skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of live music. I am very lucky a doctor long ago told me I need to guard myself from hearing loss (he was treating me for an ear infection).

I always carry earplugs when I go to shows. Sometimes it's the nice plastic ones; sometimes I lose those and go back to the foam ones. Sometimes I forget and uses pieces of tissue (don't do that. When those pieces get stuck, it's slightly terrifying picking them out of your ear).

Last time I took one of those free hearing tests, I could still hear everything I should for my age range. I can still hear high pitch ringing (like from old CRT monitors), so I think my hearing is in decent shape for being in my 30s.

Hearing loss is a big problem in the US and it's spreading throughout the world. You don't want to be shelling out money of hearing aids later on in life (some are covered by medicare, but still) and once you start losing hearing .. you start to become isolated from people and friends. You will miss things and people won't bother repeating them or you'll just laugh and pretend you heard. It's isolating (according to a sign language instructor I had -- who wasn't deaf, but very impaired).

TL;DR Take care of your ears! Always have earplugs if you see live music a lot!
I'm also interested on this topic.
On their wiki page[0] there is a list from some hosting companies offering guides for setting this, but didn't saw anyone offering it out-of-the-box.

[0] - https://nixos.org/wiki/Hosting_providers_%26_NixOS
Shares in Troubled Italian Bank Plunge Amid Bailout Fears
Good lord no. The Web is a terrible place. It should stay where it is and we should not try to take its terrible principles elsewhere.
>Generally yes. I default to DDG, but I when I don't find what I want I often just add the '!g' to the search.

What's the advantage of that over just going to google.com?
http://dilbert.com/strip/1993-06-23
SDN helps boost security, but how?
Anyone who does work with 3d content: visual effects, video games, vr, ar, etc. Being able to quickly build your scenes from a huge library or accurate models would be amazing and would save businesses lots of money.
>On the flipside, I'm very ADHD, which I think hurts my loud-space conversational abilities some.

Same. I'm also pretty sure that extreme difficulty sifting through conversations in noisy environments is a symptom.
As a PhD dropout, I approve your message. Even not completing it was still worth it.

But do understand that many advisors in engineers and science today are much more demanding than your advisor was. Strong pressure to publish, and sometimes little flexibility in research direction.
(paywalled)
Payment request api: Chrome
There are multiple but mine specifically is AR. It's valuable also for VR, 3D space planning for Designers/Architects/Engineers, Assets for Game Dev, Objects for modeling and simulation, Training Deep Vision nets and on and on...
Nope! But they solve two completely different problems. And the metadata with Signal is actually much better than PGP+email. Have you looked at email headers recently?
And how many have capitalists of various stripes killed in last century?
Janet Conrad is hunting Ghost Particles/sterile neutrinos
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Ideally this would be used with a sort of `Cache-Global: true` header in HTTP, and then you would only be able to grab things that are intended to be cached like this. It would do nothing to stop super-cookies with this method though.
You are, of course, correct. The main issue isn't with writing them down but with people finding them if they are written down.

This means not putting passwords on a post-it on the monitor and to guard them like you guard your wallet or house "keys", wherever they are written down or otherwise recorded.

Of course, with so many passwords in one place, it's best to do a little planning in case a paper gets lost or wet. It's also a good idea to consider what might happen if ALL passwords get disclosed at once.
The YouTube 2016 Rewind – How Many Viral Stars Do You Recognize?
"Oh I get it now. So how much is a copy of GNU Toolchain?"

"Oh it's free."

"..."

"It's free as in beer."
24 Days of PureScript
That's a bit of a confusing, almost paradoxical-seeming statement :) I don't believe I complained my opinions are getting fair treatment. In fact, they almost always seem to get fair treatment. Even when they're ignored or downvoted, really, if the majority of HN-users are anything, it's an uncanny valley of faceless reasonableness :p

Unless you mean something different, maybe the line could have used some qualifiers. So it's not the opinions themselves that aren't worth listening to, to be clear. It's just that given two people of the same position, the one that's not complaining their opinions aren't getting fair treatment is usually one that can argue their position a lot more clearly and therefore is just generally more worth listening to. Although that's the less-accurate positive version of that preference of mine. In my personal experience, the negative version is almost always on point.
The "it takes far too long" for at least engineering PhDs is a very recent phenomenon. In the 90's, 3 years was the norm (after a MS).

As for union card: Somewhat true. Varies depending on the discipline.

As another commenter pointed out, though: With the right advisor, institution and topic, there can still be many pluses to make it worthwhile.
People I know think before they act and sometimes do better.

They also see much more than an "industry" or a "product".

