skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should have at least called out which term of https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/how-why/terms-participation was being invoked. My best guess is the following passage:

To avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition.

If that is the case then I strongly disagree. Prosecutorial overreach and our broken plea bargaining system is a national issue that desperately needs to be addressed. The wording of the petition may have been very specific, but it still provides an opportunity to address the issue.

Another possible term that applies is this:

You agree to only create petitions consistent with the limited purpose of the We the People platform, which is to allow individuals to petition the Administration to take action on a range of issues — to address a problem, support or oppose a proposal, or otherwise change or continue federal government policy or actions.

In that case only the person who created the petition is in violation. The broad interest in signing the petition is a sign that there is an issue that should be looked at. And indeed there is - the undue impact that prosecutorial overreach can have thanks to our broken plea bargaining system.

I also note that 1.5 years to respond does not fit my notion of "timely" that the platform promised us...

(At a guess they waited to respond to a bunch of these until after an election cycle finished and new legislators were signed in. Best way to guarantee of both low publicity and that anyone outraged will forget about it before any future vote.
Right; Apple submission doesn't doesn't require encryption that inhibits visibility into the app internals.

It does require signing, and Apple prevents unsigned apps from running on non-jailbroken phones.
definitely. binaural hearing is very important. a single microphone in your shirt pocket would be a bad idea and not even close to the quality of hearing you can get with current hearing aids.
No matter how brave you are, spending time killing other people and watching your friends blown to bits will affect you for the rest of your life.
Thank heavens I am not the only person who finds the popular substitution of 'less' for 'fewer' infuriating.
There is, of course, no excuse.

Love will set you free. It's taken me a long time to find the kind of love for myself that allowed me to live. I hope with all my heart you find it, brother.
As an aside, it would be interesting to know how pre-agricultural/nomadic hominids dealt with PTSD (and mental illness in general). I would guess that individuals who were no longer able to contribute to the survival of the tribe (or whatever you call a cooperative unit of prehistoric humans) would be culled in one manner or another, but I suspect there were exceptions.

It's really rather a shame that there is very little we can glean about the social customs of our prehistoric ancestors in this regard.

brb, i'm gonna go work on my time machine.
hey anigbrowl, OP here.

You raise some great points - it is indeed impossible to use an MBC to bring sounds back into a user's range of hearing if they have lost all sensibility at that particular frequency. However, the loss of hearing at a particular frequency is not binary - it tends to start with a reduction in dynamic range at that frequency, as the cilia start to get worn out / destroyed.

So if you have loss @ 3 KHz, you don't often completely lose all hearing, but your dynamic range which normally is 0dB -> 100 dB (over-simplification here) might now be 30 dB -> 100 dB.

What an MBC will do here is compress the range at that frequency band, so your 100dB of range is now 70dB of range.
I don't think anyone thinks you're stupid. Metaphors can be tricky.
Seems like anything a server could do via cookies, they could also do via your client-generated session id.

Servers which currently drop lots of individual cookies on you now, would just start dropping that data in the server-side session data. In either case they can tie your client to the same persistent information. Same for situations where javascript sets or gets cookie values - these could all be achieved via ajax, storing server-side against your session id.

If anything, it possibly reduces my options as a client, in situations where a site previously dropped lots of cookies on me, as now my only options are to completely close my session, or persist all data, when before there were situations where I could maintain, say, my logged in user session, while removing the "is_a_jerk=true" cookie.
I'm not saying it's bad at all! I'm just pointing out that the academics who invent something and pass it to a biotech company for development get something in return!
Exactly. With my Etymotics in-canal buds, I can set the volume on my music player to about 25-30%. With the stock buds or even non-isolating over-the-ear headphones, the same subjective loudness requires about 60-75% on the volume control.
The blasphemy we need
There is not the Zappata quote, but it still seems relevant :

"Finally, for the Homeric hero, aretê consisted of a set of qualities clustered around the readiness to fight a beautiful war and die a beautiful death."

"preferring to die in their own land rather than live to dwell in that of others"
> 2. I will carry the microphone and amplifier in my shirt pocket. No more feedback.

This is how hearing aids used to be:

http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Transistor%20(Body)/...
Their experimental approach was interesting and hopefully will lead to more discoveries. I feel like this drug is already being overhyped however. It doesn't work for gram negative bacteria, which are responsible for most of the serious and scary multi drug resistant infections.

Also, assuming it doesn't have weird toxicity in people, or unfavourable pharmacokinetics, the author's suggestion that we should give it to everyone is a bit cute, given that it will almost certainly cost north of $200 per day if it gets to market...

