skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one that doesn't think this is wrong? Metadata seems like fair game to me and I hardly think that Path is deliberately trying to steal data. They are probably just trying to make their user experience better.

(That's not to say we shouldn't have a discussion about data ownership and privacy. Just that we should wait to be outraged at things that actually deserve our outrage.)
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Cool. +1 for the clarification.
I think we should train ourselves to be fully alarmed at "...can instantiate arbitrary...", or just become hypervigilant around synonyms of "any".
> Today I posted a picture that I'd taken yesterday (after cropping out location-identifying features).

Well this is clearly part of the real problem. Anyone who saw the photo could have seen where they were taken from the EXIF data because you didn't clear it. Most users don't know that the data is there and don't know that they need to, it's a weird thing privacy wise and a lot of people get put in weird situations because of it. (McAfee comes to mind.)

You're still telling the Internet where you were even if Path doesn't go ahead and tag it and make it visible to you. If anything, what they've done is actually saved you some embarrassment and made you realize that data was there so you could take action about it (like taking down the photos and posted ones with cleared EXIF data) if you want.

But 90% of the time for 90% of users, this EXIF data is pretty useful. It's kind of a pickle and really to solve it properly what you're asking iOS to do is give files with completely different metadata out based on the user's privacy preferences, which aren't always spelled out entirely clearly, especially the way iOS works with kind of an all or nothing location privacy selection. You can't really tell the OS "Hey, for the next five days, let's not be explicit about where I am." or "Hey, keep my privacy for me when I'm in a certain geofence".

This is stuff they could add, but doing it right isn't trivial.
I'm terribly sorry. But your continued use of "pyramid scheme" is just wrong.

1) "they expect users to hold an ever-increasing amount of their currency in their accounts and not spend it immediately."

> Where does it say that ? Unfortunately no where. And who wants to hold their currency ? Use case: I want a new phone. I accept the offer from swapidy for X currency and then buy a new iphone at X currency. At what point do I want to hold my currency ? No, I want a new phone and if their pricing makes sense I transact. Thats it.

2) "too many users tried to spend their currency all at once they would go out of business and you would lose your money;"

> At what point would you loose your money ? The currency is valid and you can purchase an item. They send you that item. I am assuming your inference is that they do not stock any of the items they sell and I am unclear where you draw that inference from ? Please let me know if you have some sort of information that I do not other than what is illustrated on the site. If you transact and sell your phone, you send it to them and I assume they will subsequently sell that. You purchase a new phone and they send you that new phone. There is obviously the requirement for inventory and stock and so on. Thats a business and cost inventory issue, nothing else. If the company fails, you become a creditor - like when any company fails. It's a trust issue and up to them to ensure that its trust worthy.

3) "it's a pyramid scheme."

> No, its not. Refer above and please refer to Wikipedia or other sources to learn about pyramid schemes.

4) " 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. "

> Amazon is not a fluctuating pricing market like ebay or other such services. You will receive a standardized cost on Amazon for a extended period of time whereas this site infers you will receive the current daily market rate or close enough. This is the difference and therefore ultimately the difference in the pricing mechanism. If you want cash, transact at some other market and see if the pricing differential is more advantageous than what they offer. Some items will be cheaper and some will not be - don't tell me they actually want to run a site that makes money ? The use of virtual currency is to lock a user into their service and there is nothing wrong with that if you want to accept their buy offer which is more than you would receive elsewhere. No one is forcing your hand to transact.

5) "They take less as profit than Amazon"

> How do you know what profit they take ? Feel free to let me know.
Congrats guys! Pulkit is a driven guy. He felt CS193c at Stanford was the right environment to launch a product. :) I wish you, and your team, the best of luck!
> 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.

You're right, it's not clear. So, it should explicitly ask when you do so.

(I don't use Path so I don't know if it in fact asks this or at least makes clear that it will be sharing your photo locations before doing so. The article implies it does not.)
> In Python I run into a lot of programmer related bugs that Haskell's rigid type system prevents.

Isn't your productivity gain coming from using a statically typed language rather than Haskell specifically? It feels like any statically typed language is a leg up from Python :)
Agreed. I live in Kendall Square, and over the past two years rent has gone up 10%, and studio's start at $2700. in this area 1BR > $3K.
I also made a map of that: http://www.jefftk.com/boston_transit_quality (details: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2010-11-17)

(The map isn't actually 1/time-to-park-street. It's average time from each point to every other point.)
Ever so slowly, but consistently...Get some supply, go find demand. Expand. Get some supply, go find demand. Lots and lots of small fly wheels to get going...
Actually, I am wrong. As was pointed out to me in a blog comment, three screens in on Settings.app, in Settings->Privacy->Photos, there is a warning in grey text that says that photos contain location information of where they were taken.

Regardless, despite missing this warning, I'm a technical user and know about EXIF data. The real issue is Path ignoring my explicit demand that it not track my location.
How do you guys manage warehousing / storage for all your inventory?
We use RTP (actually SRTP and ZRTP), but the transport is still UDP.
Lets put it in human terms. You have an abusive ex who tries to stalk you and has threatened your kids. You turn off the ability of the app to see your location. Your location gets geotagged anyway. Your doorbell rings.
Bill Gates always seemed like a more appropriate person to idol, if you must do such things, than Steve Jobs. Not only did he build the worlds largest technology company (in its time), but he's making a global philanthropic impact.
Or, it's not a clock issue: http://live.wsj.com/video/banging-the-beehive-explained/A943...
IRC is a fine protocol and there are fairly straightforward methods for providing authenticated and encrypted access to private IRC servers.
I'm sorry that you thought I was being serious. My point was this: Just because someone commits suicide doesn't mean that there is some looming external threat that makes them kill themselves. It was taken as a given on hackernews, and the tech community as a whole, that Aaron killed himself because of the lawsuit against him. Very few people brought up that it might have been the crippling depression that he suffered from, and those who did were downvoted rapidly.
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five hundred and thirty priests' garments.

