skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am working on a patient-driven platform which brings together all key stakeholders with support of a few good partners, and I am currently conducting user interviews for it. I would love to talk with you more about your ideas. To make scheduling painless, I have a link in my LinkedIn profile summary:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rancar2

I would love to hear from anyone else with big ideas relating to or are working on driving outcomes towards holistic wellness with patient-center healthcare, patient data collection/quantified self, and patient-powered research networks. In the bigger picture, I am passionate about making the world a better place through innovation and working on what really matters for humanity.
You certainly did have to learn to use google, you just don't remember it, or remember it selectively. I frequently come across people who ask questions which seem simple to google for, but when they try ask google, they do so incompetently and get bad answers or no answers, because they fundamentally don't get keywords, how other uses of words can override your intended meaning, or how to clarify by adding further phrases, or removing extraneous detail.
Every junior developer should start out learning nothing but HTML+CSS+JS. It's so beneficial to understand the quirks and gotchas of these three and how they interact, to really appreciate how these technologies evolved.

I have a young son who's coding on code.org and Scratch, and I'd love to get him into pure web development. Kudos to Wes Bos for setting this up.
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> Every time I go to a club, I don't wear hearing protection, and this means that I am consciously making a choice to lose some of my hearing.

Maybe you should consciously make a different choice, such as bring ear plugs with you. There's plenty of brands that come in a container that fit easily on a keychain so they're not forgotten.
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There are dozens of these maps for Chicago (and I presume most large cities). I'm not sure how credible they are; for one thing, they disagree with each other (and not in the sense of turf changing hands); for another, they can sometimes get basic things wrong (for instance, North Ave in Chicago isn't the "Heroin Highway", which is a slang name for I-290).

Here's one:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=11VXioHjuHZgvv8...

What's crazier is that there are bulletin boards all over the web with gang members discussing gangs. Like: it's not a secret; you can just read their message boards.
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You are probably talking about what we call a hidden hearing loss. It is called like this because there are currently no clinical tests available.

The reason for this is probably a selective death of synapses in the inner ear. We separate between three types of auditory nerve fibers (ANFs): High spontaneous rate (HSR), low spontaneous rate (LSR) and mid spontaneous rate (MSR). Basically the HSRs are our high gain fibers used for low sound levels. Their response saturates quite early. LSRs on the other hand are low gain fibers used for higher levels.

the ANF synapse can release a large amount of neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft (in this case glutamate) the problem is that high concentrations of glutamate can are actually harmful and HSR fibers seem to be quite sensitive to these high concentrations. If there is a long term exposure to a noisy environment the high glutamate concentration might selectively kills your HSR fibers. The problem with this is that your threshold of hearing is still normal as there is no damage to the HSR fibers which you need to detect low level sounds so your audiogram looks perfectly fine. But you will start to get problems if you are in situations where you need your full dynamic range e.g. understanding speech in a noisy environments.

As you can see from my writing, this is a current subject of research so we do not know for sure but it seems like that you have to be quite careful with long time noise exposure even if the sound levels are below what is normally considered as harmful.
Hmm; I could see it being the exact opposite. The shower head, by drying out after a single daily use, could be less hospitable to organisms that need moisture. Meanwhile a faucet, used several times throughout the day, has areas which never dry completely.
Who said anything about including the word "eval"? Javascript is really rather bad for allowing surprising things: eval is possible in just 6 innocuous-looking characters - see http://www.jsfuck.com
You get no sympathy from people who can hear what's going on. They simply will not understand why you are so withdrawn.

Oddly enough, my wife has somewhat degraded hearing but she hears a lot better in noisy environments than I do. Must be like applying a filter to the noise, maybe she is losing the frequencies that cause confusion for me.

This will be an interesting product to try out - I hope there are more in the area of enhancing everyday interactions, rather than providing new distractions.

