1,279 Matching Annotations
  1. Nov 2016
    1. A driver mode would present a simplified interface and detect when the device is being used by a driver.

      As stated here, enforcing this in any meaningful way would be exceedingly difficult if not impossible to achieve.

    1. For example, helping students to post their prospectuses onlinetook a lot of time out of class before the commentary session could begin.

      There's a site http://docdrop.org/ that let's you drag a PDF and wrap it with the annotation tool in seconds.

    1. Cy­tokines play key roles in the in­nate im­mune sys­tem (Belardelli, 1995).

      I'm annotating XML!

    1. ’Twas  brillig,  and  the  slithy  toves

      I'm not quite sure what it is about this line, but when people talk about Jabberwocky, it's almost always the line they cite. Even kids seem to love it!

    1. That’s because some vendors — Cellebrite won’t say which ones, but Apple isn’t among them — ship a sample of their new phones to Cellebrite three months before they’re released, giving Cellebrite engineers a head start in cracking the devices.

      Very curious. And what in God's name would be the incentive for them to do that?

  2. Oct 2016
    1.  www.hypothes.is, 

      just use "hypothes.is" the "www." is not necessary, and we never specify it.

    2. nor Dan Whaley or Michiel Schuijt

      neither Dan Whaley, nor Michiel Schujit,

    3. this

      these

    4. Hyothes.is
    5. minimum level of sustainable funding

      sustainable income

    6. but still this will

      this will still

    7. It is expected thatonly 2%

      Though it is expected that a minority

    8. the scientists

      publications

    9. scientists

      publications

    10. the scientist

      customers

    11. for free

      "for free" > "free"

    12. despite

      though

    13. cooperate

      Actually, eLife is our first paying customer-- I'm not sure if that is a useful distinction here. Your call.

    14. received notice of confirmation

      We have received notice that we've moved to the final round. We have not yet received notice of award.

    15. Annotation layer turns web­based information to the higher level of scientific reliable information providing annotations to all pretended facts and reasoning

      "Annotation layer turns web­vbased information to the higher level of scientific reliable information providing annotations to all pretended facts and reasoning"

      I'd probably say "the annotation layer enables communities of experts to bring their critical analysis to bear over web-based information for the purpose of providing a useful counterpoint that can benefit their colleagues or the general public."

    16. Please correct me if I see this wrong

      This is accurate.

    17. on; 

      While the annotating all knowledge link is useful here, you should probably point to the Hypothes.is/about page for information directly related to H. Your discretion here of course.

    18. Hypothes.is

      Technically, the name of the organization is "Hypothes.is Project"

    1. Besides, hyperglycemia may also induce oxidative stress by generating free radicals, advanced glycation end

      Like so. This reminds me of another article.

    1. See highlights

      Right now, we don't allow highlights in the Public channel, since they don't carry any value as conversation. We may or may not decide to allow them in publisher groups-- or to make that configurable.

    1. inevitable victor

      Two very key and well chosen words. Much wisdom lies here! We all know when we hear a story that's so compelling it's like "Wow, of COURSE. This is not only absolutely going to happen, but it's going to change everything in the process."

      For me, these words help crystalize how important it is to choose wisely when deciding what to pursue in the first place. If it's not an idea that's got inevitability written all over it, then keep moving till you find it.

    1. I’ll respond with some snark about that being a tech person issue. But honestly, it’s a temporary issue regardless.

      A "tech person" issue? Huh? Because only "tech people" need to charge and listen at the same time? This is a non-sensical response. User reports are already coming in to the contrary. You'd be on firmer ground if you said something like "given the extra battery life of the 7 plus, you're more likely to find times when you can charge versus times when you have to listen".

      But otherwise, you're simply off base here. I'm not sure about others, but I regularly find myself charging and listening at the same time. At the moment, other than some very very clunky adapters, there are no solutions at all. I'm blown away that Apple didn't at least come out with their own slimmed down version of this thing-- so that at LEAST there was an OEM offering out the gate.

    1. Annotations become visible on the click of a button

      Or-- and perhaps more relevant here-- clicking on a link to an annotation?

    2. Achieving openness in qualitative research is difficult because of the dense connections between data, analysis and text

      This might seem more obvious to someone in the domain, but it's not necessarily so to me. Why isn't it just as easy to create these dense connections in an arXiv preprint as it is in a paywalled journal article?

  3. Sep 2016
    1. Hypothesis makes no claim to be a social network (though a “platform for discussion” is only different in name)

      You've nailed it. We don't toss around social network only because it's an overly broad container that carries a lot of baggage-- and also because we fail pretty miserably (at present) at providing the basic features (@mentions, following, better notifications) that you'd expect if we were to claim this. But our aspirations are to enable these kinds of capabilities.

    1. Despite Snowden's later public claim that he would have faced retribution for voicingconcems about intelligence activities, the Committee found that laws and regulations in effect atthe time ofSnowden,s actions afforded him protection.

      Most naive statement in this document?

    1. create replies as if they were annotations

      I appreciate the graceful thinking that went into this suggestion-- particularly since I (think I) know how much you regret the "all replies are annotations" decision that was made way before you had a say in things.

    2. private (non-shared) replies to public annotations

      I remember us discussing this at length, and of course, there is a rationale for it-- which I supported, and I imagined even argued strongly for, since that is kind of my M.O. HOWEVER. I'll say for the record that if there is significant benefit to be had from disallowing this, then I wouldn't be too torn up by having to let it go.

