skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally, I read slower and experience an internal voice. It is different from hearing a voice with my ears. Not just quieter, but different in a way I can't put into words. Yet also similar.

If I either speed up, or consciously suppress it, I can read without the internal voice, but comprehension goes way down. There's some comprehension, but it's pretty ineffective overall.

If I'm in a relatively quiet place, I don't move my lips or tongue. If I'm in a very noisy place, moving my lips/tongue seems to help.

I once knew someone who said she could not read at all without whispering the words to herself.
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If I know who wrote a piece and they have a distinctive manner of speaking, I sometimes "hear" the text colored by their voice. In most cases I don't experience anything like that, but I suppose it's possible that I do and just read so much that it gets filtered out.
I went to London for work. I got to walk around an unfamiliar big city, go drinking in traditional English pubs, meet people from around the world, etc. My evenings were free, just like they are at my local office. Unless you are working 24 hours a day, traveling to exotic places for business can be great.
My rent in Los Angeles for my studio apartment is about 43% of my monthly take-home, and that's sub-$1000. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's definitely liveable. I don't often have to /worry/ about money... I just am also not saving anything.
In Regina, Sask., Germantown (an area full of Eastern European immigrants) was the last area in town to get indoor plumbing. It was a highly controversial decision which eventually swung on the fear that Germantown's residents would side with Austria-Hungary during WW1.

'Bohunks' weren't treated particularly well in Canada at the time. Some Ukrainians were even put into internment camps during WW1!

Not even 80 years later, Roy Romanow (whose parents were Ukrainian immigrants) was sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan. Some argue that he saved Saskatchewan from bankruptcy.

Perhaps the greatest joy of being Canadian is the knowledge that former outsiders have a sneaky habit of becoming among our greatest leaders! Therefore, I say wear hijabs. But when you lead, always fight to uphold the same freedom that gave you the chance to dress as you choose. :)
Really great point. Plugging into SaaS accounting software would be perfect
I believe most (all?) states now have implied consent laws, under the rationale that driving is a privilege not a right. So declining a field sobriety test may in fact lead to the same penalties as failing one. (Maybe worth a shot though?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_consent
The majority of the time when I'm reading, I don't hear anything at all. So, you'll probably be unsurprised by my answer to your second question - I generally don't hear my voice (or any voice) when I'm thinking. That does happen sometime, but only when my task is particularly language-focused, like when I'm writing.

When I'm writing _english_, that is. No voices, no language when coding.
Because people already use Signal and fragmentation of the secure messaging space makes it less useful.
Sure. You want to do this when an attacker controls the input, and a benevolent but fallible actor controls the expression. It's not useful when the attacker controls the expression.
Appreciate your informative commentary.
It could be larger, but it would be a known constraint with known runtime characteristics. There is value in this, especially with regards to understanding the worst-case performance.
For a group that focuses primarily on young, inexperienced founders and is so founder focused, I think it would be reasonable to expect them to allow for founders to take the exit ramp if they decided the VC route didn't make sense for their business based on their YC experience.
bravo good sir :)

I need to go back and screen which of futurama episodes are ok-enough for a 9 year old...
>Is it possible to ever answer this in a meaningful way, besides "we're going to be the best and get mindshare and beat everyone out of the market"?

I'd imagine a good answer might try to elucidate what it is they intend to do, and at least approximate how world domination could be achieved.

Explaining the market fit of the startup in detail, and how it meshes with present and future trends probably wouldn't hurt either.
I can't tell if I'm far above average in minesweeper, or if most people are bad. My best expert score is 72, and i average in 90-110 somewhere. Watching other people play... they go quite slow.

Do most people play minesweeper very casually? I always find it as an adrenaline filled rush to get to the end.
Wondering why the two passive devices have the same mac address...
Probably better at driving than any human I've ever met.
> It's not like "corporations" turn otherwise acceptable people into raving power brokers.

One of the major functions of corporations is shielding the people involved in them from most personal liability (and, hence, accountability.)

Its hardly a novel thought that reduced accountability might make "otherwise acceptable people" into problems for the rest of society. (Plato was certainly not the first to point this out with his account Gyges Ring in the Republic around 2,500 years ago.)
I lost the internal monologue during puberty. It was initially pretty scary when I noticed that -- it though I'm ceasing to exist, and in a few years the "me" will be gone from my shell, while everyone else around me will be none the wiser. Fortunately, it did not happen (yet).

I think the way it happened was that as I read lots of books, I realized I need to stop processing consciously every word if I want to read faster. Additionally, I started to spend lots of time interacting with English language (which is not my native), and I was sometimes thinking in English before I stopped thinking in words altogether.

