skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slow steaming is an improvement and it saves quite a bit of bunker. But while bunker is cheap, it's really noxious; the Cosco Busan spilled bunker when it hit the Delta tower of the Bay Bridge.

Boats are supposed to switch over to a cleaner fuel when they enter port. For example, Port of Oakland is upwind of residential housing in Oakland. So this is a public health issue. Even the terminal tractors (port trucks) idling are an issue. Hopefully they'll switch over to EVs:

https://orangeev.com/

Boats are designed for a critical hull speed. Emma Maersk cruises at 31 mi/h on the open ocean.

http://www.emma-maersk.com/specification/

That bulbous nose on container ships sets up a counter bow wave to lower drag but only at a certain cruising speed. However, shippers weren't paying a premium for that higher speed and although it's more efficient for that hull it was still costly.

So new boats are tuned to a more efficient lower speed (slow steaming) with less powerful engines and even older boats are getting hauled into dry dock and re-nosed for a lower speed. Overall shipping speeds are down and shipping costs are also down.

http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/americas/the-economics...

While the new Panama Canal extension could be a fiasco in its own right (100 years later and not nearly as well built; it leaks) new canals could improve things. The Thai Canal could make the Suez route more competitive than the Panama route for Asia to Europe.

Lastly, like airlines, it's really hard to make money in shipping. Witness the Hanjin bankruptcy:

http://gcaptain.com/south-korea-court-hanjin-to-declare-bank...

The City of Oakland owns the Port of Oakland and we don't make much money off of it either. $16M/yr for both the airport and the port, last time I checked.
as now different data that need the same treatment can be handled with the same methods.

That just doesn't happen enough in real life to design around.

In the rare instances when you do need to that, it's trivial to handle with interfaces and a wrapped method that calls a shared function.
Care to take a bet on that?

We just need to nail down some details: what jurisdiction(s) are we talking about? And what do you mean by licenced?: eg people without the licence won't be allowed to program computers?

What odds are you offering?

I am pretty confident, so I am happy to give you ten to one odds. Ie you pay me 1 dollar if no regulation&unionization happens, I pay you 10 if it does.
Unless something is outright technologically impossible, it's awfully hard to separate those things.
As for being variable, probably not outside of the margin-of-error. If the ship was full of goods, then it would be heavier, and would sit lower in the water adding more resistance to forward motion. So the weight would have an effect, but whether it's noticeable outside the errors introduced when measuring, I don't know.

It's up to the Chief Engineer if he/she wants to use an Excel spreadsheet to track fuel consumption (and most probably do). As for tracking it based on weight, maybe some chiefs do that, but I imagine it's not worth it for most.

I wasn't a chief, so I don't know what their responsibilities are in regards to fuel consumption. But I imagine they would have to give estimates of future fuel needs to the company based on the ship's schedule.
What you are saying is 'all you have to do is buy low and sell high' and you can make money on the market.

Do you understand the fallacy in that logic?
The conflict at the heart of the movie is between the rational vs the emotional. In so far as it makes an argument, it's a weak one; but the core it is in the discussion between the brothers about the race / rescue from the sea. It's rational to curtail ambitions; it's rational to give up if you see no hope of an endeavour succeeding. But Ethan Hawke's character didn't let his rational mental model limit what he could achieve; he tested himself by doing, and found that it was possible, and thus he was able to outswim his brother.

The swimming story is the inner story for the bigger outer story, but that's the heart of it. The bitter cripple who lends his blood points a very harsh light at rational disillusionment. Any system for genetic selection will impose a model of what ought and what ought not be; we should be wary of what it selects for, because it might not be what matters most.
NCWIT Adviser Calls on Tech CEOs to Meet with Ivanka Trump, Make K-12 CS Happen
Show HN: A reactive Database
23andMe saved my friend Lara's life. They discovered her BRCA mutation, which led to her getting an MRI rather than a normal mammogram (which she was too young for anyway and which missed the tumor). This caught her cancer in time.

