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New comment by zeynel1 in "Is gravity not actually a force? Forcing theory to meet experiments"

zeynel1 — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:57:38 +0000

Gravity is not a force; gravity is a hoax. I am glad that physics establishment finally is realizing this: http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/dear-physicist/

New comment by zeynel1 in "Feynman Algorithm"

zeynel1 — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:04:04 +0000

Feynman and other physicists built a mass destruction weapon that they knew it was a mass destruction weapon. Feynman is a murderer http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/ten-most-wanted-phy...

New comment by zeynel1 in "Ask HN: Citizen Census. What do you think?"

zeynel1 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:14:20 +0000

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?

New comment by zeynel1 in "Ask HN: Citizen Census. What do you think?"

zeynel1 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:19:30 +0000

http://citizencensus.appspot.com/

http://citizencensus.appspot.com/about

Ask HN: Citizen Census. What do you think?

zeynel1 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:18:16 +0000

I read in the news that the United States Census Bureau spent over 11 billion dollars for the 2011 census (35 dollars per person) and still could not get it right. The Census Bureau refuses to use online forms because it says it would be more expensive.

I just put together this online form http://citizencensus.appspot.com/ and wrote this rant http://citizencensus.appspot.com/about to justify citizen census for a recount of New York City census. Let me know what you think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2404078

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by zeynel1 in "Formatting your web content to be a pleasure to read"

zeynel1 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:13:25 +0000

"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.

New comment by zeynel1 in "Facebook is Big and Boring"

zeynel1 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:16:07 +0000

""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.

New comment by zeynel1 in "How to Fix Google"

zeynel1 — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:32:35 +0000

"Companies are a lot like people."

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.

Jason Calacanis: "There's unlimited amount of capital in the world"

zeynel1 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:32:21 +0000

Do you agree?

"There's unlimited amount of capital in the world. We are living in the richest period of the history of mankind. There are resources everywhere for people with big ideas to take them freely: youtube, google, facebook and so on."

starting at minute 50: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2219-jason-calacanis-vs-david-heinemeier-hansson-on-this-week-in-startups

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394236

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by zeynel1 in "Vi Hart: Every school should replace calculus with recreational math"

zeynel1 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:11:48 +0000

"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.

New comment by zeynel1 in " +1’s: the right recommendations right when you want them—in your search results"

zeynel1 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:00:46 +0000

This is what I am trying to do with my project with GAE: http://ting-1.appspot.com/rt?rt=python

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.

Experiment with “release early” mantra

zeynel1 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:17:46 +0000

Article URL: http://hw11.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/tell-hn-experiment-with-%E2%80%9Crelease-early%E2%80%9D-mantra/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2388445

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zeynel1 in "Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy-It’s Data"

zeynel1 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:48:36 +0000

"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-...

New comment by zeynel1 in "Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?"

zeynel1 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:41:20 +0000

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.

Rana Sobhany, iPad DJ and Entrepreneur

zeynel1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:16:35 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gothamgal.com/gotham_gal/2011/01/rana-sobhany-ipad-dj-and-entrepreneur.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2376384

Points: 7

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New comment by zeynel1 in "Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?"

zeynel1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:41:41 +0000

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.

New comment by zeynel1 in "Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?"

zeynel1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:28:54 +0000

Thanks! I updated the about page with your suggestion: http://hello-1-world.appspot.com/about

Any other edits are welcome.

New comment by zeynel1 in "Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?"

zeynel1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:27:40 +0000

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.

New comment by zeynel1 in "Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?"

zeynel1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:06:01 +0000

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.

New comment by zeynel1 in "Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?"

zeynel1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:00:20 +0000

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.