skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's difficult to measure for outside entities.

For car fuel consumption, most countries can simply count the sales of gasoline and diesel, which are regulated and taxed so they know the total amount sold, and report reasonably accurate official statistics of total countrywide fuel consumption.

Ships move around jurisdictions, refuel whenever and wherever convenient, and it's hard to get the whole picture unless each ship reports to you what it consumed - and noone can unilaterally require that, as ships are under different jurisdictions; unless a requirement is included in one of the large international agreements, most ships can ignore it most of the time.
I use Feedly and greader on Android (using Feedly as a source).
I like this a lot. My uni just switched to Python from IDLE a few years ago. While its nicer than IDLE, the complexity of the IDE can be a bit much for novices. Heaven help you if you accidentally select the wrong python interpreter at project startup, for instance.

The other thing I'd like to see is more intelligent defaults for project location. On Windows, it defaults to the C drive, which is fine except for when students don't know where their documents folder is buried. Putting a git repo in a system folder breaks git because of permissions, but the UI will never tell you that.
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As someone who does a fair bit of work in networking fields, I think that's a pessimistic view. Most people don't see when the underlying infrastructure develops, in no small part because the standards and compatibility issues are so carefully considered, but that doesn't mean there aren't newer standards and protocols being developed all the time. We're now on something like the fifth mainstream WiFi standard, for example, and while someone buying a new laptop of getting a new box from their ISP might not know what all the 802.whatever markings mean, they still experience much faster speed and higher reliability compared to the earlier technology. An example from much further up the stack is that we're starting to see wider support for Web serving using HTTP/2, which is a big change from its predecessor.

Even with payment systems, we've seen multiple contactless payment technologies become established very rapidly in recent years, and developments like Chip-and-PIN cards a few years before that. Of course online payment processing is also a much more developed and competitive industry today than it was even five years ago, which again is partly because both the technical and the regulatory frameworks have opened up in recent years. SEPA in Europe is a good example here.
))<>(( truly is the miracle cure.
>Owners win because we live in capitalist society

NYC exists under the same capitalist system as SF or LA or wherever.

Nothing you have described (need to drive, no clean water, etc.) applies to NYC.

Therefore, your gripes aren't caused by the capitalist system you are blaming.
>AFAIK the latest on CFS is that it is autoimmune

No, that's not true at all. Lots of research going on now, but nothing found yet. There has actually been research for years showing autoimmune dysfunction in CFS, but there's no evidence it is causal.

Stress has been shown to trigger autoimmunity, and is known to cause the immune abnormalities seen in CFS. Basically stress causes a shift to Th1-like immunity, which makes it more likely the body will attack healthy cells, as well as impaired NK function.

>I don't think lifestyle and lower stress is necessarily sufficient for everyone to improve

Anecdotal, but I have completely recovered 100% (zero symptoms for 17 years). I've also talked to lots of other people who have recovered. If you're still experiencing CFS, I would say reducing stress (including quitting a stressful job if you're in one), and dealing with any emotional stressors, is the main thing to concentrate on. After that, increase pleasurable physical and mental activities. There's no current drugs or supplements that will help at all (other than perhaps reducing some symptoms).
What about LDN? I know I'm sounding like a broken record / shill here. I've not had the chance to try it as it's not available in my country. But it's available in the US as prescription as off label and compounding chemists can often refer you to a dr that will prescribe it. I'm even considering flying to the US to try it.
For at least 15 years in Norway I have read articles urging local ship companies to switch to greaner engines running on liquid gas or even electricity. The progress has been made as occasionally I board an electrical ferry without unpleasant smell coming from the pipes. But it is very slow.

And this is not surprising as ships are designed to run for 50 years or more and engine upgrades are very costly.
companies can make you sign all kinds of waivers when giving employment. shits fucked up
My friends who went to the March still have no idea what they were _not_ protesting. Saul Alinsky would be mortified to see how unfocused activism is today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13851124
> A better system imo would require active bidding on scarce resources. If you are not generating wealth with your resource, someone can take it from you by outbidding the amount of taxes you are paying for it.

But its easy to game this system by generating token wealth. For example, if you make it mandatory to keep your houses non-empty, then all you need to do is register a token business and rent your house to that business for a token amount. All you stand to lose is a few hundred dollars of registration fees etc.

In some cases, its hard to even know how to generate wealth from the assets (gold, rare paintings...). How will you force people to ensure that they generate wealth from gold, so that its price won't skyrocket during inflationary times?