      Personally I have never never never done this in actual practice. Though I suppose I could imagine it.

    3. public replies to (your own) private annotations

      I'm seconding Jeremy's "Whaaa?" but creating this as a top level annotation because I truly thought that we had specifically disallowed this corner case, for obvious reasons (i.e. the only one that could even see my annotation in order to reply to it -- publicly or otherwise -- is me. So replying publicly to my own private annotation is like "me outing myself".) Anyway. I've just checked whether this is indeed possible, and LO AND BEHOLD, it IS. Ugh. Anyway. Let it be said that this isn't a behavior we should care about preserving!!!! :)

    4. I wanted to explain, for everyone’s benefit, what the underlying causes for these issues are, and what I think it would take to fix these issues, or at least put us in a place where fixing them would become easier.

      Nick, if I could kiss you right now, I would. I love you for writing this down in plain, straightforward prose to give us all detail to work from. Yay!

    1. "While we recognise that this photo is iconic, it's difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others,

      Difficult, yes. Impossible, no. Figure it out. That's your job.

    1. hackers who seem to consider it their personal mission to exploit those networks

      As though it's surprising that within a new social system (i.e. networked computers) that there are humans that will exploit it. Isn't that an assumed characteristic of any human system? One might even ask whether it's necessarily a bad aspect of human behavior. Obviously depends on degree.

    2. have a similar skill set

      In other words, they must be ... hackers?

    1. as other manufacturers follow Apple’s lead

      Or ... actually pay attention to what their customers want and don't?

    2. Removing the headphone jack should be about the future, about Siri and about bringing the Apple experience to another level, but a bundled adapter gives one foot in the past.

      What a load of crap. Why is there this insistence that everything Apple does "must be for our good"?

      What if in fact, hundreds of millions of people are actually going to be really irritated by this change, but still want the new tech enough that they go ahead and buy one despite their misgivings. Why not give them a dongle and make their lives better?

    3. The most logical reason for Apple to take away the headphone jack is most likely to continue the push toward wireless everything.

      Why is this logical? Why must everything be wireless, and require batteries, or separate power?

      I love that my current headphones can spin around the jack. That my single set of headphones use an industry standard plug and work on any of the four devices that I carry, that they're cheap ($20) and that they last four years.

      Why is this an improvement?

    4. more ubiquitous voice control and tighter integration with Apple Watch.

      Again-- these things are possible now. Bluetooth exists.

    5. and the elimination of the 3.5mm jack presumably paves the way for mass adoption of Bluetooth

      But iPhones already have Bluetooth and have for years. The only reason that this would "page the way for mass adoption of Bluetooth" (ignoring that Bluetooth is already a generally adopted mainstream technology) is that using conventional headphones will be harder (need a dongle) and less convenient.

      If people widely adopt a new technology because something simpler that billions of folks have been doing for decades has suddenly been taken away from them, I wouldn't call that "paving the way", I'd call it "shoving it down their throats".

    1. feature extraction from the paper's text, especially title, summary, and, if there exists, just use the DOI

      There's a java library called CERMINE that could be adapted to this.

    2. Inside the comments, you could refer to other annotations

      Here's an annotation that refers to another.

    3. The system takes the context of the location on the paper (e.g., the reader extracts large enough context of surrounding words or sentences, which uniquely identifies the location, and allows later display the same annotation around the same text in other formats - be it HTML on the web, or other.

      Hypothes.is supports this through fuzzy anchoring, and also an ability to relate a document to other equivalent versions.

    1. One should stand by one’s decisions

      Certainly if you're using your best judgment, and that judgment is actually... good, then it's pointless to find fault after the fact.

      But it's clear that killing people indiscriminately isn't good judgment. That it was evil and immoral and created obvious consequences. When people do bad things that are obvious later, they should own up to them, and acknowledge their mistakes, and offer apologies-- particularly when those actions were responsible for millions of deaths.

    2. It is much less than the Obama administration has done in similar base areas, such as Pakistan.
    3. “It was correct, and it was in the American interest.” 

      Henry, when you meet your maker, and he asks "Why?" Will you say... "It was in the American interest?"

  4. Aug 2016
    1. Ideas promoted from this conversation will be designed in Android first, given the consideration of lower traffic and relative ease of implementation, but the team will be excited and watching for lessons learned in order to move ideas to the web.

      You might think about leveraging the power of web annotations (w3.org/annotation) in order to have conversations that can exist in layers over Wikipedia-- for use as corrections, suggestions, references to other articles and many other things. Our implementation works in mobile, though there's obvious work that we need to do to improve the optimization of it.

      This is a completely open source project, with a goal of providing a universal web annotation interface that can pull annotations from any hosted source. We'd love to work with you to understand how annotation can be the powerful layer that enables readers to provide these contributions!

    1. It remains to be seen whether car buyers will want to cough up a few thousand more on the purchase just to get a hyperactive version of cruise control.

      Well it's always good to wonder aloud I suppose-- but come on. If I had the choice between A and B, A being 35k and B being 37k and B would drive me from my house to my destination without intervention... and safely? I can't believe the author is speculating about this. I'd not only pay 2k, I'd probably pay 10 or 15k more. It's a fundamentally transformative technology.

