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Cool project & a good concept I think works well for the people you are targeting.

Notes:

- Front page is tough to understand. Feel like you need a block clearly outlining the concept right at the top, and then jumping to the current projects. You've done great work with other illustrations on the site, why not a visual flow of the junto process (unless I missed it)?

- When I first saw the funding amount, it felt like kickstarter (not sure if that's a good or bad thing for you? :) )

- Project pages are really nice and clear, well done.

- I like seeing faces for projects, gives it more credibility, but what about your team?

- Recent commenters, gravatar?

As for the primary concern, tough one. Don't think there's any easy/cheap way to acquire a ton of users so early on. Think you'll just need to bridge the gap with your gut feeling till it gains more traction.

Good luck, really like the idea!
Path should come up with a Privacy Protection Program that commit them not to repeat their mistake. It's too easy to do something and ask for forgiveness later on. That would distinguish themselves from Facebook's way of doing things.
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Nice to see a transparent and timely response to this issue. I get the feeling that the startup world learned some serious lessons in crisis management after seeing the Airbnb nightmare unfold. At the end of the day, the customers/users are the real winners here.
I am constantly logged into my Google account. How is this any different? They track everything already. Now they are going to pay me for it?
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On the last big site I worked on, we used nginx as a reverse proxy to Apache. That way, nginx respects the cache headers you send out and so nearly every request is served straight from its cache pretty much instantly, and you can have a highly dynamic page without having to worry excessively about performance as long as the response time if you do happen to hit an invalidated cache isn't unreasonable. Seems like a good approach to me if the site requires a dynamic back-end and also requires very high performance, as long as there's nothing on the page which needs to be personalised on the server side (i.e. can't be personalised via AJAX).

Not read the article so not sure if this has anything to do with their reasons for using plain HTML (which, of course, has its place!)
It's still impressive. Jets fly at 35,000 feet, so her balloon went 3 times higher than a jet.

I want to do this. Anyone have a link to a set of instructions? It looked like she was following some printed instructions in the video.
Paypal always rolls over...
I created a website (real estate website) for this guy about a year ago.. I know he fell on hard times and is looking for money anywhere he can find it. I wouldn't be suprised to find him doing other "charge backs"

The November payment was for four months BACK HOSTING as he was behind in payments. After November he never paid again, and is over 4 months behind again.. So if you do this charge back, he'll be over 8 months behind.

This is his website : http://www.mybeachcitieshomes.com/

He has leads (screenshot at : http://www.mybeachcitieshomes.com/proof.jpg ) going back a year from now.. Look at the first "leads" He actually started before this, but this is when leads started to come in...

The money he is disputing is for HOSTING of his website.. www.mybeachcitieshomes.com/stats

password : master123

Its simple.. Either He is LYING (which is obvious) or I created a website with all his info, charged his card, unknown to him, set up a site.. Setup his adwords about 8 months ago JUL 26th (see screenshot http://www.mybeachcitieshomes.com/adwordsproof.jpg ) and only now over 3 months after the last charge he wants his money !?!?! .. He should go for the gold and get his original setup charge which is 15 months ago.. What is your cut off date?!?!

Do you want me to give his Google Adwords user/pass to the world too.. If you do a charge back, I couldn't have it..?!?! Because if this isn't a valid charge, I shouldn't be able to do that right?!?! I 'stole' his card and setup over 50 adword campaigns for him?!?! So I could 'STEAL' $220 ?!?!

Does paypal fight for their clients at all? This is so obvious as to be a slap in the face..

Just so you know, this whole account will be posted to HACKER NEWS and other social networks as a reminder that anyone can just charge back for any reasons if they're short on money.. I've posted publicly plenty of irrefutable proof that this guy is full of crap.

.. and just to be fair, I'll post the PAYPAL RESPONSE.. I've had this happen a few times in the last 10 years I've been in business and w/ paypal so I assume its a song and dance where paypal just gives money back to anyone who asks on a whim..

Notice I registered his domain aug 5 2010 the 220 is for back hosting.. (see http://www.mybeachcitieshomes.com/whenregistered.jpg )

Since I created the site he can't have it pulled down for convenience, so he can scrape back the back hosting charges he paid .. He is STILL over 4 MONTHS behind.. Just so you know..

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PS : I will let you know how this turns out, if PAYPAL actually stands up for themselves and their customers or not...

Stay tuend..
I dig it. Great flow.
"So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers."

That sounds like exactly what you were hoping for.
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Flash may be owned but it is released as open source. The language is completely open, there is an open source compiler and an open source VM.

