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  1. Jun 2015
    1. She pushed back against Lauer's suggestion that she had been "deceiving people," saying, "It's a little more complicated than that."

      Is it really? Explain. If people don't understand the nuances of your identity in the way you do, then isn't that deception?

    1. Freedom of the Press Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping support and defend public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government.

      And bless you for that.

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    1. If even a quarter of Facebook’s 1.5 billion users were willing to pay $1 per month in return for not being tracked or targeted based on their data, that would yield more than $4 billion per year — surely a number worth considering.

      I would gladly pay $1 a month, or even $10 a month, for a service that actually served me, was based on open source technologies and open protocols, and that allowed me and others to innovate on top of it in ways that were constructive to the community.

      But then, that wouldn't be facebook would it? Diaspora tried a model like that a while back. I still wish they could have succeeded.

    2. Ad-based businesses distort our online interactions

      A related, secondary problem is that venture-backed businesses create tensions where monetization either immediately from subscription or advertising, or eventually via "exits" (very few actually IPO and become self-sustaining long-term) must happen in order for investors to recoup their original capitalization. The premise that the business launches on, when the service is usually free and the need to identify recurring revenues is in the distant future, becomes slowly perverted, distorted, and compromised until it's sold or shut down. There are few examples of scaled social networks that have avoided either. Twitter and facebook are the two primary examples, but there the constant pressure to generate more and more revenue pushes the in directions which threaten the original value proposition. Google+ seems to be on a path to shut-down.

    1. It’s time for something smarter, something that has been brewing for years as research inches forward on computer vision.

      While this is certainly cool tech, it would be much better if google’s camera app let me tag (yes, annotate!) and organize my photos with my own meaning at the point of capture, or shortly thereafter. Trying to infer the content of photos and how they’re important to me later is a kludge. Probably still useful I suppose, but lets do some simple things first.

    1. The chitosan-loaded chewing gum HS219 does not affect serum and salivary phosphorus levels in Japanese HD patients with hyperpho sphatemia

      Clearly the chitosan gum industry was behind this thing to begin with. Science prevails.

  3. May 2015
    1. როგორც სამინისტროს თანამშრომლები პირად საუბრებში აცხადებენ, თავდაპირველად გადაწყვეტილი იყო ბურკიაშვილის დანიშვნა მინისტრის პირველი მოადგილის ვაკანტურ თანამდებობაზე, რაზეც უარი თავად მინისტრმა ნოდარ ჯავახიშვილმა განაცხადა.

      ამჟამად ჯავახიშვილს ორი მოადგილე ჰყავს თენგიზ შერგელაშვილი და ეკა სეფაშვილი. სამინისტროში ვაკანტურია პირველი მოადგილის თანამდებობა და საავტომობილო გზების დეპარტამენტის თავმჯდომარის პოსტი.

    1. 自觉把维护公共安全放在维护最广大人民根本利益中来认识,扎实做好公共安全工作,努力为人民安居乐业、社会安定有序、国家长治久安编织全方位、立体化的公共安全网。

      防灾减灾救灾、社会治安防控等方面体制机制改革任务,党的十八届四中全会提出了加强公共安全立法、推进公共安全法治化的要求。党和国家把维护公共安全摆在更加突出的位置,作出了一系列部署。各地区各部门按照这些决策部署和工作要求,做了大量工作,取得了积极成效。

    1. По данным издания Presse Ocean, "Севастополь", так же, как и "Владивосток" будет стоять в порту в ожидании окончательного решения французских политиков относительно их судьбы.

      Напомним, Париж отказался передать России заказанные ранее "Рособоронэкспортом" два вертолетоносца типа "Мистраль" по причине политических разногласий, возникших между странами из-за ситуации на Украине и присоединения Крыма к России. Сумма контракта составляет 1,2 миллиарда евро. При этом, по условиям договора, в том случае, если Франция не передаст суда российскому заказчику, ей придется выплатить неустойку в размере 10 млрд евро. Хотя во время последних переговоров, французкие представители предложили России "забыть" о "Мистралях" за сумму в 785 млн евро.