Her blog about it:
https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-genealogy-sa...

Irony #1: Stupid and paternalistic laws meant she had to mail in her spit kit from another state, rather than Maryland, where she lives.

Irony #2: She got her diagnosis the day the FDA shut down 23andMe's ability to give people their medical test results.
Is one more acceptable than the other?

I heard of stories where two kids are playing on a reserve, they go to the same school, share the same culture, both know the same amount of words from their ancestral language etc...

But when they turn 18 the one which is 40% native will have to leave the reserve, will suffer from racism inherent to "being native", and will have no special advantage while the other who is 60% native will be considered native and able to stay on the reserve.
I am going through the same right now.

2 years ago I was running my startup Tennis Buddy, and everything was fine when I got pins and needles pain one morning all over my body and blurred vision.

I have had this a lot of times before in my life (around 20 times), and it always went away with rest within 1 week with no problems. However, this time I was in the middle of finishing a contract and didn't take rest. A couple of days later, I reduced work lod to become better, however it seems like it was too late, since the pins and needles pain just didn't go away anymore.

After a month of still not getting much better, I went to see doctors, however they could not find anything. There was the assumption that it was psychological, however, I just don't have any symptoms of depression.

During that time, I noticed that only very little exercise (running for 1 min) increases the pins and needle pain for several days or even weeks. Then for the next year, I tried to not exert myself at all and stopped all work to get better. This did reduce the symptoms, however, just small exertion triggers the symptoms again. After this happening a couple of times, I also got strong muscle twitches (several thousand per minute sometimes) all
over my body.

There was also the assumption that I had CFS, however, it does not fit, since I just have no fatigue at all, I only have constant nerve pain/pins and needles, blurred vision and muscle twitches.

I also moved back to my parents and had to leave my friends, so it's getting really difficult for me to stay positive. Please let me know any advice that you might have.
They should also be able to regulate ships that enter their territorial waters. "Oh, you burn bunker oil and don't scrub the exhaust? Can't dock here..."
From my experience it's not 2-3 times more, depending on your specific conditions and possibly region. For me, a male over 35 in not very great shape, it's maybe a 20-30% difference IIRC.
This brand of insight porn backed by an opening anecdote really rubs me the wrong way. It reminds me of The Secret.

Hmm, maybe there's money to be made in writing my own insight porn. I should design my life with a blog such that I become the next Tony Robbins. So much luck to be had.
Sorry, you're correct. I didn't mean alpha. I meant benchmark.
It's stated that his heart condition is likely to kill him before the mission is over.

This is like, "Perhaps that happened in Thelma & Louise 2, because the movie ends with them alive and in midair."
Fantastic piece. This makes me wonder if we today are technically the "backup". The (potential) last non-CRISPR gene-driven generation that someone in the future may have to revert to.
There's also several 3rd-party tools, like promethease, that can take the raw data from 23andme and produce much of the old detailed analysis: http://www.23andyou.com/3rdparty
> I don't use them. My friends do, and they don't lose them when they're in their ear. Also, guess what? I don't risk losing my headphones just because I fall asleep on long trips. It's not my fault, it's Apple's product being poor at fitting an extremely common usecase.

What exactly are you trying to say here?

Again, I have been using them for 2 months in a variety of situations and have never come close to losing them.

Furthermore, if you don't use them, how do you claim sub-par audio quality?

----

> Go to an audio store and ask them for monitoring headphones. You can't explain audio quality to someone that has never experienced it, these things are a night/day difference.

Will those headphones

• Be completely wireless?

• Work with all my devices without repairing?

• Have microphones on each side?

• Be trackable?

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> I would use shorter, interchangeable wires

is not an answer to "How you would design something without any wires."

