skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s the solution? Multi-Band Compression (MBC), a technique that’s been used by the $6 billion hearing aid industry to solve this specific problem.

An MBC uses intelligent design instead of a one-size-fits-all method. With the right data about your hearing pattern, it can mash the full sound into your range so that you get all the information you need.

Audio engineer here. That is patently untrue. MBC is a super-useful technique and is indeed helpful for mitigating hearing loss in relatively transparent fashion, but it does not and cannot bring sounds from outside someone's audible hearing range back within it. It will dynamically rebalance incoming audio in inverse proportion to the degree of hearing loss within a set of frequency ranges, but many kinds of sensorineural hearing loss involve the death of cilia cells (the tiny hairs thatvibrate at particular frequencies, much like the bins of of an FFT) which can result in a total loss of perception at or above certain frequencies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorineural_hearing_loss

To 'mash the full sound into your range' requires a technique known as frequency shifting, but that's problematic because it destroys the harmonic relationships of the incoming material and sounds disorienting, at best.

In any case, I think the illustration of the bear on the tricycle is absurdly simplistic and makes me wonder to what the degree the pp designers really grasp the underlying concept. A much more appropriate parallel would have been to show an image with a severe Gaussian blur, which more closely parallels the actual experience of hearing loss in terms of both empirical measurement (higher frequencies tend to be more severely attenuated in cases of induced hearing loss) and subjective experience (blurring hinders edge detection, which is analogous to transient detection in audio, and which has a large role in speech intelligibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur

If you're struggling with hearing loss, then you should really, really consult an audiologist, work out the basis of your hearing loss (which is sometimes as simple as impacted earwax), and work out a treatment strategy. If you're suffering from degenerative hearing loss then listening to overly-compressed music could actually accelerate it, and listening on headphones or earbuds (many of which bias the sound for increased impact) could also contribute to the problem. It's a truism in the pro audio world that most people are awful at self-measurement and tend to over-equalize in the absence of proper experimental control protocols.

I apologize for the rather negative tone of the post; I appreciate the people at SoundFocus are trying to provide people with something useful and helpful at minimal cost, by leveraging the pretty good audio hardware in their phone. However, hearing loss tends to be a one-way thing, and I think that offering a product to that market without a clinician on the team is a bad idea. There's a lot more to being an 'audio ninja' than understanding the fundamentals of DSP.
You could totally agree to them. They aren't unreasonable, you're just grandstanding here.

And worse, you're being DISHONEST to pretend like suddenly you were shocked-- SHOCKED!-- that Apple prevents malware in the store, and you just can't abide by such absurdity as protecting their users. The very same users the EFF was created to protect.

Never mind Apple's being on the forefront of securing users information against the government and thieves.

Never mind Apple opening the mobile app market, in fact, really creating it, breaking the stranglehold (and far more onerous terms) of the carriers.

Nevermind all that.

Grandstanding is bad enough, being DISHONEST is unacceptable, and this is why the EFF is going the way of the red cross and every big "non-profit" organization.

EDIT:
I see the guy from the EFF Deleted his comment. Well, not really surprised.

There's a severe lack of integrity on display here.
I read them quite some time ago (when I signed them) but I don't remember reading anything similar in the Play Store.
Several of these terms don't even apply to Android (the platform is open so you can publish where you want and you don't have to use reverse engineering on an open source project).
Also, I don't see why the EFF would have published their Android app if they thought the terms were unacceptable.
I made a jQuery plugin for drawing really sweet donuts: https://github.com/matixmatix/sweet_donut
The FBI has already made it quite clear that they're trying to use these accusations as evidence that the US needs to be afraid of cyber attacks.

I've seen a lot of people wonder this, but they flat out state in in an official statement on their website:

"Further, North Korea’s attack on SPE reaffirms that cyber threats pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States."

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-so...

Second to last paragraph, second sentence.
Nothing being exposed there, all those terms were well known, and when you cut thru the dishonest spin of the EFF, actually perfectly reasonable and designed to protect consumers.
An excellent example of a pointless data visualisation. I wanted to view a list of titles by date. What I get is a time series of top page visits shown as a faux heat map, with titles written on top.

I get it, a list with 365 entries is quite long, but that's what you commit to if you want "every day". The abuse the simple list gets here is uncalled for, and worst of all even collapsing it into stacked boxes doesn't improve the "too long" aspect enough to make it worthwhile.
The "I am disappointed in you HN" intro was offputting. Say what you're going to say, I don't need to be shamed by the principle for it. Practically, it also makes your article less relevant to the population as a whole, and it will feel out of date a month after this discussion.