Best thing of all: we may have ≠ POV and still not hurt each other. Freedom!
I'm glad to know it is not just me! Our cheap HP printer makes the worst racket, when the house is quiet I can hear it in all the way in the kitchen from the other side of the house. Nobody else notices it, and I tried unplugging it once and it made an even worse noise (probably would fade as the capacitors discharge but when I was trying to sleep without a fan in another room I didn't care to wait).

As a kid I always used to take the batteries out of clocks when I would sleep at other peoples houses on a couch or something but since becoming an adult around 29 I gained a little more mental control so I can deal with that stuff a little better.
There can be pernicious motives whether a facility is nominally for profit or not.

(For instance, say there is a doctor who gets paid in proportion to the time they spend treating patients at a non profit facility)
Ok, sure, that's possible. I misunderstood what you meant by "unaware of the camps". Still, a lot of historians disagree with you. The most blunt quote in the Wikipedia article I linked is "General information concerning the mass murder of Jews was widespread in the German population."
Well, most of the time I don't need to go to Google. But with '!g' the search defaults to encrypted mode (which you can do anyway at encrypted.google.com).

Honestly, I mostly use ddg because the bang syntax is extremely helpful. Like if I want to search hacker news posts, I just add !hn or !hackernews to the search. They also have bang searches for documentation of many languages, like !java
French Lessons: Seminal Works by Mallarmé and Camus
Treating Alzheimer's Disease with Brain Waves
we're making something similar, currently sitting at ~40k patient users, 200+ health systems adopted -

https://crosschx.com/patients
Insurance card scanning and recognition is available. Costs $999.[1] This has apparently been around for years; there's Windows 98 support. It's been acquired by AcuFill [2]

They also offer identity document verification with facial recognition crosscheck. They want to use this to detect visa overstayers for immediate deportation.[3] That now looks like a market with potential.

[1] http://www.card-reader.com/medical_cards.htm
[2] http://www.acuantcorp.com/autofill-software/
[3] http://sandhill.com/article/its-high-time-we-build-border-te...
I like that they took the illustration from Getafix and Asterix :-)

[1] http://www.asterix.com/the-a-to-z-of-asterix/characters/geta...
Usually when I want to use under 10 icons, I just download an image of each with this handy tool: http://fa2png.io (not affiliated, just a user)
Gender Ex Machina
How can you solve a problem that you can't adequately analyze or characterize? How will you know if you aren't trying a failed solution if you don't know what has been tried? How will you know if your simplifications and assumptions are realistic if you haven't seen how they've played out in the past?
Western Digital Announces Ultrastar He12 12 TB and 14 TB HDDs
How is "you spew" namecalling?

I was the one personally attacked in this thread, not the other way around. Just because my comment doesn't fit the Musk Worship narrative doesn't make me wrong.

Was someone not killed by a malfunctioning / underprepared Tesla? What am I missing here????
I have heard this[1] and my girlfriend (an amature musician) has worse hearing than me generally (subjectively based on quiet situations picking out very quiet sounds or high frequencies) but is way better than me in loud enviornments.

[1] http://io9.gizmodo.com/5839116/lifelong-musicians-can-unders...
Sometimes there is important information behind those that you need, so you are forced to look for walkarounds.
This combined with 3D printers would make fixing stuff much easier by printing the broken piece.
The technical term is KEK, Key Encryption Key.
"Current and former employees from at least 10 UHS hospitals in nine states said they were under pressure to fill beds by almost any method — which sometimes meant exaggerating people’s symptoms or twisting their words to make them seem suicidal — and to hold them until their insurance payments ran out."

Don't worry, free-market ideologues will coolly tell you. Their logic will seem airtight: over time, if Intake's psychiatric wards were really, truly locking up sane people who don't want to be locked up, the reputation of these facilities would no doubt have already suffered by now, and the company would have already been forced to close them. These incidents can only be isolated cases, regardless of the evidence. The profit motive will keep the company in check.

If you believe that, you haven't read the article.
Multicast storms can generally be avoided by IGMP Snooping, which virtually all modern high performance switches will support. Are you saying the above with an understanding of IGMP Snooping, or only in primitive network environments where the hardware / software switches lack it?

When IGMP Snooping is enabled, the switches themselves will limit multicast messages only to ports that have actually joined a group, which prevents multicast storms (if I'm understanding you correctly) in the first place.
> I'm not sure how you slowly 'work towards' ES6. Unless you decide to only support bleeding edge browsers, you cannot use ES6 or ES7 features in production applications.

Not really.

First it depends on your target audience. How new are their web browsers? Where are you developing your web applications? Some projects I've worked on have web applications that run in only a single environment so those are easy. Others I've had highly technical websites that the vast, vast majority went to using newer web browsers.

Second, pick and choose your ES2015 features. Honestly you don't need ES2015 at all but if you want to use it then some items, like let and const, are supported all over the place but others, like fat arrows, not as much.