    1. পাঠিয়েছেন। এবারে এনক্রিপশনের পক্ষে নিজেদের অবস্থান ঘোষণা করেছে জাতিসংঘ। বাকস্বাধীনতার জন্য এনক্রিপশনকে প্রয়োজনীয় একটি টুল হিসেবে অভিহিত করে এনক্রিপশন ব্যবস্থাকে যথাসম্ভব শক্তিশালী করে তোলার আহ্বানই জানানো হয়েছে জাতিসংঘের পক্ষ থেকে।

      এই প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়েছে, ‘এনক্রিপশন এবং নিজের পরিচয় প্রকাশ না করার ব্যবস্থা, এককভাবে কিংবা একত্রে ব্যক্তির মতামত এবং বিশ্বাসের সুরক্ষায় একটি ব্যক্তিগত গোপনীয় ক্ষেত্র তৈরি করে থাকে।’ এই ধরনের টুলস ব্যক্তির মতামত প্রকাশের জন্য আশীর্বাদস্বরূপ জানিয়ে প্রতিবেদনে সতর্ক করা হয়েছে, এনক্রিপশন সফটওয়্যারকে কোনোভাবে দুর্বল করার অর্থ হলো এর সক্ষমতাকে কমিয়ে ফেলা। এমন সুযোগ তৈরি হলে ব্যক্তি তার প্রয়োজনে কোনো পরিচিতিমূলক তথ্য গোপন রাখতে ব্যর্থ হবে বলা হয়েছে এই প্রতিবেদনে।

    1. Climate change is bad enough, so let’s cut emissions before geoengineering becomes too tempting to resist

      This is the kind of either-or thinking that plagues the geoengineering debate.

      We must lower emissions, as aggressively as possible. But we must also aggressively explore--at the very least research-- any other pathways which could mitigate some of the worst of what's coming our way. To wait until things are much worse than they already are is the pinnacle of foolishness.

      Just how long do you expect it would take to properly research the technologies, models and conduct field trials for an aerosol intervention? If we need 10-20 years to do so, should we wait until we're really screwed (which we may already be), or get started now?

    2. When the stability of our biosphere becomes dependent on the stability of our human infrastructure, we’re baking in an automatic climate crisis to the next catastrophe. We really shouldn’t place future generations in the position of facing two catastrophic risks at once.

      This is incredibly poor thinking.

      You're assuming that the risk of doing nothing and suffering 4-6 degrees of warming is somehow equivalent to the risk of taking some action to mitigate the worst (but not all) effects of that warming. Clearly there are significant unknowns to the aerosol approach to solar geoengineering, which is why we should strive to learn more about it, not dismiss it out of hand.

      You talk about 4-6 degrees of warming like its somehow a linear progression from the 1+ degree we're experiencing now. However, that's hardly the case. 4-6 degrees will fundamentally restructure agriculture, fresh water distribution, habitable population areas, and innumerable other things. Modern civilization depends on an extraordinarily complex interrelationship of economic flows, supply chains, and necessities that have finite elasticity and resilience. Already in California, where a huge fraction of America's fresh produce comes from, we're experiencing record droughts, and are looking at major impacts to agriculture. What will 4-6 degrees add to that? Would you like to sit around and wait to find out?

      What you're suggesting here is that we roll our dice and take the worst of what's coming without considering any mitigating action-- simply because of the chance that we might not be able to continue to pursue that mitigation. That's the same as saying "I won't go on dialysis, because it's possible I might not be able to continue." But you go on dialysis because you don't have any other options-- and you take your chances from there.

    1. You can’t annotate pages behind paywalls (as you can with our bookmarklet and Chrome extension).

      I'd also say there's a real danger that our proxy might be limited by websites that see our proxy traffic and throttle us-- possibly because we've violated a threshold of free use.

    2. So the realm of web applications that extend the browser is now becoming as balkanized as the realm of mobile apps.

      I think you try to lay this balkanization at the feet of recent cross-site scripting restrictions that affect bookmarklets. I don't think that's fair. I think people have wanted more complex apps, they've needed true extensions for those, and because browser extension environments are different, there's been the inevitable fragmentation. But this balkanization is not specifically due to recent changes only potentially exacerbated by them.