Your product is not for me. I will not buy it, neither will anyone who does not want ANY wires in their earbuds.
You can apply principles like functional decomposition and modular design without necessarily having an object/class system. Instead of storing some state implicitly within objects and having some sort of this/self available when calling a method on an object, you create data-only variables to hold the state and then pass extra data into and out of your functions as needed instead of calling methods “on” some object.

Traditional procedural, structured programming works this way. You see it at a small scale in countless scripts written in languages like Perl or Python, and at a larger scale in big C programs.

Functional programming also works this way, but typically is even more explicit about it.

The key point is that usually you still want to separate the responsibilities of your program in a modular way, with clean interfaces and hidden implementations. You just use other tools to do it, typically by defining your data structures and algorithms directly, instead of bundling them together in a class or your language’s equivalent.

At first glance that might seem restrictive or less powerful, but in fact it’s the opposite, because it removes OO’s inherent bias towards algorithms where one object is special. I commented about this last point once before, if you’re interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690746

If it helps, you might consider that when you call a method on an object in a typical class-based language, what’s really happening under the hood is that (a) you’re passing an implicit pointer/reference to the object as an extra parameter to the function you call, and (b) which function you call may itself be determined by a look-up process based on the type of the object. If your language didn’t support those functions as built-in features, you could just as well pass any required data from the “object” in and back out again explicitly through function parameters and return values, just as you do for any other data you’re processing or generating in that function, and you could use some sort of look-up table to decide which function to call based on some form of tagging each object with its “type”. Indeed, plenty of people were doing this in C, before what we now call C++ came along and made it more convenient by building the pattern into the language.
Downvoted twice already –– I'm just asking for some simple links to the literature.
Creating a dynamic form in Angular
Yeah, the Freiberufler status is crazy.

I don't mind having grown up in Germany---but I don't miss never having worked there.
I'd like to hear more specifics. It's hard for me to fathom a market where using a shady outfit like PayPal would be "mandatory" - unless the market itself is shady.
Maybe it's time to re-examine using nuclear reactors on cargo ships?

https://www.flexport.com/blog/nuclear-powered-cargo-ships/
Is the install size something to worry about?
Tha program that hits a malloc failure will not necessarily be the program that ate up all the RAM.
I read it the point of the sentence was was to illustrate why the banks are unwilling to lend even more for the green tech retrofitting, since the shipping business is troubled and already heavily indebted. The stricter regulations will anyway come in place by 2020-2021.

Banks trying to keep risks minimal actually sounds great to me. If you increase the equity, they can take bigger risks, but then again estimating risk is always by definition guesswork and can backfire in disastrous ways (think 2000s subprime crisis).
Paypal is a licensed money transmitter, and they are required to follow those rules. They can't just keep your money.

The money can be frozen for up to 180 days.. which is exactly the same as every merchant account I've ever seen.

If PayPal decides the money isn't yours, it goes back to who sent it. It doesn't become Paypals property.
I skipped over it but I did go back to a GP. Got more prescriptions for hydrocortisone+dovonex, and that if it should get significantly worse, to line up a referral to a derm. After that, I had a relatively stable 5 years where my fingernails cycled and my knees and scalp just persisted at the same level. I hesitated going any more since he didn't seem to care all that much and again, I could live with it. It was workable.
Hey, if you bought MSFT yesterday at 2:09 pm and sold it at exactly 2:29 PM you could have made a 2% return in just 20 minutes! So amazing. Now just do that every day and you could make 1000% in a year! ... is the logic you keep using.
> Also, reading between the lines: he has not voluntary shut the business down. Who would do that?

?? People quit their businesses all the time.
In some places it's much more confusing than that, and highly political[1].

1: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/491/...
Important is a relative thing though. The headline is more important... for attracting readers and getting ad dollars. Which is sadly the priority.
I think "Data Scientist" is alright, you just have to keep in mind how fragile and rackety lots of actual scientific code is.
> Ocean-going vessels produce just 3% of its greenhouse-gas emissions. But the industry is dirtier than that makes it sound. By burning heavy fuel oil, just 15 of the biggest ships emit more oxides of nitrogen and sulphur—gases much worse for global warming than carbon dioxide—than all the world’s cars put together.

