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I always thought Shakespehre was over-rated both as a dramatist and as a poet. I happily read this article thinking someone else was finally going to make the case for Shakespeare's mediocrity. But alas, I had been tricked, it was about something much less interesting.

The article presents some speculative research by scientist Stephen Booth about Shakespeare's effect on the bran under brain scans. It makes strange claims about brain scans showing that the brain focuses and pays attention when listening to Shakespeare. It then reaches the dubious conclusion that this is because of some patterns that Shakespeare, in his genius, put in the verses. Of course, these patterns are semantic rather than syntactical and thus not easily quantifiable and measurable in an objective fashion.

Naturally Booth doesn't even consider the possibility that the brain activity may be attributable to other factors. Like the fact that it could just be the brain reacting to archaic styles of English and realizing that it has to focus and pay closer attention to discern the meaning. . . Or that it may be the verses trigger memories of studying it in high school English classes where focus and close attention was required . . .

No it can't be any of these things, obviously it's because Shakespeare is a genius and put some "genius patterns" in his verses. After all everyone thinks it's true so it must be true.

Speaking of which, why is jealousy a green eyed monster anyways? What do green eyed monsters or even green eyes have to do with jealously anyways? what a terrible analogy!

Also, who says "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day, thou art more lovely and more temperate." Summers days aren't temperate, they're hot!! What is wrong with this guy? Why does everyone think this nonsense is so great, don't they realize that there are other poets and playwrights who wrote in iambic pentameter?

In conclusion, Stephen Booth's research is nonsense, much like Shakespeare.
Security fixes and major new features typically require kernel upgrades so that doesn't really solve the fundamental problem.
You've crossed way, way over the line into nationalist flamewars on HN, repeatedly. You've routinely been uncivil to other users, and your comment have been so fixated on one (already off-topic) political agenda as to make this a single-purpose account. We ban accounts that do these things, so I've banned this one.

If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and promise not to abuse the site like this in the future.
Oookay, we're going to need the gist of how you built that. That sounds cool.
(Some) Hackers are also the kind of people who keep their hardware around for ages and run strange OSes if it fits their needs, because they want daily tools to work, reliably and like they always did. Tinkering can happen on top of that or with less important things.
As a young designer I redesigned a major news site with a lighter gray text on white.

I looked great to me - perfect and very readable. But I didn't consider the older eye, or other eyes, which don't let in as much light.

Hopefully the author will learn and adjust. Contrast is good.
Very nice.

This reminded me of a tool that my college professor created many years ago called The World of the Actors [1]. He used in his class to teach Smalltalk and OOP.

I can't seem to be able to find the source, though.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4fb7/5b3cb8ef7adb36c0871931...
Seeing that directory listing (and especially seeing BASICA.COM) brought back a flood of memories of my first days of programming, playing with the IBM PC-1 and PC/XT.
Does it really matter if there is trash and dead bodies up there? Who's bothered or poisoned by this? Other rich people?
Is there an ecosystem up there?
If by so many, you mean more than 170,000 in active use, plus all the puns, plays on words, or portmanteaus which don't qualify as words but can easily be the name of a software project.
The PC screensavers were naff and showed the level of imagination that went with the PC. In comparison the SGI screensavers were inspiring. Not only did they have 3D but they did stuff with that 3D. Meanwhile, on the PC with Windows 95 you had some annoying spinning text as the go-to screensaver. Even though you could customise everything about the text including colour and font, it still looked naff.

The SGI screensavers had authenticity, that teapot was no normal teapot, it was The Utah Teapot!!! Every screensaver had some educational aspect of maths or graphics that probably went back to some SIGGRAPH paper or Conway's Game of Life. The cheesy PC screensavers were tragic because people didn't know better, they had sampled cheap sugar not the golden fruit yet they were easily pleased.
Have you ever actually been on a mountain? The robotics industry is decades away from having anything that can operate reliability and do heavy work in that environment. If anyone tried it now we would end up with a mountain littered with broken robots.
Ask HN: How do you or your company handle coding assigments for interviewers?
Greetings Hacker News,

The company I work for uses a coding project to help vet developers in our interview process; this is something I have been thinking about how to improve upon, as we use a mix of often poor fitting tools and manual processes in this stage of the interview. As an example we use our in house git repo manager to store and review applicant code, which is challenging because we either get a huge number of repositories created unrelated to our actual work, or continually need to keep sticking assignments down into a single repository which gets big and/or ugly as time goes on. Actually executing code submitted is also painful sometimes as not everyone interviewing who wants to test the code knows how to meaningfully sandbox it, which creates additional headaches when things go off the rails. These problems in the process are important for us as it often creates huge distractions from the actual work that needs to get done.

Does the company or organization you work for today use a coding project as part of the interview process? Do you use any special tools, tricks or services to facilitate that stage of the interview? When you incorporate coding projects into your interview process, do you just do review, or do you also try and execute the code? Do you experience any similar pain points around this? If your organization doesn't use a coding project, barring the understandable philosophical objections to the exercise, would you consider using a coding project if there was a better way to manage having an applicant submit and get their code reviewed/tested?

As always, I really appreciate the wonderful insight this community always seems to bring. :)
Hauling a heavy dead body down the mountain is a lot tougher and more dangerous than carrying some extra oxygen bottles and food. In the death zone the porters are already working at the outer limit of human performance.
> Jesus Christ, do you guys live life or do you just watch other people do it.

We ban accounts that post uncivilly like this, so would you please edit it out of your comments here?
Digital ocean outed me to the MPAA (they forwarded me a warning), but they didn't cancel my account. I now proxy my torrent client on top of the VPN.
Not OP, but I think the fundamental difference is that you are, presumably, not selling everything you know to potential stalkers that wish to know everything about the people you mentioned.
Security of BIOS/UEFI System Firmware from Attacker and Defender Perspectives
How to Build Your Email Lists Step by Step How to Guide for (2017)
Not just eyes, shit computer and phone screens. The worst screens have half the colors and a quarter the brightness (and relative contrast) of the best.
Former U.S. national security adviser Brzezinski dies at age 89
Thanks for taking the time.

I can understand you raising the first point. She has confided with me about this since it started so I have seen it unfold. I have been a close friend of L for 6 years. There is absolutely no motive for her to do this. In addition, there have been friends of hers who have said this guy asks them for mailing addresses (claiming he needs to ship a package near their location for a visit) and even SSNs (I don't know how he explains that). We only now find out about this because L has told her story. H seems extremely creepy and sociopathic.

At the very least, if H follows through with his blackmail, we don't want to be totally powerless. I plan to convince her to be on the offense legally.
so like, PGP?
No arguments there
There are some huge positives from driverless cars. You forgot to mention: driverless cars may have a positive impact on the economy (e.g. increasing worker productivity) and on the mental health of the general population (for those whose jobs won't be affected).

There will eventually be a time when cars are truly driverless. None of the passengers will need to be attentive to the car's driving. Once that becomes a reality, many people will have tremendous increases in leisure time during their day. Some people have massive commuting times to get to work.

Families will save money by not having to buy multiple cars. One car could be shared among all the members of a family. If each family member needs to be at different places at different times and all start at the same destination like the family residence, the car could pick up and drop off each person, while still returning to the same start destination. The children could be dropped off at school at an earlier time and you could be picked up later. In the meantime, while you are waiting for the car to return, you could find yourself having extra time to eat breakfast or to finish your coffee by not having to chauffeur anyone else. I find it strange that there will be driverless cars zipping around with no passengers.

I used to drive 50 miles back and forth every day, which ended up being an hour each way. If I can have a car that takes the stress and attention away from having to do the drive, that's 2 hours of my day that I can do whatever I want within the constraints of my car. I can watch a movie. I can read a book. I can get a head start on work. I can socialize with other passengers. I can learn that new programming language that I always wanted to learn. I can learn some other new skill like playing guitar. And, yes, even though driving can be an enjoyable experience, driving can definitely involve stress. Have you ever driven in a metropolitan area like New York City? Driving there can be completely chaotic.
My reply has been downvoted to oblivion. Let me try again.

1. Tesla autopilot has a disengage rate of 182 in 550 miles. This cannot be safe in anyway for any kind of driving http://blog.caranddriver.com/in-the-self-driving-race-waymo-...

2. Apart from the fatalities there have been many other accidents with Tesla
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/another-driver-says-tes...

http://grist.org/business-technology/whats-the-point-of-self...

3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/03/the-custo...

4. Check YouTube for any number of autopilot crashes
Cool work. Do you have any ideas about letting multitask with VR?
Don't forget how sorry they are to hear it and that they will most happy to assist with your problem.
This techcrunch article has some examples:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/25/googles-data-gif-maker-let...
> This was one of bin Laden and al Qaeda's explicit goals.

[citation needed]

I can't speak for bin Laden but in 2000 I would have never predicted that the EU will allow this kind of immigration on such scale. I suspect some of the new member states would have been much more reluctant to join if they knew.
Imzy suffered from the big launch syndrome which always fails, instead they should have applied the proven path approach http://course.feverbee.com/the-proven-path/theprovenpath.pdf community startups are hard but success is possible with lots of patience, i run https://www.kenyatalk.com/index.php and can vouch for the proven path
And there are 10 million Github repos out there!

So yeah... we're running out. ;)
1) You are underestimating how difficult the terrain is. The only types of robot that'd have a chance would be some of the legged ones from Boston Dynamics, and even they probably wouldn't be up to the challenge.