    3. But a new security regime limits the scope of what bookmarklets can do, and is forcing developers to create browser extensions instead — extensions that must be created and deployed differently for each browser.

      This central thesis seems slightly overstated to me. For instance, we created an extension before we even felt the pain of the bookmarklet restrictions-- because we wanted something that didn't need to be specifically activated on each page, but that was always there, as a button on the browser-- and that would stay on when turned on, event after you browsed to a new page. Particularly important for future features that are aware all the time. Also the experience of clicking to install, and having it there permanently is perhaps favorable overall.

      Maybe a softer message that highlights that bookmarklets were favorable option in many situations, but they're less effective now and that's a shame.

    1. فِي إِعْلاءِ شَأْنِ الوَطَنِ وَأَنْ يَعْمَلَ عَلَى مَا يَجْلِبُ السَّعَادَةَ لِلنَّاسِ

      A casual glance says selection and annotation of arabic appears to work. I also tested with a potential partner, Johnny West at OpenOil, last year, and he (a fluent arabic speaker) confirmed that our selection seemed to work on Arabic.

      (caveat: I could be completely wrong!)

    1. The Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia was traveling faster than 100 mph, two sources close to the investigation said Wednesday.

      I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering: How on earth can this happen? I doubt Amtrak tracks in the NE corridor are rated for 100mph anywhere, so how is it possible that the throttle even goes that fast? And-- clearly a system which limits speed according to local conditions, like curves, isn't beyond our technological capability.

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    1. Funding

      Hewlett, MacArthur, Ford, Mott, Wallace, Arnold, Walton are others. Here's a handy link. By the way, the way I found that link, was to google "Education Foundations Hewlett MacArthur Gates", i.e. naming three that I knew, and letting google route me to other adjacent ones. One of my favorite techniques.

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  4. Apr 2015
    1. “You demean the office that you hold and you demean the church whom it is your sworn duty to protect and defend and advance,” said Lord Christopher Monckton, a prominent climate sceptic and former policy adviser to the former British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. Monckton’s opinions have been refuted by scientists, who have called his statements “very misleading” and “profoundly wrong”.

      Why on earth does Monckton's voice continued to get amplified, even via a caveated mention like this? There are plenty of folks with no credibility and similar things to say. Why quote them?

    1. They’re even more surprised when they learn you can annotate a local copy of a PDF in a way that synchronizes with a web copy of the same PDF.

      maybe "a local copy of a PDF collaboratively with someone annotating another local copy, or the same PDF hosted on the web"....

      That's a little clumsy... but the key is to capture local:local as well as local:web

  5. Mar 2015
    1. for providing incentive and focus to annotation related development projects

      ... "to provide financial support to open source web annotation-related software projects."?

    2. like to use to clear the table of distractions

      The $ is supposed to clear the table of distractions? Hmm... how about something more like: ... "$40,000 that can go towards supporting the work of developers eager to take annotation further." (annotation shouldn't be capitalized).

    1. Genius is different from other annotation platforms which tend to be browser plugins; rather, it looms over the web which is to say that it precedes the URL—for example, past Genius annotations on the LA Times website can be viewed by Genius users and new annotations can be made by going to http://genius.com/www.latimes.com.

      Hypothesis provides this on our homepage, paste a link and you're brought to the linked page, with the application as a layer over it. You can then share that with others. Like this link to this page.

  6. Feb 2015
  7. Jan 2015
    1. Last week, Tilburg University in the Netherlands announced the cancellation of its subscriptions to the prestigious journals Science and Nature, citing budgetary pressure and an inability to cancel big deals.

      One wonders whether moves like this will become the norm. Rather extraordinary. How do students read nature articles?

    1. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

      My father once made me write out this poem longhand over the course of a week. Punishment for some terrible transgression, though which I can't recall.

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    1. Genius, which was originally called Rap Genius before changing its name last summer, has received $55 million of venture capital funding and broadened its mission beyond music to include restaurant menus and Shakespeare, among other texts

      It's worth noting that Genius is implementing a closed source version of a new web standard being developed under the W3C. Alternatives exist!