      Yeah, maybe I'm not the average buyer, but I think most people would agree whether they can afford it or not, that fundamentally it's worth it.

    1. I had them at “slithy toves.”

      Isn't it the most delicious line ever?

      Ok, here's one more

    2. Sometimes a little nonsense goes a long way

      Indeed it does!

    1. One immediately wonders, in this sort of analysis, what exactly brillig means. And what is a tove? What does it mean for a tove to be slithy? Am I slithy? Was I slithy this morning until I took a shower? Is my brother one of slithiest people on earth? And if he is, is that a good thing?

      About the best breakdown of nonsense I've seen!

    1. A highlight is always private (“Only me”), which means only you can see it, and only when you’re logged in.

      People often ask about this restriction. It's worth explaining why.

      Basically, in our Public channel, we want the highlights on text to be of value to others. A single highlight by a single user without any other content doesn't meet that threshold in my view.

      Certainly, in the Kindle, Amazon will show you "things other people highlighted". That's different in our eyes-- it's a statistical representation of attention. We might consider that at some point ourselves. The question here is: Should we show every single highlight as a separate thing on a page just because someone was making a personal underline for their own benefit. To us, the answer is "no".

      We can see the benefit of you being able to personally share a bunch of highlights you've made with a specific person or group of people. That to us is probably a separate permission level, and a separate sharing model. For instance, you might share a specific link to your highlighted version of a document.

      TBD.

    1. papers appear immediately

      Because they're already pre-prints. :) This is very similar to the notion of overlay journals in that regard.

    2. real-world identity

      ORCID isn't a perfect solution-- anyone can get one-- but it might be a start.

    3. This is to prevent authors from trying to escape bad reviews by resubmitting thepaper

      I imagine that this is something arXiv might provide too. While they don't do a human review, they do perform a few analyses, and certainly would be keen to ensure that arXiv submissions are original works.

    4. can contain specific tags

      Of course. Like this one.

    5. Reviews will be linkable and shareable

      Yes. For instance, like this: Meta! Background article.

    6. Reviews will be linkable and shareable

      Yes. For instance, like this: Meta! Background article.

    7. permanently public and permanently associatedwith the paper

      Yes. Currently we support mapping to the PDF fingerprint of a paper, however it's clear that we'll need to be able to detect arXiv IDs of papers as well as DOIs (perhaps using CERMINE or an equivalent algorithm).

    8. ppear automatically as they browse

      I think this is a mandatory behavior for any good annotation solution.

    9. arxiv

      We've been working closely with arXiv, and they are a member of the new Annotating All Knowledge coalition. As soon as we're (or anyone is) able to ship a client which can listen to any annotation service, I think arXiv will consider implementing. At our current rate of progress, this will be ready in 2017.

      (This is a side note, but may not bear on your project).

    10. progress isextremely fast

      This is the new normal-- and not just in machine learning.

    11. of 
    1. Somehow, I doubt they would be outraged if Trump threatened to deport the Westboro Baptist Church.

      How do you deport Americans from America?

    1. the effective length of a pool can change depending on the ambient temperature, the water temperature, and even whether or not there are people in the pool itself.

      These variations however would presumably manifest evenly for all lanes however. It seems the basic issue is whether manufacturing tolerances can be reduced further-- and guaranteed in all construction regimes that might host events. Seems reasonable that this is enough of a challenge to make thousandth's timings too difficult. Fascinating.

    1. The determining factor was the amount of work I was willing to put in to get the results I wanted.

      This. The secret ingredient in any success is almost always insane amounts of persistence, above and beyond what any rational person would ever contemplate.

  5. Jul 2016
    1. first appeared in the pioneering work of Doug Engelbart

      Here's an article by Doug's daughter Christina Englebart on the importance of Hypothes.is' Direct Linking.

  6. Jun 2016
    1. than I would the real one, where chaos reigns, humanity is fallible, and players kick each other in the nuts multiple times only by accident

      Is it really so hard to believe that the "real world" is one characterized by people that are self-serving, self-dealing, often corrupt, and willing to do whatever it takes to win, including cheating?

      Aren't we continually bombarded by news reports that uncover pretty much exactly these types of events? Instead of thinking of them as massive 'conspiracies' perpetrated by tinfoil hat wearing nutters, why not simply think of this as the natural predisposition of our race-- that where advantage may be had, directly or indirectly, that people at all levels will push for it and often do. Particularly in high-stakes sports like NBA basketball.

      Clearly we need look no further than FIFA to know that what we would call 'conspiracy' is actually the normal functioning modality of some sports.

      Your guess may be correct that there is nothing to see here. But to dismiss it out of hand is incredibly naive.

    1. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.

      Wow. In 2016, we're thinking about a decentralized implementation.

    1. be banned fromworking as legal counselon any other investment disputes while they act as judge

      Say something about it.

    2. denial of justice, where an investor is denied thepossibility to bring a legitimate claim in the courts of the country they're investing in

      It is this "denial of justice" provision that is perhaps most worrisome. There are many examples (here and here) of how this seemingly innocuous provision, buried at the end of this otherwise reasonable list of protections can be a real problem for citizens who will bear the cost of these lawsuits.