> The only way we can use them is through transpiling. This will be the case for at least another three or four years.

Again all depends on your target audience. Maybe? Then again I've never been the biggest fan of transpiling one language into another just to access a couple of minor feature additions. It's a huge amount of dependencies, build time, etc all to support a few minor things.
No, they're just putting out enough light to override the background, then showing dimmer areas for black. If they have a display with enough intensity and dynamic range, they can pull this off. Eye contrast is local, not absolute, so this works within the dynamic range of the human eye.
Arrogance
I dropped web font after another HN post about how bw hogging they are. My site is not fashion anyway, and the mobile users are majority
To be fair, its owner had asked to be seated in the smoking section.
The majority of your comment is useful and substantive. (Thanks for the link!) The leading Condescending much? is unnecessary and uncivil regardless of the interaction, which is likely why you're being down-voted.
(For those who are saying it is possible, they might already know who you are based on browser cache, ip etc. Try it in incognito on a vpn. I get this:
http://imgur.com/a/Y5Cxq
I have similar issues and have "pretty good" hearing (been tested in the past 2 years)

My hearing is actually far better than it was when I was younger (32 now), I also had moderate/severe hearing loss from allergies (which I have mostly grown out of).
What's the difference between this "meaningness" and, say, phenomenology?
There are passive versions available as well. Obviously they won't have the same capabilities as active noise canceling, though.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01BCR0MNO/
You mean better than those inferred from parallax/pictures?

And inside the object as well?
Most financial firms (HFTs like I work for at least) purged Tibco with scorn and hellfire long ago due to reasons like the ones you just mentioned.
Having seeing them talk at a local event, that's the point. Not to replace Google with their service. To replace Google with many, anyone's service interchanging data. Having another Google is not the point. Having many isp that also host decentralized services are, tailored to their locale and habits. Like, er the Internet.
Could also be related to HSP http://blogs.psychcentral.com/adhd-zoe/2011/06/10-signs-that...
> Such and such university (2010)

A single year universally indicates the year that you graduated.
Wow, that's really impressive. I'll investigate, thank you for the link.
Ask HN: How do you hire?
Specifically, how do you find the right talent? We're a SaaS startup and after going through two BD people, we've realized that we're doing it wrong. Any tips on the process of finding the "right" vs "best" candidate would be great.
A fascinating moment around 11:55:

- Did you ever find a program called EDP, Ethernet debugging program?
- That's it [pointing at the screen].
- [Looking at the screen] That's the new version. From '79.
I was explaining to an adult yesterday that using -x will remove x from his google results. He was stoked! Then he concluded further that he could use +x too!

I hated to have to disappoint him.
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Google is starting to become dangerous not just in terms of how much data it's now collecting while killing privacy principles they used to abide by in their "don't be evil" days, but also because they now have a powerful lobbying machine, and that machine is slowly starting to turn against the "people".

When they fought against SOPA, they were an ally of the people, and they were on the right side of history. Now, they were one of the supporters of the TPP, and largely a rival of the people in this fight and on the wrong side of history, and they lost.

Google needs to start being on the side of the people, and the right side of history, once again, before it permanently tarnishes its reputation.
My brother in law would agree with this, he is building an open source project for collecting all of the analysis that civil and structural engineers have to do on every project into a single repository where people can share and augment the calculations. (think if it as github for civil and structural engineers)
I interviewed at Amazon and it was fine. The questions were interesting (albeit maybe a few too many graph questions). One of the interviewers showed up in a bathrobe or something I think, due to a bad oncall the previous night or something.

Given that Amazon interviews by team, I think it depends on what team you end up interviewing with...

I didn't take the offer because it was like $20k or more less than another offer, but the process was fine.

There's also going to be selection bias, in that most people who have reasonable interview process aren't going to write blog posts about it...
I too have ADD and experience this.
Nothing in The Excelsior?!
Snowden is correct on this. The super security password should have at least as much entropy as what is being protected.
Of course it works. That's like the only way to get loads of new users.
Curing congestive heart failure. We're not even close. The space is ripe for disruption by a team of Growth Hackers with a foosball table.
It's kinda funny how they spun it to employees, because what happened here, is Google bought itself a tax write-off. The article misses that when it suggests that it's "not exactly a cost-saving move".

And I mean, heck, I don't work at a Fortune 500, but my company gave me a Christmas gift worth more than a Google Home.
"Support home brewing! The beer is free as in speech, not Gmail"
Fancy Bear ramping up infowar against Germany–and rest of West
When I have to explain my job to non-technical people I usually say I build apps "like gmail" not websites "like blogs and company websites"
See step 1 and 2.
Except that this is in no way specific to proprietary drivers.
Lack of a stable interface makes maintaining ALL drivers harder.
Andrew Ng: AI Winter Isn’t Coming
Saying "FDR's ... Camps" is like saying "Harry Truman's Victory over Hitler" or "Ronald Reagan's Space Shuttle." Again, it is an extreme simplification and an attempt to manipulate the reader into associating the act with the individual.

