skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mediterranean countries also have some of the worst economies. Could this also be related to diet? (I ask this as a legitimate question, not as an attack on Mediterranean countries)
Because it’s hard to convince volunteers to come often enough and long enough without paying them.

As a result, other countries with volunteer donation systems aren’t self-sufficient for plasma.

Instead they usually rely on US imports. To the point of blood products accounting for 1.3% of all US exports.
Ripple and Stellar are working on disrupting financial industries: instant and cheap money transfers. So they are creating value for their users. How they, Stellar and Ripple, are making money is not clear to me though. I know IBM will be making money out of using Stellar for sure.
I think countries on the border will allow travel, so if you have an Australian PR you might visit New Zealand, a US GC for Mexico or a China residence visa for Honk Kong.

(I am not saying those visas are currently accepted, I am saying they might be)
Interesting that it also seems to handle false positives well:

> Among other things, the new method makes it possible to detect "a false sit" (when a dog sits to signal that it has found something). "In traditional signal behavior, 'a dog's trick' is hard to detect: The dog does not smile, it does not wink," says Zaripov. "In this case, however, an encephalogram shows that the dog has a conscience. Deep down it knows that it has made a mistake. The reaction of its central nervous system is completely different."
This isn't about assigning blame to a political party. Democrats only have so much political capital, and they can't afford to waste it on a pie in the sky, like cap and trade or a green New Deal.
> Every big open source project has a dedicated IRC channel on Freenode, still alive and kicking.
> Slack is not an alternative.

A lot of large open-source projects have Slack communities, often alongside IRC ones. Take Clojure for example, with its 14k-members “Clojurians” Slack project.
There are spelling errors on each page I've looked at so far (eg travel "Iternary").

Personally I'd never trust such a site; I'd rather rely on my own research of visa conditions direct from official sources for the couples of times a year I need such information. If you can somehow increase the trustworthiness of your site, this might change.
> The 6S screen design is even more similar to the X than I had originally thought when I started to tear into them.

What?

The 6s has a LCD and the X (2017) has a flexible OLED.

Couldn't be more different.
This is known by everybody who's read about the Manhattan Project. The hard problem was separating uranium isotopes. The Hiroshima bomb was a nuclear IED. It could be built today by a good auto racing shop if they had the enriched uranium.
Even machining uranium isn't that hard. There's a how-to guide from Union Carbide's tools unit. It takes some precautions, but not remote manipulators or anything like what's needed for plutonium.
I see it as an alternative to the current web tech stack that in my opinion isn't very secure and won't scale to match a machine-to-machine economy and that unfortunately can, and in some countries is used to monitor us.
Bitcoin uses as much electricity as a small sized country with industry and everything, all the banks in the world use way less energy.
This would be more useful to me if when I hovered the link it told me more about what they actually make and the language they post in.

It's too random otherwise.
This doesn’t seem like a bad idea! This way he can gauge demand and proceed working accordingly. The price could also be set at something reasonable which makes it available to the casual reader and not at a $99 price tag that would probably only be purchased by die hard fans.
"The team also explored why and how a Mediterranean diet might mitigate risk of heart disease and stroke by examining a panel of 40 biomarkers, representing new and established biological contributors to heart disease. ... The team saw changes in signals of

* inflammation (accounting for 29 percent of the cardiovascular disease risk reduction)

* glucose metabolism and insulin resistance (27.9 percent),

* and body max index (27.3 percent).

The team also found connections to blood pressure, various forms of cholesterol, branch-chain amino acids and other biomarkers, but found that these accounted for less of the association between Mediterranean diet and risk reduction."

The suggestion from the data being that inflammation and insulin resistance might be more important factors than the usual cholesterol panel that people tend to fixate on.
Oh, give it a week after the HN hug to see if it’s still kicking.
Maybe I just got lucky? Flew out of cdg last month.
Sicily’s main industry is agriculture. So it is poorer financially because most are employed as manual labor. Diet wise it’s very hard to eat poorly. Fresh food is abundant and eating processed, frozen foods is considered a luxury.
IMHO your circuit topology looks wacky. Perhaps there's a goal to making your amplifier ground ride in the middle of the waveform, but it could just as well be unintentional. So my immediate thoughts -

You've already got a real split supply with 2x 9v batteries. If you use that instead of deriving a virtual ground, you will save 9mA of quiescent current.

How purposeful is that whole low side duplicated circuit and why? [0] It seems like since you're using batteries, hooking signal ground directly to your ground and driving the output single ended would work fine. Or if you want to work towards being able to AC-power, then a differential input op-amp topology and still drive the output single ended.