      Even the European Parliament voted in its resolution of 8 July 2015 to "replace the ISDS system with a new system for resolving disputes between investors and states"

    1. There are some conversion options, Search & Replace and Heuristic Processing, that allow for some modification of the e-book’s content. These options should be used with care. Since they modify the e-book’s content there is the possibility of losing something by accident. It’s best to avoid these options unless you know what you’re doing.

      Test

    1. "¡Soy el rey del mundo!, ¡Soy el rey del mundo! ¡Dios todopoderoso estaba a mi lado!, ¡quiero que todo el mundo sea testigo!, ¡soy el más grande!, ¡soy la conmoción del mundo!...". Ahí arranca la leyenda del indomable nacida en Miami un día como ayer, hace 50 años. Se acostó como Cassius Clay y despertó como...

      What a great guy.

    1. resolving any dispute between the Parties concerning the interpretation and application of this Agreement with a view to arriving, where possible, at a mutually agreed solution.

      Actually, there's some great information about this.

    1. This document is meant to address a number of questions raised orally and in writingduring the presentation of Iceland and Norway's proposal at the December 2014 TiSA round.

      Like this.

    1.    (xv) to ensure that foreign investors are treated in a non-discriminatory fashion, while benefiting from no greater rights than domestic investors, and to replace the ISDS system with a new system for resolving disputes between investors and states which is subject to democratic principles and scrutiny, where potential cases are treated in a transparent manner by publicly appointed, independent professional judges in public hearings and which includes an appellate mechanism, where consistency of judicial decisions is ensured, the jurisdiction of courts of the EU and of the Member States is respected, and where private interests cannot undermine public policy objectives;

      We should look no further than the European Parliament when wondering whether the ISDS is an effective system for dispute resolution!

    1. $50 billion award grant-ed by an arbitration tribunal in July 2014 to three shareholders in Russian oil company Yukos against the Russian government.

      Background here

    2. In the infamous suit brought by Vattenfall against the German government over its decision to phase out nuclear power by the year 2022, described in the original text of this booklet, reports now suggest that the total amount claimed in damages by the Swedish energy company may exceed €5 bil-lion, once interest payments are taken into account.

      This is a key example of how the principle of "Denial of Justice" in TTIP can be quite problematic. [Source article]

    1. Vattenfall hatte Deutschland 2012 nach dem Atom-ausstieg vor einem internationalen Schiedsgericht in Washington auf Schadenersatz in Höhe von fast 4,7 Milliarden Euro verklagt. Zusätzlich kann Vattenfall im Erfolgsfall aber auch noch Verzugszinsen von jährlich gut vier Prozent oder rund 190 Millionen Euro geltend machen. "Die Bundesregierung rechnet derzeit mit einer mündlichen Verhandlung im Sommer 2016", heißt es in der Antwort.

      This is a great example of the problems with TTIP.

      Translated:

      "Vattenfall had sued Germany in 2012 after the atomic got out damages amounting to nearly 4.7 billion euros to an international arbitration court in Washington. In addition, Vattenfall can make default interest per annum over four per cent, or around EUR 190 million claim, if successful, but still. "The federal government currently expects a hearing in the summer of 2016", according to the response."

  7. May 2016
    1. But, there were some concessions

      Yeah, well, she was also top-roped. This was a climb any kid could do with zero risk. Humorous, but not particularly climb-worthy. And-- was this a stunt any cordless vacuum could have handled?

      Still -- got my click.

    1. If long security screening lines at the airport have you down, you and your fellow travelers have only yourselves to blame for not "turning a place of 'no' into a place of 'yes'" by enrolling in the Transportation Security Administration's PreCheck program.

      About 25% of the time I am approved for PreCheck despite never having enrolled. Is this because I've been a United MileagePlus member (Gold presently) for close to 20 years?

      If I'm clearly a low enough threat (native born, long time frequent flyer, no criminal record) that they occasionally give me the go ahead without having done any of the additional screening questions, then perhaps they should just use these same metrics to auto-enroll a large part of the US population.

      Why as tax payers are we being asked to pay for "access" to something that could be free to begin with? Particularly if they're trying to reduce long lines and deal with staffing levels-- not to mention saving travelers the time and hassle of the longer process?

    1. He also said relying on readers to go to ClimateFeedback.org to check an article that they may have read elsewhere, and expecting it would change their views "seems a little bit idealistic."

      I'd probably vote for "incredibly naive" over "a little bit idealistic". Clearly the assumption is not that the average reader will go to the CF website to read up on the alternate take.

      Rather, what we want to achieve is to slowly begin to put more and more pressure upstream on the journalists themselves and those who publish their stories.

      This will take more coverage of stories, more quickly, and over many more domains than just climate science.

    1. Mr. Drumpf, in a telephone interview, compared his candidacy to hit Broadway shows and championship baseball teams, saying that success begot success and that he would be foolish to change his behavior now

      This.

    2. Mr. Drumpf’s strategy is replete with risks. Roughly 60 percent of Americans view him negatively, according to pollsters, who say more-of-the-same Drumpf is not likely to improve those numbers

      Like this.

    1. That’s what he asked me first. I had just sat down in his cham-bers, on a big, overstuffed leather couch

      Hi Paul.

    2. When that judge is a great one, a mistake like that is (rightly) magnified in our minds, because we expect more from our legends

      Indeed we do!

    1. One big issue, of course, is that you can only see the scientists’ comments if you’re using the tool, just like you’d reach for a pair of reading glasses to gain a clearer view.

