equilibrium is where it costs a little less than $1 to make $1 worth of bitcoin. The system isn't quite at equilibrium now because of price uncertainty and the lag time to order new mining equipment, but the invisible hand is working on it.
They would have to use dampers. Otherwise the wind will enter one side, flow down the tube, then right back up the other side since there is less resistance that way compared to pushing a turbine.

You could use passive dampers - just a flap basically.
Ben wasn't "fired" — he voluntarily resigned from the Node and libuv projects because he was so put off by the treatment he was receiving.
Only 34% bad or terrible?

It would appear that the average person in the Netherlands do better at password security than the people I experience (no, you can't just use your own middle name, even if you replace the i with a 1).
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Maybe by "the same turbine" they mean the generator at the center, having swapped out the short blades shown on their site for a traditional set.
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As someone in healthcare transitioning into healthcare tech/startups - this is amazing! I prefer the Hacker News layout, less images, smaller text, more substance but this is amazing none the less. Thanks!
"Actors, a core feature in Erlang, are just another library in Scala." - or any other language out there.
I won't argue with you that the best way to get articles to not disappear is to give them a flamebait title, for sure.
"...do you remember Steve Jobs was suggesting all apps for iPhone should be web apps? He was way ahead of his time."

As in...wrong?
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Bitcoin mining could use any amount of electricity given that the block difficulty adjusts to the prevailing hashrate.

If more people pile in to mining then the difficulty increases and total $$$ spent on electricity will increase. Conversely if mining hashrate declines then difficulty is decreased to compensate.

I'm not sure how the difficulty adjustment would cope with a severe and abrupt change in mining hashrate (take it to the extreme and imagine the hashrate drops to 1/1000th of what it is now, there are going to be a lot of unconfirmed transactions out there).
> Much more visually pleasing than a traditional wind turbine.

But also much larger. It's an inescapable fact that wind energy is proportional to the area captured. So these would have to be as tall and wide as turbine blades.

Except it would be a massive structure, not just a small thin blade on a pole.

And don't think they could get away with flimsy walls either - the pressure of the wind on this thing is the same as the pressure on a regular turbine.

I suspect this last point will sink this project except perhaps in zones with very light wind that can benefit from it's ability to generate with low wind speed (and low pressure, so a weaker structure).
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When you say space them out do you mean open to the air?

If so then the wind will just escape into the easy air rather than push a turbine.

If in a pipe then spacing makes not difference.
> No we do not control the rules.

Quote yourself: "Changing the rules so that people would be more responsible for their own mistakes can be done." ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845656 )
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Slashdot had/has a qualifier attached to up and downvotes.
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I can't really imagine anyone regretting a middle-end CPU purchase these days, no matter which one they'd pick.

Just to comment on your specific purchase, it would seem that your 8320 would be relatively closely matching the corresponding Intel CPU (3470) in performance, as you note AMD having slight lead on multi-threaded benchmarks and Intel on single-threaded ones. But the major difference between the two is that the Intel CPU does this while consuming 50ish watts less power (77W vs 125W TDP). Of course that doesn't matter for all people and TDPs are not really comparable directly, but still it is something to note.
Which would indeed explain the sheer violence of the blog post.
Doesn't look like it, neither in the photo nor the comparison table. Besides, I doubt that it's even built to allow that.
Waiting for the 'why scala is a bad language' response
I doubt that the aesthetics are the prime design consideration. This is to generate electricity, not to stick in a gallery. Power generation isn't generally pretty, but it keeps people alive in the winter.
Do you know a good actor library for another language? I'd be very interested to hear of one for Python, because I still have to use it sometimes.
Not exactly a fork but they do have their own distribution: http://strongloop.com/strongloop-suite/strongnode/
Because humans are not logical inference engines; language is flexible, nuanced and complex. A blog post is not a industry research paper.
Also charities. Apart of general dodginess, it's unfair that some people can decide what to spend tax money on.
Is more or less electricity being used now that the serious mining is done by ASICs / fpgas and not GPU clusters?
Well, I admit to not being 100% clear on the CLA. I was going of comments in one of the other threads from someone who seemed to know what they're talking about, but didn't show proof.

Still though, I would make the reverse point: I think the initial rejection was a bit dodgy, but the reversion was clearly justified.

Really, the reversion had nothing to do with the CLA; rather it was made by Isaac, who did NOT have authority to make that commit, and as far as Ben knew, it was unauthorized. Reverting it was justified. (In fact it was authorized by Bert, but Ben didn't know that. Yeah, Ben could have checked with Bert first, but I doubt I'd have done that in his shoes. If I was making a commit to a project I didn't have authority to, I'd probably make a public note who had told me it was okay. Isaac didn't.)

