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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?

http://citizencensus.appspot.com/about

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.

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.

True; but even more so: Corporations are living organisms; I call them humanoid organisms. http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/the-realm-of-the-hu... Humans are the domesticated critters of humanoid organisms.

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.

At this point, I only have my own links; but if other people submit their own python links; and I figure how to sort by relevance, ting may be a good resource for search results without spam.

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-...

Any other edits are welcome.

  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.

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.

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

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)

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...

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.

I built for my own use with Google App Engine this service I call "ting" (sample search: http://ting-1.appspot.com/rt?rt=startup) and with each link I want to save I enter tags and a summary; this way I know I only save pages that I really believe will be useful to me in the long run. (I also cut and paste the link, making it even more time consuming)

Wolframalpha can be classified as "knowledge engine" but is this true for www.trueknwoledge.com? I couldn't figure out what it is.

Several of the problems mentioned caused by variation of the same tag, it seems to me, can be solved with related tags. So if I am searching for "string methods" http://ting-1.appspot.com/rt?rt=string%20methods, related tags also shows "python string methods".

    soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url))
    title = str(soup.html.head.title.string).lstrip("\r\n").rstrip("\r\n")