skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to piggy back off randlet, but I would venture to say that most people would consider being unable to hear conversation when there is background noise the opposite of "decent hearing."
Same for me. I have had my hearing tested several times and always had pretty good scores. But I still don't understand people in loud environments. It would be interesting to try a hearing aid.
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it seems like more of a "classic sophomoric illusion" to dismiss an entire work because you didn't like a sentence you read in the first 5 minutes of seeing it.
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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.

The only issue I have with Google search (aside from privacy concerns and the like) is the frequency to which the results don't actually contain any of the search terms I use. This functionality is fine for general use, but when I'm actually looking for something very specific the guesses Google makes often makes the search results less helpful than nothing at all.
Probably. If only one avenue works, they'd use that one avenue. Doesn't mean we can't fix that problem either. I'd still rather they only have one avenue of attack on me than two.
I went to an audiologist a few years back because I could hear certain things that would drive me up the wall. I thought it might be tinnitus or something like that- I ride motorcycles, am on the water in boats, use power tools, etc. Turns out I have exceptional hearing as well, and much better high frequency responses than an average 30 year old. Certain cheap lights and power transformers can drive me absolutely freaking crazy.
Nice call. I just downloaded this on Spotify and will make it part of my routine.
How many device drivers have ever been written in Lisp?
I'm not necessarily advocating C as the best way to write high performance, non-allocating code either.
I was going to say the same thing. The general name for these is attenuating ear plugs. A lot of musicians, especially drummers, wear them on stage so they can hear their own instrument over everything else, at a sensible volume.

They vary primarily in their frequency response: some are flat and others are designed to cut specific frequencies more than others (e.g, for bass players vs guitar players).

I found out about them from a drummer who was wearing them in a nightclub after a gig. I initially thought he'd left them in by mistake, but he swore it made having conversations a lot easier. That, and he had no plans to go deaf from the loudness of the music (and you don't learn the drums if you dislike loud music).
Personally, I don't look at current consumer VR as expensive.

But this is because I have the perspective of having played around with DIY VR back in the mid-1990s. Back then, the only way you could have gotten anything -close- to what we have now, would have been to drop about $50k on hardware. Even then, it still would have been lacking.

Today, you can get a much better experience in your home for under $5k. To me, that's astounding.

Sadly, we still don't know what to do with it - beyond games and a few other gimmicky things. There has yet to be that "must have" application for VR - we don't have a "photoshop" or "desktop publishing" or whatever you want to call it application yet - at least for the consumer.

For the consumer, it's mainly about video games, and maybe some kind of "social VR" - but that's about it, for now. Those applications (except for the "hardcore") don't justify the price. I'm not sure there is an app that could.
But only relatively recently have ads become dangerous to passersby.
Seems pretty similar to what I've picked up from Thoreau's work.

What irks me is that most people delve to much into if Thoreau did this or that, if what he wrote resonates with you, take it as it is.

You don't need to agree with a person fully to find nuggets of wisdom in their work that can last you a lifetime.
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Talk to a licensed mental health professional. It's no different than going to a doctor with a sprained knee.
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Crytek haven't paid their employees in Bulgaria in 3 months
Crytek haven't paid their employees in Bulgaria in 3 months and all workers in that office are currently owed 3 full salaries. The company is not looking to pay these salaries any time soon and have spent the last few months lying about the availability of this money in order to keep as many employees as possible.

The Yerli brothers (Avni, Cevat and Faruk) are now looking at the second delay in the last 6 months (after finishing up a delay of 2 months just before the current one) and the third payment delay in the last two years.

The former director of the Sofia studio, Vesselin Handjiev, left several months ago and the studio is entirely at the mercy of Crytek Frankfurt's leadership, which has proved to be unsuccessful in stemming the current bleeding for 6 months.

Anyone who has an offer or is otherwise considering joining Crytek is advised to steer their ship elsewhere, as the current situation is rumored to apply to all studios within the company, even after the closure and selling off of several of the Crytek studios around the world.
For me it was very easy... like javascript strict-mode with type variables...
This is poor quality. Magic Leap is still unique to Hololens and they have always had a very "long game" in mind. I feel this may be a little on the FUD side of things.

Also, the source of this is Slashdot > IBTimes > The Verge > The Information (which is behind a paywall). So none of us can actually read the source.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/12/09/1535221/magic-leap-... > http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/magic-leap-dead-report-claims-compa... > http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/8/13894000/magic-leap-ar-mic... > https://www.theinformation.com/the-reality-behind-magic-leap
I'll second the pricing - you can figure around $3,000 per ear, plus another $500-$1,000 for the premium accessories. Price varies of model and included services, but that's the ballpark, as is the 5-6 year lifespan if well cared for (I had older analog aids that could last 10+ years and even survived submersion in water. Digital, not so much).
A calculator for you, because I'm in pitch-my-side-project mode ;)

https://instacalc.com/50060
I humbly submit that they need to work on the name. I've had a long day and not much sleep and my eyes didn't recognise the difference between "hearphones" and "headphones"; the two even sound pretty similar. I know it's intentional and clever, but it's quite subtle. Especially if you don't have good hearing...
Did you want me to scientifically analyse my drinking water before I can comment about it on HN?