HTML5, as it is, is a pain in the butt because of multiple vendors supporting subsets of it. I still have to fall back to flash to play mp3s in Firefox.

HTML5 will be great someday, but it's not today and probably not soon.
> i.e. only hardware bearing Microsoft's logo.

I scrapped the "Built for Windows" adhesives off my notebook. Can I install something else now?

> devices had to boot to UEFI by default but could also offer a "legacy BIOS mode.

I think this doesn't apply to most ARM devices. From your link "This requirement is If Implemented for Server systems and applies only if a Server system is UEFI capable." I am also not sure ARM servers have "legacy BIOSes".
Yes, it's hindsight because you're reading the conclusions of a study and saying "I could have guessed that." But you didn't know that, you suspected it. The point of doing such studies is to know. I also suspect, but obviously can't demonstrate, that someone would have said the same thing ("I could have told you that") were the conclusion the opposite.
I got a similar effect just by moving the cursor around: http://imgur.com/5gl83
This is an accident waiting to happen. Whoever does this is doing it wrong. The case was well-made here by Colin Percival (the tarsnap guy) in his blog: "Playing chicken with cat.jpg" http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...

>> "The answer isn't for (any company) to prove that they can be trusted; the answer is to ensure that their customers don't need to trust them ... The best way to avoid privacy breaches is not to formulate a detailed privacy policy; it's to reduce your capabilities so that you're unable to violate anyone's privacy"
I have a Toshiba Thrive tablet and have found Flash there to be quite useable for most apps that aren't games and even a lot of those work fine.

I think Flash could have a future, if Adobe actually put work into making it more integrated (and Apple let them).
How would one carry out the friend suggestion feature with encrypted phone numbers?
Good for the most part, but does anyone feel like they deliberately left out what it was they're apologizing for?

I can imagine a user unaware of the recent event stumbling across this article and leaving confused about what wrong was committed. They sort of just assume you knew what happened, instead of explicitly explaining what they'd been doing.

But, they're taking steps to resolve the issue, apparently; so good on them.
This makes me think back to the TED talk that discusses that higher pay actually decreased performance and employee motivation when innovation is required.

Interesting that the overpaid industries are those that i would consider to be less innovative and those that are considered underpaid are the move innovative industries and companies. That is just my opinion however.

http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/24/the_surprising/
Except for the "and then implement hashing from here on out." part.

So, they haven't changed their implementation, they've just added the ability to opt out of the poor implementation.
By paying you, they get around privacy laws and can sell your data to anyone who wants it.
I'm kind of sick of this "let's revolt against everybody using my data" mentality. They don't persist your contact data to their server. What exactly is it that you're afraid of?

Moreover, how on earth did you think the "Add Friends" feature worked? I'm assuming at least some of you program software, and you should know that data doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Do you really expect a software startup to move every piece of data sorting & analyzing to the client side that has potential to piss off its userbase?

I understand that it's easy to just encrypt the information, or some other X remedy. I'm just saying there's a line between a software mistake and the let's-grab-the-pitchforks rhetoric that inevitably stems from stories like this.
That's a clever idea and I like the concept of getting feedback "early and often."

I do have some questions though. It is unclear whether I can take advantage of your service without hiring Polymathic. Is it just an environment for companies you are building? Also, I couldn't register (http://thejun.to/registration ends as a 404) so I'm unsure, other than offering feedback on logos and such, what I could do on the site.
More fodder for discussion here: http://allthingsd.com/20120117/secondary-iphone-market-a-boo...

Turns out that the secondary market for the iPhone is nearly as robust as the primary market. And it’s growing steadily larger and more important for Apple’s carrier partners, and for Apple itself.
Even Ferris Bueller's teacher would rock with this edtech
While hiring somebody, their degree generally contributes very little to our process.
Kickstarter becomes more and more the platform to be for stuff like that.
As I see, anything related to mobile gets a lot of traction there.
Even if you break out Samsung, Motorola, HTC, etc. you will still have the same problem within each manufacturer's lineup. Comparing individual phone models is logical but nobody does it for some reason.

It seems that people always want to compare the iPhone (a single hardware line) to Android (software) which is just bizarre.
The fact that they've already deleted all user address book data, and have an updated version of the app available today with a privacy option, is a big deal. I don't know how they managed to get an update to the app approved so quickly (24-48 hours?), they must have worked directly with Apple. A good sign, either way.
>I would posit that the world of Star Trek eliminates the alienation of everyday life on Earth that leads one to social networking in the first place. Furthermore, and this is admittedly handwavy, but any analog to the internet would either only cover the station itself (in which case why bother, because the whole station hangs out at the bar anyway) or require subspace radio to communicate with thousands of planets at once, which is very plausibly impractical if not outright prevented by security requirements.

