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Hi HN, I’ve been quietly building an experiment called Society Speaks to explore a question that’s bothered me for a long time: Can we measure public opinion without flattening it …

I built GoodGrid partly out of nostalgia around an idea i've long harboured for a million dollar homepage for good and because I wanted an easier and more fun way to raise money fo…

If its of interest I've just open sourced Society speaks here: https://github.com/zuluwill/Societyspeaks

Just open sourced Society Speaks to encourage more nuanced discussion. If its of interest please do get involved. You can try the live version at https://societyspeaks.io/

hi, I made this. Yep I use Pol.is under the hood along with some other things. More to come. I'm happy to help. Looking at perhaps open-sourcing this. @gohandizo on twitter

SocietySpeaks ( https://societyspeaks.io ) combines opinion clustering algorithms with geographic context to facilitate better public discourse. Currently hosting discussions on he…

potentially very dumb question but could you build hydro power solutions(from the ice melt/run off) that you then get clean power from / help cool ice...? So out of my depth here b…

Serious question: what things/science/technology should you work on that can impact this and compound positively over time (outside of just changing your own personal habits, but n…

serious question: what things should you work on that can have the greatest impact and compound positively (I.e go beyond changing just your personal habits)?

but hopefully coming down considerably. Watch this youtube vide of Tony Seba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b3ttqYDwF0 (Stanford University futurist Tony Seba spent the last deca…

Is there a way to get radio on your iPhone? Could you "jailbreak" it? I'm in the UK (EE is the carrier) and missed the Wimbledon final due to being on a train, it would have been g…

Reid Hoffman interviewed Marissa Mayer for his blitzscaling lectures at Stanford and she gives some insights into her mobile strategy and why she made these acquisitions. In short …