I'm talking about the water that reaches my faucet, not the one somewhere upstate NY.
I'd be interested to see what happens to the noise level of a bar room with everyone using these. Would the clarity of sound reduce everyone's volume to conversational?
This is a known condition, apparently, called "Hidden Hearing Loss" and was covered here a couple months ago:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/cant-hear-in-noisy-places-its-a-...

(if the direct link from here gets you to the paywall, it looks like a referral thing. Oddly going to it form Twitter worked, though Incognito and Web didn't: https://mobile.twitter.com/Jieqian_Zhang/status/780613322097...)

HN comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637996

Direct link to the papers cited in the article:
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep24907

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812055/

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

(you can guess I also have interest in the topic...)
That might cause problems for a live stream...
(Co-creator here) — Thanks for the comment. I've hiked these trails over and over and each time I've wondered about camping. I figured being discrete was key. Might give it a go with an ultralight tent or bivy sack this spring.
I have read that NMDA agonists (DXM, Ketamine, PCP, other arylcyclohexamines) work pretty well for this. Anecdotally, their withdrawal symptoms include tinnitus so I'm not surprised the inverse could be true.

It also looks like more specific NMDA agonists are being developed as a treatment? http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
I have no idea about the PSVR. It's probably the VR device I've heard the least about (technically). I own one, and it works pretty well, but I don't know much about it.

From my understanding this won't do anything to reduce power processing, it's all about reducing latency. That final transform happens at the last moment, with the most up-to-date head tracking information. I kind of figured it happened in the headset hardware itself in order to reduce the latency as much as possible.
My go-to read when I find myself getting too lost in the question of meaning:

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_frost/poems/731

(Frost, "Maple")
I agree with you that the comment seems very off-hand. However scandox doesn't claim that this search, outside of religion, is neglected; instead he uses sarcastic quotes to claim that it's not, while meaningness.com would pretend it is.

I don't want to try and answer whether it's really neglected or not. My personal experience is that I haven't seen an approach as reasonable, methodical and clear as this one (so fa in my reading).
For tracking purposes, both innocuous ("has the user actually seen my ad?") and malevolent as in the OP.
Japan was also promised the world for their support of the Entente in World War I - and, much like Italy, received nothing for its efforts.

Let's not forget the context of their imperial ambitions - in the first half of the twentieth century, most of the world was still ruled by empires.
You won't be jumping ship at all. Everything you know about JavaScript applies directly to TypeScript. It's a superset of JavaScript. You can even take your existing JavaScript code and start adding TypeScript annotations to it a little at a time.
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> Both these stances [eternalism, nihilism] are wrong, factually

citation needed.

Author throws around too many unsupported claims to be taken seriously.
And then "nihilism is wrong" becomes "this stance is unworkable". Dubious logic at best.
Wat? It's been years since I created my "real" Google account, so I just created "fakeasdlkvjasklfvjasdkljfgasdf@gmail.com" out of curiosity.

It literally took 20 seconds, with a fake name and birthday. There are form fields for your phone number and alternate email address, but you can leave them blank.
I built Simultube, which is a React powered web application where you can watch YouTube videos simultaneously with your friends, and talk to them at the same time with speech bubbles.

It's not super responsive, but here it goes: http://flowers-react.herokuapp.com/
These are not "themes that were common to the time period". These are themes that are common to human history, this type of camp was not invented then.

For example if you check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment#History_of_internme...

you will find examples going back more than 300 years, and I'm sure a historian can find even earlier examples.

Internment camps of various kinds happen by EVERY war, not just this one.

> it's willful blindness to ignore the deep similarities between a policy of containing and suppressing a racial group, and a policy of containing, suppressing, and exterminating a racial group.

No, it's willful blindness to think this was unique in any way to WW2. "Camps" is NOT the important or interesting thing about that war, it is an almost trivial detail.

Your framing it that way makes it as if it was something specially important. But in actuality it is a minor footnote compared to what they DID in those camps.

It's like saying "An important note about the 21st century is that humans lived in houses. People in both apartments and individual homes had wide access to cellphones."

