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Re: Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

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This post fell in rank because it triggered the flamewar detector. I've just restored it. If you see things suddenly reappear on the front page, it's often because a moderator saw a case like this.

Curious, how does the flamewar detector work? Is it looking at velocity of commenting? Specific language perhaps?

Re: Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

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I would really like to see a citation for that!

Google it. It's all over the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_heal...

Following your link: > In 2011, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified mobile phone radiation as Group 2B - possibly carcinogenic.

Group 2B includes coffee, pickled vegetables, titanium dioxide (used in food coloring and sunscreens), and work in carpentry, dry cleaning, printing industry, and textile industry.

I think I'll keep my cell phone. (And coffee and kimchi, for that matter.)

Re: Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

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post #66

This post fell in rank because it triggered the flamewar detector. I've just restored it. If you see things suddenly reappear on the front page, it's often because a moderator saw a case like this.

Curious, how does the flamewar detector work? Is it looking at velocity of commenting? Specific language perhaps?

From some previous post (don't ask me to find it), it takes into consideration the number of comments vs votes. Many more comments than votes imply a flamewar.

Re: Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

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Very nice! Reminds me a bit from our effort to try to help deaf people dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT_RmvKTUYc

Unfortunately we could not make the app really work as the precision of timer on Windows phone is horrible, and on IOS you don't have api to properly control vibration...

maybe some day.

Re: Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

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Hey everyone, I really appreciate all of the positive feedback. This is quite thrilling as a college student. It's the first thing I've made that people actually understand and consider useful.

If any of you download Deafalarm, please let me know how it works for you and what you would like to see improved.

I could also use pointers on getting the word out to people in this niche market.

Thank you very much,

Alex

Re: Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

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I'm confused. iPhones have an alarm clock already, and you can already set it to vibrate. Why do I need this app? (Serious question. I'm hard of hearing, and I do this with my iPhone already.) To answer some other questions I see in the thread, they make alarm clocks and doorbells specifically for deaf people. I personally own an alarm clock that has an attachment that you slip under the mattress. The vibrations from…

Because this isn't an alarm clock, it's a vibrating alarm triggered by noise. It's not supposed to replace an alarm clock, but notify the deaf user about other things, like a fire alarm.

Re: Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea for an app! I sleep with earplugs occasionally and I can see myself using your app in that situation. That said, I've been wondering lately if using earplugs often is a healthy thing to do in the long run. I couldn't find any pertinent research about non-professional users. Edit: phrasing.

I wonder the same thing. I find that I dream more when I can hear rain on the roof, so maybe ambient sounds (or a lack thereof) have a real effect on sleep

I too sleep with earplugs in I've noticed something similar. When I take naps during the day and I use the plugs I find that it is the best sleep I get, I feel super refreshed. During the night when I sleep with earplugs in I usually don't sleep as well as I would without them (minus the loud roommates). But I am a side sleeper with a memory foam pillow so it tends to cause some pressure on my ears for prolonged sleep periods.

Re: Show HN: Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

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post #66

This post fell in rank because it triggered the flamewar detector. I've just restored it. If you see things suddenly reappear on the front page, it's often because a moderator saw a case like this.

Curious, how does the flamewar detector work? Is it looking at velocity of commenting? Specific language perhaps?

We're committed to increasing transparency, but the HN algorithms will probably remain an exception to that; certainly for the time being.
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