Because we can't collect pressure readings in the background (apple doesn't allow a background mode for pressure), so it would just be a waste of the user's battery to be constantly taking their location.
WeatherSignal is completely open for non-commercial use, and our data is actually being used by many of the same researchers as PressureNet!
And we're working on making our data more open - with our new resources we'll have more time to work on improve the data we make available via both our website and API.
The data included in OpenSignal insights is aggregated both geographically and temporally at a resolution that makes it impossible to identify any individual user. All we show are averaged stats over a monthly or quarterly period for a given area.
Part of our project is to inform users about how carriers are performing, but also to inform carriers how they're performing so that they can improve their service for their users. We use our data to independently regulate the carrier market, from both the supply and demand sides as we think this is the best way to help effect much-needed improvement. We sell to operators so that we don't have to charge consumers or show them annoying in-app ads!
It takes your slides (PPTX format), and analyses each one a bunch of ways, to spot common pitfalls. For example, it checks the reading age, how busy the slides are, how colourful (or not) your colour palette is. It also checks if you put too much text on each slide.
It's not fool proof, but is surprisingly accurate for various slide-fails :D
'WHAT IF A BRIBEE ACCEPTS THE BRIBE, BUT THE DATE NEVER HAPPENS?
Once a bribe is accepted, it is up to the members to communicate and plan the details of the date. Even after bribe acceptance, some dates may not happen.'
- There is something gloriously appropriate about this being in the FREQUENTLY asked questions.
The $80k from Bloomberg was possibly a PR move for both parties as well. I don't think the Edge was ever supposed to succeed - pretty clever though, Indiegogo as a marketing platform.
Agreed, I am a fan of Linux (and Ubuntu), and I think the whole project worked out well PR-wise for Canonical, Bloomberg and Indiegogo. (Not being sarcastic, I actually think its good for them.)
While I completely agree with most of this article, there was one thing I found utterly repellent. This line - 'People largely stopped talking about what Wikileaks revealed years ago, & now discussion of Assange is dominated by the usual cliches about him being arrogant, a rapist, etc.'
Oh yes, those usual boring cliches - arrogance and rape. Repulsive. People talk about Assange being creepy because he has been accused of rape by two female (former) supporters, not because of a series of subtle derogatory digs in the mainstream media. And arguing that these rape cases are a fabrication to bring Assange to justice for what happened over wikileaks (which I don't believe at all) isn't an argument in this instance, because the two cases are so unlike each other it seems ridiculous to make the comparison. I'm not disagreeing that Edward Snowden is being subjected to unpleasant ad hominem attacks, he is and it's outrageous, but to compare him to the treatment that Assange has received is ridiculous.