...still, either way, I agree with your conclusion.
The person that cleaned the table, the person that brought you your food, the person that fetched you a new fork because you stopped one, the person that pointed the way to the restroom, the person who asked if everything was to your liking.
Still more worthy than freemium games.
The order taking part has always been error prone, I would have thought that a fast food chain like McDonalds would have been first for this, their queue-order-collect system seemed more streamlined and ready for a pre-order by mobile system.
Computers are controlled by programs written by humans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQpUgHkBcg

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1431911/airbus-cras...

The list goes on...
I remember liking the AI - all these different objects, complex, emergent behaviours, expressed usually in less than 40 lines of code. Clean, effective, with great bang to buck ratio.

If modding was high on their list of priorities, I'm pretty sure they would get it right.
And what about XCode? Yes! That's right! It can't refactor C++!
It can only refactor Obj-C and C. Quality!

(I understand that C++ is not the focus of the Mac ecosystem but it was a shock when I attempted to refactor some C++ and it told me that it doesn't refactor C++. I was mildly sad.)
No, there is everything about HN rather than the horrible UI. If you start new HN, go ahead and fix at least that. Make it a responsive site (among other things). I am sure the financial sector would appreciate that more than the 90s feel of this website.
It looked good enough to Google to me. Sheerwind hoax is my 4th suggested search.
Do you realize the gravity of losing someone like Ben on a project like Node? I know you'd never get around to improving/contributing to Node but how does what you said get us closing to anything?
Celluloid is great for Ruby, I'm not sure what Python has.
A single waiter for a hundred seats ?? Thats an order of magnitude mismatch; a 100 seat venue needs a bunch of waiters, and every "waiter needed" means multiple waiters working in shifts because most waiters don't work 12 hours per day 7 days per week.
It does speak volumes, and personally I will be staying the hell away from Joyent in the future. Their management seem to be more willing to make political points than technical assets.
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Yes, at first I thought that the x6 improvement was over real scale turbine or at least a turbine of comparable bulkiness.
In France more and more people put wind turbines on their roofs, even if the kwh production is far less than promised by manufacturers (gaps between forecast production and real production of +6000 %, yes that's 60 x are common). The authorities are even giving subsidies for the installation of those inefficient turbines. This might prove better for small scale installations.
This isn't about political correctness. It's about a practical consideration of the impact of language usage supported both by anecdotes from community members and academic studies. The defining quality of the "color of the bikeshed" discussion is that it makes no practical difference — but there is a difference here. When you say "bikeshedding," what you really seem to mean is "something I don't feel the impact of."

You should consider that just because something isn't important to you doesn't mean it isn't important to someone. A commit like that doesn't measurably hurt you or me, so even if it only helps someone else moderately and in a way we don't entirely understand, it is still net-good. This isn't political correctness; it's objective practicality.
If you listen to any hip-hop track made in the last 5 years you will find that is already the case with a good percentage of said tracks. I met a guy recently who's only job was to find brands to partner with this young but fairly well known hip-hop artist. He charges around $500,000 per mention. It should be possible to calculate rough revenues by going through lyrics on Rap Genius.
But many companies have good / excelent products and services and nobody now them.

If the companies grow you are absolutely right, but what did this companies do that they grow ?

That is the crucial question. I think there are many services like Dropbox before Dropbox exist, but nobody now them.
Have you tried MonoDevelop? Its still being actively enhanced by Xamarin.

http://monodevelop.com/
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There's always pulsar: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pulsar

I confess I haven't used it before though...why use pulsar when I can get away with using akka?
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Best language for what? This is highly subjective.
I think you're mildly right, and not attempting to be elitist as the other repliers said. I would agree that the minimum of skills would be required to write these apps, which I suppose is a good thing but then also a very bad thing because it may mean poor performance, rubbish design leading to bugs etc.

