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Interesting, I think I always subvocalise when reading and found it hard not to when I just tried. I just asked my wife and she says she never hears a voice or even music in her head like that and was a bit shocked when I said I could.

When I was a teenager I took elocution lessons, read poetry and acted in plays. I would read through a piece imagining where I would pause, where to put emphasis, etc. So I know I subvocalised then, but don't know if I did before or if that's when I learned to do it.

I know it takes me much longer to read a book than my brother or father or many of my friends. I can read a book once and remember small details from the story they have completely forgotten and sometimes they've read a book multiple times when I have far better recollection of it from a single much slower reading. I'm wondering if subvocalisation plays a part in that.

Edit: another factor is that I remember words from their sound, not their spelling, so have always had difficulty with spelling. I can't visualise the word, and often need to actualy write a word out before I can figure out how to spell it. Just spelling out words letter by letter vocally is very hard for me.
> Since the involuntary muscle movements that are the other part of subvocalization are generally undetectable to the person doing the reading, what is your basis for saying that you never subvocalize, even though you do hear a voice when reading slowly?

I guess that's a totally unsubstantiated intuition. Can I test it effectively with an EMG?
..will be quickly dismissed since it does not serve their purposes.

Or because, as in the parent post you're referring to, the logic employed is obviously flimsy.
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Business tends to be ~5x over Coach, and First is 10x more than Coach.

I'd fly business every single flight I ever took if it was only 2x. IMO the airlines are missing a huge business opportunity to provide all-business-class travel.
Roommates in a "studio apartment" (i.e. one big room)? That's... not great.
Very nice option. Thank you for posting it. :)
I think if you put it in quotes like you did, funnily enough, it'll force it to be included
When an engine idles, it is burning fuel & venting exhaust without creating any force. It is consuming itself & providing no value. What is worse is that it's polluting while it's doing nothing.

Idle thought is when a human spends time thinking to no end purpose.

This thread is about Bill & Melinda Gates' opinions on how to fix things. You're here speculating on Paul Graham's opinions & then slamming your carefully constructed strawman. It is thought pollution.

You (and some of the children of this thread) should scrutinize your personal values and evaluate just what you think you are hoping to achieve by proposing up this kind of unsubstantiated tangent.
> In the UK, attacks appear to be on the rise. Five hundred people have been injured or threatened with acid since 2012.

Talk about burying the lede! That sentence is 80% of the way through the article! I was curious how much of an increase that was, and other articles put it at a doubling over the past decade.[1] That's crazy.

1. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/30/acid-attack-h...
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Very nice. Although opening IE and trying to go to http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98 gave an error. Go figure...
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Benefits of being in a job with only moderate travel requirements - you have enough time left over that you can usually extend your stay over at least a weekend and have a bit of time for sightseeing while still benefiting from company-paid flights.

(Also helps that I'm not in a relationship - business travel is way harder on those with spouses or partners.)
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Or the idea of "whuffie" in Cory Doctorow's _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_.
That's because the Win98 code is that much simpler. It has less to do with speed and more to do with complexity.

Your phone is doing all sorts of weird shit behind your back as you poke about. Stuff that it's not supposed to be doing if app-makers were actually respectful of their users...

On that note, why does that crap take so long on smartphones anyway?
I suspect we live in different places. I live in Colorado, where it makes sense to wear wool socks a lot of the time, and I wear them out from walking and hiking a lot. Obviously it's a personal thing and I mostly included it as a joke :)
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"EMET injects emet.dll or emet64.dll .. into every protected process, which installs Windows API hooks"

This is what the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit consists of - a DLL injection hack!
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The mouse cursor doesnt work.... my system's real cursor is still onscreen and the emulator is doing a very poor job of tracking my movements, and its not intercepting clicks or anything like that either.

None of the toy 'show HN' emulators that have popped up have a properly working mouse cursor....
Open the Run panel and try to go to "C:\con\con". Instant BSOD. (This was an old trick I used to do as a bratty kid when people left their computers unlocked. Nice to see that it still works!)
There could be an equivalent like

https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew

I'm not sure why some of these pages aren't linked from the main page.
(Serious question) Isn't it risky to rely on any Google product as a foundation for your business?

They've shut down more popular services that people depend on than Google Cloud. They tend to enter a market, undercut all the competitors, and then once they are dominant in the niche they terminate or change the service in a way that makes it not fulfill the original promise.
There are lots of accounting bugs like this. The challenge is Accounting isn't as cut and dry as people think.

For example - how long do you depreciate (write down the value of) an asset that you buy? If you depreciate it too slowly, it might make it seem like you're more profitable than you really are.

