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eurokc98··on Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%
Reuters previously reported that TSMC plans to build as many as six factories at the Arizona site over a 10- to 15-year span. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-says-construction-ha...
eurokc98··on Nicotine Normalizes Brain Activity Deficits That Are Key to Schizophrenia
My 2C.. Our system doesn't provide the testing and data to make accurate, choices to build upon. We are at the mercy of over worked Drs, who look at basic tests, and often just have a minute to review at most. Our health is bound to the sheer luck of drawing a Dr who reads between the lines and can spot/sympathize/analyze our various issue(s).

My hypothesis is that there is too much variance in day to day life, activity, stress, food and liquid intake. In order to really test something I'd like to limit variables by using health apps for BP and HR, limiting diet by using something like Soylent for a month. That would establish the baseline test, then implement the change/drug/supplement, and test daily or weekly.

FWIW Yohimbe made me feel like shit. I would caution anyone looking at quick fixes without reading and setting up groundwork to accurately test yourself, even if its only anecdotal.

Why do I say we need to personally track things? There's a lot to learn. Is your system starved for, or already flooded with the element you're about to consume? Is your system lacking a precursor? Is your system failing downstream to break something else down which is causing a cascading build up? Everybody up-regulates and down-regulates stimulants, catacholamines, etc at different rates. Are you able to break it down from it's required co-factors upstream or downstream? As for Yohimbe, our adrenergic receptors are part of the puzzle there.

Many people have metabolic enzymatic variances, deficiencies, to full blown impairment and we all have changing levels of receptors. Some elements cross the blood brain barrier, some don't. Some people can benefit from a supplement, or an enzyme but to others it's actually detrimental since it may block another pathway. Even commonly known Dopamine and Serotonin require various ingredients that may or may not be present in our systems such as dopamine beta hydroxylase, LDopa, BH4, etc. Various receptor density in any area can impact both the uptake and down regulation, while cascading their impact neighboring systems.

We as humans, are all very different on what works, and what doesn't. It sucks, and it's amazing.

eurokc98··on Drupal 8.0.0 released
Most likely this site: http://portableapps.com/ which is running D7 <meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)" />, mentioned on his HN handle.

His blog also running D7 with 2 posts on Drupal, nothing on scale that I noticed quickly. http://johnhaller.com/development

eurokc98··on Parkinson's patients 'walk and talk again' after receiving cancer drug in trial
While this comment is funny, it's also arrogant and incorrect. It's not fair to indict folks trying to change lives based on what's needed to drive pageviews, ie attention grabbing headlines.

30 seconds of research provides a pretty obvious connection, regardless of your "no fucking clue what they're doing" accusation...

Nilotinib is a Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilotinib

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors regulate serotonin uptake in platelets http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7589171

Tyrosine kinase in serotonin induced cerebral constriction http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9472895

It's apparent that Nilotinib plays a role with Serotonin, which is of course implicated in Parkisons and many other neurological disorders, but I guess we are hung up on cute headlines and not the real story. http://phys.org/news/2010-06-serotonin-decades-old-mystery-p...

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eurokc98··on Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme
Gary Illyes @goog said this was happening Q1 this year, and like others mentioned lots of other direct/indirect signals have pointed this way.

http://searchengineland.com/google-may-discontinue-ajax-craw... March 5th: Gary said you may see a blog post at the Google Webmaster Blog as soon as next week announcing the decommissioning of these guidelines.

Pure speculation but interesting... The timing may have something to do with Wix, a Google Domains partner, who is having difficulty with their customer sites being indexed. The support thread shows a lot of talk around "we are following Google's Ajax guidelines so this must be a problem with Google". John Mueller is active in that thread so it's not out of the realm of possibility someone was asked to make a stronger public statement. http://searchengineland.com/google-working-on-fixing-problem...

eurokc98··on How to Sell a Blog for $36,200
Google's SEO Starter Guide is a good place to start: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/...

Another is their SEO Report Card from a different angle: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/googles-s...

Moz (SEOmoz) provides another good source of info here: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

eurokc98··on 1,000 workers at Apple’s keyboard suppler in Shenzhen walk out in protest
The article is published on Cult of Mac. The blogs audience is most likely only interested in Apple related news and events. For its target audience it is perfectly acceptable to present Apples role, even being a minor player.
eurokc98··on In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column
Google is already working to attribute authors to content, think of it as PersonRank. With verified real people (they are getting many signals for this such as android, chrome, checkout, places, voice, plus, etc) they may be able to combat spam like this by ranking news/stories based on the history of the author.
eurokc98··on How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code
This was the same thing that caught my eye as well. I said congrats on the launch, and Dan was right there with a quick friendly comment. This alone convinced me to try it as I was on the fence.