Regarding the content: the reason I don't find discussions about consciousness particularly stimulating is because they feel more like philosophy than science. The people who address it scientifically (who are named in the article - Kurzweil, Dawkins, Munroe) - are also the ones dismissing it.
That's true. They do give you more control than Facebook though. More privacy settings, and restrictions on who can tag.

https://help.instagram.com/186952328121982/
What you say makes sense when you're selling a product. With most of these applications, their potential money making product though is the back-office data they collect on the users themselves which they then sell to brokers or data warehousing services, or provide to targeting advertisement firms. From that stand point you simply want the largest installed user base you can get.

A successful smart phone app based on these metrics is the one with the largest user base. You get that user base by providing a simple to use product that quickly addresses a need for the largest number of people, rich, poor, white, black, etc...

Now, if you're talking about targeted applications like certain types of gaming apps. Or apps that provide an extended retail experience? This is when you talk about focused demographics.
Wow, I didn't expect the paper to get on people's radar so soon. This is Rashied, I'll be happy to answer questions as much as possible/I'm available!
That's an expensive form of bitching... When they could just publish the same press release without having to develop an app for other platforms, for free!
The EFF dev said its a Cordova app, so why not just throw up the HTML mobile site for iOS users? You could still notify via sms, email, etc.
> In my experience, here, the moderate muslims are often rather quiet, perhaps out of fear. In general, they do not support extremism and fear non-muslim extremist retaliation. They are in a really bad spot, and I sympathize with their situation.

They're no more quiet than when say a white Christian lunatic (Breivik) shot 77 people to death and injured over 300. The vast majority of them will denounce both acts, but otherwise they're pretty quiet. Which goes for most people, really, none of my non-muslim friends have gone to any demonstrations lately or spoke out publicly. Sure there are people who do it, but that goes for muslims, too. It's not always very well reported, but if you go and look you'll find a shit ton of muslim leaders denounce such attacks, for example today the French Muslim Council called it an "attack on democracy", barbaric, an attack on freedom of the press etc. And you don't really see anyone speak out against those Muslim organisations like CFCM which is said to represent between 3.5 and 5 million muslims in France. And these aren't just formal organisations, they often have deep ties to the community, particularly with direct links to formal networks of all mosques in the country.

I always wonder what it'd really look like. I'm not religious but family is. They look at attacks like these with disgust. But he's not a well known individual, he has no place on TV to 'publicly speak out'. What would that even look like? Public persons tend to speak out against attacks like these without exception. Today the Muslim Mayor of Rotterdam did, and a Muslim member of the Labor party has planned demonstrations with a large Moroccan youth movement coinciding with demonstrations planned in France.
Right, but not without type inference. One of the reasons Scala's type system is quite complicated is that it can do semi-unification to achieve local type inference, at least (semi-unification is undecidable in general, and Scala makes a best effort, I believe).

How does Haskell deal with refs?
If anyone is wondering what happened to the RISC/CISC debate...

RISC won and all CPUs are now RISC CPUs. Even the x86 CPUs with CISC instruction sets are now RISC CPUs.

This is done by using a thin instruction "cracking" layer that turns CISC instructions into a series of "micro-ops" (equivalent to simple RISC operations). Additionally, most RISC CPUs still need to break some of their instructions down into micro-ops.

It just didn't require the death of the x86 instruction set.
another idea was maybe make the data extracted into an image so they can't copy and paste it freely.

The spreadsheet would be just images of text.
Don't forget to blog this on the trendy "Medium". A visionary way to "blog" and start trending with some hashtag.

Apart from my above sentence, which could be a number 11 in your post, this was a solid answer.

So let's swap it around now...

The real Valley founder checklist:

- White
- Male
- Alpha
- 23-25
- Talk the talk
- Know more (important) people than "how to code"
- Master human-SEO (throwing keywords to investors)
- Go to Stanford
- Use your connections to "work at Google"
- SoLoMo (Silicon Valley show)
- Misogynist

I think I got them all.
Its really getting to the point that no matter how many consumers rights Google violates and no matter how many consumers Apple protects, the adherents to this holy war against Apple will never admit things are not as black and white as they insist on portraying.
Apparently there is... [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_excep...
Have teens ever been an important demographic for Facebook though? It started only for college students - it wasn't until three or four years later they opened it up to everyone. [And more broadly - do we use popularity among teens to measure success for anything that isn't specifically targeted primarily at teens (e.g. a company like Abercrombie & Fitch)?]