Finally, wealth generation is relative. How can you measure wealth generated in non-monetary terms? Sure, you can "develop" your one acre plot by building more apartments there, but what about the wealth lost by losing a great scenic view of the bay? Why should everything be measured in terms of money?
Hmmmm... perhaps maybe some privacy might be called for then?
I'm a big believer in the gut-immune system connection. I've observed that with my own boy. However, there is no real good science there, yet. This is an area that could use some grants. While every philanthropist wants to cure cancer, it seems like there is a lot of good science out there in the need of investment.
This is next on my list if LDN doesn't work.
Yeah, I was thinking it might be related to NVIDIA'S CUDA too. oh well.
Government's sole purpose is to protect big banks and companies and fool the people it's for their own good.
I'm not the OP but I read the third item as being "female independence through hyper sexual objectification".
This whole idea that we need some sort of authority to act as the Ministry of Truth is misguided.

You seem to keep coming back to this point, but the quote I gave before literally advocates the opposite of creating such an authority.
48-72 hours is not long enough to regenerate your immune system.

Valter Longo has recommended at least 4-5 days to treat auto-immune disorders [1].

I've done 5 day fasts. For something serious I would try 7.

[1] http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2014/06/12/the-three-d...
“3 days is optimal for mice. For humans 4-5 minimum, depending on what you are trying to achieve”
Not GP, but there's a used paperback copy of the 1998 version for $0.25: https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Thomas-Stanley/... (or a used hardcover for $0.02 and a new one for $0.60)

It is also likely available for $1.50 in late charges at the public library...
Yes, but by definition it isn't CFS if that is the case, as CFS is a diagnosis of exclusion at present.

It's certainly possible that CFS is caused by some as-yet-unidentified organic illness. However the science doesn't seem to point in that direction (as the stress system seems to be centrally implicated), and it also doesn't fit with the experiences of patients like myself who have fully recovered.
The license seems to be MPL 2.0, the repository is under https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText. I did not see that explained on the website.
Why would it? Obviously there are plenty of fools, who continue to do business with PayPal.
I agree that white nationalism exists, especially with white-nationalists like Bannon in control of our government. They are truly a dangerous group that doesn't represent America's multi-cultural values.

We have to make sure that white-nationalism is purged from this country, and an open-borders society is probably the best way to fight-off white-nationalism.

We need to make sure a Sharia-law supporting Muslim is able to freely immigrate into this country and sit freely and peacefully alongside a Brazilian transgendered activist on our subways.

That is the multiculturalism that we Americans want.
React, redux, babel, these thing can be cool tools to use, but if you're feeling fatigued just don't use any of them, vanilla ES5 + CSS + HTML are complicated enough by themselves. But I think it's easier than going all out on coolscript (that's a good way to describe it akamaozu)
The issue is energy density, not motors. The ship burns 1,660 gal/hr = 6000 L/hr when at "economical speed". The energy density of fuel oil is about 10 kWhr/L. Googling tells me that a journey between China and California by ship takes 2-4 weeks. So for three weeks of economical speed, that is 30 MWhr of energy. That is the size of the largest battery installation in North America, the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project. The batteries will weigh about 25 times more than the diesel fuel would weight (assuming fuel oil at 13,000 Wh/kg and 500 Wh/kg for batteries).
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I very much agree with you. Spreading western values by taking in immigrants is not a bad idea. Even if it doesn't change everyone in the world, it still shows that it is possible for the values to include everyone.

It does assume integration though. If you take in immigrants, but isolate them and/or treat them badly, might it not be that you actually radicalize them further?

(Of course we shouldn't isolate them, but if that effectively ends up happening it has to be considered.)
That is a valid point, but the report also says this:

"Safety is our highest priority and Waymo test drivers are trained to take manual control in a multitude of situations, not only when safe operation "requires " that they do so. Our drivers err on the side of caution and take manual control if they have any doubt about the safety of continuing in autonomous mode (for example, due to the behavior of the SOC or any other vehicle, pedestrian, or cyclist nearby), or in situations where other concerns may warrant manual control, such as improving ride comfort or smoothing traffic flow."

This appears to throw doubt on the relevance of the statistics to driverless vehicles because drivers have been instructed to preemptively disengage where problems may be anticipated.
>That is kind of a contrived scenario.

As is the "boundless immigration open for all" scenario to begin with. But given that, what could happen? That's one possible answer.

>For starters, what is the motivation for these Muslims to migrate to America or western Europe if their goal is to create an Islamic state?*

Expanding islam to other places is part of the historical identity of islamism. Might not be on the goals of peaceful laymen, but it's very much a core tenet of more devout believers (not talking about militants either).

But an even more obvious answer, at the layman level, would be they'd migrate to take advantage of the wealth, infrastructure, opportunities etc. The making an islamic state can always come second. After you have those, why not change the laws and customs to your preference too? Especially if you are a large enough subset of the population?

>If your argument is that they want access to our economic prosperity, the act of converting our government would destroy the very system that created it.

