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>The problem it's solving is that people want to do it. //

As a generality I'd say that's false. Why buy in to a system that makes a tiny proportion of the populous vastly wealthy only because those people already are wealthy.

>You "agree" your trade outside the exchange? //

No, hence the conjunction. Perhaps "you issue a bid or offer" would have been better?

>Spreads would get wider //

OK, can you give a reason why that happens and why it leaves more with middlemen. At the moment a change in price so transient as to pass in milliseconds gets exploited to extract value from the system. In essence surely a greater spread means more to lose from selling quickly, that would appear to tend to stabilise.

Presumably the middle-men here are primarily market-makers.

To this layman it appears that traders currently extract value by reacting fastest to the rapid variations. That the value extracted far exceeds the original notion of guaranteeing trades in order to provide liquidity. Slow the variations and there are less opportunities to extract capital. Again this seems like it would tend to money being invested for longer term growth.

Thanks.
What if someone posts a status update saying "I'm in San Francisco."? What if they post a picture of themselves with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background? Is it reasonable for them to assume that Path will filter these things out, simply because they turned off Location Services?

I think it's ludicrous. iOS is quite clear in its explanation of Location Services, and their explanation is not at all "technical" or intimidating to non-technical users. Also, the permission to access your photos is completely separate from the Location Services permission. Maybe you the author would have a point if iOS automatically gave apps access to your camera roll, but that's not the case.

I don't doubt that some users will be surprised by the photo's geotag, but I suspect it would be an extremely low number of users (the fact that this if just now being blogged about seems to corroborate this, unless Path have just recently added this behavior).
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You can put as many "events" in the body of an HTTP POST request as you wish. What really matters in distributed messaging systems, from the performance point of view, is the number of distinct messages per second.

And if a system designer wants to send a stream of "events" to another system to be acted upon, and if this designer cares about throughput (which is assumed here, given the title of the post), then this designer is likely to choose a faster messaging system, especially if it is more flexible, due to its ubiquity and universal support, protocol (e.g. HTTP) over a custom protocol.
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I'm not sure about the stats, but I can contribute my anecdotal experience of the detrimental effects of gobs of vc money on a startup.

In this case, there was so much runway that they decided they had time to invent their own proprietary computer language before getting to the actual business problem. They also built a datacenter packed so full of mostly dormant Xserves that apple featured it at WWDC.

So much wasted time and money. I hope my experience was an outlier.
Wanted to let you know that your nav is too wide for my browser window, and one of the nav items is cut off: http://i.imgur.com/3dORK0Y.jpg

Probably a good idea to consider 960 min width.
Sorry, we added limitations a few hours after posting. I should have been more clear about the fact that they were edited in. I'll try to get better at this live blogging thing :)
> Perhaps, but without a proper study of their users (and potential future users), how can they infer their intent,

In this case, they don't need to infer my intent. My intent is clear: I have not gone into the app settings and configured it differently. I disabled location services at the OS level for the entire application.

My intent could not be more clear.
Spot on. Also no mention about why they get a monopoly on accrediting skilled visa applications for computer scientists.

Two comments I got overnight:

"The ACS is run by a whole bunch of accountants and lawyers who can't believe their luck that people associate them with the technology industry"
"You’re right that the ACS has to go.
Back in 2001 I contacted the ACS to discuss some policy things and was horrified to discover the “experts” I was talking to were nothing more than accountants. Later they elected a lawyer as president, and then a recruiter, prompting me to publicly condemn the ACS as a fake during the period 2004 – 2006.
The ACS is actually an anti-professional organisation. Their agenda is not to promote computer science or engineering expertise, but rather to allow pretenders to hide in the generic vagueness of “ICT Professional.” They actually work to devalue real expertise, since engineers and computer scientists pose a threat to accountants, MBAs and lawyers who want to claim membership of the technology professsions.
I think the solution has to be a formal inquiry into regulation of the IT professions, with a view to government stepping in and, as you put it, disbanding the ACS. At the moment, the ACS has insinuated itself too strongly into formal regulation. Simply starting a rival organisation for software engineers, say, would not work. Government has to dissolve existing ACS influence and leave the way open for new specialist organisations."
Wow, Khaled Mardam Bey (author of mIRC) must be rolling in gigantic piles of US Military cash if they have standardised on it.
> The value you're getting of selling your product over market value and buying under wouldn't require you to ever take out money anyway.

