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I follow RT sometimes, aljazeera and in fact any source of information on any topic that interests me.
All in all, I think I agree with what you're saying.
The best way to try to remove bias is merge the stories and take it from there.

Anyway, I think sometimes there is some truth in the daily mail, fox news, the sun and all that junk media and I wonder if the truth that gets published there is published there such that it can be discredited :P
Thing is, there's probably a large market even outside just web freelancers with plenty of space.
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Most of the web sites I use regularly use an even better solution: your email address is used as your user name. How could it be better? A valid email address is surely unique, and the risk of it being forgotten by the user is sufficiently low.
All of these things are already possible to implement, google glass just makes it more accessible by keeping it in your field of view the entire time your wearing the device.
I have been using it for several months, and it's really interesting to compare valuation between accelerators, former colleges and companies. It helps startups & investors to understand where the market is (if they care).

thanks naval & team!
Top 2 reasons:

1. in-app purchase for subscription with users that already have a card on file

2. better control of content and performance

I don't think they did particularly well with (2). "Our Choice" by http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/ and Alice in Wonderland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw) is much closer.
It is not.
There are more types of depression than you think. Do you want me to list them or you can use a search engine?
Yet somehow I think there would be people peeved knowing that the White House pays a staff to write a reply to every petition that gets the number of signatures equivalent to the number of retweets Justin Bieber gets when he blinks.

And yes, a "staff", because someone has to sort/collate the petitions, write the response, and also legally/factually vet the response, as it isn't a reddit post but something that is the official voice of the government
I didn't struggle, I did what hard working people do, I worked hard. I regularly met people at case competitions from the 5 schools mentioned who were not getting the job interviews or jobs I was because they expected to get it for free.

Sure, they get better on campus recruiting than other schools, but the best jobs are not advertised.
> At least with glass you can keep your eyes facing the road

A sheet of anything, however transparent, centimetres away from your eye won't help you see something a hundred meters away.

You're concerned with alignment but focus matters even more. You usually don't notice the focus time because your eyes are doing it while moving (changing the alignment).

HUDs work in planes and cars because they're far away enough to be in the "far sight" range.

Worse, while once your eye moved the distracting elements are out of the way and you get an unobstructed and non-distractive view, with this you simply can't look away of the distracting elements — merely focus away — and however transparent and blurry it would appear it would still obscure the view.

Besides, the attention problem makes it an order of magnitude more likely to have an accident whereas the hands problem makes it only a factor more. When you're on a call with someone or whatever, hands or not, your mind is simply not driving.

So, should it be a cause of concern? I don't know, but it's certainly not the solution. Driving is an enjoyable yet serious matter, requiring a combination of motor and cognitive skills, therefore the solution is (whether people like it or not) that one should not do anything else but driving, or not drive at all (i.e have someone either drive meanwhile or do the task, or take the train, coach, taxi, or get a Google car). The huge majority of crashes are directly tied to an inadequate level of cognition from the driver (alcohol, testosterone excess, adrenaline addiction, sleep deprivation, psychological pressure, multitasking...) because every dent one makes in its ability to analyse raises the odds of an event ranging from nuisance to dramatic given the energies involved WRT our frail physical envelopes.

So, drive responsibly. Don't answer, dial or text wile driving, and don't put an electronic lid on your eye. Even if you think it's safe while it's probably not, it's way safer not to.
Your petition might get a reading in the Parliament and you're allowed to speak. However, this is not a guaranteed outcome, the Bundestag or rather the committee in charge of petitions may deny you the public reading with a 2/3 majority.

However, on the state level there is a "Volksentscheid" where the people can directly vote or enforce a vote on an issue. The quorum and the topics that are eligible for a Volksentscheid depend on the states legislation. Berlin for example allows a vote on general topics of interest while other states only allow votes on proposed laws.
My reading of the various articles since Aaron's death has not been that people are blaming the prosecution for causing it, but rather noting:

a) it was almost certainly a contributing factor; and

b) regardless of its contribution to Aaron's death, it is ethically and legally appalling in itself to subject someone to the threat of a felony conviction and decades in prison for what amounts to a TOS violation - downloading large numbers of articles over an open network.

