skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to get too political, but I find the idea that the internet is better being decentralized and non-corporate to be the new Libertarianism. Sure, these ideas sound nice, just like how "small government" and "free market", but how well do they work in practice on a large scale? Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily against such concepts as ideals, but in the end they are hard to implement in their pure form as the entire system gets larger and they aren't without consequence. An internet not dominated by Google, Facebook, Reddit, Amazon, etc., sounds great because, well, screw the man, man! Let's go back to 1999(or better yet, the 80's so we can connect to dial-up BBSes for free by routing through a bunch of local numbers, because, screw the man!). I know I'm hyperbolizing here a little bit, but it seems silly and pointless. The vast majority of users don't want this.
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and the normal (x86) path for WoW.
Agreed. Social situations can be frustrating/depressing if you can't converse like everyone else.
Worth an upvote for the Asterix reference alone.

For me it's mostly the smartphone which is difficult to unlock. I use Ubuntu on my laptop, run my own web/mail/irc/etc servers, flashed all routers with OpenWRT... and it all made my experience better but Android with a Google Apps account is hard to beat. Say what you will about tracking and spying but it delivers.

Using FLOSS tools I can compete with Microsoft or TP-Link, not Google though.
Assuming of course that the recipient is ok with you touching their ears...
I took Edward Snowden's advice of using long phrase/sentences as the super security password, no crazy signs / punctuation marks required ;)
This is an even bigger problem in a non-native language. Not just a social issue but hinders learning.
Dolores park is gang territory? Is being a day-drinking yuppie considered gang activity?
This. As a severely hearing-impaired individual, context is EVERYTHING in a conversation. Or, like, 95%. In all but the best environments, I'm not actually hearing what you're saying, I'm pattern matching your garbled sounds to the closet logical words my brain can think of. The narrower the context, the better and faster I can do this.

This is why, for example, I don't answer unexpected phone calls. If I don't know the initial context of the call, the first minute is going to be very confusing for both parties.
That only tells us Lincoln's stated values. He doesn't get to dictate the motives of the entire country. I don't think you can legitimately claim that there wasn't a real ideological abolitionist movement, and that many people fought for it.
> That recipe to stay current looks tiresome. ... Your reward: you are still employable.

It does make pursuing a career in programming seem dubious, doesn't it? There's an old saying about "clawing your way to the top", but sometimes it feels like I'm clawing my way back to where I started. I feel like I'm expected to have instant answers to any question and immediately comprehend any technology (regardless of its level of documentation or comprehensibility). I actually do enjoy learning about new things (and old things!), but most of the time, we're not paid to learn, we're paid to instantly know, and if you don't instantly know, there are 20 guys lined up around the block who are ready to take your place as soon as you admit that you don't know how to set up pass-through SSL using the undocumented firewall product that was installed last week that you don't have credentials for and we don't have time for you to waste reading documentation because there's a customer deadline and there's no slack in the schedule. The only other career I can think of that you have to put this much ongoing personal effort into is entertainment; it's like we have all the downsides of entertainment careers without any of the upsides.

On the other hand, I can't imagine doing anything else - every other job (except maybe astronaut) looks murderously boring to me.
So are these just like normal hearing aids (with a diff design), designed/marketed by Bose?
Bose has not delivered in tech since the 70s. Color me skeptical, but this seems like a cheap hack for an existing product of theirs with a crapload of dodgy marketing.
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I have the opposite problem. I can understand people fine in noisy environments, but I can't speak loudly enough for other people to understand me. The end result is pretty much the same, though. I end up not really talking to people much in super noisy environments because it's too much of a struggle for me to try to talk loudly enough.
You can install TurboTax and Microsoft Office on Android (not sure about the Kindle Fire) so you can definitely do homework and taxes on it. Personally I don't want to do either of those on a tablet, but that's due to the small screen moreso than the OS.
I forgot my password last year for a government taxation site. I called them and the person I was speaking to gave me a couple of clues and I was able to remember it. Clearly she was looking at it. My main feeling at the time was relief that I hadn't used an embarrassing one.
I often have difficulty parsing speech in noisy bar/club environs. This has always made me into a bit of a wallflower. Then I started dating a woman who was also very wallflowery, but mostly because it was a lot of effort for her to talk loudly.

