skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that sounds like a good idea at first, I think it makes sense to have the microphones at least near the ears.

The frequency content of a sound is directional, and moreso as the frequency increases. As a test, listen for a difference in the highs with your (computer/stereo/home theater/whatever) speakers both aligned with your ears, and not. Due to this directionality, a microphone in your shirt pocket would pick up a sound differently than one near your ear.

The brain does some very fancy and clever tricks based on the differences in the timing and phase of a sound as it arrives in both ears to determine things like relative position and distance. Having the hearing aid mics receiving sound similarly to your ears would should make it easier for the brain to continue to do these nifty tricks.

Otherwise, yeah, put the amp and other circuitry in your shirt pocket or wherever else is convenient. It should be a lot easier and cheaper to fit an amplifier and multi-band compressor in your shirt pocket, than in a tiny sliver of plastic that has to fit behind the earlobe.
Thanks for all your thoughtful / very informative answers. Really appreciated it.
I have tended to feel like you become an entrepreneur because you have a great idea - possibly from having worked in an industry and discovered an opportunity. Declaring one's self an entrepreneur first and then coming up with an idea seems backwards to me. But, it seems to be the way these things happen here and I'm probably too old school.

Regardless, to anybody who puts in this much time and effort, I sure do wish you the best and hope that project #9 is the one that takes off.
Honestly, the play store is not any better than the apple app store.

I myself never agreed to the play store's license agreement and use my android phone without it.

If you really care about privacy, consider hosting your apps apk yourself or post it to a store that really respects its users privacy, like f-droid instead of supporting the play store. If your app is opensource like you state, f-droid should host it.

Take care,
Martin
OSM's convoluted licensing might expose them to the "risk" of having to contribute back their contributions though, plus (if they try to keep in sync) run the risk of others' changes running roughshod over their finely tuned model. This way they retain full control.
These issues may be serious problems, such as self modifying code in emulating older systems like the NES, but are they still as problematic in more modern consoles? I believe that modern consoles are already being programmed more in high level languages (C, C++, etc) than in assembler. Playstation even has a gcc based compiler. Since the code was initially written in a higher language and then compiled, would it not be easily to statically recompile it?

However, I am not a games programmer, and do not have any actual experience with console development. If there is anyone on here with experience in these areas, I would appreciate their thoughts on the matter.
Ask HN: Does developing P2P file sharing software look bad on your resume?
As far as I can tell, they're only using Google Maps for the display layer, the actual polygons are entirely theirs.
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It reminds me of "Going to Chicago", an evocative blues about heroin addiction, habits, and place, sung by the great singer Joe Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPcHVqKHkKo

In the intro to the song, he sets up the background: "He had a woman with a heroin habit, a monkey woman, a monkey on her back...so he got some fresh money and said, I'm going to take another city..."
You really should read the details of Warren vs DC. Your response implies that you have not.

I'll summarize for you.

A woman with a toddler was the subject of a home invasion and sexual assault. Her two upstairs neighbors called 911 to report a crime in progress.

Police arrived on the scene, but then left without investigating.

The upstairs neighbors called 911 again, 20 minutes later, as they were still hearing screams from Warren being raped downstairs. The police did not return.

The intruders then noticed that other people were present in the house, and sexually assaulted the upstairs neighbors, too. FOR FOURTEEN CONSECUTIVE HOURS.

The court literally ruled that the police were not even obligated to show up for the five minutes that they spent on the call, utterly failing to notice the screaming rape victim being assaulted in her own home.

They weren't off saving someone else from a more serious crime. Because what would that be, really?

This is not a matter of the police being held to too high of a standard, or being blamed for not stopping all the crime in their city. It is a matter of police being held to no standard at all, with no responsibility for any crimes in their city.

And you can bet that everyone that gets a ticket in DC will forever after be comparing the diligence their cops show toward sitting in their cars with radar guns with that shown when people whose lives are threatened actually want their help.
Most interestingly, it seems that people who think they're good multi-taskers are actually the worst at it[1]. They are more likely to be impulsive and more likely to indulge in risk-taking.

1: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/24/170160105/if-you-...
I tend to set aside 2 or 3 hours each day just for reading, whether blogs/online stuff, newspapers, mags, or books. I go through a lot of books in particular, with the long-established rule of one book per week. I can fly through most books in half as long, but this system allows each work time to settle into my cranium. And I think that part is key. I want to read everything too, but you have to give yourself proper time to absorb each new thing.
Thank you. This was the word I was looking for, but escaped me when I wrote my own commment.
AFAIUI from the React people E4X had a lot of incidental complexity and extraneous stuff relative to JSX. So there's that.

