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OP here. I wasn't aware of this policy. I rewrote the original headline because I found it not very descriptive. Headlines are often clickbaiting or impressionistic. I'd rather have it say clearly what's in the article.

Yes, clickbait.

The vision of a web of triple-blind, peer reviewed scientific observations, published independently of the "story" behind the research is audacious. But it's not clear what incentive researchers would have to publish this way -- especially the tantalizing, breakthrough observations. And it's also not entirely clear that observations have an independent existence outside of the scientific stories that give them context.

For syncing, look at couchbase mobile, which recently has added support for Core Data: http://blog.couchbase.com/syncing-with-core-data

This is great! Back in the '90s, I played with Kalman filters for a predictive navigation system. I had a couple of textbooks, but it was a bear to make sense of the math. Really wish I'd had this back then!

Nav applications are the ones you see most often; it would be interesting to see an example from a completely different domain.

Show HN: Game-based system for learning to identify bird songs and calls. We use 1000's of Macaulay sounds (under license, of course). http://www.larkwire.com

This is visionary. We are becoming a predominantly urban species and there are incredible tech opportunities both from a business and from a social benefit perspective. Walkscore, Bikewise and Open311 are a few examples that come to mind, but that's just tip of the iceberg. After the internet-of-things, the internet-of-habitat is coming. It's brilliant that Google wants to help invent it.

Poachers are not largely in poverty. Poachers are primarily large, well-funded criminal syndicates, although they do (sometimes) use impoverished locals for their hunting ability and knowledge of local conditions.

The boom in trade in rhino horn, elephant ivory, etc. has been largely fueled by increasing incomes in China and elsewhere. It is not the result of poverty.

Glad to hear you met Tom! He's our secret national treasure. It's awesome to hear that you are already plugged in to this area of thinking. Thanks for the Gorbis reference, sounds similar to Ethan Leib's proposal for a fourth branch of federal gov't.

This is very inspiring stuff and very exciting that YC is backing it! A key thing that Pia said in her TED talk: technology is only a tool here, cultural change and reinvention is necessary. I haven't had a chance to play with DemocracyOS yet, but the focus does somewhat seem to be on "direct democracy" (as opposed to "representative"), and as others have pointed out, that's fraught with problems.

But I hope and believe this is just a first, experimental step. And I hope that next steps will be informed by the rich tradition of experimentation in "participatory, deliberative democracy". This includes things like citizen assemblies, citizen juries, participatory budgeting, wisdom councils, etc. What these approaches have in common is a blending of citizen participation with informed deliberation, often including a random sampling (of citizens).

As two superb examples of this, I would point to the Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform (British Columbia, Canada, 2004) and the Dialogue with the City (Perth, Australia, 2003). Some really useful books: Tao of Democracy (Tom Atlee), Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Gastil & Levine), Deliberative Democracy in America (Ethan Leib).

Go watch the Selma (movie)? That incident (where news coverage sparked public opinion, leading to political action) provides a great counter-example to the idea that news/journalism is a waste of time.

Yes, for example, in second language acquisition the hypothesis of a critical period has been pretty much disproven. Also, the conflation of perfect pitch with musical ability is a big stumble. Still, quite an interesting article.

These are in no specific order and I haven't tried them. But, sounds like you might benenefit from some structured training:

http://www.thinkful.com/ https://www.codementor.io/ https://www.bloc.io/

To me, the most interesting part of this is the way that it fosters entrepreneurs. If it were "just" about guaranteeing people have enough money to buy food, it would still be good to do, but a much harder sell. But this looks more like YC for the bottom of the pyramid. That might be the greatest wealth creation scheme of all time.

Great concept, implementation look very nice, change your intro video. You're giving me a product tutorial when what I want is to understand the use cases and benefits. I don't care about how to use it (yet), I want to know why to use it. Also, please lose the background music - very distracting in a tutorial.

Don't require a signup just to find out how you approach teaching. Also, nice landing page but you don't explain why you're qualified to teach.

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Find out what you love to do. You can't do that just by reading, but only by doing.

Find your community.

Apprentice somewhere.

Take advantage of youth as a time to do and try a lot of things. Get outside your comfort zone.

What you know how to do is much more important than what degrees you have.

"Some researchers are already building devices that run on “ambient” energy harvested from light, heat, vibration or TV transmitters."

Very cool.