This goes directly against how Facebook got started on college campuses. Campuses are already hypersocial places, are self-contained to some extent, and you constantly run into everyone you know - but this environment proved to be the most fertile ground for social networking.
Do you mean hash instead of encrypt?
I would bold it if I were them. It's a nicely written message, but it reads like a lot of other PR apologies and it's easy to skim over it, deep in its position in the 5th paragraph.

Sometimes you need to make actions speak louder than words. :)
"We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts."

Dave explained the issue well enough in the first paragraph.
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Wikipedia says: "Even when aided with turbochargers and stock efficiency aids, most engines retain an average efficiency of about 18%-20%."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_engine

Wikipedia again: "Typical thermal efficiency for electrical generators in the industry is around 33% for coal and oil-fired plants, and up to 50% for combined-cycle gas-fired plants."

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It's a step in the right direction, but doesn't clear up all of the confusion. I can't update to 2.0.6 (it's not an option on my device, a 4th gen iPod touch running 2.0.5). In addition, how will adding friends work going forward -- Facebook Connect, or manual searches by name?

Will hashing be implemented?
This is a welcoming move from Path. However, "industry standard firewall technology" is gibberish.
To be fair, they've been working on BigDog since 2005. Very fun to watch their progress but it's not exponential.
I agree in general, but they do actually store your data on the servers.
Thanks - I'm reading your thesis now. I like how you discuss the impact of anonymity on each of the layers of the network stack.
Sybil attack, insightful question.. Yes we protect against it:
http://www.asci.tudelft.nl/media/proceedings_asci_conference...
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Your willfully ignorant (and I don't mean that in a crude, insulting way) responses here lead me to think there remains some very serious cultural issues within NASA.
instead of comparing the phone numbers you'd compare the hashed phone numbers.
> we know Wallace Stevens sold insurance

No he did not. He was a corporate vice president of two large insurance companies. The man was no Ned Ryerson.

The writer of this article needs to call the roller of big cigars, the muscular one.
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If they aren't persisting your contact data to their server, how can they now say they deleted it all from their server? I was under the impression that storing your contact data was exactly what bothered people. Am I mistaken?
My favorite example of this is Kafka, who worked for an insurance company. Who else but someone working in a large, bureaucratic organization could have written the kind of stuff he wrote? And his work contains some of the best reflections on the nature of modern life, the fact that we're just in this huge machine and understand at most 0.00000001% of it.
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Apple is getting a lot better with their approval process, I've had updates approved in 24-48h without doing anything special.
Translates as "We don't use encryption because it would cost too much, but we have ACLs so only our staff can look at your personal data"
Resale value is also being measured as a percentage MSRP, which makes sense for the iPhone, as it isn't really available for anything but MSRP, but isn't as realistic for most Android phones that can often be had for less than MSRP.
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The right thing to do. However, their 2nd paragraph should have been the one starting with "We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information..."

The rest of it is a repeat of yesterday and is really not necessary.

I do want to know how I can backup by Path to a S3 or Dropbox account. Does anyone know if they support this?
I like the apology. They are doing to right things as well by deleting all of the existing data, but it is a lesson to all companies playing in the business-to-consumer space: Have clear and easy-to-read privacy policies and get explicit consent from users before you collect their data.

After reading the post, it is apparent that Path did nothing wrong except poorly communicating their procedures and policies.
a cryptographic hash of a phone number on their server should match a cryptographic hash of a phone number in a contact list on a phone. The app sends the hash to the server, the server looks up users via the hash and responds with user data for matches.

To be honest this should be a third party service, since it sounds like every major social networking app is doing the same exact thing.
That kinda suggests making an automated cameldriver instead. Of course that's much easier to make fun of.
First, I am not knowledgeable enough to provide advice.

With that in mind: My experience is that it makes sense to go the 83b route before any funding rounds (when the price is 0.001 $/sh).