Isn't there a vibrant cottage industry of external USB DACs and headphone amplifiers and whatnot? I'm more of a receiver+speakers type of a person, but I often see newly designed stuff for headphones.

[0] Driving both sides does get you the ability to swing the output a full 36 volts. But given that your goal is to cut the signal by 11 and also that by mixing both channels you can't actually do that lest you get crosstalk in the form of clipping, I don't think this is your goal!
One of the many reasons I’d never invest in a Chinese company HQ’ed over there.
Actually solar panels and distributed grids make a lot of sense and what was holding them back was the state of the technology. Unlike the blockchain, which is fundamentally broken for 99.999% of all use cases, distributed power grids could actually work with the right engineering.
It is e ink... the screen is always on, works in bright light and lasts 30 days+
EDIT 2: I sent a direct email to the author asking if he could place a direct buy link on the page, or if I could directly send him some money for the book.

I’m extremely confused and curious as to why on Earth the author simply didn’t place a PDF on their site with a PayPal (or less evil alternative) button on his site.

I personally absolutely refuse to purchase it knowing that Amazon is taking all of the Author’s money.

I actually think it’s detrimental to display that data - as it seems it’s not just myself that seems less likely to purchase based off that data.

Instead of many of the comments here being about the staggering loss the authour is taking by not following this simple route, at $10-20 a PDF we could all be discussing the contents of the book, instead.

Hopefully the author sees this and can make some sensible decisions for themselves - from what I hear their last book was fantastic.

EDIT: To the author: if I see a direct buy link on your page I will buy two copies within the day, as it seems that even $5-10 profit off two sales at $10-20 would provide you as much as up to 15 sales. I’m in the music business. I get slim royalties and I get how much effort we put into art.
JIRA is an antipattern
Amazing photo. It screams 80s to me, in a good sense. Thanks for sharing.
Most vintage electric conversions I have seen leave the transmission, drive shaft and differentials in place for convenience.

Since electric motors have a much broader torque band than combustion engines you can usually leave the transmission in 2nd or 3rd and just drive around, but there is nothing stopping you from rowing gears either.

If the engine ever blows in my vintage car I'll think long and hard about converting it to electric. I wouldn't want to simulate sounds or vibrations of the real engine though. I'd want the experience to be whatever happens from swapping the engine for a motor.
Hey man you should keep submitting. It's a great product and you clearly put a lot of effort into it.
Right, didn’t mean to imply that you only did DevRel. I think most React users know that you’re on the core team. Just wanted to suggest to the general HN community that your consistent efforts around helping the React community might be a factor of React’s success. Whenever there’s a post here on HN about why framework A is a success whereas framework B is a flop, the focus is usually on technical factors or developer ergonomics.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
The Secrets of the Pineal Gland
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I would have preferred that they open sourced EdgeHTML
Show HN: TradeSketch – Sketch custom indicators to scan stocks daily
Apologies for the typo, corrected it. Currently there are offical website links, visa application link and fee links along with document checklist. You can always cross check with the official site. As next step, i'm planning to add crowdsource validation, so the data is most accurate and upto date.
Hello guys, we are working on TradeSketch, a tool to build highly customizable trading indicators without coding, and use it to scan the stock market. We have just started to work on the concept, and even if it's not yet functionnal (it is not plugged to a backend), we would like to have your feedback already. What we showcase here is an example of how to create a custom indicator with our interface, and use it to screen stocks daily.
What we would like to know is:
Would you use this tool to implement your strategies?
How can we make this tool more useful/easy to use?
What kind of products (Stocks, FX, Crypto) are you interested in?
What do you use currently to scan automatically the products to find opportunities?
Thanks a lot
This, on top of it, if you don't want it, you can turn off the slowdown.
Facebook: Spark AR Studio (Windows Alpha)
When Self-Help Just Makes Your Life Worse
Yes? https://support.stripe.com/questions/pricing-of-payment-meth...
I think it's more that Dianetics and this class of methods both derive from classical psychoanalysis. The broad concepts are similar, but the specific methods seem to be very different.
Centralized databases power 99.9% because Ethereum like technologies aren’t ready for general use yet. My money is on Ethereum getting there first with sharding, proof of stake, and adoption but whichever one does will unlock many, many use cases.
For an intro, I like Hubspot's Inbound Marketing: https://www.hubspot.com/inbound-marketing

I've heard good things about DigitalMarketer and the Traffic and Conversion (T&C) Summit.