      For the time being. Our next steps are to bring annotation to publishers, so that the annotated layer can be seen by default. We've made progress on that through the Annotating All Knowledge coalition that we announced w/ 60 scholarly publishers in December, which Andy mentions further up.

      Long term the solution is to bring annotation into the browser, so that it's there natively for all of us by default. This is the work of the W3C Web Annotation working group but it will take some time. There's much to be done.

    1. Whaley envisions an environment where website owners could insert code into their sites that would tell annotation providers their preferences. Annotation services, in turn, could ignore those preferences in the name of serving the public interest. "If the Turkish government turns on a flag saying, Please don't annotate our page, the public should be able to override it," Whaley says.
    1. Theboywhocrieshispenny-paper,andtheoldwomanathertableprofessedlysellingafewapplesandalittlegingerbread,arenotallwhowatchhim.

      This is a test.

    1. The entire business model for academic publishing relies on successfully monetizing inconvenience. This perpetual state of inconvenience is the whole reason that Sci-Hub exists.

      A close parallel is the situation with movies and music. The online services like Netflix and Spotify are getting good enough now, that people often use them now instead of pirating via Bittorrent. Open access is the scholarly equivalent.

    1. how much focus the annotation of individual pages has received, rather than the potential of the stream.

      So true. Getting the annotation of pages right is incredibly challenging-- we do have a complete overhaul of the stream planned though. There are some great things coming!

  8. Apr 2016
    1. While flying back to Minneapolis early the next morning, he became unresponsive, and his private jet made an emergency landing at Quad City International Airport in Moline, Illinois, so that he could receive medical treatment.[170] Representatives said he suffered from "bad dehydration" and had had influenza for several weeks.

      There seems to be some speculation that perhaps he had a long term drug addiction to opiates that was complicated by recent prescriptions to treat a hip disorder. Sheila E dismisses this though...

    1. If an annotation refers to a specific fragment of a resource within an EPUB Publication, that segment must be identified using the EPUB Canonical Fragment Identifiers (EPUB CFI) scheme [EPUBCFI].

      What is the Web Annotation working groups thinking on this? Is there anything that the WG needs to formalize?

    1. And every 221 years, a brood of 13-year-old cicadas and a brood of 17-year-old cicadas co-emerge, bringing twice the fun.

      So, clearly 221 is 13x17. But I wonder why an overlapping year doesn't happen more often. I guess neither 13 nor 17 year cicadas have alternate populations that pop up in off-years? Why not? Is there an obvious evolutionary reason?

    1. Genius already expressed its objection to this option in the above, but I submit that if annotation really does catch on, the major media and dominant personalities that need such correction won’t fight annotation if it delivers eyeballs.

      It's not as simple as this.

      First, what I expect folks’ like Dawson are saying is "don’t make public annotations here”. Are they really arguing that I shouldn’t be able to make private ones either? Probably not.

      But what prevents folks from abusing such a button by disabling annotation on things that are of public importance? What if the corrupt government of Turkey puts a “don’t annotate this” tag on their entire gov’t website?

      Hypothetically, how would annotation service providers distinguish between respecting such a tag when perhaps it’s a blog by a woman such as Dawson, vs a government like Turkey. It might seem simple conceptually, but there are billions of pages out there, and limited staff. What about a blog by a [insert your favorite scientific or social issue] skeptic who doesn’t want expert community to fact check their blog. Should annotation providers respect that wish and deny this powerful critical lens to concerned scientific or humanist communities?

    2. told the Observer in a recent phone conversation that he finds the way humans reason to be fundamentally flawed

      A slight misquote: What I said (or meant anyway) was more that when humans reason alone, they're more likely to engage in things like self-dealing. A good primer on this is John Brockman's piece in the edge where he explore's Mercier and Sperber's theories on this.

    1. you’re out of luck

      ... for now? We've planned extensions for other browsers.

    2. sanest

      Simplest perhaps... a mobile browser would potentially be another option for heavy annotators.

    1. Coincidence? Yes, most likely. While the tweet from the hackers’ collective may seem prophetic at first glance, the New York Stock Exchange has stated firmly that the halt in trading was the result of an internal error and not a malicious attack — an assertion echoed by the federal government.

      Well, to be fair, statements by either the NYSE or the federal gov't about whether the halt was a hack or not probably aren't worth much. Public statements like this are pretty much always a calculation of desired messaging and likely reaction, not some objective reflection of truth.

    1. Most people will argue (including me) that OkCupid is permitted to express opinions and take actions like this under its first amendment rights as a corporation

      I completely disagree. OKCupid did the right thing.

    1. aliens

      Test

    2. Born here of small chihuahuas, born here from parents the same, and their parents the same

      Wait... small chihuahuas!? That can't be right!

    1. We listened and looked sideways up

      The terror of his situation is causing him to feel weak and vulnerable. It’s strange that he should say it’s draining his lifeblood, because fear typically increases heart rate to redistribute blood to the muscles, thus priming the body to fight. However, when fight-or-flight has an alternative: fear paralysis. In infants, situations of extreme terror has triggers the fear paralysis reflex and may induce SID.

  9. arxiv.org arxiv.org
    1. hen the existence of a new degreeof freedom (quintessence) is postulated: quintessence issupposed not to have yet relaxed to its vacuum, so thatits energy density is responsible for cosmic acceleration.