Teenagers in high school usually see their friends every day (more so than college - where you're less likely to have all or many of the same classes as your friends), there probably isn't as much desire to use a social network to keep up with what your friends/acquaintances are doing since you're experiencing it with them. After college you're more likely going weeks or months between seeing even your closest friends or family so Facebook is probably a bit more useful/exciting when your older.
The Mill CPU (http://millcomputing.com/) seems to be going down both those routes- it's a very in-order, VLIW-like design with some tweaks to make it work well with typical OOE workloads, including several ways to make the encoding much smaller.
Right, maybe I was not clear enough in my meaning - I have some hope that there are ways to make this not happen at all or at least happen a lot more rarely, and I think the way to get there is to get the standard of living and education, and the openness of society, extended to all people, and for religion and fundamentalist thought to be a rare fringe activity and not commonplace.

I don't think an absolute police state can prevent violent acts, because an absolute police state IS violence.

It's easy to forget that less than 100 years ago the whole world was at war. There has been progress, even though things may seem bleak. We are still at the infancy of global civilization. Of course it's possible that we're also at the zenith of global civilization, but that's where the hope comes in...
The legal line, I think, is once a speaker goes beyond insults and causes demonstrable harm to another person. So defamation crosses the line. Causing a person to feel offended does not.

It could be argued that going out of your way to caricature a religious group is unethical. But it is legal (that is, should be allowed in a free society).

In either case responding with violence to a personal insult barbaric and unjustifiable. One can always read different magazines, watch different videos, etc.
to be honest I think it is more like gravity - a fundamental part of nature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

It's just that consciousness is so different than anything else I have seen created by matter - it is so profoundly different. From my experience and point of view, I don't believe it is created by matter.
Wow. I bet these could even be grouped into one module with minimal size overhead by using some higher-order functions or something.

https://github.com/blakeembrey/swap-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/is-upper-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/title-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/snake-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/dot-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/path-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/camel-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/param-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/upper-case-first

https://github.com/blakeembrey/lower-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/upper-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/pascal-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/is-lower-case

https://github.com/blakeembrey/constant-case
The problem is that the terrorists are right about islam.

So what do you think about your prophet doing the same ? Are you also ashamed of that ? He had the mother of 5 children murdered for opposing him. As you (should) know, this is far from the only instance of such action by "the prophet".

I am sorry but unless you wholeheartedly condemn this kind of killing, whoever did it, your gesture means little. If you don't condemn your prophet, when is killing for insults allowed and when is it not becomes a valid question.

To put it bluntly : if you don't condemn this, you're at least somewhat of a terrorist supporter. If you do, how can you be a muslim (given what the daily prayer says, mohamed could not have done anything wrong, plus you'd be lying when you say that prayer).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Asma%27_bint_Marwan

Allow me to put up the full actions of the prophet :

Upon hearing the poem, Muhammad then called for her death
in turn, saying "Who will rid me of Marwan's daughter?"
Umayr bin Adiy al-Khatmi, a blind man belonging to the
same tribe as Asma’s husband (i.e., Banu Khatma)
responded that he would. He crept into her room in the
dark of night where she was sleeping with her five
children, her infant child close to her bosom. Umayr
removed the child from Asma's breast and killed her.

This is far from the only time that muhammad did this sort of thing, and this is part of the "canon" of islam. It is also law in over 50 countries.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Asma%27_bint_Marwan

(but if you doubt the quote, just type it into Google)
The funny thing is that even though they have OpenCVS in their source tree, they do not use it. It never took off and probably had too many bugs and issues.

Instead they are and have been using GNU CVS instead.

OpenCVS was linked to the normal build for a while but has been removed from it four years ago.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/Makefil...
Well, it still privileges music over other things, but I agree it's less egregious.
P2K – Pocket to Kindle: Send Your Pocket Articles to Your Kindle
Please re-read the HN guidelines. They ask you not to post comments complaining about being downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Of course GWT and Dart also do dead code elimination (also known as tree-shaking). There's a reason Google's JavaScript-targeted compilers implement this.

On the other hand, the consistent dedication to writing tiny libraries in JavaScript ecosystem is not a bug. Tree-shaking compilers make it somewhat harder to tell where the bloat is coming from, and that encourages people writing libraries to get sloppy.
Could you elaborate on the "dishonest spin" part? I've always been under the impression that the EFF were the ones trying to protect consumers, so you have me curious.
Because they care more about making propaganda, apparently.
Insert +1B records in windows like a boss
The trade shows were a great start. We signed up a few folks right away, and people are still calling us 2 months later.