I'd argue that with ES6, JSX could just reserve the "jsx" prefix for interpolated strings and go with

jsx`<foo>blah</foo>`

but that's a typical hindsight-is-20/20-thing.
To me, its similar to a supermarket only allowing already-popular brands to be on their shelves. From their POV I guess it makes sense, but if you're out there selling a new brand of peanut butter, you can either start your own supermarket, or target the mom-pop stores and hope for the best.

I think this kind of stuff is highly regressive. The Internet was this place where you succeeded on your own merit and not because you pay-to-win. A place where a tiny company like Google was able to sell their service because it was on the same playing field as lycos/yahoo/altavista. If accessing Google cost you money while lycos/yahoo/altavista were free, nobody would have ever tried Google. And without enough people searching and clicking on links there will never be enough seed data for a good ranking algorithm to work.
It makes me wonder, what does the White House consider a suitable forum for holding appointed officials to account? Or more appropriately, holding the appointers to account.
Yes, you're right. Where can I go to donate to EFF and further this important cause?

Oh, wait. I make my money as a software developer, selling my work directly to people who appreciate it. The EFF wouldn't accept such dirty money, would they?
Which of those categories are you thinking of?
I agree with what you say. There is a fine line, however, between censuring trolls and suppressing dissent. I think anonymous downvoting and no right of reply, risks the latter to gain the former.
I'm pretty sure I could build a crude telegraph.

That's assuming I could find a jeweler capable of manufacturing cooper wire, some sort of cladding (possibly leather), ferrous metal rods, and a good place to place a lightning rod.

I'm guessing I could wrap the cladded wire around the iron bar with one end to ground and th other end where the lightning hits -- to magnetize the iron.

With magnets and wire I should be able to make the relays for the telegraph. And I guess I'd have to play around with different metals and acids to figure out batteries to power it.
Fair enough. I tend to consider Mexico as Central America so I was thinking of Canada and the US as North America. For what it's worth, I live on the other side of the Atlantic - and it's been a long time since I did geography in primary school.
In all honesty, I'm in my mid-30s and I don't get the appeal of Twitter either.
A well reasoned argument gets down-voted by idealogues. No wonder hn gets mocked so often.
Of course they did. It would be silly to assume differently - the value of this article is not the yes or no answer, but its exploration into how PTSD was perceived (poorly) and how it was treated (again, poorly).

I'd recommend reading the article, it's interesting.
They might. But you do know that new laws usually come with a shield and a sword. More often than none, a few more laws also means a few less liberties. That's usually how terrorism wins.
Isn't one big difference that Google doesn't attempt to prohibit you from installing apps from other sources, which EFF also pointed out?

I just took a quick look at the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement, the Google Play Developer Program Policies, and the Android SDK license -- but it looks like some other differences are:

* Unlike Apple, Google doesn't seem to limit developers' ability to make certain "public statements."

* Unlike Apple, Google doesn't seem to restrict jailbreaking or "enabling others to do so." The "Security Features" language in section 6 seems to come closest but isn't, IMHO, equivalent.

* Unlike Apple, Google doesn't insist on being able to "revoke the digital certificate of any of Your Applications at any time." (Section 7.2 of the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement does say your app can be removed from the store, but the list of reasons is rather short and includes copyright, porn, malware, viruses...)

That was just a quick look, so I may have missed some things and would welcome correction. I should add that I'm developing http://recent.io/ for both Android and iOS, so to the extent Apple is more restrictive, it's not a deal-killer for my purposes.

PS: EFF's Android app is on the Play Store here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eff.action...
Signing doesn't require encryption that inhibits visibility into the app internals.
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But teenagers today are college students of tomorrow, and if you believe OP, the college students of tommorow may associate Facebook with years of negative impressions that they acquired throughout high school.

That's a huge barrier for Facebook to overcome, especially when a 'cooler' competitor can expand its feature set to meet the students' long-distance relationship needs without any of the stigma that they associate with Facebook.
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I'm pretty sure you can make this decision on your website with software.

Result 1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3279357/how-to-prevent-em...
Maybe they had more trouble scoring dope when they got home?

