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zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Citizen Census. What do you think?

Thank for this insightful comment. Do you think, online form would work to count a relatively small section of the population, such as New York City?

The problem with online submissions is that it's quite difficult to uniquely identify people online,

Does the census form ask the social security number of the person? Social Security number would uniquely identify individual online or offline.

and a large portion of the population doesn't use computers.

According to this http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_us... over 75 per cent of the population is online. And this is probably more in New York City with easy access to internet cafes.

It's also expensive to go through records of people who submitted both online and mail-in forms with slightly different entries and determine what is and isn't a duplicate.

My proposal is for online form only.

The Census doesn't get to assume that everyone uses a Google account that's tied directly to their real-life identity, and they need assurance that their software is extremely secure.

Again, can this be solved with asking social security number of people submitting their forms?

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Formatting your web content to be a pleasure to read

"Having air around the text reduces the stress level, as it makes it much easier to focus on the essence."

But his extreme left margin creates unnecessary tension and looks unbalanced on the page.

On the other hand, I applied his 140% line-height advice to my site, and it reads much better.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Facebook is Big and Boring

""The freshman aren't really using facebook [to find parties] anymore.""

I built this app to learn Google App Engine http://hello-1-world.appspot.com/about and it will be good for people to find hot spots where people at. But I've been unable to find an initial user who would seed the network. The fact that it has no branding and there is no activity and the purpose is not clear are facts against it.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Vi Hart: Every school should replace calculus with recreational math

"The usual way theoretical physics was done since the time of Newton was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the equations"

I cannot believe that Freeman Dyson would claim such false notion that Newton worked with "equations." I checked the quote and http://books.google.com/books?id=RHzoMeU2bxsC&printsec=f... it is true, the quote is in the book.

I would think that Dyson would know that Newton did not write one single equation ever. He worked with proportions.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy-It’s Data

"Modern physics has begun to think of the bit—this binary choice—as the ultimate fundamental particle. John Wheeler summarized the idea as “it-from-bit.” By that he meant that the basis of the physical universe—the “it” of an atom or subatomic particle—is not matter, nor energy, but a bit of information."

This quote proves how much physics is a legal system based on the dogma of Newtonian atomic materialism and is not qualified to describe nature. We are living in a matterless world: http://science1.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/the-uselessness-of-...

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?

Thanks for this analysis! It makes sense. I believe one of the reasons to launch early is to observe how users actually use the product. Now I am thinking maybe I need more than a co-founder, or in addition to a co-founder, “brand ambassadors” or paid users who would try out the application. I may put an ad in Craigslist and see what happens there. Thanks again to everyone for great comments.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?

I am not sure. I tried email because I was new to Google App Engine and I was trying to learn how to send and receive email; and also email appeared to be easiest. I vaguely remember reading here that the younger generation do not use email anymore. An sms version will make this service much more fun to use, but that's something to consider later.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?

As the user of this app I was thinking socially active fun-lowing females of all ages; probably living in a big city going out at least a few times a week; and for whom enjoying the company of girlfriends is an important part of their lives.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?

I also wanted to add this quote by PG that founders do not need to identify with their users: http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

  One of the things that will surprise you if you build
  something popular is that you won't know your users. 
  Reddit now has almost half a million unique visitors a
  month. Who are all those people? They have no idea. 
  No web  startup does. And since you don't know your 
  users, it's dangerous to guess what they'll like. 
  Better to release something and let them tell you.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?

What on earth makes you think there is significant overlap between "party girls" and entrepreneurial-minded women?

I don’t believe that the co-founder needs to be a “party girl”. If she goes out once in a while with her friends and uses the application, that should be enough.

I think this is a slow process. At this stage, just testing if registration works, avatars upload, proper emails are sent and so on.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?

What are the benefits for the users of your app?

May I suggest these:

  1. bragging rights
  2. finding hot spots
  3. posting a picture from the outing to keep a record of social activity
I welcome other possibilities as well.

Why a new "specialized" social network?

I am interested in the fact that

1. it is only for females (the market segment that spend the most: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/why-women-rule-the-internet... )

2. the network will grow from one initial person and would be possible to reach anyone from anyone (I am not expert in the science of graphs so this sounds interesting to me)

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Search as a Local Shopping Portal

"This is an Irish company with little reach beyond Ireland and Great Brittan, so I expected to see reviews from either of the countries they supply. Instead I get American naval-gazers who haven’t ever seen or tried the stuff pontificating on web forums about how they would never touch a thing they don’t understand."

Is this because there were no discussions in Ireland about your search subject; or is it because Google indexed only US discussions?

By the way the first result in Google is from Ireland: http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie...

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Helvetica and New York subways

The nice comparison chart there shows that, for the purposes of signage, the difference is academic. The sign for the G train set in Arial or Helvetica will make no difference for riders. Or "Exit" in Arial or Helvetica... no perceptible difference.

zeynel1 | 15 years ago | on: Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day.

"Standards are [just] paper."

He misunderstands how the world works. Standard is not just paper; standard is the thing. From this site: http://science1.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/matter-does-not-exi...

    For physicists Newton’s atomic materialism is blinding. 
    It will take many generations of humans to perceive that 
    standard is the thing. There is no “physical” world  
    other than standards and density differentials.
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