That's how you see it. They don't necessarily see it that way, and I don't believe that it is that way in reality either. You can create prosperity under very many systems. I don't believe the US has some unique model for how a wealthy state must be run. We have from far more socialist economies that do quite well (e.g. nordic countries), to light totalitarian states that do great (Singapore), to "communist" single party states that are rising fast (China).

>If your argument is that they are dicks that only care about creating a tyranny of the majority to "punish" others

You call it "punishing" others and "being dicks".

As they see it, it's just putting others on the right track and being moral and just (according to their beliefs). Puritanical western societies have not done less (e.g. with the Inquisition and similar establishments).

>My experience with immigrants is that they generally want to be able to maintain some semblance of their culture in their new homes, but they generally aren't interested in foisting that culture on others.

That's because their small numbers make them humble and appreciative of where they have been received. When there was mass immigration (e.g. when the English and such religious nuts migrated to the US) they very much forced their religion and customs on others (native americans for one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schoo... ), but also WASPs as the dominant majority group over Jews, Irish, Italians, Chinese, etc.
You could, but currently they are hardly better off (the us) to offer much. Unlike others, their embargo was "too little, too late".
Under U.S. federal law, PayPal is not a bank [1]. This is important. From the government's perspective, you give PayPal money and then PayPal gives you money. Between those events, it's not your money. PayPal has enormous discretion around what they can do with those funds, how and under what circumstances they get to decide to give it to you and if they get to keep it forever.

What state do you live in? Do you do business through an entity, e.g. an LLC? If so, where is it registered?

PayPal is, varyingly, registered as some form of a money transmitter in many states [2]. While your federal protections are probably limited to antifraud, protections you're probably outside of (PayPal has good lawyers--you agreed to surrender lots of privileges when you opened an account), there may be state regulations you can use to, if not force action, encourage it.

Going forward, I tend to consider any business using PayPal for mission critical processes as being negligent with important risks. If you can't avoid using PayPal for certain lines of business, set up a nightly sweep from PayPal to a proper bank account.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/fdic-decides-paypals-no-bank/

[2] http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1153&cont...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. Only a lawyer can give you good legal advice. Don't take legal advice from Internet comments.
The history of probability-based lottery hacks is long and rich. Here's a Planet Money podcast episode about it: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/13/462982983/10-11...
It started when I was 25. I found the area above my ears, just at the hairline, was always itchy and flaky. Within a few months my scrotum turned red and itchy and flaky. Since there had never been anything wrong with me other than than a flu or two, I immediately went to the doctor. The diagnosis was "probably psoriasis" and I was prescribed hydrocortisone and Dovonex.

2 years later I grew giant, hard skin patches on my knees. My fingernails started detaching. I could live with it, although as a gym rat I needed to make sure my knees were wrapped since doing anything on my knees ripped the skin open.

My fingernails continued to go through phases of detachment and normalcy, and I've lived with the limited skin problems because they were limited. But just in the last year I've grown giant scaly patches up and down my back, and now there are spots growing, expanding across my forehead and nose. I can see how people look at me now, there's something clearly wrong with my face.

I'm terrified. I've always had general fatigue that seemed to match flareups in my skin. While the angriest, spreading psoriasis + fatigue comes in waves, each wave seems worse than the worst that came before. I'm scheduled to see a dermatologist in a few weeks (in Canada, I've had to wait 3 months just be able to have this appointment) but my deepest fear is that I'll be told this is my life now. Even though I know that's the answer, I know there's no cure for psoriasis.

I don't know why I'm typing this, except perhaps that I realize that both the author and I are on the same hunt, and not finding much of anything that can help us feel like we're more than 80% (or 60% or 40%) of the person we were as teenagers. But perhaps there is hope that I'm seeing more articles like this, autoimmune diseases are getting more attention.
I think it's usually the case that mutability and inheritance is overused leading to deep and/or unnatural abstractions and code that is hard to reason about. Working with a hierarchy many levels deep with overrides on every level means it's very hard to reason about the code as the call stacks ride an elevator up and down the class hierarchy.

Don't get me wrong - this is not an inherent drawback with OO, this is because it's applied incorrectly. Making bad abstractions or a class hierarchy 10 levels deep is bad, and it's possible that the same inexperienced developer would just make another mistake in another paradigm, leading to some other problem instead. My issue is perhaps more with the design of popular OO languages (Java, C#, C++) than with OO as a concept.

A very good OO language could be made by simply encouraging best practices and removing the biggest warts (no null, immutability by default, support for sum types, encourage pure functions, discourage deep class hierarchies...).