  8. Dec 2014

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  9. Nov 2014
    1. If you would like to know when and how a new feature will be introduced, there is nothing easier than to just visit the repository and check

      Also, we use huboard to manage our overall priorities, backlog and in progress items.

    2. on on-line pdf documents

      You can also annotate Local PDF files on your own hard drive. Anyone else with the same PDF file on their machine will be able to see the same annotations-- yes, really. Send someone a PDF via email and collaboratively annotate it together! (Just make sure you have "Allow access to file URLs" next to the Hypothes.is extension in your extension manager).

    3. This problem might be solved thanks to the fact that every comment on Hypothes.is has its own url, which can be shared on social media or via e-mail, so an author can be informed this way (even if it is not the most user-friendly solution).

      As you say, in the interim this might work quite well.

    4. There is also no easy way of informing an author that someone has commented on his or her work, especially if he or she is not a Hypothes.is user

      We'll be working on a number of strategies for this.

    5. Last but not least, the interface currently works quite slowly, much slower than regular web content. This is probably because of the capacity of servers that host the project.

      We'd love to hear any performance issues. There shouldn't be substantial ones. We have plenty of AWS infrastructure spun up to handle current capacity.

    6. Today, the user profile does not offer anything interesting. It does not contain biographical information, avatar, contact, or anything else

      We've got an open issue for that (vision/#28). We agree.

    7. Using a specific user name to login, instead of email address, is less convenient and forces users to remember yet another, normally useless, bit of information

      The rationale here is to give people a handle, so that they can engage in conversation. Collaborative annotation, beyond the personal use case, is inherently social.

    8. Thus, in my opinion, the possibility of exporting comments from an on-line Hypothes.is application to a desktop application (which could be an extension of the pdf viewer) and back, might be a crucial point for the further development of hypothes.is.

      I agree. We'd love to partner with a quality PDF reader app to do just that.

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  10. Oct 2014
  11. Sep 2014
    1. It's pathetic. But censorship by companies controlling privatized political space is now almost a norm. Facebook is implementing its own "laws" for social behavior and politics. Even Twitter has now folded; censoring for example, leaks about the New Zealand prime minister just this week and some time ago banning Anonymous Sweden after a request from that country. High volume publication+control of publication by powerful organisations = censorship, all the time. We have to fight to create new networks of freedom. The old and powerful always become corrupt.

      Words to consider carefully.

  12. Aug 2014
  13. Jul 2014
    1. annotation is presented or integrated into services

      I'm not sure this is true. Is it? Does the tool really need to be fundamentally different in design or integration? Different use case, different archetype. But what are the key differences you see?

  14. Jun 2014
    1. then annotation must be particularly sensitive to the context of the use of educational materials

      Maybe the solution is to enable copyediting features and to use them when appropriate?

    2. If objects are immutable and likely to remain in the original context in which they were first published

      I'm not sure I understand this. I think we generally assume the annotatable part of the web to be either fixed content, or stable enough that an anchor can persist. So-- is this qualification necessary?

  15. May 2014
    1. A: Collaboration: How can we encourage/support collaboration while personalizing practice and doing practice online? Peer collaboration and teaching can be very effective techniques for learning. Teaching something helps the teacher learn it more effectively. Working in groups to solve problems helps students overcome obstacles, and through convincing and arguing helps them elaborate on their own understanding. If students are doing online practice, can we still benefit from peer collaboration and instruction? Consider online and offline techniques in an individual classroom. What might be possible in a MOOC?

      Group A:

      • Annotate the document
      • Live chat
      • Exercise specific chat / more general chat
      • More senior grades tutoring
      • Take a photo of the page, tweet / instagram, etc
      • For MOOCS, subgroups of optimal number
    1. They would of course say a lot of stuff in response to the request for evidence; the trouble is that what they said wasn’t evidence (let alone good evidence).

      I've witnessed this on both halves of the climate debate. Both sides will defend their position with equal vigor-- neither can usually command much in support of it.