I don't know if there's a course for all of digital marketing. In my experience, what works on email won't work for Facebook or Amazon etc. Digital marketing channels are different and require different strategies. So I like to stay updated by following the "gurus" of whatever marketing channel I'm interested in.

There are gurus for email, landing pages, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube, funnels, and pretty much every marketing channel. I think the T&C summit highlights the best.

Good primer books?:

- Ogilvy on Advertising (Dated but timeless advertising principles)

- Copywriting: CA$HVERTISING: How to Use More than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone

I've heard a lot about the Clickfunnels book - Expert Secrets, but I have not read it yet.

Sorry if this is unhelpful.
I do this too. I learned pretty much every valuable skill I have using resources freely available online.

In my experience, this is pretty uncommon though. I know only a few people that use the web this way, and a lot who browse the front page of reddit, watch whatever videos show up in their FB feed or on the front page of YouTube, etc.

The resources are there, but are they used enough to make my statement regarding what the web is mostly used for invalid? I don't know.

For the month of September 2018, OCW reported 1.09M unique visitors [1]. In their 2017 annual report, Facebook reported 2.13B monthly active users [2]. I suspect the comparisons between coursers, edx, udemy, etc and reddit, Twitter, memes, etc would be similar, and three orders of magnitude seems sufficient to say "most."

If you think your web use is typical, perhaps it is you in the bubble.

[1]: https://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/monthly-reports/MI...
[2]: http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/c826def3...
Ask HN: 【Need Help for Wordpress Sites Hosting etc .】
Hi ,

Since my question is a bit longer, so here can't post as text, so I just use a link instead:
https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/a4n3q9/need_help_for_wordpress_sites_hosting_etc/

If anyone who has a chance and know this kind of thing please help me about the wordpress and its hosting issue. Thank you so much in advance!!
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> What you Seem to ignore is that my aspiration is to fix the flaws and come up with a Better system

Admirable goals but lots of us have aspirations. You need to demonstrate how your suggestions can actually help, and at this point, explaining it is not enough, you and your community need to stop talking about it and actually do something. No other software requires so much vocal defense.
I see your point about argument to personal authority, my bad, but what I am saying is that I see your argument as being too far off my experience, and it would be very hard to reconcile our views.
Ah, one of my favorite astronomy-related trivia.

It also shows how a supernova can (briefly) shine as brightly as its whole host galaxy (i.e. some 10-11 orders of magnitude stronger than an average dwarf star - like you wrote, those basically "smoulder").
This is something i struggled with!

I wanted to be great programmer, i put in many hours but never became great tho i made better money then friends who i considered great and became a tech executive instead.

I wanted to become a good chess player but failed here too.

Someone suggested 23andme DNA test. After i figured out I've genetic potential of absolute pitch, I've managed to teach myself name of the notes i hear. It took just 10 hours of practise to master this.

I always recognized them but did not have name for them.

Second, i found I've high twitch muscle fibers, which are goood for mass - So i immediately joined gym and made good progress. It's still work in progress but i can see the size difference.
It all really depends on the gold plating of your cables
What a great idea !
> Yang is setting the bar rather high for himself.

That's precisely the point!
This is exactly why i want to add crowdsource info, so there is always the most accurate data from the community.
> I suffer from chronic pain that is not curable. The doctors won't prescribe me any pain killers out of fear I could get addicted

Imagine that, they won't prescribe long term pain killers in case you might get addicted and take them for too long. It's insanity. I hope things work out for!
Yes. Eisenhower was a logistics guy. D-Day was a triumph of logistics. The Allies built up enough resources to force a win before attempting the invasion. They were willing to wait because of the failures of Dunkirk and Dieppe. Those operations didn't have enough resources behind them.

We're under fire! Yeah - under fire!! Those five thousand ships the Allies couldn't possibly have, as you say - they've got 'em! Yeah, they've got 'em!! - Major Werner Pluskat, June 6, 1944.
Ahh, another example of PDF retraction that puts an opaque black box over something, yielding to the highly sophisticated "Highlight the text" attack.

sigh.