This is only true if the difference between the sold item and bought item(s) is small. If the seller is looking to offload a macbook but only to buy an iPad a cash transaction would make significantly more sense. In this system the difference in values is tied up in honey which has no value outside of the system. With cash the seller can apply their remaining funds to anything they want.

I would imagine that even though the "value" of honey supplied to sellers is more than what they might be able to obtain in a cash transaction that extra honey is actually worth next to nothing as it sits in the sellers account unused.
Obviously its been done in universities for some time, but for example the link in question discusses a chair that was permanently endowed via property upon his death. A bit different than covering 2-3 years of a borderline lobbyist for your business interests. I did a quick check of some similar organizations, this is the only named chair in the EFF, and EPIC, FSF, and the center for democracy and technology all don't have any.

I'm sure I'm rather biased though, as I sincerely doubt I'd have said anything if it was the Lawrence Lessig chair.
This comparison speaks better than this - http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/comparisons/mongodb/
I think the point is, if you pick "don't read my location data" and then every day post a message "Today I'm at the SF Library", "Today I'm at the NYC Stock Exchange". "Today I'm at DC checking out the White House"

Is Path supposed to censor those image?

You choose to tag your photo. You chose to share the photo. How is that different than posting a text that says where you location is?
Thanks, I just had a serious philosophical chuckle. :)

From one perspective, 'Swapidy: Trade your old stuff for new stuff' is a such an impossibly elegant example of Web2.0 startup culture and American consumer-materialism.

You guys should enter in to some kind of poetry award as a free marketing gimmick.
I'm not a very serious climber but have friends who really are. Apparently the lessons from reading this book: http://americanalpineclub.org/p/anam are that the vast majority of climbing deaths are due to one of two reasons:

1. Belaying off the end of your rope (Always tie a safety knot!)

2. Not wearing a helmet.

So, yes: climber error.
What kind of information leaks to the advertisers though? Do they have enough information to reaquire you (match your new ID to your old profile data) after a reset?

I'm sure that most advertisers can do this to some extent on the web, and use this to get around the users' ability to reset cookies.
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We do effectively have an ad-hoc mini Erlang runtime that we wrote at the core of the system. I'm not sure how deliberate that was -- we sort of borrowed performance ideas from many places, tried a lot of different approaches, and settled on this one. Lots of this was definitely inspired by ideas from Erlang.
>Trading the Apple for the Orange directly (bartering) is clearly more efficient than A and B both trading for dollars and then trading their dollars for the good they want.

This is theoretically true, but it wrongly assumes that the inefficiency is meaningful. We're talking about computers here. It all gets automated anyway. And if the efficiency is utterly trivial then it can't balance any nontrivial amount of currency manipulation.
We have a document/file preview in our iOS app and web interface ( http://www.tonido.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/iOS-Si...), similar to dropbox. Our customers really love the file preview part. It will be a good feature for dropbox as well.
"What are these abilities and insights you have that no one else has?"

Sometimes the answer to that question is "I don't have any." Or sometimes it's an ability that is not valued (even by yourself).

I too encourage searching, but let's be realistic.
They're completely different kinds of software, at least as I understand them. Riemann is about pushing lots of little hashmaps (events) through a DAG of streaming functions; HTTP is about synchronous gets/puts/updates/deletes to a tree of resources.

If you are trying to make sense of Riemann in HTTP terms, sending an event to Riemann might look like POST /streams, with a body containing a single JSON object. There's no notion of GET, PUT, or DELETE though--the state inside Riemann streams has no name or external representation.

There are other components in Riemann which can be expressed as HTTP resources--the index, which is used for tracking the most recent event for a given host and service, and the pubsub system for example. Those have HTTP APIs for making a query (GET /index?q=service = "www" and state = "critical"), and a websocket variant which streams down updates for that query to you.

But as far as a general replacement, I'd say no, it doesn't make any sense. This is more akin to... a slow, insanely flexible, less complete version of Esper than an HTTP server.
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patents protect inventions, not ideas. For physical object, this is easily discerned, but sometimes, it gets muddy when talking about a protocol, or some sort of algorithm. I dislike software patents, but the intention of patents isn't to protect an abstract idea (whether its been twisted to do so is another argument for another day...)
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Because they don't want you to do normal math and realize how much you are being ripped off...
Am I right in my understanding that this is basically the same as a trade in deal (for example at a car dealership)?
Wow could you please consider open sourcing it or posting a small tutorial? I'd love to learn how to do something this beautiful without a game engine.
As far as I can tell from testing the app, it only posts the location of a photo when you explicitly post it to your Path. With Location Services turned off, I posted a photo that lacked a geotag and it contained no location information. I then posted a photo that had a geotag, and it posted the city the photo was taken in. Also, curiously, if you post a geotagged photo without any description text, it seems to omit the location data.
When I here a statistic like, your chance of falling and getting an injury in the shower is 1 in 1000, I assume they mean over my lifetime, not each day. There is not way in hell it's 1 in 1000 per day. I don't buy it. That said, I get the point of the article.
The problem is the tech industry went to a quantity over quality issue and made a 'good enough' quality that sells despite major bugs and flaws.