    1. Interframe communication [x] Being able to target an iFrame for use with Epub.js and others. [ ] Enable turning off h. from page action icon (issue h/468) Unit/functional testing basic hooks [ ] front-end (punt to after breaking out the frontend?) [x] back-end

      Lost the proper indentation here

    1. This essay explores the idea of intellectual communication and its improvement through the development of a shared academic language based on these and other universal analytical and evaluative concepts

      Our task then is to see if we can use these principles and others to implement a framework for deliberation on human knowledge.

  16. Apr 2014
  17. Mar 2014
    1. The president said the United States and other world powers rejected Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a region of Ukraine that voted to secede on March 16.

      That's probably not going to work.

    1. So in the end my experiment caused more work rather than less for the journal staff.

      We're hosting a workshop on peer-review and annotation May 15-16 in Washington, DC. Perhaps someone from F1000 could participate.

    2. ideally, a journal would have set up the Hypothes.is Annotator for itself such that comments entered by a reviewer would automatically be tagged uniquely such that they can subsequently be linked to the review and reviewer.

      Commonly requested. We have a stub issue for this here. (Just created).

    3. and in fact not even advertised on the front page

      Yes, we haven't felt it quite ready to promote on the home page just yet. We're close though!

    4. it really applies to the article as a whole than some part of the text.

      We already support "annotations" (i.e. traditional comments) that refer to the whole article that would be appropriate for this. It's possible that perhaps there is a role for a template of some sort for journal reviews that could live in the body of annotations like this.

    5. The comments I made using Hypothes.is became public immediately6, though presumably a journal-hosted version could keep them private until checked and approved.

      This will be possible with Groups which we're in the process of designing now, and will be developing shortly.

    6. But this loses many of the advantages of using online annotation to start with, such as easy pinpointing of text position, establishing a conversation thread, and making the conversation accessible to the public, unless some way is found to keep offline and online versions in syncrony.

      Exactly. It feels better to stick with rendering annotations for various purposes dynamically--rather than moving them to PDF as the preferred archival form.

    7. There is no direct way to create a PDF yet from Hyppthes.is annotations, leaving print-to-file as the only alternative

      If you could pull a stream of just the annotations from the article reviewed, and even scoped to just those from the reviewers, would that work? One could print the results of that stream to PDF easily through browser features outside of H.

    8. The Hypothes.is platform doesn't yet have a URL that resolves as the review annotations as a whole, or a single annotation on top of the online text7

      This feature we've called Direct Linking. It should come relatively soon after our 0.1 release. Our roadmap is here, and updated frequently.

    9. The URL interface that exists for retrieving review comments (the "stream" interface) shows them in reverse chronological order (most recent first), and for now there is no option to control the ordering

      This feature we call "View / Sort". We're implementing it first for the sidebar--there's a working demo here. The stream should follow quickly, since the stream and sidebar are closely related. There's a separate issue for that here.

  18. Feb 2014
  19. Jan 2014
    1. Basically, with Ultrabooks, once the bad guys are in, there is NO way to get them out without voiding a warranty and desoldering flash chips. Luckily, Microsoft security, aided by McAfee software, all built on an platform designed by people who don’t even understand the basics, has your back, protecting your valuables with walls of rice paper obscured by blizzards of press releases.

      This.

    1. When the user is building a trail, he names it, inserts the name in his code book, and taps it out on his keyboard. Before him are the two items to be joined, projected onto adjacent viewing positions

      I love this early UX imagining of the linking/annotation process by Vannevar. What's notable here of course is that he suggested that creating links between things was a function that something visitors (trailblazers) could do. In a sense, to him the notion of a hypertext link, and a clickable annotation w/ two targets were mutually interchangeable ideas. Today, these are distinct. The idea that a visitor can do this, is only possible within the emerging idea of Open Annotation as we understand it now. It's why those of us exploring it are so excited about its potential.

  20. Dec 2013
    1. If emails responses are sent to mailing list, links to those emails (or body text) should be added to annotation thread

      In other words, if I reply to an email , a reply annotation should be created. This would be expected functionality in any basic email notification scheme. This is included in our issue #1004.