Peptide antibiotics can have some issues. A recent new peptide antibiotic called Daptomycin [1] can't be used for pneumonia for example, because it is inhibited by pulmonary surfactant.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daptomycin
Be aware that many prescription medications are ototoxic (e.g. Aspirin). I recently had a routine check-up of my hearing and at 31 my actual "hearing age" is supposedly 66 for higher frequencies - permanent hearing loss most likely brought on by Wellbutrin which I took for some weeks only (I've never been exposed to loud noises and never was much of a headphones user). Just putting it out there, be wary with prescriptions of Wellbutrin especially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ototoxicity
How do you explain how our consciousness can be interrupted and/or fooled so easily with matter? We can't change the rules of gravity or any other fundamental force, but we can easily alter consciousness.

We can predictably alter the way someone's consciousness works with chemicals and electric signals, so how would the rules of matter cross over to something that doesn't follow the rules of matter?
Sure, they hand out the antibiotics where resistance has already developed, but trust me, the "last ditch effort" antibiotics (like vancomycin) don't get used broadly at all.
I have been a Coca-Cola addicted for years, I was drinking at least a liter per day, sometimes two, this when I was a teenager. I've never been fat nor with health problem. One day I decided to stop, It took me two weeks of headaches to kick it off, but now I'm far less nervous, I sleep much better and my life improved a lot. Still if I drink a can of coke I'll have headaches for at least two days, as I don't drink any caffeine.

So do it, use painkillers when you can't handle the pain, but don't exaggerate with them, it's worth it not only for the long run but you will quickly see improvements on your daily life, good luck!
Apple, Your Developer Agreement Tramples on Free Speech and Innova
Yes indeed, that is the machine for me.
Is this standard for an acquisition opportunity?
My mother as a teenager listened to her transistor radio all the time, it was a new thing when she was young. She held it up to her ear and it was turned up very loud now she suffers from fairly profound hearing loss but only in a specific high range she can hear low bass normally.

If you talk to her and then turn on a tap to get a glass of water the conversation over, the fridge motor comes on conversation over, any non-verbal sounds is noise that obscures all words to her. "What?" is the response to nearly every word from anyone mouth has to be repeated twice except in a dead silent room. She listens to the TV on level 20 and it's very draining to everyone around the person.

But she won't get a hearing aid! She's 70 years-old but refuses to even discuss it. It's odd how if you say to a person who can't see they may need glasses it's OK but if you say to a person hard of hearing the may need a hearing aid it's like you said the most obnoxious thing ever to say to anyone.
This is only tangentally related to the article, which is interesting in its own right, if a bit over my head presently. I noticed that they were using tools like git and make to manage distribution of the lab assignment and submission of the lab work. This is cool.

When I was in college, lab assignments were typically printed or photocopied sheafs of paper, and handed out. To submit one's lab work one printed out the results, and handed them in, or called the instructor over to watch one's demo, etc. I would have loved to have been able to use existing tools I already knew how to use to manage all that automatically.
What linear logic misses out about ISIS and why that matters to Europe
Not a pedantic distinction at all - on a second read, I completely see the confusion, and I'm going to reword the article to separate the concepts of dynamic range (which is just a dB value) and dynamic ranges across a frequency spectrum more clearly.
They are - https://github.com/blakeembrey/change-case
"A few idiots fight for their lives while the guys at top are having fun." Love it.
Show HN: I built my first CocoaPod (iOS) – would love feedback
I was ecstatic to see this "Sneakers" reference.

When ever I use any type of voice recognition software it's a requirement to use the phrase " My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
Opiates are the most effective cough suppressants, I'm guessing that was the reasoning behind it.
8m (26'3“) Audioquest Diamond RJ/E (Ethernet) Cable, $5,494.75
Good article about getting and keeping girls
I think the reliance on new classes is a bit excessive. There are numerous new beta-lactams that have come out that are still in the same class, but have overcome (some of) the resistance issues.

A new class would be great, but even different drugs from the same class would be great as well.
Let's convert this to #s I understand...

80 proof = 40%.
BigBeer (Budweiser) ~= 5%
CraftBeer ~= 8% with some variation

So this means 16 pints (or ~21 12oz bottles) of Budweiser or 10 pints (should never be drunk in 12oz bottles) of Craft Brew a day. For a small person, that's almost enough to be perpetually buzzed.

I think the Drink Alone vs Bar Hopping is just a matter of being a functioning vs non-functioning alcoholic.
I made an animated, customizable loading indicator as my first cocoapod. It allows you to give an actual percentage instead of just a spinning wheel, which I wanted for a project I'm working on as well as control over colors, sizes, styles, and more. I also wanted the experience of making a pod. Please let me know what you think, and contributions are definitely welcome!

