Hacker News: smartial_arts

New comment by smartial_arts in "Hacker News front page as a site"

smartial_arts — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:55:02 +0000

Previews are v slow to load for some reason

New comment by smartial_arts in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

smartial_arts — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:31:36 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqEhJJqtbc

New comment by smartial_arts in "Extraterrestrial organic matter preserved in 3.33 Ga sediments from Barberton"

smartial_arts — Thu, 30 May 2019 05:12:46 +0000

Very unlikely, as the concentrations would be quite minute. Nick Lane expands on this in "The Vital Question" book.

New comment by smartial_arts in "Nets on the outlets of drainage pipes save waterways from pollution"

smartial_arts — Sun, 19 May 2019 22:53:58 +0000

Also, traps along the Yarra river https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.818863,144.9708563,51m/data...

New comment by smartial_arts in "Nets on the outlets of drainage pipes save waterways from pollution"

smartial_arts — Sun, 19 May 2019 22:52:04 +0000

There you go https://www.google.com/maps/@-38.011524,145.1053701,47m/data...

Recycling companies stockpiling and landfilling glass

smartial_arts — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:21:04 +0000

Article URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-07/recycling-companies-forced-to-stockpile-glass-industry-crisis/8778088

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985616

Points: 3

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New comment by smartial_arts in "GMO safety debate is over"

smartial_arts — Tue, 24 May 2016 12:06:21 +0000

Incorrect, you do need to provide an email address (bogus one works fine) and tick the Ts&Cs box.

New comment by smartial_arts in "How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body"

smartial_arts — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 03:00:35 +0000

Meditation brought about some massive changes for me: increased focus, better and more acute introspection; I became way less irritable and my stress levels reduced.

I briefly outlined my before and after experience in this blog post: http://nimblegecko.com/you-are-batshit-crazy/

New comment by smartial_arts in "GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3"

smartial_arts — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:57:52 +0000

Frankly, Github did a very poor job at communication this breaking change.

I only recently discovered that most of my post got broken.

Apparently it's no longer legit to use "#Title", you need to "# Title" (and god knows what else).

Linking is broken too - in Jekyll 2 there was no difference if a URL ended in "/" or not - you were just taken to the page, now this is a massive, although fixable pain (see https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/4440)

As a result my site experienced 500% drop in organic search referrals from Google.

I got no single email from then announcing this change. Very unhappy with how github handled it.

New comment by smartial_arts in "Project Alexandria – A graph based book exploration and recommendation engine"

smartial_arts — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:29:06 +0000

Not sure how the search suggestions are meant to work, but when typing "Drunkard's Walk" I can see the book at the top of the result's list, although when typing the author's name, "Leonard Mlodinow" I get no matches for his books at all.

New comment by smartial_arts in "Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments"

smartial_arts — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:00:00 +0000

No it is not, but I get redirected to it on my Android phone after clicking on book covers or graph.

New comment by smartial_arts in "Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments"

smartial_arts — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:32:09 +0000

Is this some sort of a promo trap? When clicking on book links I get taken to pages like this one http://www.freebie.guru/au/starwars/starwars625.html

New comment by smartial_arts in "The big sleep"

smartial_arts — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 22:33:27 +0000

Said the whale from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

New comment by smartial_arts in "Applications for ‘Sustenance’ During the Depression in Australia"

smartial_arts — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:49:56 +0000

Not your fault, but I find it quite annoying that most of those documents are not digitised and you have to order the items to be delivered into library's reading rooms.

New comment by smartial_arts in "Top EU court rules Bitcoin exchange tax-free in Europe"

smartial_arts — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:53:40 +0000

main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433318

New comment by smartial_arts in "Ask HN: What books are you reading?"

smartial_arts — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 03:12:39 +0000

Just finished, in the following order:

- Blindsight

- Echopraxia

- Colonel

by Peter Watts. Though I should've read the 'Colonel' before 'Echopraxia' in the hindsight.

New comment by smartial_arts in "The Myth of Big, Bad Gluten"

smartial_arts — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:13:57 +0000

Previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833375

New comment by smartial_arts in "Insufficient Sleep Is a Public Health Epidemic"

smartial_arts — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:48:05 +0000

Not sure what's the equivalent for the steps 3-7 here in Australia, but getting a referral from a GP and then getting a portable testing machine, that you're supposed to wear at home, is very straightforward. It also doesn't cost much - think it's something like $80 after getting the Medicare rebate.

New comment by smartial_arts in "Peptide-1 Suppresses High-Fat Food Intake by Reducing Synaptic Drive"

smartial_arts — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 11:29:59 +0000

Although this is very tangentially related, one may want to consider taking a multi-species probiotic also, based on "A randomized controlled trial to test the effect of multispecies probiotics on cognitive reactivity to sad mood" [1]:

"Compared to participants who received the placebo intervention, participants who received the 4-week multispecies probiotics intervention showed a significantly reduced overall cognitive reactivity to sad mood, which was largely accounted for by reduced rumination and aggressive thoughts.

Conclusion: These results provide the first evidence that the intake of probiotics may help reduce negative thoughts associated with sad mood. Probiotics supplementation warrants further research as a potential preventive strategy for depression."

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159115...

New comment by smartial_arts in "Peptide-1 Suppresses High-Fat Food Intake by Reducing Synaptic Drive"

smartial_arts — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:44:27 +0000

That would be fantastic - and admittedly people like yourself or some other folks I can think of (Paul Whiteley of "Questioning Answers" fame comes to mind) are doing really great job on explaining the complex subjects in lay terms.

Please do this!