As if all the increase-your-productivity/get-rich-quick self-help twaddle wasn't bad enough, now there's a notorious internet racist at the top of HN.
Anybody know a tech news site that sticks to tech?
Anybody know a tech news site that sticks to tech?
I'm wary of judging articles by their publishers, but here's some background on Steve:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer
He's warned of "anti-white pogroms" and thinks blacks "need stricter moral guidance from society" because of their lack of "native judgement" compared to better-educated groups.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Thusly, as a hacker or someone that knows them, I can't help but find this to be highly in the Off-Topic category, uninteresting and certainly not gratifying my intellectual curiosity.
The same problems happened before in early 20th Century China. Both Nationalists and Communist governments in China tried very hard for a long time to remove clan and tribal influence and a lot of bloody consequences happened. So this is part of social science. (though social science is political and not real science).