I developed a speech impediment because of that: whenever I need to speak, I need to synchronize my mental state with the words coming from my mouth, which requires a little effort.
Sort of, but another way to look at it is Zynga is not a real estate company and shouldn't be valued based on its real estate. Decoupling the real estate and the Real Business lets investors properly value both (when bankers say this they mean the two parts will be worth more than they are now as one).
"up to 2 million miles per hour" is pretty slow compared to the speed of light :-)

These stars are in Kepler orbits so the speed tells us the relationship between their mass and the central mass. We can also use their periastrons to trace out the minimal radius of the central mass. Whatever's there is almost certainly a supermassive black hole. Gas or dust or a swarm of smaller black holes in the same radius would undergo gravitational collapse (and light up LIGO! and probably put out a lot of electomagnetic radiation too... but Sag A* is not very bright).

The UCLA Galactic Centre Group has a bunch of cool information about this sort of thing. You might enjoy:

http://www.galacticcenter.astro.ucla.edu/animations.html
mintty comes with cygwin and msys2. It's the one I use. Other people have recommended other terminal emulators like ConEmu, but those have varying (subpar) levels of Unicode/color support.
You just described my exact experience; when I'm reading or writing, or just thinking, I experience the words the same.
Ever since I was a kid, there are some things that, when I mentally picture them, have associated colors bound to them. Days of the week are pretty clear for me.

Monday is red, Tuesday and Thursday are green. Wednesday is a light blue, Friday is red (feels a bit warmer, maybe slightly orange than Monday). Saturday is yellow, Sunday is black (I always associated Sunday with church, and either dread of going or formal wear).

I do this with other things too but days of the week are the most obvious and have been with me my whole life (I'm 30 now).

Oh, I guess I do the inner monologue when estimating time. Something like "Lets see... is it 8 minutes? No that's too fast. 12 minutes? Maybe. Let's go with 11". Didn't even consider it as part of the process until your comment.
Not entirely true. Over-the-counter edibles available at most legal dispensaries have measured amounts of cannabinoid oil, as well as the potency of that oil, listed on the package.

One company called Spot (in Seattle) has a little chart on the back, as well as these informative numbers, that roughly equates the dose of a cookie to a certain number of glasses of wine for further expectation setting. Overall, the packaging is very clear[0] about dosage, the time of the onset, and other factors that may contribute to the type of buzz you'll get.

It's very much similar to ABV on an alcoholic beverage, though. You can know exactly what you're ingesting, and you can get the general idea of what to expect, but it's impossible to label a can of beer with something like "5 of these will make you drunk in about an hour and half".

--

0. http://twotentwice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/SPOT-Bites...
That's interesting, because I was wondering "what must it be like to not hear a voice when reading?" and until you said the bit about coding, I didn't know.

Then I realized the same thing. I don't hear a voice when I'm coding or reading code. Odd.
Huh. That article says basically what I said: "The payoff for Twitter will come if it can get developers to embrace MoPub, its advertising product, because it gets a cut of any ad revenue."

In which case, I'd be kinda skeptical. If the other tools are mainly loss-leaders for advertising, then Twitter will be prone to limiting or canceling them when the internal politics change.

Which is exactly what they did with API access previously: they cost money to operate and weren't for the moment seen as directly beneficial, so what was previously going to be free forever was suddenly cut back.
I take the claimed difference that are based purely on self report with a grain of salt. ("No, I can really see the tiger"....) Even when some people are better at recalling details of a visual scene, there are lots of confounding factors. Do they really have qualitatively different subjective experiences, or just worse memory over all? Or difficulty concentrating? Hard to disentangle these, or even know for sure if they are distinct things.

However, I found Feynman's example very compelling, where the self-report (visual vs. auditory counting) matched up with how visual or auditory side tasks interfered with time keeping.
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I don't usually have an inner voice when I read. Now I do, thank you!

Seriously though, I don't really have an inner voice, unless it is maybe something like this where I'm expressing myself and I read in my voice the thoughts I'm trying to express. I was just trying to image accents as I read and this comment sealed it that yes, I can hear accents and a separate voice when I read something.
Wondering the same, they've burned relations with devs pretty badly over the years.
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They do have different planning horizons.

The lack of accountability in a dictatorship might offset that. I have no way of evaluating that.
> why does posix sh deserve to win? It's plaintext pipes approach is really frustrating in 2016.

I think that in many aspects plaintext has won. Many historical records of the last century will be or have already been lost, because of formats that nobody can read.

OTOH, plaintext is readable and supported by almost everything under the sun.
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Hey Nostromo.

