Anointmous

It never fails to amaze me how many non technical people - run of the mill (fill-in-a-word) people are on "hacker"news.

The person who said that he was an idea person who executes ideas all the time that it was stigmatized by morons is right.

In programming in particular, coming up with "ideas" and executing them immediately in your programming is pretty much a constant. And it's arguably what hacker, a real hacker, means by definition of word.

My experience is people who don't appreciate ideas are the first to plagiarize them, steal, or cover it up. In fact, its arguably what a lot of current big companies that are stagnating the country are running on. Advice - make sure you have no people in the company you make that think that way. Make it part of the interview - give them an opportunity to say the acceptably stigmatizing thing, and then eliminate them.

Well, maybe first they will appeal to "the we", "the collective", "the identity", or the will of the emperor. Then it will descend into the superstition after the dictatorship.

I much prefer the Christian religion to that, even if I weren't a believer. Mob rule and government rule - dictator rule is just an extension of "we" rule - and who is we and who gets to say? And that is, after all, what this article is about.

east and west were fighting and differentiated since at least before Alexander the great.

"An Appeal to the "Supreme Judge of the World"

Like I said, most of the commentators aren't even from America. But they sure are commenting like they were.

Another article I see where a bunch of non-Americans are going to comment on an article which was obviously written for an American perspective (and afterwards a western one), all the while pretending to be Americans.

I don't mind disagreement. However, I have come to loath the anonymous nature of most of the internet, while the in thing is to comment on someone elses life anonymously while claiming to be in it. Most of the people commenting aren't you neighbors, or even your countrymen. It's 100 fake responses, with zero trust or authentication.

rip.

Just looking at alexa (or facebook's unethical early research), there will be a social engineering aspect to it too.

Time to reread the moon is a harsh mistress!

I hate the term "pentest", but apparently people who want lingo over the ability to do anything have won out over the decades. Besides being a meaningless inaccurate shortening of the phrase, an actually "pen test" would be part of putting a pen register on a phone. It just indicates that the newbies who created the term didn't know anything before.

website is still up.

I remember when they took over outpost.com, and then mucked it up. Went from overnight shipping, and in my case sometimes 3 hour shipping (and this was almost 20 years ago), to nothing.

They've mucked up so many of my online orders through the years that it feels like they messed up every one of them. From bait and switch, cancelled orders, to cheap chinese knockoffs, not as advertised. And the 2 month - 2 MONTHS wait on backorders, over and over.

This from outpost that could deliver in 3 hours. And fry's still owes me a $20 rebate, from a "different" company that was oddly enough just next to them in actual address.

cheap, horrible, terrible online experiences.

"The father of modern mineral smelting, Georgius Agricola, saw this potential 500 years ago. He smelted plants in his free time. If you knew what to look for in a leaf, he wrote in the 16th century, you could deduce which metals lay in the ground below."

You don't need more space then that. That's for the summary of what the article / media is that follows - which all books/news articles, etc should have, and which few nowadays have, that is well written.

Twitter's strength is it appears peer to peer, twitters weakness is it isn't at all.

Or look at twitter. It encourages extra small glibe comments as the standard instead of long thoughtful posts.

Possible, instead of only small posts it should be only long posts or none at all.

It doesn't matter how good some results are, if the search engine manipulates the results, tracks the users, and even more so - steals the ideas and profiles the users.

Google has had some very public news stories of manipulating search results, tracking users, and profiling users -- people en mass left google's news site when they started manipulating it, profiling results for total control of Chinese population is pretty recent too, there are dozens of examples. And google profiling users and trying to guess what they are researching or thinking about it is too easy.

And face it, google no longer has a way to innovate but go the way of tracking, monitoring, and theft.

I used this in beta on a cheap chromebook. It worked great, and since I don't like putting games on my machines or upgrading hardware or using windows, perfect. Realistically, the only way I could play this game on this hardware.