Another example - If you buy a financial product to hedge a risk vs to speculate, the accounting treatment is different. (In the latter you need to mark it to market more frequently)

One more... If you're a bank, and you make a loan which you intend to hold until maturity, the accounting treatment (mark to market) is different than if you intend to sell the loan.

Accounting is more than just consistent rules followed by the green eyeshades. :-)

There are two immediate existing business opportunities:

1) Accounting companies (E&Y, Deloitte, etc) help execs understand all these rules. Their advisory (what can you do?) work is more profitable per partner than their audit (what did you do?) work.

2) Investment funds do detailed analysis of accounting statements to make "Apples to Apples" comparisons of companies, then analyze their equity and debt valuations to see if they are properly priced. Sometimes this goes by the name of "Relative value" or "Long/short".
No, I agree with your last statement - at AWS you always feel the invisible shadow of PR :)
And AFAIK the caching will run for about 30 days unless you clear it manually or through the API. Might be different for major sites.
I listen to podcasts at 2.7x speed. There is a funny jump, from the speed where you still vocalize to something faster. It feels like it's pumping it directly in to your brain :)

2.7 is the speed I can jump in any time, if I speed up incrementally I can easily go to 3.2 or something.

(i use windows media player for the speed up, best real-time sound stretching I found)
Hmm, sounds interesting.

Why do you think they will do so?
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I don't know if there's much that Gates can do about corruption. That's something that might have to take it's natural course and weed itself out (like it has partly done in the US and other developed nations).

In the mean time I think Gates wants to do something rather than nothing and things like mosquito nets apparently do save lives. The people whose lives are saved may not be able to prosper, but they're most likely grateful for not dying of malaria.
> Interestingly, as the Conservative government kept falling in the polls, they even said that they would consider banning Niqabs for public servants!! It sounds so bizarre that a sitting Canadian government would suggest such a thing, but the 2015 federal election was a first class, direct flight to bizarro world.

Imagine how it feels for those who find the idea of Canadian civil servants clad in hijabs to be bizarro world.
Can you "hear" something in your head when you try remember a sentence someone said?
I think you are forgetting the fact that most people who fly around for work don't really care to pick the cheapest flight. This means they are free to stick to the same airline to accumulate status for themselves.
I'm not against micro lending. I just don't think they'd need it if 'we' didn't put them in the miserable position they are in now. It's like cutting someone's leg off and then offering them a small fragile cane ...
Its not their core business. Google constantly exits businesses unless they explode in profitability. As someone who currently uses AWS, it would take an act of god for me to move over to Google Cloud, even if the tools were better and even with the cost of some services (nearline storage) cheaper than AWS.

I'm not just paying for a service. I'm paying because I know AWS is in it for the long haul.

This is great for Spotify, just as AWS was great for Netflix (considering both services are terrible at representing true workloads; they're both just control planes serving static content, videos or music). I don't see it dragging a ton of business into Google, just making their acquisitions easier for people who decide to start on GCP or migrate in.

Just my two cents.
Yeah, I agree and it's unreasonable to attribute it to Elon Musk every time someone brings the idea up.
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That's not a "security story" I've heard before. Surely containers make this much _easier_ than traditional VMs, because containers are designed (or should be designed) to completely expendable. To do an "OS upgrade", just rebuild and redeploy.

If you're using a system that has rolling, verified, graceful restarts built in (e.g., Marathon, and I believe Kubernetes does, too), you'll easily avoid any downtime, which is harder to accomplish with classical VMs.

With a classical system (VM or otherwise) you'll still have to restart your apps whenever some library (glibc, ImageMagick or whatever) is patched. Docker doesn't change that. It does potentially minimize the surface area.
Thanks, sorry for the mixup!
Someone needs to port SLiRP to JavaScript+CORS.
Never mind the fact that data before 500 BC is highly unreliable because we just don't have enough information about what happened in every corner of the world back then.
> While rolling your own parser will free you from ever getting error messages from your parser generator, it will also keep you from learning about ambiguities you may be inadvertently designing into your language.

I tried several time to explain why I think people should use parser generators and the conclusion of this article express my point of view perfectly. The fact that we have a very good parser generator in OCaml (and Coq!)[1] really helps here.

I still think that ambiguities of the third kind, "Type/variable ambiguity", are a design issue and your grammar should be changed, because it's going to be completely ambiguous for humans too.

[1]: http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/menhir/
But it may be way more profitable. Because profitability is not the amount of dollars earned, but the ratio of earned dollars per invested dollar.

Also, it makes sense for most healthy companies to borrow money and pay out a stock dividend at the same time. You need to pay interest on the borrowed money. But that interest can be deduced from the taxes you'd have to pay otherwise. The trick is to find the correct ratio.