It was a really interesting story though...

My co-founder and I had the smallest possible booth in the very back corner of the room. Our biggest competitor had a triple sized booth manned with 4 people and 2 42-inch TVs in the center of the room.

We had 5 competitors within a 6 booth radius. Everyone else had a giveaway, huge screens, backdrops, lighting... the works. We had a 60" wide banner, a 24-inch monitor, 2 iPads, flyers and our phones.

These competitors had a decade of experience selling their product and had been to all these trade shows many times. This was our first trade show ever and only had 4 customers.

The first day was OK. Generated some buzz around the hall and had a few people really spend some time chatting.

In the afternoon, I branched out (co-founder stayed at the booth). I went around and introduced myself to about 1/2 of the other vendors. Then, I started walking up to folks randomly around the conference hall. I introduced myself, smiled and told them I was with Gingr. I then asked if they had a minute to chat about their problems with software. About 80% said yes.

I learned that just going out on a limb, smiling, being polite and asking people about their problems really worked. It makes sense IMHO ... everyone wants someone to listen to their problems.

Some were concerned that we were so new and small. I had practiced my spiel for that a hundred times by then. I managed to persuade most. A few had their "IT" person call me the next week. For the most part though, if you understand someone's problem and do have a solution, being new and small small wouldn't be a "deal breaker".

As far as closing a sale goes...don't treat it like a sale! I approached every conversation as just that.
#JeSuisCharlie in time-lapse
Seems like it depends on who you ask. I imagine something closer to the truth is that Netflix are bigger in the US but YouTube are bigger globally.
Comment scores decrease when users downvote them. Moderators don't give comments negative scores.
I wonder if the teens who favour Instagram and Snapchat today will nevertheless age into people who get more out of Facebook as they get older.

When you're young, most of the people you know and think about are still right there around you and you see them almost every day. You haven't left too many people behind yet. But that changes quickly over time and an increasing proportion of the people you know and care about, the ones you met at a particular place and time in your life, are no longer close by. Being able to keep in touch with those people's comings and goings and relationships and family lives to the (relative) depth afforded by Facebook probably becomes more attractive and more valuable.

So although Facebook may be losing its original stomping ground to simpler, more targeted alternatives, perhaps both Facebook and its active user base are maturing together.
The comparison doesn't make sense. There are no fees to drive on the road so my car and the bus are on equal terms. Even if there was a fee, and riding on a bus makes me exempt, that's still not a close analogy.

A better analogy is a situation where there are competing private bus companies, there's a road fee per user (paid by the user), and the city exempts users of its preferred bus company. In that situation, all other private bus companies are at a huge competitive disadvantage because their users are still required to pay the fee.
> Also, I personally regard stopping the NSA from spying on Americans - all Americans - without cause to be stopping a bigger, and more important, crime than stopping the number of crimes that the encryption would stop them from solving.

I think it pales in comparison to spying on all unAmericans.
I'm not a hearing aid expert but the microphone and earpiece may currently be tightly coupled because it has to be. That is, human ears are very sensitive to phase shifts and time delays. Placing the microphone in a location that is not your ear may throw off your hearing somewhat (possibly ability to locate from where a sound originated).
This article would be great if they replaced their frequency-domain 'dynamic range' terminology with the standard word for it, bandwidth.
I don't really meditate, but one thing I've found helpful is to make it a point to not purposefully distract myself from mindful thought.

The truth is that we all have plenty of time for mindful thinking, even if we don't actually set aside time to sit with eyes closed in a "meditation" state. Think about how much time is spent just sitting on a train, or in line doing nothing. The instant impulse most of the time in these types of situations is to pull out your phone and distract yourself from thinking by looking at a web article, or playing a game.

I found that by reducing this habit in my life (not completely eliminated or else I wouldn't be commenting here) I had much more time for mindful thinking in my normal day to day life.

Another way to get started is to go on a long walk without headphones. Maybe even leave your phone at home. A year or so ago I was working through some shit and found it extremely helpful to take long walks on a trail that I loved with no electronics at all. That time spent free from distractions allowed me to develop introspection that was extremely useful and therapeutic.
It doesn't require that you put DRM in your app. The iOS one does (which is part of the build / submission process).