      Discussed by Jain (2016) here.

    1. We consider the system of generalized coordinates ()T,.Q xy=They depend upon the eight parameters ()T1212,,, ,, ,, .

      This is a key point that relates to another by Dutta and Sorbo (2016) on pNGB quintessence.

    1. Yet he was proud of them, even when he didn’t share their pro-fessional objective

      Test

    2. Most of the time, that affection was mutual, and in the wake of his death, the remembrances of his counter-clerks have mostlybeen warm ones.

      This clearly relates to this other blah blah ....asdfapsdjf;lasdkjf;lasdjkf'asd;fasdlkjf;askdjf;asjdkf;kasdjfl;kajsdfasdkf

    1. As law professor Jeffrey Rosen first said many years ago of Facebook, these platforms have "more power in determining who can speak and who can be heard around the globe than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president."

      So true. Further, the culture of the teams behind these platforms has more influence and power in determining the cultural norms of the world we're headed to than nearly anything else.

    2. The SQUAD (Safety, Quality, and User Advocacy Department)

      This might be one of the more brilliant team names ever.

    1. But when you create a tool that pastes commentary directly on top of my work without letting me opt-in and without providing a way for people to turn off the annotation on their pages, you are being irresponsible.

      Yes, annotation tech, either Genius's, Hypothesis's or from anyone that will implement the forthcoming w3.org/annotation specification in the future, lets users commentary/community of their choice onto your content. Viewed through the lens of a Web extension implementation (vs a proxy) implementation this commentary can be applied without the tech ever needing to interact directly with your server. It's not being "pasted on top of your work" in the sense that other visitors who haven't made the same choice can't see it.

      As a user of the web I have the ability to speak and listen freely (via twitter, reddit or other means). Those communities either do or don't do a good job at providing tools for countering abuse. Presumably, over the long term whether they do a good job has a direct impact on whether users continue to participate in them.

      With annotation, the commentary is "on top of" your work in the same way that a tweet that mentions a URL to your website is "on top of" your work.

      In fact, we have an open github issue describing a mechanism by which users could pull in tweets, or reddit or facebook posts about the pages that they're visiting automatically. For researchers, they could "listen" to Google Scholar to easily see the citations about the paper they were reading. You might call this "Persistent Ambient Search", i.e. the ability as an Internet user to electively be aware of conversations about the place you're at wherever you are.

      Should publishers, bloggers, etc be able to prevent that from happening? Should twitter implement a "tweet.txt" feature that lets websites opt out of their URLs being mentioned in tweets? Should developers be prevented from shipping extensions that query twitter's API for tweets about the web pages a user is visiting?

      We understand that the experience of annotation is palpably different, and that we're all envisioning a world in which it is essentially ubiquitous, but lets also understand the complex questions involved here as they relate to speech and the notion of what is in the public space. There is a middle ground.

    2. Web search engines long ago mostly agreed to honor an opt-out signal, robots.txt, and have used that as a way to knock down legal challenges and ethical ones. If you don’t want to have your pages “spidered” (retrieved, indexed, and included in the corpus), the robots.txt file lets you mark pages or an entire site off-limits to every spider or to specific ones.

      Our community (we come together at conferences and many other venues, e.g. iannotate.org) has long discussed whether such a mechanism (call it annotate.txt) makes sense in the same way. There are several reasons why I personally don't think so. (I'm specifically discussing using robots.txt here, not the broader question of whether opt-outs make sense, which I agree with under specific conditions)

      First, web crawlers consume resources. Anyone who's operated a website at scale knows that crawlers (from all of the search engines together) can sometimes represent a high percentage (in the double digits) of traffic. That's server load that the publisher has to pay for.

      Second, search engines essentially republish content. The goal of indexing it is to expose it to others and make it discoverable in search results which usually are a foundation for advertising revenue for search services.

      Annotation by contrast is speech. If you've published something publicly on the web then it's natural that others want to say something about it. They've already clicked on your web page and it's now inside their browser. When they comment on it, it's not consuming resources like a crawler.

      If an opt-out mechanism is to be explored, it needs its own kind of signaling, and robots.txt is likely not the right place for that. With robots.txt you effectively "ban" crawlers from your pages, here I think the negotiation between you and The Public is more complicated. Page owners should be able to indicate a preference, but the public should also be able to override page owners' preferences when subject material is in the public interest.

      Where that line is and how it becomes negotiated should be something we explore together.

    1. Police detectors need to get multiple readings sequentially in order to display a valid speed to the officer using the radar/laser gun. When the RMR C495 detects a speed detection device, it floods the signal with additional signals making it impossible for the speed detection device to get an accurate reading.

      This is going to be helpful on our local bike trail.

    1. "So to get this far and kind of just tank it and say, 'Aw, never mind.' ... Let's face it, we probably will never get to this point again. That's why it's only been done one time. I think most guys in the locker room are all-in, and we'll figure that out this weekend."

      This. Is. A. Once. In. A. Lifetime. Moment.

    1. “However, the underlying goal is simple: When there's a court order to render technical assistance to law enforcement or provide decrypted information, that court order is carried out. No individual or company is above the law. We’re still in the process of soliciting input from stakeholders and hope to have final language ready soon.”