You are focusing on the wrong thing.
If you're making health decisions based on what's hip and what's not, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

Many earplugs can be very unobtrusive in appearance unless people are looking directly at your ear canal. Not to mention that many, in clubs, are already going to be drunk or otherwise inebriated. Unless you wear bulky hearing protection like the guys on a flight line crew, few will notice, and those that do won't remember.
There's more than one sentence in that quote. Keep reading.
> Your average web user loves Google

Many average users I know think Google is the Internet. 10 years ago, they thought that Internet Explorer is the Internet. They don't really care, the same way most people don't care what's the manufacturer of the bus that takes them to work every morning. They just want to get stuff done, get information they need and go on with their lives.

Whether Google makes some money with their data, or nobody makes money because it's all open source, wouldn't change a thing. Even if such change happened, the average user would just say: Okay. And go on with their life as before.
Absolutely agree — this is why I keep going back to Kumano.

Japan has Nakasendo, Tokaido, the Shikoku pilgrimage, salt roads, Basho's backroads to the north, the paths of Dewasanzan, etc etc etc. It's nearly infinite. I figured if I spend ten years walking Kumano I might have the slightly chance of possibly understanding a small piece of it.
Seems a tortured equation: perhaps a vertical sandwich press without the press! I was thinking it may be possible to change the spring to another form of vertical linear actuator (eg. stepper motor driven) and giving it more controlled movement, also smarter with proximity/LOS-style sensors. Perhaps the top cover could also expand and contract. The very fact there's a spring-loaded release shows this is old tech. The market can clearly tolerate a few dollars for a stepper motor, as there are 'smart' toasters selling for nearly ~$200USD and the bottom is ~undifferentiated. See http://www.brevillegroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/B...
OK but maybe this should be 'Where are you based?'
I like this aspect of software development. I've not seen the permanence and ephemeral aspects of things so cleanly expressed in any other field. The fundamentals don't change but the software artifacts expressing those fundamentals do. Not sure why I enjoy that dichotomy but it tickles my brain the right way.
I have mild hearing loss, but I never realized how much I relied on lip-reading until I started hanging out with a friend who habitually put his hand in front of his mouth while talking. "Brian, you've pressed mute again".
The Army Rangers have headphones that cancel gunfire and explosions and enhance voices, they say they can have a normal conversation in the middle of a battle. Very clever!
A cryptographic hash makes it hard for an active attacker to cause the hash function to do something unwanted (generate collisions, generate a pre-determined output for a chosen input, etc.). "Hard" here is defined as it usually is for crypto: it should not be any easier to break the algorithm by knowing the algorithm's details, than to find one by brute-forcing 2^128 (or however many) possible inputs and treating the algorithm as a black box.

A non-cryptographic hash is generally not worried about active attackers; it wants to give a pretty good, even distribution of outputs for an arbitrary set of inputs, but it's not worried about inputs that are specifically designed to abuse the hash function. If you want to, say, create a random-looking but deterministic and stateless color for each user in an chat room, or something, a non-cryptographic hash function is fine. It's possible that an attacker can create a bunch of users with names constructed to all have the same color, but that's not going to break your website.

However, if you're putting each user in a hash table, a large number of collisions in a hash table can easily get you O(n^2) performance, despite the hash table being O(n) for a randomly-selected set of n inputs. That's the usual reason for using cryptographic hash functions even in places you wouldn't usually expect to see crypto. For instance, SipHash is a fast cryptographic hash function with output too small for use in actual cryptosystems, but it's perfect for hash tables.

(Strictly speaking, a cryptographic hash function doesn't promise anything about the privacy of its input; H(x) = x[0] + SHA-256(x) satisfies the theoretical constraints on cryptographic hash functions for preimage resistance and collision resistance.)
I was reading this paragraph.

"...and people always talk much louder to compensate for the noise. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to hear the server without any extra effort..."

And initially was wondering how he got an audio feed to his server in a restaurant and then was like "Why would he want to listen to his server". And then realized that there are human servers in restaurants.
Have you got an example/names of existing software? I'm interested to see what kind of features they have.
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Thanks for the response. What kind of ongoing service do they require that a service contract would be desired?
This is augmented reality.
> Much easier to take your fixtures off and bleach/disinfect.

You have a very different definition of "easier" than me.

And I don't know about you, but hot water is HOT, and I never use it directly while expecting not to get burned - I always mix it with cold.
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"Walled Gardens" have nothing to do with IP laws.

The user obviously retains copyright on whatever he posts/uploads to fb/twitter/etc. If the user grants you permission, IP laws cannot be used to stop you.

The CFAA did indeed come into play with the guy who wanted to automate Facebook profile transfers. But apart from the questions of that specific case, it's just not true that there are millions of people waiting to migrate away from Facebook if only they could transfer their photo library.

Most of the value in these networks is in "network effect", i. e. it's usefulness is a function of the number of other people using it.