Enhanced vision is another area where I am hoping to see new products.
For those that use earphones a lot at work or on public transit or whatever, I also highly recommend Etymotic's in-ear isolating earphones. They are basically those musician's earplugs with a small driver in the tip. They reduce external noise on-par with foam plugs, so I can listen to my music at much lower volumes rather than cranking the volume of the music to drown out my surroundings. The sound quality is quite good as well. I have the hf3 model and they are by far better than any other earphones I've used that are sub $200.
Fullscreen ad that I can't scroll down out of, then a modal that appears immediately after, covering up the page. Is this growth hacking nowadays?
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What's the source for this?
Another vote for Eytmotic's earplugs from me. I like going to metal concerts but hate how loud they crank the volume since it muddles the sound. With these earplugs you can actual pick out individual instruments during the performance, plus the added benefit of not destroying your hearing.
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It would be cool to know where the data for this came from.
There's one proven thing to help tinnitus in overweight people. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10993458/
And it needn't look like eval: http://www.jsfuck.com
The website itself does a great job at explaining the "why"
In fact I think they do use Yandex as well as Bing, at least they did the last time I looked.
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I'm curious how you would go about determining the frequency of your tinnitus.
I'm well aware :) I wrote UnityPack: https://github.com/HearthSim/UnityPack
Not sure how much startup potential there is, but in my industry we struggle with adhering to procedures, and the root cause of that is because our procedures are written in the dark by management that doesn't always have a complete picture or much insight into what they're enforcing. The problem that creates is that employees only look for work-around's for the procedures (because they are misguided or misinformed most of the time) and it creates a bigger mess than if we had no procedures at all.

It's almost as though if we had a Procedural Consulting firm that could come in, look at the big picture, and help companies to create EFFICIENT and WORTHWHILE procedures that ACTUALLY do justice to the customer requirements without breaking the bank. Then they can sit everyone down and explain the procedures and enforce the assimilation that most companies usually have growing pains with.

I noticed that when moving to a new company that is trying to grow and achieve higher levels of accreditation. Management had intended a two-way assimilation to take place between my procedural knowledge and the procedures they already had in-place. What happened instead is old procedures are etched in stone and new ones are seen as an obstacle... The assimilation was one-way and the other middle-managers like myself are mainly concerned with keeping everything the same, despite there being improvements that could easily be made.
What is the total size of this market - how many users/seats are there out there for this?
Its fun to google and paste links to studies. But you also need to do some work if you want people to think that its relevant.

Could you detail how you established that this is a study whose results have been replicated or otherwise accepted into the general body of knowledge as applicable for the general population? If not, what if any are the contingent factors that would preclude its applicability for people not represented in the sample that was chosen for the study?
I think they are saying that an effect of increased ad blocking will be an increase in the amount of sponsored content masquerading as real content.
Same. I often wonder how bartenders do it.

Granted it doesn't stop me from being outgoing, but people having to almost shout or otherwise talk directly into my ear gets old after a while. I suspect it's not an issue with hearing itself so much as the brain processing the information.

In quiet conditions I can usually hear whispered conversations a good distance away.
This is just a lame advertisement attempt, and it's not even decentralized, the advertiser controls all the published alternatives and links thereof

I'll stick linking people to http://alternativeto.net - thank you very much
Most of the submitted page is devoted to the answers to your question.
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The arguments feel disingenuous. A start-up is much less likely able to fight a subpoena for user data. A start-up is much more likely to disappear. The only real case I see is an argument against ads, though I don't see any disclaimer that the service will then need to be a paid service.

Disclaimer: I work at a big company. I also worked at a small start-up in the past.
I think I might disagree on 'maintainable' depending on your definition.

For instance, ever since picking up TypeScript my projects have been much easier to maintain. I'm sure the same would apply with a templating framework, depending on your needs...
The critical roundup is often more useful (as some of the more obscure albums in this list just don't get enough reviews to render the average meaningful): http://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-best-a...

A down year for music (though it unfortunately seems like I've been saying that for the last 4 years). I've listened to everything in the top 20 in the critical list, and the only albums I'll likely be listening to in 2017 and beyond are the Radiohead and Bon Iver entries. Certainly tracks here and there I loved from Beyonce, Kanye, Anderson .Paak, Chance, and Frank, etc, but none of the other albums have grabbed me yet from start to finish. (That can always change, of course!)
The fork commits only the modified font files, so as soon as the upstream project modifies the font files it will be out of date. Might it not be better to script the optimization passes?
I'm afraid that's not possible. There are, however solutions that help making it easier to endure. Here is one: http://www.oticon.global/solutions/accessories/tinnitus-soun...
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Whenever I need relief, I use this (or something like it) http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

I found the frequency of my tinnitus (67hz) and changed the octave until I found the best result (268hz).
That full screen email sign up box is flagrantly annoying. Asking twice (follow up popup) even more so.