It's certainly one way to clean up, and I didn't see this possibility addressed in the article.
For really high noise environments, like airplanes, I like using 30db dampening earplugs and then circumaural heaphones over them.
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I don't understand the purpose of the app, the one on play store looks like a one button subscription frontend. How is it better then their website, email, twitter?
I've never counted, so here we go. Between my wife and I:

3 macbooks

1 chromebook

3 smartphones

1 roku

1 XB1

1 NAS

1 DirecTV box

1 IP printer

1 smartwatch

1 iPad

1 Sphero

2 Chromecast

So in total, 17. That's being a bit liberal with the Sphero and chromecasts, since they don't actually have internet access.
The U.S. legal system is known as more tolerant of offensive speech than any European jurisdiction. I'm not quite sure where you're getting the inference that such speech is less protected in the U.S. than in France.
Glasgow Council finally approved the showing of Life of Brian in 2009 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8126490...
Well, lets put it this way, you never told your group of friends while in school about something cool that happened and would make you look good? Many social media interactions are that type of chatter, nothing more, but over a different medium than speech.
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You can actually already get body units for hearing aids. Even better, you can get radio-aids, where the microphone is elsewhere. This is particularly useful for students in a classroom, for example, where the teacher may wear the microphone directly.
Fighting words and offensive speech.
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I don't understand. I did not attack the author, and describing the purpose of SSL is a technical point.
Here's the actual link to the kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/265641170/kraftwerk-hig...

$99 for the initial release of the product, which will be Feb. 2016 (if you are lucky with kickstarter campaigns). I thought it was cool that they have a bulk package, selling 111 of the kraftwerks for the price of 100 (all sold out)!
The one for Carmen Ortiz looks to be the same.
That's an interesting way of dealing with it - I have my text editor strip trailing whitespace and ensure there's a newline at the end of the file on every save, so it wouldn't work for me.

That's okay though. I visually review the diff before I commit (almost) every time.
OP here. Some argue that in-ear earbuds send more high frequency energy directly into the ear than headphones, so the balance of sound is always tilted towards the highs, which over time can cause more high-frequency loss (low frequency loss is fairly uncommon). The difference between headphones and earbuds is likely minor - the volume you set your music to probably has a much greater impact. Get a pair with good isolation or cancellation, so you can keep the music volume lower.

One thing that works really well for preserving your hearing is taking breaks - this is especially true of loud concerts (step out for a bathroom break once an hour), but also holds true if you're going to listen to headphones at high volumes for many hours straight.
Some friends and I all think Daft Punk is pretty awesome, and have been imagining what a collaborative multimedia shrine to Daft Punk might look like. What if there was one place online created by the fans to represent Daft Punk media/culture? What would it look like? What would it feel like?

This is our first take at it, and we'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, and critiques..
No, I don't think they did. Nor did their kids have ADD nor their wives depression.

Instead the whole family had moral character flaws...
(probably the thinking at the time).
I'm confused. Isn't the argument presented in the article that they are both anti-competitive (and hence "bad things")?
Meditation is one of those things that people aren't allowed to not like. If you say you don't like it or it's not for you, you get overwhelmed and drowned out by the echo chamber.
At that point you're better off just writing the functionality you need from scratch - which was basically the coding standard when I joined Google Search in 2009. They've since moved to allow Closure, which was a big win for developer productivity, but OTOH the latency of the SRP has roughly quadrupled since I joined Google.

Anyway, I'm firmly in the "you don't need JQuery" camp now, since most of its functionality is trivially implementable in one-liners since IE9+. I'm unlikely to go back; I've been using vanilla JS for prototypes for the last 2 years and am using it for my startup now, and have yet to encounter a case where I really miss JQuery. It was a very different world in 2006 when I learned it, or even in 2009 when I joined Google.

Also, I suspect that the overlap of people that use Closure and those that use JQuery is near zero, hence why nobody in the JQuery community cared about CCAO. Both of them are highly non-typical Javascript, as is Angular. JS shows its Scheme heritage in that somehow every major framework results in completely different, mutually-incomprehensible code.
I don't mean to be overly harsh, but I cannot figure out what's going on half of the time in this post. I get the breezy style and all that, but I'm not sure what happened or what the lessons are that we can take away from those things... that happened...

Edit: I noticed there is a Czech version of the post, perhaps it's just a lost-in-translation thing.
Clever! It reminds me of another story of broadcasting information such that only interested parties will receive it.

In 1997, during an auction of wireless spectrum by the FCC, some of the participants colluded by stealthily signaling the geographic region of the licenses they most valued. They made the last few digits of their bids (in dollars), which were visible to all, the area codes of those regions.
Maybe if you are applying for a job with the MPAA, otherwise no. In fact may make you look better than the rest
As a hearing aid user: my spatial awareness (as provided by sound information) is pretty much borked anyway. If I can't see where a sound is coming from I have no way of knowing what direction it's from or how far off it is. Even a small amount of hearing loss can cause this problem.
I have it for buying.
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Maybe there should be an annotation equivalent of robots.txt, that can be honored by RapGenius or any other site that wishes to embed the target site.