Thanks for taking a look!
I like the strength training metaphor - there is even the notion of paramita[1], which are containers for virtues that you fill up over time (I find it quite wonderful to define virtue as the accumulation of past action, rather than some intrinsic quality). In particular, relating to "strength" are the paramitas of determination and will.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81ramit%C4%81
Few things that came through my mind reading that:

1. In average you're giving each project about a year. That's not really enough for determining if something is good or not. It seems like when you're encountering the brick wall that's real world market penetration, you fall out of love with your venture and move on to the next thing.

2. You're focusing on very general problems where it seems like you either don't have a horse in the game (as you're not suffering from those problems personally) and don't have any kind of specialized domain knowledge.
That makes your job much harder. You don't understand the dynamics of the market, the competition or what users are looking for.

3. If you want to win in really big markets, you need to have a strong financial backing from great investors, and make world-class execution. Getting the right idea is never enough. Focus on smaller problems - or at least less alluring ones.

4. Being in the Czech republic doesn't help your ideas get traction, as you're somewhat culturally removed from the trendsetters and the networked individuals who could make your product popular.

5. You can - somewhat - use #4 in your favor by focusing on your local market (and to a lesser extent the EU market). But ultimately good products win globally, which is why its best to think smaller.

6. You may have prevented yourself precious experience and understanding of business processes by going with the startup game too early instead of getting some real world experience first.

7. Don't count on your admirable determination carrying you through. You can only stress yourself so much before something breaks. At some point you're going to need a success to your name. Going to venture #15 might not be enough.

Ultimately I'd advise you to go work for a successful startup somewhere like Berlin, London or ideally Silicon Valley. Go to a place where you can focus the same determination on your dayjob, learn and network. Save some money too.

You need a change. Different people, challenges and atmosphere. Your time and ambition are the most precious thing you have and between these two, one is lost forever and the other can irreparably disappear if siphoned too low. Now, making this change is hard.

The EASY thing, for you, is to start another venture (although it seems the other way around, even to yourself). Don't fall into the trap of starting yet another venture instead of changing your situation around and thinking of yourself as someone who does the hard thing, just because you chose entrepreneurship yet again.

Keeping the same course is always easier than changing things around.
There was a moment in, I believe, my diff eq course where the relationship between derivatives/integrals and the Laplace & Fourier transforms suddenly became crystal clear. That wasn't what the lecture was even about, but from that point on everything got a lot easier to understand. I'd taken two or three EE courses where we bounced back and forth between the time domain and frequency domain, and diff eq was my fourth calculus class, so both topics were already quite familiar to me, but groking the relationship between them made everything so clear.
Congrats for getting unhooked (and saving your life) and thank you very much for sharing the story. It may be hard, but it helps others.
Point made. Im inspired.
A spectrogram would show what MBC is doing far more directly than the waveform plots.
I agree with your sentiments about privacy and f-droid, but must nit-pick your statement:

> Honestly, the play store is not any better than the apple app store.

Both stores fail at certain criteria, but by other criteria the Google Play store is actually far, far better than the app store.
Tim you can do anything. Omniref or help me understand wtf just happened. :)
Well, the agreement does say

You may not and You agree not to, or to enable others to, copy (except as expressly permitted under this Agreement), decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, decrypt, or create derivative works of the Apple Software or any services provided by the Apple Software or otherwise provided hereunder, or any part thereof (except as and only to the extent any foregoing restriction is prohibited by applicable law or to the extent as may be permitted by licensing terms governing use of open-sourced components or sample code included with the Apple Software).

EFF is definitely oversimplifying and spinning a little, but that's certainly a restriction on reverse engineering "of the kind" that they describe in their post. Spin or not, it's hardly a baldfaced "lie."

(That said, you're right to respond that EFF couldn't sue over that provision - people contract away their rights to do things they otherwise could all the time.)
> I would have loved to have been able to use existing tools I already knew how to use to manage all that automatically.

Even better for students that don't have a lot of coding experience. Rather than slogging through some terrible Blackboard-esque environment that they'll never see again to submit assignments, they're actually becoming comfortable using versioning and development tools that are the current industry standard. Very useful for everyone.
I bet you'd find a lot of older people also unwilling to get new glasses or a stronger prescription. All the same, the taboo likely exists because it's common for young people to have myopia, but not poor hearing, so it's always OK to have glasses and never OK to need hearing augmentation.

I really hope this taboo goes away as new generations get more and more comfortable with augmenting their senses.
Relevant discussion thread on github[1].

Max Ogden's last comment irks me. After a long and fairly productive discussion, he generalizes / calls out people, and doesn't explicate on what he's trying to point out.

[1] https://gist.github.com/substack/68f8d502be42d5cd4942
Well, yeah, for a basic implementation, it's rather easy to track like that. What about a system where the unique id returned is based on a random value hashed with the domain name of the window? Then third party trackers would get a different id from you on each site, but your sessions would be static on the site.
Odds are I'll get downvoted for this.