      What astonishes me is that my senator, Dianne Feinstein, is so consistently out of touch with where technology is headed, and so completely unable to frame her arguments in the context of why strong encryption exists in the first place. Further, there is no thoughtful exploration of the ramifications of her proposals, there's just the security state perspective and nothing else.

      How about putting a public round-table discussion together to explore the issues?

      Dianne, as your constituent as well as your neighbor-- one that lives just a mile away-- you are an utter disgrace as an elected representative to your people, particularly those of us in the technology industry.

    1. his deep ignorance on economic issues (coupled with the belief that his 18 doctorates give him the authority to suspend the laws of economics

      This was cited by the NY Times as one of the brutally candid views offered by Ambassador Christopher Dell.

    1. “his deep ignorance on economic issues (coupled with the belief that his 18 doctorates give him the authority to suspend the laws of economics).”

      The relevant Wikileaks cable is here.

    1. What if instead a site could opt out, and then if people wanted to comment on it, that site would be ‘cloned’ to a different URL?

      I think this probably creates a copyright issue.

      Also, who would do the cloning, where would it be hosted. This would essentially fork content, and perhaps result in an even greater loss of control? What happens if the blogger wants to update the master, how do they update the copy?

  10. Mar 2016
    1. The only time we will… delegate a machine authority is in things that go faster than human reaction time, like cyber or electronic warfare.

      Or... pretty much everything else. Human reaction time is nowhere near fast enough to dodge an incoming missile or other attack. I'm not a fan of killer robots, but this argument is incredibly disingenuous.

    1. But Genius doesn’t do that—it creates a voluntary, opt-in overlay and nothing more. If you want to pretend it doesn’t exist, you are free to never see it so long as you live.

      The counterpoint to this of course is that if annotation becomes as widespread, standardized and pervasive as we imagine it will-- and indeed hope it will-- then the notion that anyone can see the stall without the graffiti may become a moot point.

    1. Because I can tell you what it was like at early Facebook: the food was terrible; we’d ship in lunch and probably two to three times a week the lunch had maggots in it.

      Can you believe it had maggots in it? Eewww!

    1. non-profit like the WikiMedia Foundation, or at least an open-source software project

      We agree for essentially the same reason. That's why we formed Hypothes.is as a non-profit, according to a set of principles.

    1. The Genius Web Annotator is a hybrid of citation and appropriation that doesn’t respect the source’s owner nor have any mechanism to opt out or block it. The site retrieves the original page through a proxy server and then rewrites it with added JavaScript, which lets it overlay its commentary tool.

      This is not completely accurate in two important ways. First, the Genius Web Annotator is a javascript client that can be injected either via a browser extension or via a proxy. Only the proxy version retrieves the page via their server. Their chrome extension does not. Our own open source annotation client at Hypothes.is works the same way.

      Second, I think it's probably a stretch to say that a proxy redirect that is used solely for the purpose of injecting the javascript annotation layer is appropriation in exactly the same sense. Originally Rap Genius duplicated the lyrics on their website, depriving the original publisher of royalties or advertising revenue that they might have made. The proxy redirect doesn't permanently republish the work, but pulls it newly each time the proxy is clicked. Ads that are on the pages are redisplayed, paywalls are respected.

      Certainly you could make the argument that because the proxy redirect strips the user information away and thus blinds the publisher to details about the user that might be helpful in targeting ads, that there is a possible commercial loss to publishers.

      However, if you neither serve ads nor need meticulous analytics around exactly who is clicking on your site (probably most bloggers), then whether the reader comes via a proxied link or directly by browsing to your site may be more academic than substantive. The server load is the same and the end result is that your page is copied into their browser where they can read it.

      Those of us in the annotation community (and particularly those of us that participate in the W3C Web Annotation working group) are working to deliver specifications and implementations of annotation that can eventually ship natively with browsers--eliminating the need for tricks like extensions or proxies. You'd sign into the annotation services (i.e. communities) that you want to listen to.

      It's probably worth separating the technical implementation from the conceptual discussion of the speech that's happening (and in what ways it's both connected to and removed from what it references), since there are a variety of ways (some now and some in the future) that this layer can manifest. I'm not suggesting that there's no room for a discussion of proxies, or site owners' rights with respect to them, simply that perhaps there are two discussions worth having.

    2. One would never argue reddit has no right to have comment threads that link to Ella or my or anyone's work.

      Is the corollary argument here that via a web extension I shouldn't be able to create an annotation on a remote server (even if that annotation isn't delivered and reanchored to the original content thru a proxy)?

    3. As an old man of the Internet, I've seen several waves of "scribble on top of other people's pages" plug-ins and web site.

      Here's an extensive list we maintain (not exhaustively, nor accurately in many of the details, but as more of a scratch pad). We had extensive interviews and discussions with many on this list in developing Hypothes.is, including John Atcheson (mentioned below), who's a friend and colleague that I also worked with in assisting Getaround, as well as his co-founder Todd Herman.

    4. Contrast this with Medium's approach to annotation on Medium's site.

      The primary difference here is that the site is implementing, and integrating, the tech directly into the page. Medium is only "annotation" in the sense that it's in the margin-- in all other respects it's simply the same paradigm as the other flavors of web commenting systems, such as Disqus, Livefyre, fb comments, etc.

      Web annotation in the sense of the W3C definition is a model where annotation services are provided by third parties and lie elsewhere. Users invite them to your page, and otherwise they're not visible to other readers who have not done the same.