The earnings to invest ratio goes up and everyone is happy.
Ah ok, this is great thanks. Yea so outputting a string of 11001100.. would produce a 20MHz waveform, so, then the 3rd harmonic of that is 60MHz, right, so that's what is being picked up? Yea you are right about the harmonics of the ideal square wave, but I was thinking along the lines of a distorted version of the perfect square wave that you get from a typical RF type signal that I've seen on spectrum analyzers many times -- typically you don't have this perfect delta function sitting at your carrier frequency -- it has some extra stuff going on next to it above and below (other than the modulated signal -- not nearly as far away as the F*2 or F/2 type range), but hey I'm not an RF engineer, so I'll just stop speculating in that area. I'm an EE, so I get what you are talking about but thanks for the details--I'm sure plenty of people will benefit from it. Still would love to see a PSD spectrum plot of the output signal from 10MHz to 160MHz or something like that kind of range.
Spotifier here. For the record, I hate puppet with the fiery intensity of a thousand suns. It's also pretty hard to magically make go away. I could probably do a whole talk on why puppet is difficult to kill, it's the kudzu of config management. I think it is the worst.

We've got our warts and a pile of tech debt, and I wouldn't want anyone to think otherwise. Containers are a part of a long-term strategy to get away from puppet and onto more idempotent units of deployment, and move a lot of what is considered to be "configuration" back into the build process where it belongs.
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My experience with upper management is that Google isn't "serious" about their cloud offerings based on how much of Amazon's profit margin is tied up in AWS. It's an enragingly pointyhaired sentiment to deal with.
Today: Highly publicized move onto Google Cloud

Later: Silent, gradual move away from Google Cloud after experiencing a number of issues and bugs, constant connectivity issues with services like Cloud Storage, silent failures that do not return error messages on a random basis, detailed billing info only available through arcane APIs and not the administrative UI, broken functionality and rigid inflexibility of BigQuery, and other non-obvious negative behaviors
I do, and I don't. If you imagine there's some form of pipeline in your brain from sound to phonemes to words to concepts to comprehension, my reading probably comes in right at the "words" level. I "hear" the words like I hear them when real people are speaking them, but they do not really have "sounds" or "phonemes". When reading fiction, I may pick up accent if the author is spelling it out but I generally have no voice particularly in mind for a character. Not a "neutral" voice, it's really no voice whatsoever. Just words.

For one thing, if a real voice was speaking at the speed I normally read, it would be virtually incomprehensible. I can't be simply "sounding out words" for that reason.

I imagine people come in at different places in the pipeline and that probably explains the difference. There more phases of the pipeline than there are common words to try to explain our experience.
Wow--didn't realize that. If that's the case that's a major issue for anyone considering building a product that transmits sensitive data on top of Slack's platform.
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I have always wanted see a business have a facility that operates similar to a fitness gym. Except instead of weights and exercise equipment, the facility would have table saws, and other power tools.

There are so many tools that I own, that I really only need once in a blue moon. I would totally buy a subscription to a facility that allowed me access to these kinds of tools.

There are probably a lot of legal implications with renting power tools out to the public. But I still think it would be awesome.
People's subjective experiences vary considerably. Yvain's 2009 Less Wrong article on the subject is very good: http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
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Another note, recently Go stopped using yacc(bison).
I'd say the data platform overall, bigquery is certainly great . So are some other bits.
huh? you'd notice your child process was exited with SIGABRT.
I hear a voice when I read, but what's amazing is that I hear a British voice when I read The Economist. TE uses various britishisms, but even in the parts that don't, I always hear some brit reading to me. It's partly why I like reading it so much.
There's another way to look at it that is useful: first, try to be a monopoly in a small market. Instead of being one-of-many in a large market.
It's odd you would say that because, looking back, no search engine has ever been more precise or feature filled than altavista was.

You could do very complex boolean logic searches with multiple, nested (()) and "" ...

As opposed to google where even the "allinsite:" tag does not even function properly anymore, and where half of your search results will not even contain your search terms.

I really miss altavista, actually ...
It's the cloud equivalent of the PC world in the 80s: Commodore (64 and Amiga), Apple, TRS-80, IBM, TI, and dozens of smaller players all competing for platform dominance.
There is no overlap between Global Entry privileges and airline status benefits.