Although I can't help you out with the ladder problem. My company is working to help people like yourself live more and own less, with experiences and services to fuel your lifestyle.

Eventually, we may move into the problem you described of renting out gear that you may only use once or twice a year. Which was the main problem, when me and my roommate were staring at a very expensive kiteboard and mountain bike that was just collecting dust, and never getting used. So I feel your pain on that note.

To start with we are offering a range of products and experiences which you never have to think about owning (or collecting dust) Some of these include - skiing, golf, camping and tennis.

We are launching March 10th in San Fransisco, and Bay Area. If you are outside of this, you will be the first to know when we expand to your area, and you can always download the app for free- this is us - http://share-hub.launchrock.com/
Sorry can't solve your problem right now. Hopefully one day we can :)
Exactly. Not only does Bailey not address Taleb's systemic arguments; I'm not sure he understand them, really.
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Here's a related question: Supposedly
now the CO2 concentration is about
400 parts per million (maybe by weight)
and up from ballpark 200.

Okay, how much CO2 is 200 parts per million
in the atmosphere? Then, how does that
much CO2 compare with what comes from
human activity? Or, over a time interval
while CO2 concentration increases by, say,
1 part per million, how much CO2 was
generated during that time interval?

Why?

(1) The atmosphere is a biggie thing,
and maybe CO2 from human activity is
tiny in comparison, too small to represent
increasing CO2 concentration by 200 parts
per million. Need some numbers to know.

(2)There are claims that CO2 emitted into
the atmosphere by human activity is tiny
compared with that from volcanoes and
rotting vegetation. If so, then we have
to ask where the CO2 for the increased
concentration is coming from? From
the oceans as they slowly warm from
the cooling of the Little Ice Age?

My point about the cooling of the Little
Ice Age was that it was likely not caused
by reductions in CO2 from human activity.
Indeed, as the climate cooled, humans had
one heck of an incentive to burn all the
firewood they could find. So, the Little
Ice Age seems to be a case where
there was drop in temperature without
a drop in CO2 from human activity. If so,
then there have to be some causes of
temperature change other than
changes in the rate of CO2 emissions from
human activity. That is, apparently there
would be climate change even without
humans.
Indeed, I have seen beige conference rooms and business hotels in every city from Tulsa to Charlotte. I eagerly await the time when I can captivate my grandchildren with reminisces of Renaissance hotel breakfasts in Omaha and days spent in the exotic exurban office parks of Evanston, IL.
I've found that any more than a mild speedup and I lose interest in a spoken word piece. The pauses, the emphasis on certain words, etc all help me put myself into the emotional shoes of the speaker. Without that anchor, my mind quickly wanders and the podcast just becomes a distracting presence.
Or old-fasioned kingdoms and monarchies. A number of English kings underwrote the wool trade; in general, the smarter sort of king tended to take an interest in improving his country's manufacturing and agriculture.
Mentioned in the article is the passive bug the Soviets used for covert listening in the US embassy in Moscow. Impressive technology for 1945: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...
The effects of air eroding the desk are much more significant than the expansion of the universe. And both are dwarfed by the fact that the texture of the surface keeps the exact length and width from being well-defined.
I'm going to get a Citi Prestige as my next card, which to me works better than Amex Plat - 4th night free on paid hotel stays, Admirals Club access, Priority Pass Select for primary & authorized users (with access to 2 guests free vs. none on Amex Plat), Global Entry and 250$ in flight credit that can be redeemed for airfare vs. incidental charges with Amex. Not to mention, it's easy to get an in-branch offer of $350 a year plus the fact that there's no bonus for everyday spending on Amex Plats.
Does this mean that software patents are not valid in India? If so, what will this mean for trade relations between India and the US?
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>> stating also that there are enormous health benefits to eating meat - being surely wrong.

No, Bill knows what he's talking about. Animal-based foods are the most nutritious foods for humans. Beef liver, for example, is one of the most nutrient-dense foods you can eat, outclassing vegetables in every way save fibre content.

Animal consumption is an evolutionarily and culturally significant behaviour. Arguments about energy usage aren't enough to overcome these things.
I have this with numbers (and consequently arithmetic). When I think of a number, in my mind I see its position in a never ending, wavy line of numbers that goes from left bottom to top right. This 'ribbon' of numbers kinda scales logarithmically and I can 'adjust my view' to 'look at' higher/lower numbers. Now that I think of it, I mostly use/see this ribbon when adding or subtracting numbers, not when multiplying or dividing.