I appreciate the perspective this article brings to the real cultural challenges around recognizing, acknowledging and addressing depression, but there is no need for dismissive strawman attacks against those who have chosen to focus some of their outrage on the despicable actions of the US prosecutor in this matter.
Don't know where it implies in the article that the elephant did not died, but it did in fact. Here you can read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)
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It is already:

(100k signatures / 200M voters) = 0.05%

Public awareness of the petition site is growing much, much more rapidly than the number of eligible voters in the U.S. Thus it makes more sense to tie the required number of signatures to the number of people who know about the petitions site, which is essentially what they are doing.

For example, they might have internal targets of a fixed number of successful petitions per month, or a fixed fraction of petitions being successful. This makes sense. To maintain these targets the number of required signatures would be periodically adjusted.
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Hi, thanks for the comment. Every plan comes with a free 14 day trial for people to try it out for themselves to see how it compares to any alternatives.

After that it's up to that individual to decide if the experience we've created is something they would like to continue using or not, hopefully they do :)
imagine mechanics using it to see an x-ray kind of view of a vehicle or engine.

location/time awareness could do a "checklist" of sorts when you are leaving your house to make sure you pick up all of the items from the front table.

a lego app that helps you find that piece in the big bin of pieces
Have there been any particularly notable uses or outcomes of this process?
Nah, chances are 100 other people have the same idea. No one is going to steal it. Just build the best version of that idea and don't worry about what everyone else is doing.
No, PDF is basically digital 'paper.' However, publisher-end tools and workflows can produce multiple PDFs from the same content for different form factors.

HTML5 and related technologies probably have the most promise in this sector though due to the large amount of cross-device styling and customization that can be done with CSS3 and JavaScript.
Less than ten hours per subscriber is not bad. In-house enterprise software can get to hundreds of dollars in development costs per user click before getting cancelled.
With the current legislature, a local vocal group of constituents is a much more effective means of citizen-government communication than an internet survey that takes 30 seconds to contribute to.
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My twitter account got hacked, but i did not comlain on HN. I really should have. Even though i got through to support (i have a friend who worka at twitter who referred me), they claimed that my email address was not the one associated with the twitter account. Well guess what, when you msg or add me to your feed, those notificationa come straight to my inbox. The only thing that doesn't reach my email account (standard gmail) is a password reset link . So annoying. I've been bouncing back with support for weeks.
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Aaron struggled with depression long before he downloaded the JSTOR papers. How is depression a consequence of the trial?
"because all our content was restricted to the iOS platform..."

They chose to restrict their content to iOS because of laziness; they did not want to look for a cross-platform solution. What do you expect Android users to do when you give them a pale imitation of a product that exists on iOS? Of course they're going to go elsewhere.
I mostly agree. The form "x events every minute" is useless when you need a ratio to make sense of things. Current fave: the US borrows $2B every day, which sounds impressive, but is 0.01% of the $15,800,000M US GDP. So, in most cases, the formulation is a way of impressing rubes (who don't have a sense of the denominator) with how big some quantity is, when the quantity may not be big in a meaningful way.

But for someone who has a sense of the denominator, it may be useful. E.g. if you're provisioning servers for LinkedIn, you could probably estimate how many you've got to stand up every day/week/month/year based on 2 registrations/second.
I think you have a great way of expressing the point.
In my view Aaron would be happy to know his sacrifices contributed into generating this sort of discussions and hopefully change.
I like the idea that of there being some easy middle ground between doing nothing and going to the effort of calling/emailing/writing a congressperson. If the person you were responding to is correct and nothing of consequence has come of these petitions, that is not what this is.

Venting that effort into something that doesn't work at all does not strike me as a net positive.
"a technology sub-culture that mostly doesn’t understand — or care much — about mental illness."

I'd go a step further and suggest that North American business culture, if not North American culture at large (and there's a good argument to be made that the latter is circumscribed by the former), is guilty of this as well. I don't think it's at all exclusive to IT.
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You might be interested in your local chapters of SCORE or the Chamber of Commerce. They often have events featuring that sort of down-to-earth advice, and are also a good way to meet other small businesspeople.
Looks like the star programmer took advices from "The 4-Hour Workweek" one step too far.
It might be interesting for an external party to have such a website but it's counter productive for the government to have one because clicking a link on an online petition accomplishes literally nothing.