I think there should be a startup renaissance, to bringing quality back to technology. Like the woodworking rule of "measure twice, cut once" instead of the current "measure once, cut twice." or "don't measure and cut as many times as it takes to get the job done" that some seem to have.

When you do a job for quality, you take your time to make sure it is right and there isn't as much pressure. Sure you have a deadline, but if management agrees that more time should be given to do it right the first time, instead of rush it and put stress and pressure on the employee, it might avoid these suicides.
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I think you're conflating two very different scenarios. Someone saying "I'm in San Francisco" or posting a picture of them at the Golden Gate Bridge is clearly aware that their location can be determined. EXIF data hidden within a JPEG file is not so clear cut and most users are unlikely to be aware of it.

As you said, Location Services and Photo access are different permissions. Users are therefore likely to assume that location data is not being retrieved if they deny permission to it. If I deny location data to an app, it's because I don't want that app to have my location data. It seems somewhat underhanded, to me at least, to assume that the user wouldn't mind me accessing location data from their photos, knowing full well that the majority of users will not know what EXIF data is. I'd go so far as to say that I would explicitly ask the user if EXIF data should be read alongside the standard location services.
Maybe you are afraid Path is using location services in the background or have some other reason to fear that Path is improperly requesting your current location. This does NOT imply that you don't want Path to have EXIF location data from photos you provide it.

A much better option would simply be to provide a simple interface to allow users to exclude this information each time they post a photo and/or in the application settings.
The only clear intent that can be gathered from turning off Location Services is that you do not want Path to access your phone's location sensors. This is pretty explicit in iOS Settings. It is not at all clear that you do not intend for Path to use other sources of location information that you explicitly choose to share, like photos or status updates.
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This might be true about most other features of most apps, however your location is actually fairly sensitive information for LOTS of people, and I think you're underestimating that.

The outrage of a user who disabled location services, but wanted their location uploaded is NOTHING compared to the implications of sharing someone's location without permission. We are talking about life-and-death, in some rare cases (e.g. http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/03/exif-data-may-have-revea...).
>add more value with less human interaction //

This sounds like an oxymoron.

Financial efficiency and value often appear to be at odds. Amazon certainly appear to spend less resources in the delivery of goods. Low cost of acquisition isn't necessarily correlated with greater value in terms of human fulfilment.

I've often wondered why we don't have [more/widespread] community kitchens, less work needed for food production, reduced waste and transportation costs, etc.. Why can't I go somewhere and get a quality, healthy meal that is cheaper than what I can make at home.
I think advertising code could store the current ad ID on the phone. When the stored ID does not match the current ID, they could update the server with the new ID.
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I agree -- I think this is more Apple's problem than anything.

If I disable location data for an app, Apple shouldn't allow any form of my location to be passed to that app.
But really, you're the one speculating that a user's intent is different than what their explicit actions on the phone indicate. You're guessing that a user is not aware that photos are geotagged, despite that fact that the Location Services permission is optional on the Camera app as well.
Another downside is that your money is tied up in a company that could fail.

In the event that Swapidy goes under, there's no guarantee that you could get all your money out safely.

I think Swapidy is a great idea -- a dynamically-priced, peer-driven marketplace sounds awesome. But the currency lock-in seems very sketchy.
Have you considered an industry vertical? Version control is a huge-beyond-huge annoyance in the legal profession, or frankly, in any profession involving group work on contracts. I imagine you could make a decent chunk of change going the enterprise route and selling this to big firms, or licensing it to schools, or what have you.
Thanks. My work experience would confirm the 'non-technical user' thought. We're mainly Mac based with the odd PC. The PCs are usually on the brink of death due to crapware that someone thought to install. The Macs seem to avoid this, in part perhaps because to the users are so unfamiliar with the system that they don't try to install the crap.
Yes, but unlike a car dealership, we give you more than market value.
its not the gov't who _wants_ to crush bitcoins (but they will probably be the one actually implementing the measures). A currency, and the subsequent control of it, will lend lots of priviledges and power over those who control it.

