Just curious, what happens to the engineers when a project is cancelled at Google? Mass exodus to other projects? Do they get notice? Are they left with weeks of nothing to do while they search for other teams to join?
People are ego driven but they're also profit driven. Industry and academia are paying attention to security now so that's where hackers are going. Capital eats everything.
I recall a strong strain of activism to get hacking as an interest as socially acceptable, along with opening up compsec to a wider audience, and getting gov/corps to embrace this instead of treating all hackers as criminals.
I'm sorry if it disappoints you that people 'sold out' and it might feel like something of the original 'underground' scene has been lost---I genuinely get that. But experts who put in the time deserve to be compensated and making computing more secure is something that benefits society.
Existing energy industry is too entrenched in current technology to innovate? Widely publicized nuclear energy disasters prevents popular support? I don't know but this guy seems pretty smart
It is a binary choice, either you call the left shape bouba and the right shape kiki, or you call the left shape kiki and the right shape bouba, you can't use any other name.
The interesting part is that everyone gives the same answer, regardless of culture and language.
From the article: Without being told which shape was which,
> 95% to 98% selected the curvy shape as "bouba" and the jagged one as "kiki", suggesting that the human brain somehow attaches abstract meanings to the shapes and sounds in a consistent way
So apart from visually impaired (from birth) people, we may have a pattern in mapping shapes to phonemes.
I'm guessing because you misunderstood the question. The question in the research was something like, "Which one of these shapes is called 'bouba' and which is called 'kiki'?" There was no option to invent your own word.
Thanks for your comment, it's appreciated. These anecdotes are what came to mind as I read the fine link.
I originally posted diary entries to kuro5hin.org (RIP). They started out as 'these were my passengers today'. Later I picked themes to write about... I re-posted the diaries to my own domain, https://www.TaxiWars.org/ (Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193273 ). My comments on the Show HN picked out some of the more important pieces.
There are some other stories in my HN posts. Maybe I'll mine those for a memoir. That reminds me: Michael Crawford (not a passenger) greatly appreciated my efforts on his behalf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489570 . Michael was a member here, but couldn't abide by the HN rules...