As annotations become standard (http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/), sites should be able to declaratively express their policy on being annotated, rather than being forced to embed a blacklist/whitelist in Javascript.
It's voting! You vote in the folks who vote in the folks who appoint their friend to high positions! It's democracy...sorta...kinda....not really.
Yeah, the article confuses things with the wrong definition of dynamic range, then goes on to explain MBC using the term "range" correctly.

MBC can "mash the full sound into your range" if "range" means dB range at each freq. band. But since the author previously (ill)defined dynamic range as a frequency-related term, the reader reads that passage and thinks he's referring to frequency shifting instead.
Depends if the interviewer is a pirate. So no. Being involved with a piracy site directly might be worse.
Consciousness certainly is affected by matter. Anyone who doubts this can do a little informal research with a bottle of vodka.
Though I don't know morse code (beyond S-O-S), I know of morse code and roughly what it ought to sound like. I really wish the article had started out with the SoundCloud player, saying "Listen to this first... notice anything peculiar about the song?" since because I knew it contains morse code, I instantly recognized it in the chorus. I wonder if I would have been as oblivious to its inclusion as the FARC members had I not been made aware beforehand.

It reminds me of Evanescence's "My Immortal" song where people have speculated there's a hidden message in it. Take a listen and see if you can hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo
I'd echo many of the things that Arjuna stated. I'd also like to offer some additional thoughts...

Please believe me when I say that your entire world view/focus is going to change over night when your child is born. Your ambitions are going to take a back seat to your child's welfare and stability. But, at the same time, your personal happiness is going to be deeply rooted in your child's.

Are you no longer finding yourself in a "creative" role and instead find yourself in a "support" one? I know when that happens to me initially I have a short period of time where I feel very accomplished and relaxed (i.e. completed project), but then quickly fall into a kind of depression until the next "creative" thing comes up. Before my daughter was born, this was when I would begin looking at other jobs. It wasn't because my current one was bad, but rather because I wasn't being challenged and my skills applied meaningfully. Something new had the potential for learning, creating, and adventure. Years have taught me that very rarely was the problem my environment; it was me not understanding how to pull myself up and start setting goals and being constructive without someone telling me to.

Stop and ask yourself, "if I owned $LARGE_SOFTWARE_CO, and I had a great employee, what would I want him/her to do if they were feeling depressed, unmotivated, and/or bored?" I'd hope your answers would be:

Tell me; I want to do all I can to increase their happiness at work. Maybe there's something I can do to help.... And be pro-active; find where we're falling short and solve it!

After 10 years with a company I have to believe that you've earned some respect. What could be improved? Don't limit your field of view to your own domain. What steps would you take? Go talk to your superiors, tell them how you feel, and give them suggestions on what you (not they) could be doing that would be beneficial to you and the company. Any good manager would be absolutely ecstatic to get this feedback from a valued employee.

Best of luck!
On the other hand, you need to actually be in a place where you're capable of working through it in the first place, or you get stuck in a worse situation than you were before.
What do you mean by a not full dimensional feasible region? Interior point methods can handle equality constraints just fine, so do you mean two inequality constraints that conspire to be an equality? I think any method that uses inexact arithmetic will have trouble with that.

The very nice feature of interior point methods is that they also work for non-linear optimization, which has far broader applicability. That's why in my opinion courses that teach simplex but not interior point are outdated. With interior point you simply get far more usefulness in fewer lectures, so if you have to make a choice, make it interior point.
I wonder how the usage progresses as you age. What's important at 15,20,25, and beyond are different. Not different demographics but the same people as they age through the different demographics. In other words how consistent would the diffeent media options change with time....
I agree - I have no idea what this guy is doing. I didn't bother finishing it as he's so all over the place...
I think Apple's policy is mainly aimed at preventing competing app stores. You see them having a conniption every time someone submits an app that includes an alternate app store. And while I don't particularly like their policy, they have every right to implement it in order to protect their revenue.
Because they've been operating for such a long time. If it were illegal they would have shut it down already.
Oops, this is a dupe; sorry. Looks like the We The People site is using unique identifiers in the URL.

Original submission is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854264
The trouble has always been the map data, not the drawing of the tiles. Anyone with a highschool trigonometry education should be able to figure out the drawing given the data.
Don Quixote. I was in HS at the time. Was pretty pissed off at the ending after reading through it all. Looking back, though, I'm glad I read it.
Except that deleting/not allowing cookies will make most of the things we use everyday unusable. Including this website.
Although it was written by someone put out of work by that culture - Leon Wieseltier used to be an editor of the New Republic.