Did calculus Exist in 3 B.C.?

Did the Earth orbit around the Sun in 2800 B.C.?

Did dinosaurs exist way, way back in the day?

My point being, does discovering something suddenly mean it exists? Perhaps things do not suddenly exist, perhaps they are discovered. Math has always existed. It still exists to this day. Math is discovered. The rules don't change.

PTSD exists. It existed the first time Man A saw Friend B die in conflict. Did it have a name? Did it have a definition in a book? No. Did it exist? Yes. Was it 'discovered?' Recently.

Just like in 100 years, some formal definition of technology addiction will exist. It will be some extension of ADD or whatever. It was always there, it just didn't have a name.
It looks interesting. The VLIW with OoOE approach will make sense, may be they will follow that path, some day. In my opinion Industry has not yet reached global adoption of that because of having still some room for enhancements, being the macro-ops from Intel/AMD the last bullet in that regard. IMO, if not explicit VLIW ISA, current ISAs (x86 and ARM) will follow a de facto VLIW transcoding, like Transmeta did back in the day (they had no OoOE VLIW, but in-order VLIW, in order to reach their power comsumption goals).
Seems like everyone who disagrees with your opinion that the app store restrictions "aren't unreasonable" is just 'grandstanding'.

Also, you seem intent on spinning everything to be exclusively an issue of malware.
Care Models That Work: Centering Pregnancy (Peer-to-Peer Health)
I once went to a 3h long blackboard talk given by James Hudspeth [1] on the physics of hearing.

It was one of the most fascinating things I've ever heard: it turns out that not only the cochlea performs a Fourier transform of the sounds we're hearing, but it can also selectively amplify some frequencies, by vibrating the very same hair that detect the sounds.

Sometimes the mechanism that amplifies some sounds goes wrong and that's why sometimes old dogs seem to emit a high pitched sound from their ears, and also the cause of some forms of tinnitus.

If you have some time to kill do go read the wikipedia pages of the cochlea and hair cells, it's really fascinating stuff!

[1] http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/labheads/JamesHu...
We used this set of labs as the basis for the master's OS course at UW. They're fantastic and fairly straightforward, providing scaffolding and then having you implement basic versions of interesting OS facilities like context switching, exception handling, interrupts, scheduling, RPC. Really rewarding (and sometimes quite painful - debugging an errant OS can be quite a bitch).
> Technically there are two complementary sets of dimensions: time and amplitude vs frequency and phase. Both are complete encodings of the waveform.

Minor note, the "frequency and phase" is actually frequency and complex amplitude, which encompasses both phase and scalar amplitude as we think of it intuitively.

In the mathematical theory there is also provision for complex amplitude in the time-domain, but this is rarely needed in practice (and never found in real-world signals).
By the way here's a picture of the demonstration in Lyon:

http://i.imgur.com/VPzOGTt.jpg
I'm not 100% certain I understand your position, so I'll attempt to restate it in my own words. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The TLS requirement in HTTP 2.0 is objectionable on the grounds that it makes filtering/monitoring difficult or impossible. This is a problem because in some places the filtering/monitoring is legally mandated and in some others merely legal. It would also aid these intermediaries if the opening stanza of the HTTP request were sent unencrypted.

To that, I disagree. On a practical level, many sites are already encrypted with TLS, especially the $BIGSITEs, so intermediaries that want to MITM their subordinates already must compromise their hosts. No browser is likely to ship an update that would regress on the privacy guarantees of traffic on the wire in this way.

On an ideological level I believe that it is better to err on the side of making information available to those who want it rather than empowering those who wish to censor and monitor access of information. I would also add that the RFCs issued by the IETF have historically been ideologically aligned with free and unimpeded access to information, and have more frequently treated censorship and monitoring as attacks to defend against rather than use cases to fulfill.
There is no significant holy war against apple.

There are people who have beliefs different from yours, and who believe that apple's long standing policies are socially harmful.

Most of them care most of all about the policies themselves, and not the company.

If apple changed their policies, they would stop voicing those criticisms.
Sleep has vital physical effects, but sleep does not alter your thought patterns other than by replenishing your energy levels and increasing your mental performance.

You may think clearer after sleep, but you think clearer about the same things, and fall into the same mindless patterns.

Sleep lets you think clearer, more logically and faster about what you're thinking about. Meditation helps you clear out attachments and observe and learn about the way you think and why you think the ways you do and clear out the cruft that falls apart under observation.
I get what you're aiming at, and I applaud what you're trying to do - I just think that you've over-simplified a complex topic, to the point of creating quite a bit of confusion, going by this thread. To quote Einstein, “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”