My question is about science crowd competition sites such as spaceappschallenge.org , xprize.com or innocentive.com . These organizations are trying to develop new organizational models for science, and I think the initiative to include the general public is great. However, it relies only on the individual talent of the best individuals in the crowd and does nothing to generate collective intelligence. Source: over 1 year ago

I was a solver on a different team for the netflix challenge. Our team didn't win the grand prize. I would have expected that a blog post to discuss how this was structured. Netflix contracted with innocentive [1], which is a website for solvers, and contracting to that website expanded Netflix's reach to the available pool of solvers. I'm not sure if they would have been able to get the same level of... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

If you just want a distraction diet, maybe consider Ratio (the android launcher from Blloc ). Source: almost 2 years ago

Responding to this from an iPhone 6 (non-S) purchased in either late 2014 or early 2015. This phone doesn't have the latest and greatest software/hardware (version locked at iOS 12), but it does its job and does it well enough that I haven't had to pay for a phone in 4 years. It's definitely slowed down and the battery is rated at 76% capacity now, but it can still browse the web, play a handful of games I... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago