"How close are they of hacking your brain"?

Not very, despite the author's thorough Wikipedia research.

Mind reading, though, that might not be so far away. If you're curious search around for "MRI SVM whole brain classification".

A careful and thoughtful study of marketing practices and techniques might lead you to different conclusion in terms of how close they are to hacking our brains.

Also, thanks for the tip on the mind reading, that's some interesting stuff!

Hacker news on Hacker News.

lots of recursion going on around here.. we have startups mass producing startups, and news mass producing news.

Cracker news on Hacker News.

Like it or not, Cracker culture's an important part of Hacker culture.

I don't mind that, but I do like to make the distinction between the two.

I think you lost that fight over a decade ago, I'm afraid...

You're essentially saying to follow the herd then; as a nerd, I can not blindly condone such an action. This doesn't mean you should stop fighting though.

Well, that's just how language works. Words gain their cromulence through consensus.

Look at the articles the only definition of hacker that doesn't fit is the golfing one.

Where's the tar.gz or file to download? There's a link on the right, but it's broken. Anyone else have this problem?

Individual text files can be found here. Use DownThemAll to quickly grab them. Filter on .txt, you haxors.