How invested you are in an issue is displayed by how much work you're willing to put into doing something about it. Online petition is practically zero work so it's zero worth, regardless of how many people click what.
Representative democracy is just that: representative, not direct. You have people who represent a whole body (district/state/whatever), not a drone that will pull a lever when you tell him to. They should try to determine what their whole electorate wants, not just the majority of it, and then faithfully represent that point of view in various ways, which is not just voting or fielding new laws.

Petitioning, per se, has always been a sort of plea, a supplication to the ruler that he should pay attention to something. You bring the petition to your ruler, he reads it, and then does what his conscience suggests him to do (which might be to prosecute every single signatory, for what we know). This hasn't changed. Petitions are tools to get topics "on the radar", providing another datapoint to decision-makers; nothing more, nothing less.

If you want direct democracy, then you need a website where you can propose laws and force the legislative branch to actually vote on them. This is a nice idea in theory, but in practice it's a quagmire waiting to happen (unless you really want laws glorifying Anonymous or public buildings dedicated to moot).
They said that they had to redo all the work. It took them 4 days per issue to complete the task as a result.
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According to the article, for the Android version, they removed "movies, sound, interactivity and content", and the app frequently crashes. Is anyone really surprised that not many people used it?

From the article, it's pretty clear that they failed to make a decent Android version, nobody used it, so they gave up.
Sharing this information and your thought processes is great, so thanks for doing that. Looking at your website, it's still not clear to me why I would want to sign up - there's no call to action on the homepage saying what I'd be signing up for, just a tagline, a slidehow with a cryptic headline and a find out more, and an advert (and some blog links below the fold).

Why not put "spend 10 minutes, everyday, being taken on a journey around the world" front and centre on the homepage? (I found that text on the why sign up page only after the slideshow got to the last slide, then it moved, then I found the buttons to get back to that slide, etc etc, gah!)

I like the concept, although I'm not sure I want to read 1000 words a day on a random location – on the one hand, 1000 words can be skim-read (and the pretty pictures admired) in ~5 minutes; on the other, if it was a little longer and did take ten minutes, would I want to read it every day? Probably not, and if I'm not going to read it I probably don't want it in my e-mail inbox.

The advantage of a weekly digest is that I can read the ones that I'm interested in. I really look forward to my Quora digest for example. Daily engagement is something I give to my wife, not a travel blog.

Not everyone wants to go around the world and experience everything, but most people would be interested in, say, 10-30% of your destinations. I think your target audience of people who want to go everywhere and experience everything is too small and I almost wonder if its (not trying to be rude here, but can't think of a better word for it) snobbery on your part - I'm guessing you have all travelled a lot and see a lot of value in experiencing things from other cultures and places, even if they are not to your taste. Most people aren't like that.
When I look across the first world, the US government doesn't stand out to me as the best. In fact, it does stand out to me as one of the worst (at least in my personal experience). So I don't know how much should I care what men said who, IMO, have been proven wrong.
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I like the idea of the We The People petitions, but I think the focus is wrong. Petitioning the president is a way to get an idea noticed, but it's not the way the legislative process in this country works. Laws are created by the Congress. I think it would be a much more effective system if it petitioned Congress.

Right now you can contact your representatives, but I think this system of online petitions would work if the party leadership agreed to have a representative respond to each petition instead of a White House staffer.
I never said his depression was a consequence of the trial.
What I did say is that is death is a consequence of the trial, i.e. without trial he would be alive (so far at least, but I don't think he was necessarily suicidal prior to the trial).
What I did also say is that depression (when not an chemical imbalance problem at least) is a consequence of a series of events and therefore caused
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> If petitions actually worked, they'd be banned.

That statement is so scary, but most likely true.
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Half the front page of today's The Times in the UK is a picture of Zuckerberg. Though I think it might be more to do with giving the paper a "we're down with tech" image.
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Craprags don't exist to discredit the truth. They exist to sell their version of the truth. Sometimes that means distorting reality a little, by promoting statistics that appear -to the uninformed- to support their argument. However sometimes their version of the truth can be served verbatim.

However sometimes, the truth is distorted simply because the reporter isn't educated on that subject. It's a common problem with articles on legal proceedings, and with science papers too (the reporting on the "faster than light" neutrino is one great example of the press not understanding their subject!)
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Do you this is 'because' of purer capitalism ? Isn't that north american [business] culture at large ?
As opposed to mixed capitalism/socialism in other western countries.
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"True but Aaron's activism resulted in him being bullied until he took his own life."