Experienced programmers can write maintainable code in any paradigm, but I think the paradigms should be judged by how well it helps average programmers write maintainable code.
I can imagine the new arguments. "Honey, why did you put the cheese in the cured meat bin?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnP5oid8fD8
Are 23andMe tests useless? Don't get me wrong, I am just curious about it.
This is actually what the article says, which may inform your diagnosis:

> A few days later, she called to say that I had antibodies to my thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck that regulates metabolism and energy. My thyroid was being attacked by my immune system—a disease known as autoimmune thyroiditis

> A common symptom of autoimmune diseases is debilitating fatigue.

> I found people who had the same supposedly disconnected symptoms I’d had over the years. One woman, like me, had had hives for months before an autoimmune disease was diagnosed; some had low cortisol or Vitamin D and Vitamin B12, or were anemic. Others experienced joint pain and the same maddening itching sensation that came and went.

> My joints hurt, my neck hurt; I had nosebleeds and large bruises up and down my legs. I spent hours every day unable to work, in the grip of severe itching in my arms and legs.

> "Your labs look normal, except for the thyroid hormones"

> A rheumatologist had found an antigen in my blood that is associated with a number of autoimmune diseases.
This is based on theory of 'wellness': the insurance company / employer should take a holistic approach to health. Which seems like an obviously good idea, but research has shown that in practice it doesn't save money or lives.

So they are doubling down on a disproven theory to invade people's privacy. Hat trick to the GOP House if they can pull this nonsense off.
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I personally believe one of the biggest reasons for the popularity of managed code is GC. Manual memory management is pretty hard to get right, even the C++ stl offers reference counted pointers as a form of automatic memory management
Your comment is incredibly insensitive and unkind. I sincerely hope that if I were to tell you what happened to our family face-to-face, you would not have responded in this way.

I was assuming that it would be a worthwhile anecdote to share, given that most people appear to find it unnecessary to get tested. If one person on the Internet reads my comment, decides to get tested, and finds they are a carrier of a severe genetic abnormality and avoids delivering a stillborn child, I frankly don't give a shit how "inappropriate" it is.
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We use PayPal for a few scattered customers who have problems paying with a card and the occasional eBay sale, so I don't pay much attention to it. Whenever I see a PayPal horror story, I transfer all funds out of there to my bank. It's not the most effective sweep method, but it works depressingly well. I wonder what PayPal's cash balance would be if it had a reputation as being a safe place to keep a balance?
Stripe doesn't support (most) parts of the world.
I'm very sorry for your loss.

> I can't for the life of me understand or comprehend how one would discriminate against someone based on what genes they have.

Did you really mean to say "how" or did you mean "why"? Because the "why" is that if you have investors (at least in the U.S.) then you have a fiduciary duty to them to maximize their return by all legal means at your disposal. You do not have a fiduciary duty to your employees. So if you can increase profits by discriminating against employees who are more likely to be sick then you have no choice but to either do it or break your fiduciary duty to your investors. You could actually be sued if you don't.

> What are you going to do? Block them from leading a project since they test positive for XYZ Type A? Or getting a promotion because they're carriers of ALS?

Yes. Exactly. And then hope they quit. Or, if you're in an at-will state, you could just fire them.

Please note that I am not endorsing this system. I think it sucks. But that's the way things currently are in the U.S.
That calculation is for a purely battery powered vessel. I think the person you replied to was suggesting much lower battery capacity, and running primarily while the sun shines, using non-stored electricity.

Still isn't enough, but it's a different calculation.
Some of the blogs from my RSS feed, mainly but not exclusively .NET:

Scott Hanselman

Martin Fowler

Coding horror

Fabulous adventures in coding (Eric Lippert)

Zed Shaw (still on my list even though he seems to have largely abandoned tech)

Ayende Rahien

Steve Yegge

Schneier on security

The Light Cone (Brian Beckman)

The Shade Tree developer (Jeremy Miller)
The interesting thing here is that there is no inherent right answer when it comes to balancing freedom of expression with a right to privacy. Both are desirable goals, yet it is inevitable that they will sometimes be in conflict, particularly with the capabilities that modern technologies offer for promoting or impairing either side.

Moreover, in the world today, even cultures with broadly similar values such as the US and much of Europe often take very different views on this particular issue, which makes finding a reasonable consensus for a system that spans these different places... challenging.
Here is the original podcast they reference at the beginning:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/
"...so of course I could not provide proof of delivery for transactions that don't exist."

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but isn't proof of delivery meant to be documentation from a shipping company? Why is the OP trying to get proof of delivery from Paypal?

Edit - I now understand the resolution center does have a problem where transactions are not listed, so the form cannot be submitted. Still, he could find the transactions himself and email paypal the required documents. I would do that before coming to HN about it!

Something doesn't sound right about this story. The whole mysterious phone call in the evening etc.