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This is cool - is there any data you can aggregate on waterways traffic / the ferry system?


I've found some waterways traffic data, but it seems to be previous day usage data, and not real-time usage or position. I'll dig to see if there is some info, as that would add some value to the dashboard for sure!


I would too. I believe the Sea Glider built by Regent Craft solves the take off in rough water component to some extent with hydrofoils. So you "taxi" on the hull in rough water up to a speed where you can get up on foil. Then with the reduced hull drag and clearance over (presumably low) rough water you can hit a higher speed when the wing creates lift, at which point the foils retract.

This seems like an optimal solution for takeoff, but I don't know how it lands in rough seas.


Can you elaborate on what I get with the free API?


You get access to our merchant extraction feature which means for a given transaction description, we clean out the aspects unrelated to the merchant (description_clean), attempt to map it to a canonical merchant and, where we can, return a URL, logo / icon, and unique identifier for that merchant. Latency is very low (c200 ms).

There is a rate limit of 1 call per minute. While we provide more enrichments in our paid tiers we hope that smaller Fintechs in the validation stage can leverage this endpoint in production to build merchant based logic and enhance their transaction feed.


Hydrant | Growth Marketer | Founding Team | ONSITE | https://www.drinkhydrant.com/

Hydrant is building a new brand in health, focusing on non-prescription products you'd find in a pharmacy. Our first product is a hydration mix, analogous to Pedialyte. We're based in New York and looking for that somewhat rare user of HN who is on the marketing side of a business. This is a super early stage role so there's a sliding scale of equity & salary and the fit/chemistry is key.

More info here: https://angel.co/hydrant-inc/jobs/400269-growth-marketing-fo...


I also haven't seen any here yet. I ride Citibike daily (Brooklyn and Manhattan) and would be wary of using the scooters because the roads are so badly maintained. It's already pretty bad even on a bike.


Someone in my coworking space is building a platform that does this in New York and Boston. It incentivizes departing tenants to be involved in the leasing process by cutting out the real estate agent and giving a portion of that fee back to the departing tenant. They've just launched: https://www.cribdilla.com/


Sounds like you had a great driving instructor. Although I never had an experience like that when learning to drive, we did have to complete something in the UK called a "hazard perception test"[1] in order to get a drivers license. Basically a video version of what your instructor did for you. Until reading your comment today, I'd never really put much thought into how useful this is and how ingrained in my everyday driving it is.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQRkmdhwJs


A thing I like to do to stay in practice is to browse /r/roadcam over on reddit. I open a video at random and watch it, and try to guess where the collision (or near-collision) is going to come from.


Disregarding the sweetness angle, what's interesting is that we perceive the saltier solutions as tastier when we are dehydrated. If you try drinking an ORS product when you're not dehydrated it will taste worse than when you are in that run down sweaty state on a hot day.


Potassium is also important, whatever mechanism you are losing Sodium (Sweat, urine, diarrhea, vomiting), there's a good chance you're losing Potassium too. Some ORS products also include Zinc because in the developing world it has been shown to reduce the duration and severity of acute and persistent diarrhea. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11101480


Perfect answer, relevant link for those that are interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC419333/


ORT is even recommended for cholera (to upgrade to IV on a case-by-case basis if necessary), that's about as bad as things can get dehydration wise.


One of the most amazing disease-related things I've ever read was something about cholera (of course I will never remember the original source), and the fact that it doesn't have to be fatal at all, so long as you rehydrate properly. Apparently in the vast majority of cases the body will fight off cholera just fine, so long as it doesn't run out of fluids in the meantime. If only people had known that they couldn't just drink plain water...

The (possibly apocryphal) article also went into modern educational efforts in rural India, where people were being taught the proper handfuls of sugar and salt to add to water, to combat cholera there.


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