I'm amazed that many (presumably young) people want to wallow in this crap, apparently feeling superior to people who have been dead for decades. You have no reason to feel superior to the generation (and the individuals) who sacrificed so much to confront and defeat Fascism. Quite the opposite. Look around yourself.
Actually the average age of software engineers at Google is much higher than 30.[1] It's the non SWEs that being the average down. The cited source in that article lists average ages for all employees, not just technical ones. This is unfortunately an overlooked distinction when writing about the industry.

[1] source: I work for Google.
Is the ARM CLR bytecode different from the x86 one ? Why ?
Polychain Capital raises $10M blockchain token fund backed by A16Z and USV
These are not just earplugs...they can enhance conversation in loud places as well.
You mean better than those inferred from parallax/pictures?

I'm not sure what you're asking here. Are you asking if it should be better than what can be done with photogrammetry?

And inside the object as well?

Doing just the outside is a big enough market/problem.
I'm already noticing that it offers a tepid indictment of modern philosophy for retreating from the "big questions" and immediately proceeds to do the exact same thing by narrowing its scope to avoid the approaches and definitions that make this particular "big question" practically unaddressable in any satisfying way. Invoking philosophy in this manner feels like slight-of-hand aimed at stroking the readers' egos, which triggered my "danger: beware charlatanism and/or cynical reader-pleasing self-help advice" alarm.

(I wrote more on this but deleted it, because I don't want to pile on the author too heavily in case this is offered earnestly, and the effect was accidental)
The Yandex search engine got its start as a desktop program to search the bible... the founders figured that religious people were more likely to pay for software.
And they'll happily teach you to do so. I know first hand,they started telling people to how to install open-source/free. They currently complain they're starting to be a central point. Believe me they're rms-level free, not google-level free.
99% Invisible's America's Last Top Model. The Mississippi River Basin model was shut down because the computer models were cheaper and "good enough." They still use physical models today for other projects, albeit on a much smaller scale.

Fluid simulation is a very difficult problem to simulate, structures are a lot simpler.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-mode...
We're looking through all the comments that mention this and replying to all of them when other users haven't already.
In the unlikely case anyone is wondering, "publicity" is an incorrect calque from French where it means "advertising". So they are not saying that Google gets a lot of publicity, but that it pushes advertising.
But there is a shortage of people with (good enough) insurance who would have an actual need for those beds.

The article even indicated this:

Current and former employees from at least 10 UHS hospitals in nine states said they were under pressure to fill beds by almost any method — which sometimes meant exaggerating people’s symptoms or twisting their words to make them seem suicidal — and to hold them until their insurance payments ran out.
My dad has tinnitus and pretty bad hearing (was a rock drummer in the 70's) but he found the hearing aids he got (they were at least a few thousand $ or more) made everything sound very digital/tinny and it was unnatural enough that he stopped wearing them. I wonder if these will sound any more or less natural than a nice set of hearing aids.
3. I'm really good at this, surrounded by idiots whom I've tried to taught but they couldn't understand a thing.
Yes, the one that came with my Amazon Echo is the worst. I can hear it from 15 feet away. If I walk up to it and push on it it stops. I don't think pushing on it really makes the difference, I was guessing that it has to do with grounding it or something electrical changes when I touch it.
Ask HN: Best digital camera for a post-4k world?
I saw this post up on G+, and decided that Hacker News was really a better place to ask this kind of question.

What with a 12MP camera really being 4,000 by 3,000 and a 4K screen displaying 4,000 by 2,000 - I had never considered how fast display technology was advancing.

So - what would be the best options for someone to go with? Should they just go WAY out there and get an ultra high MP camera, or stick to something just slightly ahead of the current displays?

(original post went here: http://rationalviews.com/t/best-digital-camera-for-a-post-4k-world/267?u=mbybee)
I wouldn't depend on invocations of sort to be anything but the worst case.
How about a Friday in 2075 and a Monday in 2091?
This reminds me strongly of when cigarette companies started to produce nicotine patches. Without sounding too cynical (it does look like a product that could be useful for people who just happen to be in noisey environments a lot) , I can't help but think Bose are trying to position themselves at the top of a new product line: hearing aids for people who damaged their own hearing through excessively loud earphone music but rebranded to not be considered so obviously as "hearing aids" in the current sense. Not that that's necessary all that bad, it makes sense for a top consumer audio company to tackle this "problem" if it is a thing; I'm by no means an ear expert but I wouldn't be surprised if a surge in hearing aid demand is due as the effects of prolonged earphone usage starts to surface.