    5. In fact, as Kevin Marks pointed out to me, it's using a proxy server and posting the contents from its servers, which is substantially more problematic.

      Lets assume for the sake of argument that annotation providers did not offer proxy services, or that those proxy services could be prevented by publishers using something like an annotate.txt file (or even simply metadata in HTML headers that said effectively "please don't proxy").

      But that even if you were explicit about not wanting your pages to be proxied, your pages could still be annotated by users with various browser extensions, or by the tech that is eventually likely to ship natively with browsers.

      Would you have an objection to this kind of annotation?

    1. Give me the same ability that the New York Times has to select which articles are available for annotation.

      Saying that the NYT lets you "select which articles are available for annotation" suggests that somehow they are exercising editorial control over annotation in the same way that they do for their native commenting platform-- which is disabled for selected and usually controversial articles, op-ed pieces, etc.

      However, what the NYT did was demand that Genius disable their proxy service (what you get when you prepend a URL with genius.it/) for NYT articles. The reason that Genius complied is that the NYT could have blocked the proxy anyway (and may have done so).

      However, NYT articles can still be annotated by using the Genius web extension. The NYT has no way of knowing whether the reader happens to deploy an annotation extension within the scope of their browser.

      In this respect, Genius and Hypothesis function the same way. The architecture is dictated by the realities of the way the Web works.

      Many of us feel that ultimately annotation tech may ship natively with browsers, eliminating most of the friction involved in their use, but also any recourse that publishers may have to block conversations. Thus the tension described elsewhere here between speaking truth to power and having control over conversations that are unwanted.

    2. All I am asking is for you to give me my blog back.

      Your blog is still yours.

      Because you're speaking publicly, people are going to talk about it, on twitter, on facebook, on reddit... and with annotation. There's nothing different about annotation except that it "magically" brings the things people say over top of your content. There's Genius, there's Hypothesis, and potentially someone may create a plugin that brings tweets over the top of the posts they're about. But the key difference here is that it's your readers that are consciously making the choice to bring those communities over your content. When I come to your blog post without those tools, your content is just the way you intended it, with only your clean unfettered page.

    3. News Genius, I am asking you to provide a simple, accessible way for creators to disable Genius annotations on their sites.

      The problem of course is that if you provide a way to disable annotation, then it pretty much kills the "speak truth to power" angle.

    1. “They’re afraid of looking incompetent by saying the wrong thing, so they end up saying nothing, which ironically leaves them looking incompetent anyway.”

      This. So much of organizational conditioning and response-- and really modern life-- can be summed up in this one statement.

    1. To Zardulu, if we’re already living in a simulation, then a hoax isn’t a hoax at all, but rather a sign of a cultural system for myth-making functioning as it normally should. In Zardulism, hoaxes are more about perpetuating ancient magic than they are attempts to deceive. Zardulu connects longstanding “hoaxes” like Sasquatch, crop circles, and the Loch Ness Monster to contemporary viral videos.

      A fantastic insight that really gets to the root of different kinds of social psychology. Some people want to participate in and contribute to society. Some want to tear it down. Others want to poke it and see how it responds while sipping tequila.

    1. This first look certainly lacks the subtlety and, at times, quiet focus of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator or William Wyler’s excellent adaptation of the same source material, but it’s nowhere near as ostentatious as the year’s latest desert-set picture, Gods of Egypt.

      The new Ben-Hur can't possibly beat the old one.

    1. Drinking water for at least 82,000 Texas residents has tested positive for high levels of arsenic in recent years, but state officials have told people they don’t need to find an “alternative water supply,” according to the Environmental Integrity Project.

      What's wrong with a little arsenic in your tea?

    1. Provides appropriations to the VA for the Veterans Benefits Administration, including Compensation and Pensions, Readjustment Benefits, Veterans Insurance and Indemnities, the Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund, the Vocational Rehabilitation Loans Program Account, and the Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account.

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  11. Feb 2016
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    5. thus product implementations in Europe are part of this vision

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    1. But the often overlooked delegate count in the Democratic primary shows Mr. Sanders slipping significantly behind Hillary Clinton in the race for the nomination, and the odds of his overtaking her growing increasingly remote.

      Sanders is never going to make it.

    1. We are challenging the FBI’s demands with the deepest respect for American democracy and a love of our country

      I wish more American companies-- well, actually just more companies period-- had the balls to do this. Apple has a lot of faults, but it needs to be said that very few companies would ever take this kind of public stand about anything.

    1. 5G sensors will reportedly be able to tell your autonomous car when there's an accident miles ahead

      Is there some particular reason this would take 5G speeds? Sounds like a 2G bandwidth event.

    1. launched in 2009

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    2. Reframe-it in 2008

      Here's an example of their UI. Question: Can we improve upon the sidebar design approach? So many projects use it, ours included.

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    3. open annotation that achieves a critical mass of users has been something of a grail quest

      Here's a spreadsheet of such projects we've been maintaining. Edits welcome.

  12. Jan 2016
    1. individuals looking to find homes for forsaken chickens

      Perhaps I should set up such a home. Might help defray the monthly food bill.

    2. The upshot has been a sharp rise in abandoned birds.

      Pardon me from asking the obvious-- but why don't people eat these "abandoned" chickens?