Don't know if it's related but in one of my first classes as a kid (where we learned to count), we had some sort of banner on the wall that listed the number from 0 to 100. Maybe picked it up there.. Sometimes I also think this makes the more abstract math concepts harder for me to understand. If I can't visualize it, it won't stick (easily).

Asked some friends how they saw numbers, and they don't have anything like that. Wondering how this is for other people.
Oh, memories (or lack of)
Is it just me, or is "not necessarily accurate" just weasel words for "not accurate"?

Either something is accurate, or it is not.
Sorry, I had to go look up what ANFO is.

> Do you think ANFO fits into the category? Why or why not?

It's a very interesting question. This is a great example, thanks for bringing it up. I guess I'm OK with restrictions on ANFO in the same way I'm OK with our (US) current restrictions on Browning .50 machine guns. At the same time, I doubt I'd get too worked up if someone proposed to relax either of those.

I have heard some people talk about trying to restrict access to cow poop -- the fertilizer component of a homemade ANFO bomb like the one used by domestic terrorists in Oklahoma City. To me, that feels like going way too far.

It's a complicated issue. What do you think?
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I hear a voice when I read, and I just need a few seconds of concentration to change it to another voice. I can choose voices that seem to fit the content in energy level, general way of speaking and accent and do that a lot. But they never speak to me when I am not reading.

I realized just now that it is my brain reading me a story and I listen to the voice that reads it to me like a fascinated kid.
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I'm not really waiting for him to become vegan. I'm waiting for him to become rational - veganism follows from that. He doesn't have to promote it, he just has to live it.

I'm doing plenty of positive changes while waiting and pointing out his irrational argumentation over energy.

One is replying here with a unique opinion.

The other is applying my own engineering skills, tied very tightly to logistics (NP-hard optimization).

Bill Gates is a huge driver for startups and people reinventing the food industry. But his posts on energy never include the biggest luxury of all, the mightiest polluter, the strongest destroyer, the most prolific murderer - the animal agriculture industry. Without it + great logistics, the greenhouse gases emissions he's so eager to reduce would reduce immensely.

When animal agriculture footprint becomes smaller than all traffic combined, when it becomes smaller than all of the heating - then I'll concentrate on other things.

Anyone profiling a program would optimize the big percentages, not the small ones. Having a couple of thousand people watching my region centered vegan cooking videos is nothing.
They recently did a mostly-automated rewrite of the compiler from C to Go. I expect it was easier to hand-rewrite the parser instead of writing a Go backend for yacc or converting the C parser that yacc generated.
On my current monitor, that search doesn't show even a single result without scrolling.
Not sure about other people but for myself, there is no physical impairments; stumbling, tilting, etc. That would be present when drinking alcohol. Can ski a black diamond while still being stoned.
By "sound stretching", do you you just mean increased audio speed, or something more complicated? I'm generally stuck at about 1.7x or 1.8x because I stop being able to make out the words even though I'm not having a problem processing them. It's hard for me to imagine 2.7x being remotely intelligible. (Can you do this for any sort of speech, or only speech where you can fill in half the words mentally?)

I've been dying for a audio/video playback program that would speed up faster between pauses (breaths, breaks, etc.) while slowing down to ~1.6 speed for words. I don't even really know what search terms to use. Here's my SE question:

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/27175/video-...

Would love more info here.
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Headed to the EFF branch in SF tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion.
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You know with all this high quality bud that is being smoked. I wonder how much and the quality of the bud that is used with making Oils // Shatter.
We (Sojern) moved to 100% GCP as well this month, admittedly not nearly at the same scale as Spotify, but we did. Other than some growing pains - that GCP team is already aware of - this has been a very smooth migration for us.

We use Google Cloud {Storage, BigTable, Container Engine, BigQuery, Monitoring, DNS, Compute} and may be some services I'm missing. I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Sounds like synesthesia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia ). People with synesthesia tend to associate colors with numbers or similar. Often it's extremely specific colors, like "deep electric purple with sparkles" for 125. These colors can be consistently identified and described across multiple tests, suggesting that the person actually maintains a consistent inner representation of numbers in terms of color.

Associating colors with days of the week is another well known example, described in the book "Wednesday is Indigo Blue" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday_Is_Indigo_Blue ). You might find it interesting.

I only know about this because I had a friend in middle school who was a synesthete. We thought he was making it up until we gave him a list of (long) random numbers to describe the colors of. We then mixed up the order and gave them to him a week later and he provided consistent descriptions. It was pretty cool actually, I've always been a bit envious.
I have a habit of collecting sites like this.

Some others:

http://colorblendy.com/

https://coolors.co/browser

http://flatuicolors.com/

http://www.flatuicolorpicker.com/