With a downloaded and installed version of Visual Studio Code 1.2.1, and a 64bit version of node.exe msi placed in my working directory (I am assuming that is correct), how
I did which node on my terminal: /usr/local/bin/node
which node
/usr/local/bin/node
and then i added "runtimeExecutable": "/usr/local/bin/node" in my json file.
"runtimeExecutable": "/usr/local/bin/node"