We ended up having a lot of arguments, because she'd say things to me, I'd tell her I couldn't understand what she was saying, then she'd refuse to talk louder but still hold me accountable for remembering what she said.
So just because we didn't cause the Holocaust, we are morally superior? That's a pretty low bar and a ridiculous argument, but it says a lot about the American mindset.
Hey, glad you liked it! I tried to get in touch but I guess the message got lost in your noisy inboxes — must be a busy time for you folks. Ping me if there's anything I can help with!
Can you share a link? I know someone who could really use the help
Yes, they're expensive. I think I payed $6000 total for 2 hearing aids with a 3 year service contract and expect them to last 5-6 years (possibly longer). You can certainly get cheaper ones though without all the bells and whistles. You're right though, Bose is going to have to come in way below that price ;)
I don't think that's quite fair. It's true that after the arrival of the US, Japan was apparently fed up and changed its approach. But does that make invading and subjugating their neighbours justifiable?
Yep, Doppler and Apple delaying product.

A friend has worn the simple noise cancelling version of the Hear One to a loud concert. She loves them.

Another friend has the Bragi Dash earbuds and was complaining of some Bluetooth drop-out.

IMO, would rather have a neck band sending out RF than something sitting inside my head. Maybe the new passive WiFi solves that concern at 1/10,000 the power?
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Looking at a map, I guess I can see Ontario being close to central Canada (along with Manitoba and Saskatchewan), but Quebec is definitely almost as East as it gets, and since the data centre is in Montreal...
I really really am bad at hearing anything in a noisy environment yet I was a bartender for 3 years and never had a problem getting someone's order. You get used to reading people's lips given that there is only a limited amount of things they could be ordering.

Very often I didn't understand what the clients were talking to me about but then I'd hear keywords like "beer" or "tequila" and the quantity they want is very often requested using hand gestures (finger count).

Even then, the usual conversation between a bartender and the client is very short. To the contrary, when getting together with a bunch of friends you have to listen to entire stories which is way harder.
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There's always Gigablast (gigablast.com)! And it'd be sweet if YaCy (yacy.net) took off.
I don't agree with all of Chapman's work or thesis, but I usually enjoy his writings and blog post immensely :-D
Did you ever violate speed limit and not pay a fine?

I am guessing you did many times. If you had paid the fine, you'll be too broke to own a device to post this comment.

It also means you circumvented the process and you are a criminal. It takes one to know one.
I feel like nowadays you can just Google "how do I change my oil" or "why do spiders make webs" and I pretty much always get something good.

It seems to me as if you can just ask Google the way you would a normal person.

I know that wasn't always the case, but I'm curious what specifically you feel like you need to learn about using Google today.
But neurons are not fast enough to handle time-domain sound processing, so they offload Fourier transformation to the ear and then work with the (presumably phaseless) frequency-domain representation.

Then how is it that you can play one frequency into one ear and a slightly different frequency in the other ear, and the brain will register the beat frequency?
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I would love to learn more. I know someone who suffers from severe tinnitus. Any improvement could be very life-changing!

edit: is this your project? http://www.tinnitus.vcu.edu/Pages/Tinnitus%20Improvement.pdf
I can't speak as to why this specifically was posted, but the school is in my general area (less than an hour away) and is not particularly well regarded on the academic front. I'm not familiar with Dr. Walck so I don't mean that as a judgment on him at all, just referring to the school generally. If your focus is athletics it's probably okay despite being D3.
Framatalk is surprisingly quite good and easy to use
For those wondering about the number, it's at 1079 as of today: http://killedbypolice.net/
Yep, this is not a bad idea but unfortunately browsers do not allow you access to local storage since they do not treat the local filesystem as designated domain paths.. which is completely super annoying & makes offline webapps a very temporal thing since they NEED a domain name cached before you can use them.

Note: based on my experience when hacking around with local app 2 years ago on Chrome and FF so things may have changed?
Did you even read the post? This is about avoiding tracking. And yes, signing up for accounts can be grueling. Try making a google account without submitting a blood sample.
Oh how I know that feeling. The absolute biggest benefit of getting hearing aids was that my relationship with my wife improve immensely. Not joking at all, it was a constant source of friction between us even though logically we both knew neither one of us was really to blame.
RT has a considerable recompiled software collection right now, it's a bit too late now though, and it requires SecureBoot unlocking to be used.
It's not terribly surprising when you consider that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, whereas Germany and Italy did considerably less damage on US soil.
> Younger people are not smarter. They might learn faster new things.

I was a young person once (no, seriously!). I _thought_ I was learning things fast back then. When I got older, I realized I was trading speed for depth.
>The exterior sleeve of the cords is starting to fray at the attachment points to the actual earphones, but they still work just fine.

That's how it started with my MC5's. I put a piece of heat shrink tubing over the fray in order to postpone their demise but ultimately the plastic housing of the driver itself broke. The HF5's one day just stopped working out of one ear. I was never particularly rough with them or anything and only really used them at the office, but that was it for me.

I since moved on to a pair of Sennheiser MM 550-Xs but stopped using them because there was Bluetooth interference in my office (every one of about 70 desks in an open plan has a Bluetooth phone headset). Plus, the band messed with my hair and scalp.