You state that like it is the only reason he did it. It contributed, yes, but it wasn't the sole cause.
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You got it. Nothing but a placebo for the average Joe.
Several times while visiting Boston, I have entered the medialab on weekends and no one prevented me from getting a good tour of the building. I always thought this was part of the MIT culture, not a blunder of security.
As a 'mainstream lefty', I feel pretty safe in saying that Obama has generally been considered by many of us as right of center.
Is learning a framework harder than to learn programming?
I learned C/C++, Java, SQL and know how most common patterns work.

But I've never really used a framework before and a few months ago I wanted to work with rails. But for me it was harder than learning about 4 star pointers or something like that.

Especially if you programmed nearly everything before by yourself it's hard to get comfort with the "magic" behind rails.

I tried to create some small webapps with rails to get in touch with it, but to be honest: without Ryan Bates awesome railscasts I can't write a single line of code!

How did you learn to work with frameworks like rails or django?
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Yes, all of these things are already possible to implement, in the same way that it was possible to construct a webpage in which you listed your activities and doings and manually update them -- and track your friends who have their own webpages -- long before Facebook came along.

The idea isn't the point here, it's the ease of use and the visceralness of it. The gun maps debate is a prime example of this. Anyone could go to the government office and get those records. And if you were a thief, you would have much more use out of them as a straight excel spreadsheet which you could cross-reference with other property records...or at least just do quick name searches across a large Excel file.

But as soon as a newspaper put a bunch of red dots on the map (which made it nearly impossible for a user to find anything more than who has a gun and who lives at that red dot without clicking manually thousands of times), the New York state legislature is hot to pass a law to ban those public records.

Usability and location is much more than just "additional features".
Thanks for taking the time to write this all down - Jacob and I really appreciate the feedback.

I absolutely agree with your points about the call to action - it's funny how often you can't see something that you've built from a different perspective when you've spent hours working on it.

We've also been given a lot of feedback about providing a weekly digest option, and that's something we're planning to put in place.

Once again, my thanks!
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Calling whatever is going on with that website "petitions" is a pretty misleading move, and it has been from the start. The "petitions" carry even less weight than ones gathered manually by interest groups, and they certainly carry absolutely no weight if you compare them to legally necessary petitions (such as putting candidates on ballots).

What (now) 100k votes gets you is a guaranteed response from a White House spokesperson. That's all. For a WH person to even look at a few sentences of text, it takes 100k people. For the most part, neither petitioners nor the spokesperson take those things seriously. As it is, a petition carries less weight than a reporter asking a third-tier aide a policy question.

I'm sure someone at the WH has made the argument internally already if something appears on the "petition" website, that's a pretty good indicator not to do whatever is asked.

The "petition" site is also a genius move as far as fake openness and the illusion grassroots democracy goes because it neatly captures and binds both crackpots and armchair activists in a safe bundle where they are guaranteed to have absolutely no impact whatsoever. Politics is not made by internet people, nor is politics made for people in any way.
Sounds like a tiny market of poor people.
I think that the old protestant work ethic, which of course is what originally made American capitalism so strong, is more to blame.
Why not ask for an investigation into her behaviour and its connection to the suicide instead?

I have little sympathy for prosecutorial overreach , but it seems somewhat ironic and counterproductive that she should face such harsh consequences without there being at least an attempt to establish the facts of the matter independent of the lynch mob that is now on her heels.

If we allege that she used her position to bully someone, we should at least not fall into the same trap ourselves.
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well, in this case, enough to know that the organization should suffer shame.

so, i do apologize if i upset you, and didn't intend to speak to _everyone_ associated with the organization.

in other cases, i would admit that beautiful and wonderful things have come from _individuals_ at MIT...but that is not the context within which my eloquent pair of sentences were made.

however, in this case, it seems that academic snobbery and/or greed was a contributing factor to the suicide of a great individual, and that is enough for me to make my comment.

:)
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Bullshit. Before this change, plenty of petitions exceeded 25k and were ignored because there was no easy political solution. Now petitions will have to reach 100k before being ignored. Maybe it's time to actually exercise our right to assemble and not be pacified by the presence of a petition website.