And then there's good old "this service is actually pretty good". Case in point: Gmail. It's quite easy to move away from it: you can download all your data via SMTP and set up forwarding or an autoresponder. That people do not do so has nothing to do with your conspiracy theories. They actually like the service.
It sounds a lot like what I am experiencing too. Is there any point talking about it to a specialized doctor (an ENT?) ?
Some people with Autism Spectrum Disorder have this issue. I believe I had it when I was younger but it less noticeable right now.
Oops — fixed. Thanks. Was missing an http. Here it is if you were curious: http://walkkumano.com/kickstarter.com/projects/craigmod/6152...
This is incredible piece of IT. Interesting, which ad networks are used?
At the end of the day, the problem with hypocrisy are the parts you do wrong, not the parts you do right.

America has done a lot of hypocritical things, but we shouldn't have held back from doing the right thing -- intervening in other countries to stop atrocities -- just because we were also guilty as sin. In an ideal world we'd actually be the pure, benevolent world police we imagine ourselves, but in the real world, confronting atrocities abroad has also made us better at home. Maybe we still have a long way to go, but a lot more Americans would have a problem with interment camps today, after making stopping the Holocaust such an important part of our national identity, than did in the 1940s.
The trick with impostor "syndrome" is that it is specifically not a medical condition. It is a common part of the human experience. Syndrome, taken by itself, means "a group of symptoms that consistently occur together or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms."

It doesn't have to be pathologized to be true. Syndrome may be imprecise due to modern connotations, but it is a widely-observable condition.

What word would you use?
If you take the process they outline and memorize it, you're rid of having to carry around something physical. You can still store the formula somewhere safe in case you forget it or something happens to you.

You might be surprised how little effort it takes to memorize. Half an hour a day for a few days can do it for a lot of people, followed by putting it in to practice.

The password creation process:

[~8 characters including lowercase, uppercase, and special characters]

+

[a secret word or set of characters ~8 characters long]

+

[a simple encryption method for the alphabet which you use to write the service's name down]

eg. [qWeRtY4$] + [bananas] + [ibdlfsofxt]

Which comes out to: qWeRtY4$bananasibdlfsofxt

Decrypter for the last section ('ibdlfsofxt' is 'hackernews'):

a = b

b = c

c = d

d = e

e = f

f = h

h = i

i = j

j = k

k = l

l = m

m = n

n = o

o = p

p = q

q = r

r = s

s = t

t = u

u = v

v = w

w = x

x = y

y = z

z = a

Take those three steps and randomize them or make them something unique to you and you're good to go.

Probably the most important part of your password is the length. The longer a password is, the longer it will take for software to break it with brute force. If the service you're using has a three character name, you'll be relying on the first two parts of your passwords to reach a good length. It's good to keep those two at a combined length of around 14+ characters.

eg. [1234567]+[1234567]+[aws] = 17 characters

Some problems with this method:

A: If your password requires changing.

- To solve this, you could choose a character in the first sequence that you can increment every time you have to change your password. You could also choose a different word for the second section. Plan ahead for this scenario.

B: The service you are using doesn't allow a password with one of your special characters.

- You could try using special characters that are very commonly accepted when you create your password, such as the exclamation mark. Though, this _does_ take away from the security.

- You could also have a secondary password; one that is simplified and doesn't rely on special characters. You can have this as a backup for services that have limiting password requirements.

eg. [qwerty]+[bananas]+[ibdlfsofxt]

C: The service you're using doesn't allow a password of that length.

- As with problem B, you could have a secondary password ready ahead of time, . eg [tY4$] + [ibdlfsofxt]
Last I read, US homes are the second largest in the world, after Australia. In Asia, many people live in apartments and that space is unavailable / non-negotiable. In addition, microwaves are not nearly so widely used.
I tend to lounge when I work (it's why I mentioned the chair) and the top of the screen is about at eye level.

I guess I'm advocating lounging too...hmm, maybe I'm not the best person to give advice.

Anyway, the trackpoint [1] on the keyboard makes a mouse unneccessary. Trackpads are ok, but still require fingers to move off the home row.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
My parents are both public attorneys. I was raised from a young age to minimize unnecessary interaction with the police.

That is, of course, an American (and urban) perspective.
As long as you have decent pitch, it shouldn't be too hard. Just listen to square waves at various frequencies until you narrow in on the frequency of your tinnitus.

When you play two square waves that are slightly off, you also hear a really obvious pulse that corresponds to how off they are (1 pulse per second means they're off by exactly 1 hz, and so on.) I don't know what the experience of tinnitus would be, but assuming you can hear the tinnitus and a square wave at a close pitch, it should be fairly easy to isolate the exact frequency with a binary search.
Paris has been doing fine without money from tech for thousands of years thank you very much