2) Lithium-ion batteries perform poorly at low temperatures. And there's very little electricity available on the mountain at all, let alone near the summit where a lot of the bodies are.
Kevin Mitnick, "The Art Of intrusion", ch 1: "Hacking The Casinos For A Million Bucks" - weak RNG in video poker machines, hilarity ensues.

Can expound on the hack if anyone cares. It definitely worked (this was 1990's, presumably harder now)

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-xiVfICtkDwD1k90A/Kevin%20Mit...
It's a cliche to counter your argument by noting that technological change has always created more jobs than it has destroyed, and usually in ways that people of the era had difficulty imagining, but even if it is different this time, what I fear isn't the loss of millions of jobs, I fear instead that our socioeconomic system won't be able to effectively allocate resources to compensate for those job losses.

Here in the first world we live in times of cartoonishly over the top abundance unparalleled by any other era in history, yet still there are people who don't have enough to cover the basics, and even more who in spite of having plenty believe they don't have enough and are hell-bent on hoarding even more. In evolutionary terms we're not wired for managing abundance, we're wired for managing scarcity, and a failure to adapt to these new circumstances could very well mark our downfall. With or without autonomous vehicles.
Read his comment again, you are missing the point. He is not offering you a phone, he is offering lower level components and showing you how it can be used to build a phone. Feel free to jump in and help him!

Congrats to OP, hope this takes off in a major way! We could use a free (as in freedom) OS for phones!
Oh, yes, I missed a sentence: "Which I guess means that Google now also connected that phone number to the mail address/Google account." So I suppose freeflight's concern is what information the friend gave to Google, not what Google gave to the friend or what the friend's phone is displaying to onlookers.

This is how cloud services work. Google stores the friend's contact data, which has a contact with both freeflight's phone number and email address.

What is it you fear that Google is doing with this information? And what would it take for you to be comfortable?
> inside man that gives the cheaters a look at the source code

Not necessary; slots are legal to buy in many states, including Nevada. Same machines as the casinos use. Read the ROM's, disassemble the algorithms...
100 years ago, every family prepared their own Tomato Ketchup from scratch, 50 years ago every family prepared their own Cookie dough from Scratch. We are evolving to higher level abstraction in Food consumption, following is my view where we will be by 2025 .

Here is my Vision (Comprehensive thought process) on the UNIT Economics of Food delivery, how this will manifest by the year 2025 .

Pre-requisites:

a) Massively centralized, highly Automated Kitchens : can prepare 10,000 meals/hour

b) offer quality Meals at $4/meal with delivery ( with Self driving fleet starting year 2022 )

c) Monthly meals plan : a family will buy pre-paid 60 meals/month plan, USE it or LOSE it in a month.

Here are the Plan details.

1. If we take avg. family size as 3 people in US, a family consumes 2 meals/day X 30 days X 3 people = 180 meals/month for family of 3 people

2. for family of 3 grocery bill is say $540/month, that give s Raw material cost as $3 per meal

3. Meal preparation + Cleaning dishes etc.. takes about 1.5 hours/meal that is 3 hours/day for two meals a day for a family

4. If massive Centralized Kitchens ( like the Amazon Robot handling warehouses) can offer meals at $4 per meal ,people hook on to on REGULAR basis.

5. For this massive centralized Kitchens in order offer at at these low $4/meal, they need 'Commitment of
minimum number of meals per month' from a family. I would say 60 meals/month

6. Basically this 60 meals/month minimum for $4/meal is like pre-paid PLAN, it is USE it or LOSE it in a month.

7. With the Mobile phone app, you set your Default Delivery place, if any thing change, you change Delivery location 2 hours in advance, your meal will be delivered to that place. ( with self driving fleet that should not be a problem)

8. These Centralized Kitchens Offer all Kinds of meals: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, American fastfood etc..

9. When you have these economy of scale where each family Order their food 1/3 of total meals in a Month, and it is offered almost same price as your Grocery Bill to prepare those meals ( with out 3 hours/day preparing meals /Cleaning dishes) , This MODEL will be successful
Researches create shape-shifting noodles
Thanks for your input. I am not sure what you mean by social engineering (I cannot imagine an example), but it is "real" hacking. He references specific things in her conversations and sensitive legal documents stored on her personal computers. All of her devices are Apple iphones and laptops.

We suspect the avenues for hacking could have been:
1. pictures, video, and music files emailed to L from H
2. L logging into an alumni website that H is a webmaster of (where he posts and drops his hints)
3. KakaoTalk messaging app

He is a law student with rich parents, so we suspect he has hired someone to hack L's devices for him.

L and I know nothing about security. Is it possible to infect a router, internet service provider, apple icloud, or any of Google's services (gmail, etc.)? These sound unlikely, but we considered them after L was continually hacked after getting new hardware. One time, she was trying to compose a text message to find a pretyped message where it is supposed to be blank -- this message was obviously from H. This was on an Android phone (one that she had switched to from 2 previous iphones; every other device was an Apple product).