Now I'm on a pair of Sennheiser CX 686G SPORTS that I originally bought for running but now use at the office. Sound's good enough and the build quality is superb since it was designed to be tossed about while doing active stuff.

I would gladly go back to Etymotic if they came out with something new in the $100ish price range, but for now I'll stick with Sennheiser. I've bought probably 6 different pairs of headphones from Sennheiser of varying styles in the past decade or so, and they all still work (with varying degrees of wear and tear). The only time a pair has broken on me was because I stupidly tried putting them on after they spent a night in a below-freezing car and didn't give them time to warm up, snapping the plastic headband, and their warranty service still replaced them with no questions asked.
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It's worth noting that China lost 15-20 million people in the war, which is the second highest death toll of all the involved countries, behind the USSR. And the war in China gets very little attention. If you ask people when WWII started, they'll usually say December 7th 1941 (if they're being US-centric) or September 1 1939 (if they remember Poland). Yet the Japanese had been rampaging around China since the early 30s, with very little done to stop them until they made the mistake of provoking a great power a decade later.
The author wrote parts of sauerbraten, he is a cool guy and not afraid of anything.
Well your irrationality got me to watch it. I hope you're happy ;)
alternativeto is great if you are looking for a software.
degooglisons-internet.org is a non-profit that aims at hosting software for people who do not have the skill to host it themselves.
Robert Gallager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Gallager) talk at MIT on Claude Shannon, "the most important master's thesis ever written": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neA0NJNUEfM
There is a third option:

Write down or save most of your password in a password manager. Add a secret prefix or suffix string to this password from memory when logging in.

This effectively gives you MFA. Something you have, something you know.

Every login gets a different password (that you don't have to remember) yet nobody knows the real password even if the password manager or piece of paper is compromised.
This is an interesting point- but I wonder, do you know of any significant civilizations that tried to end slavery around the same time period?
Indeed objectively is easily an opinion.

And I'd like to see that talk if you could, I'm still in the migration process of migrating off gmail. Its slow though as I have to change a ton of logins to use my own domain that gets stuff sent to fast mail. So nice having regular email on a domain I control.
There's nothing wrong with seeking professional mental health services for the same reason there is nothing wrong with going to the doctor with a physical illness. Dropping the stigma makes life easier for everyone and one way to start is from a clinical context.

I worry about tech's focus on impostor syndrome because it is a non-clinical diagnosis (by which I precisely mean that it is not a condition described in the Diagnostic and Statistcial Manual of Mental Health Disorders [1]). This means that there is no accepted criteria of diagnosis and no standard protocol for clinical treatment.

That does not mean that I think people's experiences are not valid. It does meant that the treatment for any underlying mental health issue is more likely to be within the same context of pop-psychology as the diagnosis. To put it another way, impostor syndrome is not an accurate clinical diagnosis.

The thing that concerns me about Beck's story is that it is based on self-diagnosis and only presents self-treatment as an option. Talking himself through boughts of doubt seems to work for him. That may not work for the next because everyone is different or the self diagnosis may be inaccurate or a less constructive course of self-treatment might be the chosen out of habit.

The description of impostor syndrome, but for the individual being high achieving, are similar to the description of low self esteem (another non clinical diagnosis often used to describe a possible cluster of symptoms related to the clinical diagnosis of Dysthymic Disorder[2] for individuals).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Man...

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64063/
Each user will have their own reasons, but if it's a big enough deal that websites will try to strongarm users into signing up then I believe it's likely a big enough deal for users as well.
Reading brain signals in the spinal cord rather than cerebrum (2014)
I'll corroborate. I'm a musician, and I can play music wearing Ety-Plugs! (I used to buy the ER-20 "baby blues" but the same object is now called "Ety-Plug.") They are far from perfect, but for the money, they're pretty darn good. (Freq response is not flat. However, it's way flatter than the foam plugs.)
It's a risk, but it's extremely tiny. I have the password memorized, but it's long enough and complex enough that I can't always type it correctly, especially on a phone.

Being able to scan it when needed allows me to use a password manager for all my other passwords and keeps me using a complex-enough master password.

It's the same argument as the article, just at one higher level of abstraction.
You can use node if you want those kinds of permissions. Or any other general purpose language with runtime.
Privacy _is_ part of the user experience, but only insofar as users actually care about that particular feature.

Most users I believe do consider privacy a positive, but often it's a low priority compared to other "more important" features like convenience and usability.
While I think UBI would perhaps be a good solution to unemployment that increased automation is going to cause, I fear we will end up with a situation like in Kurt Vonnegut's Piano Player[0]: those who aren't working will have much lower status and living quality than those working, even if they do have some UBI.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, network bandwidth and server capacity was a lot lower, so IP multicast was the most efficient way to distribute data to hundreds or thousands of clients.