Obscene surcharges on awards are really only an issue for a handful of airlines like BA. I've redeemed over two million miles and the highest surcharge I've ever paid on an award was $350 for Singapore first class from Singapore to Tokyo to Los Angeles. I was fine with that.
Something interesting that isn't covered in this blog entry but is relevant to many of us is the importance of deterministic parsers for DOS / DDOS prevention. APIs that make use of parsers, be they regular expression parsers, or parsers for more complex grammars such as CFGs, can be abused if the underlying parser is nondeterministic. Reducing a parser to a DFA (deterministic finite automaton) provides it with measurable performance per character parsed. If an NFA (non-deterministic finite automaton) is used instead, then an attacker can abuse backtracking to increase parse time, often exponentially.

This has been used, quite famously, in standards conforming XML parsers which have some very ugly backtracking issues dealing with entities and entity references. More commonly, people who decide to add regular expression validation to their APIs are often surprised to discover that an attacker can take up all sorts of server time while the API is trying to validate a carefully crafted degenerate case message. Many regular expression libraries out there are NFA, including the ones built into some popular high-level language runtimes.
The word battle is not used on the page you linked.
You can quite comfortably live on $35k a year after rent, if you're a single person supporting just yourself.

I managed to spend 3 years at university living on less than that. I've just spent the last 3 months interning for NZ$20 an hour (~$40k a year), much of that was spent paying about $260 a week for rent (paying rent for 2 places due to contracts). I managed to get along just fine.

Cost of living-wise, where I am isn't radically different from SF.
That's interesting that speeding up your podcast would change your reading speed.

It wasn't like that for me. I used to speed up the voice speed in my head when reading and occasionally drop them all together (so it's a stream of concepts, not voice). Then one day, I noticed that I would drop a lot of emotional nuances when I do, or misread/misinterpret emails and messages from other people. I started to try to slow things down, to even read it in the voice of the person sending the message (assuming I know them well enough to have heard their voice). My reading speed had dropped but it feels like I get a lot more out of what I read now.
"So when I receive something in the mail, no matter how thoughtful it is, it kinda sucks because now I have to figure out how to get rid of it. I feel really wasteful if I just throw it in the trash, so I have to figure out who to give it to. Then I feel bad for whoever spent a bunch of money and time to get and send me something."

Hey Derek - you might find Yerdle a useful outlet for this stuff. It's not selling for USD (so you don't feel bad,) and it's not donation - you swap these things that you don't need for YRD (Yerdle Re-use Dollars) and if you ever do want something you redeem your YRD.

Meanwhile, your unwanted gift goes to someone who actually wants it, and who either can't afford it, or has simply decided not to participate in a consumerist economy. The YRD they spend was earned through a similar give. On Yerdle, our community shops with what they already own, instead of creating more waste through more consumption.

Anyway - way to commit to decluttering, and try that next time, see if it feels better...
"For people who only ever heard the same internal reading voice, this was usually their own voice, but it was often different in some way from their speaking voice, for example in terms of pitch or emotional tone."

I hear a voice when I read, and it's always the same one, but I don't think of it as my own voice. An interesting side effect of that is, even though I read posts from hundreds of people on the internet every week, they're all in the same voice, so I basically imagine all of you as, like, one person.
As someone who's been on Google Cloud for 2.5 years now and has seen the growth and the transformation firsthand, I welcome this bet.
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Here are my predictions:

- More users will install adblockers
It varies. I just did a search for "car insurance" on Bing and it was all ads above the fold (aside from the "Related Searches" block in the upper right). My point was more in following suit with the removal of the right siderail ads.

But they both have awful experiences with the above-the-fold first page results now if I'm approaching it from a "consumer wanting a non-compensated search result" standpoint. They both now have interstitials on the SERP for all intents and purposes.
> And the big issue with Google's consumer offerings is that they seem to have limited to no support and that there is a very real chance that Google will just shut them down all of a sudden.

Express has, IME, excellent support, and I haven't seen any Google product (consumer or otherwise) shutdown "all of a sudden".

The ones people point to as examples of Google products being shut down were shut down with very long notice.

I do think that there is a very loud group of people who like to raise the "Google's just gonna shut it down tomorrow" line every time a Google service is mentioned, but it doesn't seem to be based on any real history of Google being any more prone than any other provider to shut down services (consumer or otherwise) on short notice or without a migration path. Maybe that loud group represents a real and commercially-significant feeling about Google in the market and not just a small, loud group that doesn't real effect the market for Google products. But I don't know what you can really do with that, even if it does.
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"Longtail keywords become more important"

Long tail keywords don't even work because if a keyword is long enough on the tail, it doesn't get a high enough quality score and you either never display your ad ("disabled due to low quality") or you have to pay out the nose to display it.

Either way, it doesn't work.
Thanks for answering. Small suggestion - its kind of hard to find Github link. Perhaps make it more visible.