I don't even know if I may be hacked at this very moment (since H knows I am a close friend of L and L has used my computer on several occasions), and that H is watching me type this.
Seek professional help. You've identified a symptom, now the best thing you can do is get the right person to help you explore the cause and fix it. Whether that is a personal coach, or a licenced psychiatrist, I leave at your discretion.

Just do it, it's a google search away from you.
No, real security nightmares are reserved for things like WannaCry and all of the compromised Linux based IoT devices. You know, things that actually do real world damage at massive scale. As for the state of Android security, unfortunately the analysis and numbers don't really back up your baseless claims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9_ytg6MUP0
Show HN: An anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with built-in formatter
Like NetBSD but for mobile.

Easy to port.

Is it true the "Android" project rose from the ashes of an earlier company "Danger" who produced a NetBSD based mobile OS for the T-mobile Sidekick?

If true, why did founder of Android use NetBSD for the Sidekick, not Linux?

Microsoft acquired Danger.

"You know if you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me." - Being John Malkovich (1999)

Maybe easier just to collect on Android sales via threatened patent assertion. IDK.
And the fact that the mainstream media are steadily bending to this pressure (sometimes in spectacularly ridiculous ways) is exactly why a growing number of people distrust them.
The cost of the delivery driver is amortized across the total number of deliveries the driver makes. If you can double the number of deliveries, you've halved the cost of delivery.

Having to return to a fixed point every 3rd or 4th delivery seems like it would add up.
Satya Nadella does not. He is busy "engaging with cloud-first experiences widening the mobile satisfaction among diverse platforms across the boards of world-wide decision makers". Or something like that, the point is: CEOs like him are completely missing the customers' reality. They are, literally, in the clouds of corporate nirvana until customer base is starting to die off.
Reader view is such an invaluable feature for me.

The icon sometimes doesn't appear in the address bar though (apparently because Firefox is unable to identify where the text content is in the page.)

I've also found the extension - Open in Reader View [1] to be useful for those situations.

[1] http://firefox.add0n.com/reader-view.html - Firefox, Chrome and Opera
Digital payments India's new currency; debit card transactions surge to 1B
> The media are equally culpable

I disagree, at least with the "equal" part, but I think entirely. I don't think Islamic extremists blow up westerners to get famous, they primarily do it out of revenge and frustration. Revenge for all the things the west has done to them for centuries, and frustration at how they are treated in western countries, not just as refugees but even as non-wealthy immigrants. I believe the west does a really poor job of properly assimilating Islamic newcomers, and as a result they often end up segregated in "slums", growing up poor and ignored, while getting the (often incorrect, from TV shows and what not) impression that "regular" people in western countries are living a life of luxury while they are dirt poor.

I don't know if the west "deserves" what they're getting with all this terrorism, but they kind of asked for it in my opinion.
Tesla Autopilot Hardware 2 is now up to par with version 1. (The most recent update increased the Autopilot highway speed to 150kph, same as version 1).

The next software update, scheduled for june, should bring automatic perpeticular parking, automatic windshield wipers and an improved "smother" autopilot.

Although perhaps disturbing for some, I enjoy the monthly software updates. Like a little surprise every month.
GPUs are not (only) about representing pixels, they are (mostly) about geometric computation.
They do exist https://www.picocluster.com/collections/pico-5/products/pico.... I have a 5 node Odroid cluster.
> This is one of the criticisms (of self-driving cars, and with LIDAR vs. imaging specifically) I just simply don't get. You can blind a real driver much more easily and less recoverably than you can any sensor.

Human optics is actually really, really good. We can adapt very well to having a light source as bright as the sun in the same field of view as shaded and make at details in both very bright and very dark regions. Optical sensors can't do that--you either wash out the bright stuff and see the shaded detail, or you darken the shade and make the bright stuff visible.
And TPUs are not for sale, just for rent in the cloud, and that is only since recently.
I don't understand the desire to assume other people's interpretations are the results of them desiring to interpret things that way rather than having just interpreted them that way naturally.
It annoys me how much I want to leave Facebook (if only to stop them gathering MORE data on me - I can't erase what they have) but don't because of the convenience of getting in touch with or finding out more about whoever I meet in meatspace.

The fact that they try to force me to install their messenger app by making messaging through a mobile browser difficult is particularly infuriating and reveals how much they have their intentions at centre and not the benefit of their users/products/suckers (whatever you want to call us) now that they have the critical mass that people like me don't leave because everyone else is on it.
Yep, whether it's supervised or not has no bearing on privacy. What counts is where the data is processed and who has it.
Here it is running: http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.12-rc2/source

It's nice, but I prefer http://lingrok.org/. It's definitely easier to browse previous versions using Elixir, though.