The signup/interview through checkout process took about 30 seconds. Curiously awaiting the results. Thanks again Dan.

eurokc98··on With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social — As Do Google Ads
Agree, though reputation rank may mitigate some of this behavior when implemented. The urls +1 profile distribution may end up looking like a typical back link profile and something most SEOs should try and balance.
eurokc98··on Cheap or free web-based tools for your web startup
I enjoy using instantdomainsearch for domain hunting.
eurokc98··on How I Ran An Ad on Fox News via Google TV Ads
Not sure the time limit on this but they seem to be rather recent: http://news.ycombinator.com/best
eurokc98··on The extortionists at Yelp
I would assume that when a new user is excited enough to join, they would in fact rate and review many of their favorite places. I agree that its a difficult subject but removing reviews does not seem like a good approach.

I would like to see them show all the reviews and separate the ones that are not approved/flushed out. Have the reviews/rankings grayed out and require the user to hit certain publicly known goals to get their reviews to be approved status. I think this approach would also help with spam as those companies that are placing and encouraging shill reviews are easily spotted.

eurokc98··on Ask HN: "Basic SEO"?
I am surprised no one has mentioned this yet: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/googles-s...

Google recently published an internal SEO audit. The report is more or less a blueprint of what you should follow on an on-site level with your own site and I would have to imagine that was the intent.

eurokc98··on Curiosity
In this case its actually http://fetchback.com/.
eurokc98··on Can Cardpool (YC W10) Solve the Unused Gift Card Problem?
It is not a problem if you are the company selling the gift cards. Here is an old article showing how Best Buy profits from unused cards. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237278,00.html

I generally try to spend the full value of the card at once otherwise I end up with cards with random amounts, lose track, and eventually forget about them.

eurokc98··on Patent Application from "Steven Jobs et al": Advertisement in Operating System
A free or discounted ad based OS is reasonable for them to try. I would not want my OS to be ad supported but I am sure many people would be willing to use this to save a few bucks.
eurokc98··on What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel
37" and still needed to scroll. Who's next?
eurokc98··on Is the AP worth $2.50 a word?
I would imagine that a random sentence from an AP story has been written word for word in some shape or another somewhere on the net. This would be especially true with headlines as more bloggers go to cover the news. Is the AP going to filter their own stories to make sure they are not using a headline that was previously used?

I see Twitter as the place news breaks, not the AP. With everyone having access to Twitter the playing field is even on breaking news stories. Maybe we should all just follow Twitter and write as many clever headlines as possible, then send the bill to the AP when they will undoubtedly use the same headline.

eurokc98··on Domainr
Agree on the accuracy issue, tried 3 different domains, all showed as available and none were.

I have used instantdomainsearch.com in the past with some success for tld's, roughly similar idea but has been around for a long time.

eurokc98··on WordPress or TypePad or....?
I would go with Wordpress if you are just looking for a blog. If you want something more robust then you should look at Drupal. Steer clear of Joomla unless you just like messing around with platforms. (I have used Joomla for a few projects and have grown to hate it)
eurokc98··on Corduroy: A billing system for your startup (launched today)
There is a need for this. I was looking at some other solutions and gave up and went with Zoho Invoice when it launched about a month ago. Using Excel has worked over the years but I needed something that was a bit more reliable at keeping all the info neat and tidy. The main factor for me was price, I would probably not have signed up but the 5 buck a month fee was something that I could take without feeling guilty or lazy. Anything over 20 bucks a month and I would of kept doing things the same way as i only have about 8-12 re-occurring invoices every month.

Good Luck!

eurokc98··on Domain Squatter Tries New Business: Running Websites
All valid points on the SEO stuff. One thing to keep in mind is that the age of the url is important too.

One thing I would point out is that everything else being equal a good domain name will generally get more clicks. The higher CTR will eventually lead to higher results in both the natural and paid results. A good domain name is also important for branding and other forms of advertising.

I am not going to remember an IP address unless my dork quota hasn't been met that week.

eurokc98··on Snobbism-less way to save hacker-news from becoming another digg/reddit
The issue to me is between these two things: Alienate potential users versus allowing the mainstream crowd to alter the community. Digg and Reddit are prime examples of what eventually happens once sites become mainstream. To determine the best action we need to know what the long term goals of the site are, without knowing that its tough to generate any 'fix'.

How about going the invitation only route? Or creating a series of basic coding/php type questions in order to sign up (think captcha)? I think either of those if implemented would cut down on the drive by comments that bring down discussion.