After that, there is usually decent money going out the door to the IRS. Since such a tiny fraction of startup shares are ever worth a damn, it just isn't worth the time, money or hassle.
Private social network seems almost oxymoron. To create large social network, a company has to tap into user's vast social network and try to get the user's friends/contacts to join in as well. And then to increase engagement or stickiness, you have to keep reminding them to come back. Otherwise, the social network company might not grow as fast as founders/investors would like and also most likely affect revenue.... It's a tough place to be, really. I don't condone their action. At the minimum, they should've gotten user's permission first.
Oh. Nevermind, then.
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Michael Lewis points out in one of his books that for people on Wall Street, income is just a way of keeping score - which implies that money still is an incentive, just that the reasons change.
He probably didn't link to a real article because he works for "extremetech.com" since all his submissions history are articles from there.
Damn autocorrect; you catch one letter and miss the correction on the other one -- two paras in I still had not noticed that my response appeared to be discussing avocados.. "advogato" is the system I was referencing, and if you want to dig into similar work check out papers by Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, some of Pattie Maes old work, and Hugo Liu's work from before he joined Hunch.
My P4 3Ghz with HT is about 70% :P
we are sorry you found out what we were doing and couldn't do much other than apologize about it.
It's an interesting analysis, but I don't see how the results would affect my buying decision at all. What's the actual dollar amount difference in reselling an iPhone for 53% of original price vs Android at 42%? Maybe $50-$80? How much in carrier fees have I spent over that 18 months? Well over $1000.

The difference in resale value versus the entire expense of owning these phones is insignificant. Or at least it's not significant enough to outweigh the preference one might have for a given phone. What if the numbers were flipped? How many iPhone owners would choose to switch to Android if they knew they could save $70 over the next year and a half?
As someone who is always concerned about my own privacy and the privacy of people who trust our company with their data, i am very pleased to see that when things do go wrong honesty is being appreciated.

While i don't think its acceptable to ever make this kind of mistake, we should also encourage companies to be upfront and honest about what went wrong and what they're going to do to make things better when issues come up.

This is a positive step forward for this company and tech companies as a whole. Having said that, maybe i would feel different however if i actually used this app?
techcrunch had to change their headline from 'kidnapping and rape'
to molestation (their original story was based on 3 sentences from nypost)

i guess that's what you get when 'gadget editors' become crime reporters.
That neglects to mention the inefficiency in distributing gasoline via gas-powered vehicles to hundreds of millions of drivers.
A little trick I learnt from a fellow designer: Make the default profile pic the opposite gender from what you guess the user to be. Users are fine staring at an androgynous avatar but they'll rapidly upload their own pic to avoid others thinking they're a woman/man.
Any dev can appeal to Apple to expedite a review when there is a good reason. I've done it several times and they generally have it reviewed within a few hours and out within 24. It's good that they've done this though and deleted all the data.
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I'd get the MBA over either the MBP or x220. Thinness, SSD in all models, a UNIXish OS which actually runs some non-free software (and doesn't have people ask you what the hell is wrong with your computer), a crisp screen (the MBA has the same resolution as the 15" MBP) ... sorry, us MBA people are the most annoying Apple fanboys, right?

The only laptops I've seen which I've been at all envious of are later-model MBAs, and Toshiba's Satellite Z830 (damn that thing's light).

But if you don't mind a heavy laptop, the x220 does look nice. 15 hours video (with the $180 battery hump thing) definitely raises the bar.
A percentage of what they make from your data should be a fair deal. Although some (like myself) value privacy more than pocket money.
If you can run Path 2.0.5, you can run Path 2.0.6. I think you're confused because the AppStore hasn't actually updated yet to show 2.0.6. Try again later today.
What would you say is the level of the book? I am intrigued by your enthusiasm, but I think I'd be wasting my time if I went reading an introductory book.
Enjoy the pursuit
IIRC, Path's CEO commented on the post that initially reported this behaviour saying that an update had been submitted that would make it an optional feature prior to the report.
Honestly, I keep hoping Apple adds a permission check for the contact list (like they do for GPS location). If the user says no, they should just return a blank contact list (to keep old apps happy that aren't expecting the call to fail).
That wouldn't add any real protection. Phone numbers is a very small set (100 million possible in the U.S. and Canada). A rainbow table of all possible combinations can be created in only a week or two.
Well, Sex Crime Notification laws do appear to have a deterrent effect: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/231989.pdf So it may be that allowing trolls to be traced back to their original communities and their remarks publicized would be effective.
What's in your iPhone?
Hey Noel!

Yeah, our front page has come a long way but if it's still unclear what our mission is (it's a complicated one, I admit), that's a problem. There used to be a visual sequence on the About page but perhaps we need to bring that back in.

Re: funding... yup, we have had a problem where people think we provide funding as a solo feature, or that funding is our primary feature... and not true. Troy from Excelerate Labs was great to point that out and work with us on it, but if it still appears to be a primary feature then that's a problem. Eventually crowdfunding might have more of our spotlight but not until our community is of a certain size/interaction level.

Team info is at http://thejun.to/about (tab on right says Meet Junto Team) but could be easier to find (other than that, it's only in the footer.)

Everything else – noted! thanks!
You are entitled to a number of expedited reviews per app
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