(To ensure clarity: The addresses of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones are included at the end of the complaint, and are improperly redacted. One presumes this information isn't hard to come by, but if you're going to try to redact it, you might as well do it right.)
I also was reminded of Scientology and what they call "Engrams". It's popular to criticize Scientology and thus its ideas are often dismissed without evaluation. Perhaps Scientology and other controversial ideologies contain valuable elements or methods which are absent from more reputable institutions. They would not gain such a devoted following if they offered 0 value.
You tried balanced cables?
Pretty common for us sold EVOO to be a mix. They’ll put some good stuff in it but the rest will be lower quality olive oil.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2016/09/30/its-ext...
That is the exception proving the rule. Aside from the Connecticut Compromise, agreed to at a time in our history when very few citizens could even vote, the United States remains fairly responsive to popular opinion. Politicians have to get votes, and if abolishing TSA was popular enough to swing votes, we'd have politicians falling all over themselves to make sure everyone knew they were the right guy for that.

But... it's not. The TSA and the rest of our various police forces stick around because while a few loud people complain about the threat to liberty, the vast majority of people quietly vote for more safety.
>> And while this team's results speak for themselves in certain cases, I'd be interested to hear about the patients who it isn't effective for and where they're left after.

The others are left out in the cold.
I'm kweb's creator, I hadn't heard the term "hexagonal architecture", I'll read up on it, thank you for the kind words.

You are correct that, since kwebsites are server-driven, there is no significant offline capability.

But then the requirements of many websites often rule that out anyway, my strong suspicion is that this won't be a dealbreaker for many people.
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Any advice on a quality Lightning to 3.5mm adapter? The official Apple one is so flimsy that one or both channels cut out anytime I move the phone. My workaround is to heatshrink the cable and both ends, so it’s rigid enough not to cut out. But it’s ugly and probably won’t last more than a few months.
Peruvians vote in referendum on fighting corruption
Point noted! Thanks for the feedback.
When you say "this isn't about assigning blame to a political party" what I hear is "there should be no political price to pay for opposing measures that we need to address climate change."

If you want to argue a measure is bad on the merits, then fine argue that.
The author doesn't make "the same mistake", it just shows you reality, not faith.
I'd love to see another version of this study performed at UCLA. Unlike New York, California has a huge and highly culturally-integrated Asian population.
I was desperately hoping to read about the manufacture of a new kind hockey stick but instead the article is yet another metric demonstrating the accelerating effects of climate change.

I can only imagine that over the next few years articles like this will become the new normal. A group will decide to look at the impact of carbon emissions of something new and observe yet more evidence of what we already know. The planet is changing and we’re to blame.
I stand corrected on this one point. No indication of whether they are selling below cost but it's wildly unlikely they aren't - so that's not yet sustainable competition even at the high end. Your word competitive referred to my comment on Tesla motors, but as I've already stated, in fact Jaguar's car is clearly less efficient. Tesla started high-end UV deliveries ancient years ago. Lower cost Ford EVs, etc have been driving around for a while. So why do arabesques for Jaguar?

You weren't objective enough to note the $100,000 price tag; there's no objective analysis that makes Jaguar EVs competitive with Tesla's model 3 today.

Nor are you objective enough to answer any of my other points, such as the inefficiency of Jaguar's car, contra your denial of my statement that "Tesla's motors are quite advanced." It would be civil not to just ignore points you can't answer.
i meant which is completely bootstrapped and run by a single person!
Is Aldi brand ok?
I have to agree with the other commenter here. I have not noticed any difference moving from iPhone 6s to 7 (with dongle) listening through my Shure 530 headphones.
Well, Richard Bach writes in The Bridge Across Forever that royalties from Jonathan Livingston Seagull made him rich (before he overspent it), so I assume this is more recent phenomena. Granted it's a bit different level of "bestseller" though...
A USB DAC+amp seems like the right answer if you don't want to break out the soldering iron and don't want to buy an Apple product. I just don't think makers of commodity hardware have much incentive to spend money on good audio circuitry. But if their USB ports didn't work, well, that would be a real problem. I have an earlier model of this:

http://www.schiit.com/products/fulla-1

that delivers good audio quality (to my non-audiophile ears). The one I have is not perfect: there's some static when you turn the volume knob (maybe a good design tradeoff at the price, I don't know), and the metal edges on the enclosure were sharp enough that I took it apart and filed them down a bit (others might not have been bothered by this, but I was). But there sure isn't any background hissing like there is with the built-in headphone jack on my Dell workstation.
A mistake for an attorney to do this. While some courts might possibly think it's 'cute' there is a higher risk that some will see it as a negative even if they try not to be biased.

A court filing is not a job application or a college applications or trying to get funding for your company. It's one shot. Not the type of risk that makes any sense at all. Good for publicity though if that is the idea.
Thank you Goblyn Queenne for making what I was trying to say actually sound credible. I'd be tempted to even ask whether "probability distribution" could describe the real world. Certain no time-invariant probability distribution could describe this world.