It starts out with the pretty clear statement, that in terms of green house emissions they are small, but that doesn't make them not a problem. Isn't that a fair thing to point out? Shipping should absolutely do more towards stopping pollution.

Maersk is an example of a company that at least keeps this in mind - http://www.maerskline.com/en-bs/expert-blogs/guest-blogger/b...
You either missed or evaded my point, simply to re-state your own. (Also: nice shadow-edit.)
The effects of prohibition are not always easy to predict, or even know in hindsight. Many of the things people think they know about prohibition are incorrect.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...
Sounds like you've tried the topical approach. Doctors can also prescribe systemic immunosuppressant solutions as well, though. Often orally. You may be ready for that step. Even then, there's another step past that with drugs that can only be injected, like biologics (often something like an antibody that shuts down the human inflammation system). There are big trade offs in expense, delayed action, side effects, etc. in all these, so don't feel bad about starting out with topical. It was worth a try, as they say.
> I'm being treated like a fraud and a criminal
> Now whenever I call they are extremely rude telling me the account is closed they're holding the money and there's absolutely nothing I can do.
> They have been rude, lying, inconsistent, unfair and have made 0 effort to resolve this amicably.

Sorry to hear your story. This seems to be a pattern with Payment gateways. I had similar with experience Gumroad. Their Customer service is rude - i left a note here few months ago for their future customers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139000
You are incorrect. Bitcoin does not "have to" consume more energy to process more transactions. Energy and tx rate are uncorrelated. And the energy cost per transaction is falling. Again, see section 5 of http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-mining-is-not-wasteful/
If you are relying on LinkedIn to get opportunities, you are going to miss out on a lot of them. (LinkedIn is a joke. And nobody gives a damn about what people call themselves.)
"Putting Philosophy to Work" with Susan Haack
I agree with that. It's unfortunate that the movie attempts to illustrate this emotional drive to achieve with something that puts others in danger. If the protagonist had only been risking himself, it would have gotten the message across far better.

It's particularly unfortunate because it would have been so easy to fix. The risk to others is unnecessary to anything the movie is saying. That it wasn't fixed says to me that either the writers couldn't be bothered to think things through, or they believe that personal ambition is worth any price, even the lives of people who don't consent. Neither alternative is very attractive.
The section on the chess game is not particularly persuasive. According to Stockfish, black already has winning position. So Frank (playing white) can no longer make mistakes. All moves at his disposal lead to the same outcome.

"Queen to Bishop three" is not a legal move, so Frank could have autocorrected it.
Most of the really unskilled users struggle with the complexity of the average webpage. Ads that imitate contents, videos, pull-down menus... they get lost in it.
Are Scala and ClojureScript toys, abandoned or not mature enough?
Goldbach Conjecture counterexample tester in Nock
And bill then for a day of your time at say 2x your normal day rate
http://www.apartmentcities.com/Los-Angeles-Apartments/Los-An...

Here's a 15 page list of apartments under $500 in LA.
Electrical and mechanical engineers are in high demand too, and afaik they don't complain too much about their strong unions. And I know SAP is a decent company.

Anyway the comparison with the situation in the US is a bit pointless. More than unions, they need basic workers' rights.
Have you heard of the lightning process?

http://lightningprocess.com

I had CFS/ME and was referred by a friend to a LP practitioner, after following the process and making some life adjustments I made a full recovery.
Following Julian Simon, I'd use "how much X can you buy with an hour's worth of work", where X can be food, a basket of goods [1], precious metals or whatever seems more appropriate. I think the official basket of goods can be taken as a good first approximation.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/basket_of_goods.asp
Nope, this is clearly wrong. Cost of labor and standard of living alone can't account for the cost difference. Average net-adjusted household disposable income is (per OECD) only 3x higher in the US than Mexico. GDPPC is 5x higher. Medical care in the US is drastically more expensive than these numbers would suggest. Claiming "it's because Mexico is poor" is a lazy argument that falls apart very quickly.