Now that 10Gb+ is commonplace and modern servers can service hundreds or thousands of message bus consumers with efficient kernel-managed event loops, yes, it's arguably less needed now. But nobody will claim it's efficient from a network perspective. :)
I think it depends on the area and the size of the company. And the decade.

I think it's less common now, but it used to be that people wanted to see a degree before they'd talk to you. Many of the biggest companies still use it as a way to weed out undesirable candidates, even if it costs them some awesome potential candidates.

In the end, I generally don't want to work at companies that do things that way, so I don't find it that big of a deal. But when I got my degree, I thought it was a requirement, which is a lot of what drove me to get it in the first place.
That's a tough spot. Talk to someone about it - therapist, a mentor, a trusted friend. Especially if any of those people have some knowledge of the things you're doing so their perspective beyond generic "no ciumonk, you're great" support.

The sooner you do the better.

I had to take a break from my studies because as things got worse, I told myself if I just pushed harder I could get through it on my own. That didn't work out.
Don't know the name, but there is an amazing faucet ending that looks like a normal one (not that plastic/metal bulge) and then you just slide in and out the different tubes. I was living in a house that had a roof terrace but no water supply, so only way to clean/water the plants that was ok, was to use one of these on the bathroom sink, looks almost like the original one, but when we needed, we slided the water hose there easily.

I can't find it now, don't remember the name, but I purchased it a couple years ago from Amazon, so I should be able to get the name if you are interested with a bit more time.
Would love to see a bot that listened for my burglar alarm and then just played an audio file with a voice recording of an increasingly-worried security dispatcher: Hello, this is [blah] security, and we've just received a break-in notification from your home. Is everything alright? Hello? We are calling your emergency contact numbers and if we do not receive a response officers will be dispatched to [address]."
The weapons being sold are used for atrocities fairly regularly. Pretending this isn't happening is what we do best.
If you're an engineer and are fascinated by this subject, I'm interested to hear from you. Our startup specializes in the real time detection and blocking of these malicious ads.

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Devs should train themselves. If you're waiting for someone to train you, you're not going to last in software development for very long.
So what you're saying is, is that this could be heavily optimized using OpenCL?

I might have to bookmark this as a project to take on. A heavily parallel hashing algorithm that takes advantage of OpenCL would immensely increase the efficiency wouldn't it?

(I'm dipping my toes in parallel processing as of late and am genuinely curious in this topic and question)
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I use Widex Dream 440's[1] (superseded by the Unique 440's I think) but all of the major players (Siemens, Widex, etc) offer these features.

[1] http://www.ziphearing.com/blog/widex-dream-440-review/
I might add that their services seem to default to French locale for some reason (I guess they're french) with no obvious way to change that.

The average internet user is probably going to understand French as well as they understand the philosophical implications of eating a slice of toasted bread with butter on it.
Not sure.

In the US there are about 281,400 civil engineers [1]. I couldn't find more detailed information on structural engineers.

-Assume about 10% are practicing structural engineers who need to design concrete structures = 28140.

-Assume a company wants 1 license for every 2 engineers = 14070. (I base this off the fact that my company has 6 licenses for 12 engineers, but we may be higher than average)

-Assume we could get 10% market share = 1407 subscribers.

-Assume $1000/subscriber/year = $1,407,000 from the US market

Obviously this isn't a very rigourous analysis.

[1]: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/civil-en...
Sure, that's a common line. But the fact that such an explanation is necessary at all is a pretty strong indicator that the label "free" is a poor one.
I completely agree with starting wars if it stops the suffering of large numbers of civilians. As it stands, 15-20 million Chinese were killed by the Japanese in that war. How many would have died if the US had not gotten involved?
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I've been using these [0] for years at the initial recommendation of a colleague who goes shooting frequently. They've been great for travel on airlines, and for nights out at loud(er) events.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004DH0YOS
Totally didn't think of that, especially the OCR which is great, having used it before with the mobile app.

I wonder if you could stitch together a workflow as a reseller for Google Apps (no clue what their current name is)?

Either way, good suggestion.
Nope, what I saw in that filter wasn't calcium.
Fair point, but I consider my house being broken into a couple of orders of magnitude more likely than my wallet being compromised.

Plus, leaving my house unlocked has no utility, whereas having a scannable copy of my master password with me at all times does.

Finally, the consequences of my house getting broken into are pretty bad. But even if I did lose my wallet it's virtually certain to be someone that knows nothing about password managers, and changing my master password is pretty easy.