Currently, the central banks (the Feds, and the various EU central banks) control the currency (by control, i mean they are the only ones able to print more of it). Now, i don't really know who controls those banks, but i m willing to bet that they are some powerful vested interests there. These people do not like the gold standard, simply because having a gold standard strips them of their power they currently enjoy.

Bitcoin, being a good candidate for a digital gold standard, will be targetd just like the gold standard was targeted in the 70's in the US of A. I really wish bitcoin could become recognized by the normal peoples of the world, but i think it can't, because there is no force behind it. The monopoly on using violence is the only way to have a currency adopted, and i don't see bitcoin getting any of that. my prediction is that bitcoin will be relegated to being a niche currency.
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The author seems to be ranting that nobody stores rainbow tables, they are computed on demand.

So, big whoop. Why should the NYT care about how the tables are stored or not stored?

There are people with really large dictionaries out there, which was the point of the NYT article.
Sure, that's why I used the word theoretical myself, but my hunch is that it's not trivial for the reason that it's a really tiny basket of goods we're talking about.

I even think it's not trivial if your market is restricted to say, 25% of the general market. But in this case the restriction is to a tiny percentage of the complete basket of goods, so (as an amateur) my guess is it's significant.
>You sell your product, they will give you virtual currency in order to lock you into their ecosystem and then you buy a new product based on that honey value. Please explain to me, in lay terms, how that explanation is equal to the definition of pyramid scheme above ?

Thank you for pointing out that you don't use their currency to buy the products they purchased from their other customers (though it makes me wonder what they're doing with them then).

But let me put it this way: There are three ways they can offer you more for your products in fake currency than in real currency. 1) They expect users to hold an ever-increasing amount of their currency in their accounts and not spend it immediately. If too many users tried to spend their currency all at once they would go out of business and you would lose your money; it's a pyramid scheme. 2) They give you $440 instead of $400 for your iPhone, but then a new product that would cost $400 on Amazon costs $440 in their currency. It's not a real discount. 3) They take less as profit than Amazon, even on top of Amazon's economies of scale, which is almost certainly not sustainable.
Thanks for sharing this with us. We are looking into it now and will resolve the issue ASAP.

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wow thats a really neat gift/toy idea!
> Macs in all their locations and used a custom built POS system.

Locking machines down to a POS, this would be no easier in OSX than Linux, and the premium hardware (with associated cost and limited options) makes this the opposite of thrifty.
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I think the solution should lie with Apple as well since it's higher up the stream. Otherwise you'd need to have every app do this check - seems more efficient for Apple to just handle it.
I'd say you should take a look at research papers for those topics: But it's true, we are lacking advanced Haskell books.
>I think the point is, if you pick "don't read my location data" and then every day post a message "Today I'm at the SF Library", "Today I'm at the NYC Stock Exchange". "Today I'm at DC checking out the White House"

That's not the point at all. Your example is of someone explicitly announcing their location. The issue at hand, which may or may not be a bug, is that the metadata is being used to publish the user's location even after they've said that they don't want the app accessing the Location Services.

Technically, there's nothing wrong in that because the app isn't accessing the Location Services. However, I'm pretty sure most users would assume the app won't use any location data by turning that setting off. If you denied an app location data, would you be happy that they still managed to get location data via a means that's not necessarily obvious?
Hunh. I've been to a variety of chiropractors. In general, they have usually yanked my body into position. Usually they have a mechanism of analysis and then cracking the body based on that. There are hokums out there, that is for sure. I hope that next time your back is tweaked you can find a competent one.
That's not really clear cut. Many times location services are disabled because of the battery impact.

On iOS in particular it's possible to receive location updates only when changing cell towers, wifi, etc, basically it doesn't use any extra battery.

A few days ago I turned this behaviour off on an app and replaced it with a behaviour where instead it polls for location for a few seconds on start and then shuts off all location services because users disable location services because they believe it is negatively impacting their battery life.

The complaints weren't your tracking my location, the complaints were you're killing my battery life.
Honey is sweet!

We wanted to be a bit unique and because we're not using real money to buy your stuff, we thought Honey would be the next best thing.

Honey is different than dollars so think of it as its own currency. As for the conversion ratio, all currencies aren't equal, so we wanted to differentiate a little bit.

However, I understand your confusion and will work with my co-founder to make it easier to understand.