All that aside, this is pretty scummy. It's nothing more than a formula for "How to be a shill but not appear to be".

The only interesting part is this allegation:

> Pretty sure that some moderators take payments to allow sponsored posts. Hard to prove but have definitely seen some self-promotion posts pinned to the top of subreddits as moderator announcements ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Would love to see some evidence on this. I would guess it exists as well so more out of curiosity of the examples than lack of belief.
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> neurons are not fast enough to handle time-domain sound processing, so they offload Fourier transformation to the ear

This is my new favorite way to describe the process. Gonna use this with my students :)
I had a chat with a member of your team after you posted this last month. I was told that you are not hiring remote right now.
What's the source for this data?

Is "West Street" the name of a gang? If so, it appears that there are many micro-territory gangs that named themselves after streets. If not, what are all these areas that are named after streets for?

I would assume that areas tagged with similar names are part of a larger gang, but that's not made clear here either (are all the "Lower Bottoms" areas part of one group, or affiliated sub-groups?).
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> These services track us everywhere, while claiming to give us a better “user experience”.

That's kind of the problem though; they usually _do_ offer a better user experience.

If we want users to start using open source software rather than walled garden solutions from large companies, we're going to have to start building open source solutions which offer a comparable user experience to proprietary ones from large companies; a difficult task to say the least.
I once walked in on my 15-year-old brother and his friends watching what looked like a home video of some guys in wifebeaters apparently standing around doing nothing. I asked them what they were watching, and they said it's a gang video. I got interested so I ask them some more questions, and they went off describing local gang activities, their sources of income, etc.

A few years later, I was taking a criminal justice class at a nearby community college, and the term project involved working with local law enforcement to understand criminal activity. When we got to talking about gang activity, I realized I already knew a lot about what the sergeant was saying, and I remembered that encounter I had years ago with my brother. I mentioned it to the sergeant, and he told me about pee wee gangsters and how they have been an increasing problem recently.

I'd forgotten about all of that until just now, and I hadn't realized how disturbed it all had made me feel back then.
Their headphones are great in terms of the quality of sound they produce, but their durability leaves a lot to be desired. I've used both the MC5's and HF5's and both ended up with shorting out on one side (HF5) or falling apart (MC5) on me within just a few months.
Would be interesting to overlay this with instances of gang-related violence. How much occurs at or near the boundaries?
Any chance you could provide some links? White papers, etc.?
I used to live on Apgar Street in North Oakland. I can confirm, at that time, the North Pole Gang was active. A shooting happened right in front of my house.

Other than that, you would see people hustling but they didnt really bother me or my housemates besides asking for a smoke now and again.

For the record, in two years, we were never burglarized, mugged or otherwise. The worst that happened to me is I was attacked by a juvenile pitbull that was being trained to fight. The owner apologized.

Were we just lucky? Seemed like most of the violence was gang on gang violence.

That being said, my (future) wife, who lived on 55th came home one night to greet the SWAT team at her house. Someone had been running around the neighborhood with an AK-47 and they thought he might be hiding in her backyard.

College.
Next month - 30 days of web coding using only vanilla C! Day 1: write a web browser!

(I kid, this is awesome)
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It sounds obvious, but this is incredibly dangerous scalding risk if someone else turns on hot water expecting it to be a reasonable temperature while you're doing this. Even if

Much easier to take your fixtures off and bleach/disinfect.
What you want, then, is more akin to a sandwich press rather than a toaster. Or perhaps a toaster oven. Mechanically, it's not impossible, but the design of a toaster (spring loaded release, heating elements on either side) can't be altered much without turning it into one of those two things (or a poor imitation of them).
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Impermanence. Everything goes away. As software developers we often just get to see the whole lifespan of a project more often. Not many other professions get the privilege of building something from nothing, watching it grow and change, then get to slowly pull it down and retire it.
This is characteristic of all distributed systems, so in that sense it isn't a unique concept to NOPaxos. The emphasis here is minimizing the traffic that a typical Paxos implementation incurs while changing the constraints of the distributed system.
There's uber ads on google maps? Is this a slow rollout or something? I haven't seen this, and it's not like I have adblocker on my phone.
Those are probably far more important. I'd be far more comfortable boarding a 30-year-old airliner with great maintenance and great pilots than boarding a brand-new 787 with a clueless maintenance crew and pilots who aren't quite sure which way to move the stick (edit: yoke) to make the houses get smaller.