> doctors will want to be paid US wages, not Mexican or Indian wages. And then you'll find the cost of their services much less affordable.

Doctors already get paid US wages. Not really sure what you were thinking when you wrote that.

You're also wrong on two counts here; one, the primary cost sinks in the US that they don't have in Mexico are increased regulatory costs (meaning huge administrative staff), red tape (mostly around excessive malpractice and CYA requirements) leading to incredibly overpriced line items (e.g. $1500 to hook you up to an oxygen tank), and a weird incentive scheme where it makes economic sense for doctors to waste money on pointless CYA tasks like uneccesary medical scans and specialist consultations. Two, fully private doctors in the US are actually vastly cheaper if you pay in cash. I have shitty major medical insurance, so I just pay in cash for routine medicine (checkups, prescriptions, etc.). It ends up being a fraction of the cost of what I would pay with insurance at a public hospital. There are a lot of reasons it's so much cheaper, but the biggest is that getting money out of insurance companies is itself a huge money sink for doctors. Insurance companies can't afford to be good or easy anymore.
These same obfuscations exist in many, many other languages.
Feedly is awesome. Give it a shot.
Behind the Quiet State-By-State Fight Over Electric Vehicles
I wouldn't move large volumes through Paypal. PP is useful for small donations and shuttling small amounts around, but not for the amounts being discussed here, because the larger the amount, the more it hurts you when things go awry.
Trivial to defraud.
My doctor in NYC was the first to bring to my attention the emerging link between autoimmune disease and microorganisms. After 20 years of managing with medicine and hitting rock bottom 2 years ago, he encouraged me to consider drastically altering my diet.

I started eating autoimmune-paleo (like the author) and anti-fungal. The improvement has been dramatic and life changing. I'm now off all medication. I still have a bad day every now and then, and I may need to revisit the meds at some point down the road. But I'll tell ya, after years of feeling hopeless, it's amazing to take control and regain some sense of normalcy.

If you haven't examined your diet, I would strongly encourage you to do so.

Please feel free to reach out to me using the email address in my profile. That goes for anyone here.
I agree, JS is quite an elegant language, especially since ES6.

I'm kind of disappointed with the introduction of the 'class' keyword though (and the way it was implemented). The old prototype function declaration approach is really good once you understand it.
A pickpocket's tale
And the other way round. Version control is terrifically useful eg for architectural drawing, lawyers drafts, contracts etc---but the non-computer professions are only slowly taking it up.
Golang library for convert io.Reader to line-by-line Reader
I live in the terminal (and the browser), I use the command line, vim in the terminal. I don't like vimperator, but I do use the VimFX addon for simple jk control of scrolling. And I use the awesomewm tiling window manager.

Some people, when hearing or seeing that, assume that I don't like to use a mouse.

I love my mouse, and it's sitting right there on the couch cushion next to me. Some things, like cut/paste between tmux windows, or between terminal and browser, are just easier with a mouse.

I do try to minimize how much I have to use a mouse, but I use whatever my hand is closest to. Sometimes I scroll the browser with the keyboard, sometimes with the mouse.

I attach zero pride to my use or non-use of the mouse.
If I made a blend of gravel and gold, and sold it by the barrel at cost price, once you pick out the gold the price of the remaining gravel per barrel will be a lot less than the price of the blend per barrel.
I'm not sure this is true. I had a one article blog where ads were approved. Though it had 800+ comments and ranked better than the thing it talked about (card options in an underbanked country where banks suck at making their products known). I'm almost certain very few of the people who got a card didn't visit the site(and it's the very reason I wrote it: it was hard to find any pertinent info in one place when I wanted to get a card that I felt the effort should never be repeated by anyone).