This was sort of noticeable when Google had to add some fairly basic pointers on the developer site about not doing daft things in loops on Android. They were useful pointers, but pushing everything to the web where every man and his dog can write apps that perform badly whilst wobbling precariously on top of a browser interpreter doesn't seem ideal to me.
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Explaining why something should be funded by society is worthless? Should we just choose them randomly? Yeah, I'm sure that'd be much more beneficial to society /s
The problem with this approach is that given a sufficient population of contributors, a random distribution is going to give you individuals that consistently out/under perform purely by chance. This can be seen in the professional asset management industry, where:

there is strong evidence that chasing managers with strong 3 and 5 year track records is actually harmful to your portfolio health [1]

[1] http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/guest/BP-130108-Track-...
Keep in mind that the equilibrium is where the total cost to make $1 of bitcoin is $1 -- not where the electricity cost is $1. The relative weight of electricity vs. amortized hardware cost will vary, of course.
Does anyone consider bitcoin to be a waste of thousands of people's time and effort?
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"This is the problem with dynamic syntax in, well, dynamic languages. As Philips puts it, ignorance is strength, and freedom is slavery..."

Hey man, that's like... your opinion

In my opinion types are a poor man's schema, my email is not a string, it's a email, and my longitude/latitude pair are not just ints they have specific ranges, saying that longitude is 500 is as wrong as saying it's "foo". I use schema libraries and asserts to both document the code and make sure you can't feed it wrong data. I even generate automatic html documentation out of my schema so my clients know what to send me, and this only in the places I need, no need to a schematize or assert every simple function with obvious parameters.

Maybe type annotation is more useful in OO languages, but as a clojure programmer, for me, data is just data, there's no behavior associated. If I really want type safety at compile time I can use core.typed only in the places I need it.

As a former long time java programmer (who tried scala for months) I welcome my new found freedom from type slavery, but that's just... my opinion.
I have problems a few random floating statements:
"decorators have well-defined semantics in Python"
Python lacks well-defined semantics for just about anything.
even simple expressions like 1.0 + 1/2 will evaluate to different things depending on which python version you're using.

"Even F# simply isn't powerful enough (never mind OCaml)"
evidence, please?
Then make it "Scala: Language design is hard". That gets the point across that it is about Scala, without suggesting the article makes some absurd claim.
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This policy of limiting security assessments/bug bounties to only certain things is really stupid.

Do you really think that any extremely motivated hacker would just stick to the arbitrary terms you set.

He will do whatever it takes to get in and by limiting security research you're making yourself vulnerable in other areas not defined in that assessment request.
> Since the iPhone, we've added some pixels to its screen and a fingerprint scanner to the button

Did you forget about the 40x speed increase? Sheesh. I bet you're not still using an iPhone 1.

And no, I don't believe everyone will be being chauffeured around in their self-driving cars by 2025, but it will be an option at some price point. In fact, I expect that by 2020, if not earlier.
That's from last year.
Interesting question.

For the same hashrate then less electricity is going to be used given that ASIC mining is far more efficient that GPU mining.

But the overall hashrate is still on an ever upward trend.

I guess it depends on how many people have quit CPU and GPU mining altogether, or whether there are still lots of forgotten machines still burning away contributing very little (in comparison).
The time an authorization on a credit card lasts varies by issuer; it may be as little as week on some cards. That said, many payments gateways allow you to later process a new authorization with the original transaction reference.
Look at the speed, dexterity & flow of the robotic boom arm in this demo reel, WOW. Thats pretty much impossible for a human camera op to throw a camera about like that.

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I am interested in learning Math, particularly for now Calculus, and combine it with programming execises, like the approach used in "The Haskell road to logic, maths and programming" book.
I believe it may add more fun and helps really learn Math, not just get feeling of understanding concepts.
I was also eager to try using Julia for exercises.

Has anyone tried similar approach?
Perhaps, but there were people on Challenger. Not that it would look any different on cameras...
Why is this better than just putting a big cone around a small conventional wind turbine?

That would also 'concentrate' the wind.
Clojure and Haskell represent untyped and typed FP better and are nicer to use in actual work.
"When the facts are with you, pound the facts. When the law is with you, pound the law. When neither are with you, pound the table and scream like hell."
Ok, the air would flow into the channel facing the wind, but wouldn't it also be sucked out by the side channels as the wind passes by? A movement of air creates a pressure drop proportional to the speed of wind so there would be a sucking force on both sides of the tower (Venturi effect) - did they address that?
Bitcoin may end up a big flop[1] in the end (who knows) but without trying it there's no way to know, so expending all of this time and effort isn't wasted.

Similar to scientific experimentation; the outcome, regardless of success or failure, is useful in itself.

1. For the majority, there are obviously some people for whom it has been a roaring (financial) success.
An unfortunate series of events, but the poor homeowners are glad it happened, because now they see their contractor for the careless, incompetent fool that he is.

They vow never again to put their families at risk by letting him near their house.

They find a better contractor.
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Plus, in deserts one can collect water at the same time.
Don't you think genocide or human trafficking trumps that?