If you look at the causes of crash, it's usually pilot error or improper maintenance, occasionally design flaws, but not equipment age.
It's not that hard to imagine, especially in sparsely populated corners of the world. Take this article:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-xinjiang-procedure/article...

Truth? Fiction? If true, would anyone risk precious trade with China over it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China...

Maybe they've killed tens of thousands of people, maybe not? Doesn't seem to inspire many Western journalists to look for the truth, it's much easier to write another listicle about shiny malls in Shanghai after all.

Edit: To be clear, my implication is not that Germans didn't know about the holocaust. Rather, there was probably lots of hearsay and people conveniently ignored it.
I'm British and I make a living as a writer. I wouldn't find it condescending to be told that I can learn something from Wodehouse - his prose is sublime.

Perhaps you overreacted to what was an innocent and general comment about learning from Wodehouse's prose, rather than a condescending suggestion that Indians could benefit in particular.
Japanese imperialism was an attempt to get out from under the boot of US imperialism. The US showed up, forced their nation open to western powers,and spent the next 70 years intimately engaged in all their important decisions.

Japanese conduct during the 30s was atrocious. They tried playing by the moral code in earlier wars, the US and other Western powers repeatedly reneged on deals and forced Japan to return any possessions.
Having your kids contact the police in an emergency situation could also be life-threatening.

In just about any situation, I'd much rather have the help of a firefighter, then a police officer.

It's incredibly unlikely that introducing a scared man with a gun and broad extrajudicial power will make a situation better.
Probably not that much (even if you accept the notion that this is really an accurate description of SFBA gangs). This isn't West Side Story. There aren't "rumbles". Even in this SFBA map, these gangs have minimal territory. Violence tends to occur when people drive through other territory, run into each other outside anyone's territory.
I switched at about the same time and now I'm hooked. Using the ! syntax to search any major site from my address bar is so damn useful I don't want to go back.
Just start them off with HTTP and transparently upgrade to HTTPS after 9 hours. And if you're only retaining a small percentage of users who sign up, you can stretch that limit even further by only upgrading the users who you retain.
>> "Gmail is objectively an amazing email app on both desktop browser and mobile."

I was Mac Mail and Mail on iPhone with 2 Gmail accounts and 1 Exchange/Office365 account. Works great and much better than having to switch between accounts in a browser. I've also always found the Gmail app on iOS awful to use (Inbox is quite good though).

>> No search engine can come close to Google.

DuckDuckGo comes very close in my opinion.

>> Lots of great apps like Google Docs, Calendar, and Translate exist to make your life easier for free.

My Mac/iPhone also come with a free calendar that's much nicer to use. I pay for Word rather than use Google Docs as I find it much nicer to use a desktop app than a web app.

Also - they don't exist to make our lives easier. They exist to collect our information and make Google more money.
>> Google Maps is kinda annoying

Agreed. UI has got worse of the years. I use Citymapper multiple times per day along with Apple Maps occasionally.

I still use Google services regularly but they certainly aren't the best at almost anything apart from search. They often come out on top because short term, they are free to the user. Long term maybe not so much.
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Is there another report with a comparison of the charge/weight, charge/volume and charge/price of this battery and an usual Li-Ion battery?

These are usual tradeoff. Nobody expect a mobile phone to be used more than 10 years, so if you design a battery to last only 10 years instead of 400 perhaps you can improve the amount of charge.
Is the data for this available?
I'm not sure what that's going to accomplish, even if Russia hacked the DNC, they simply exposed corruption. What's going to be achieved by shooting the messenger?

In all sincerity, is there something I'm missing?
That's an interesting observation! Yes, it does, and it's a higher pitch.

That might be something to explore; thank you for that. I also grind my teeth aggressively at night (which I wasn't aware of until ~1y ago when my wife told me).
In the US, most toaster ovens I've seen have about 2-3 times the footprint of the average toaster, with additional height. This is actually pretty reasonable as you can use the toaster oven instead of the oven or microwave oven for many tasks (it's a less specialised tool than a toaster).
The struggle for "Western Civilization" or "Western Values" has always been a struggle within our nations, rather than between us and the rest of the world.

Slowly, real progress has been made, but unevenly distributed, and often with great leaps backwards.

I will leave out my opinion about whether current events reflect a time of progress or one of those great backward leaps.