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work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred
pound of silver.

7:72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand
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singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel,
dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children
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the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had
commanded to Israel.
> You could add a clause that states that your software can't be used for certain purposes.

At which point it ceases to be considered "open source" software under the usual definitions. So you might as well just leave it closed source and refuse to sell licences to people you don't like.
American gun politics underwent a weird switcheroo at some point between the 1970's and 1990's. You'd think that as a constitutionally guaranteed civil right, owning guns would be a civil liberties issue championed by the left, but for some reason it isn't today. Yet as you point out, it used to be the far-left Black Panthers who championed the right to keep and bear arms the most, and for exactly the same radical reasons that libertarian gun nuts today talk about.

I love the link you posted. This is my favorite part--no doubt it required immense courage then, but it would be absolutely insane today to do what Huey Newton did:

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In February of 1967, Oakland police officers stopped a car carrying Newton, Seale, and several other Panthers with rifles and handguns. When one officer asked to see one of the guns, Newton refused. “I don’t have to give you anything but my identification, name, and address,” he insisted. This, too, he had learned in law school.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?” an officer responded.

“Who in the hell do you think you are?,” Newton replied indignantly. He told the officer that he and his friends had a legal right to have their firearms.

Newton got out of the car, still holding his rifle.

“What are you going to do with that gun?” asked one of the stunned policemen.

“What are you going to do with your gun?,” Newton replied.

By this time, the scene had drawn a crowd of onlookers. An officer told the bystanders to move on, but Newton shouted at them to stay. California law, he yelled, gave civilians a right to observe a police officer making an arrest, so long as they didn’t interfere. Newton played it up for the crowd. In a loud voice, he told the police officers, “If you try to shoot at me or if you try to take this gun, I’m going to shoot back at you, swine.” Although normally a black man with Newton’s attitude would quickly find himself handcuffed in the back of a police car, enough people had gathered on the street to discourage the officers from doing anything rash. Because they hadn’t committed any crime, the Panthers were allowed to go on their way.

The people who’d witnessed the scene were dumbstruck. Not even Bobby Seale could believe it. Right then, he said, he knew that Newton was the “baddest motherfucker in the world.” Newton’s message was clear: “The gun is where it’s at and about and in.” After the February incident, the Panthers began a regular practice of policing the police. Thanks to an army of new recruits inspired to join up when they heard about Newton’s bravado, groups of armed Panthers would drive around following police cars. When the police stopped a black person, the Panthers would stand off to the side and shout out legal advice.
Well in some scenarios, there are no such products due to people clicking multiple filters in the same category.

We're working on making them better and adjusting them to different scenarios.

You're product will be added shortly and I will update this thread as soon as it becomes available.
Fair enough. It's a compromise.
What I meant to convey was that you have to specifically go out and buy a pentalobe screwdriver for the sole purpose of opening your mac, whereas with the other tools, I (along with many others) already have them.
"We have nothing to do with this group"

Just take a look at who the board is lol:
http://www.acsfoundation.com.au/static_aboutthefoundation.cf...
What you say would be true for bedrooms, but one of the two maps I made is for rooms (1+bedrooms): http://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices/rooms-2013-01

Breaking it down by bedroom each map would have fewer points. The most common apartment size is the two bedroom, and there are only 986 listings there.
Work faster :). In all seriousness, congrats on the funding, and hope to see you everywhere soon!
Yes very much against the law.

The cigarettes would have to have been smuggled into the province and being a tax department worker for the federal government it makes it far worse.
As a grad student, you're learning how to do research. You're probably surrounded by people who have been doing it for years. Heck, at this point, if someone even has a year on you, their skills probably seem phenomenal.

Remember, you're climbing a very steep, very long learning curve. You will fail. You will go down the wrong path and do the wrong thing. A mediocre person keeps repeating the same mistakes. Leak from them instead.

Finally, remember that you're surrounded by very skilled people. If you look around and find yourself to be average, you're probably doing great.
Normally I despise pedants, but that was really informative. Thanks!
There is an underserved niche in the biking industry and that is "urban chic" bike clothing from multiple vendors. Clothing is one area where brick and morter retail wins out over online retail because nothing beats trying clothes on. In SF, I've tried clothing on from Chrome, Mission Workshop, SWRVE, Rapha, etc.

Sizing between the brands is notoriously fickle and it's impossible to know if one brand will fit just right while another brand you can't even fit your thighs into the pants. For example, Chrome fits me really well, while Rapha doesn't fit at all. SWRVE on the other hand is only sold at 4 stores in the city (Huckleberry Bikes is one of them, the other three are MissionBike, BoxDog and PushBike). While I haven't been to HB, I have been to PushBike and MissionBike Co, and both have a very very limited selection and sizes of SWRVE clothing. The only non-cycling company that has decent stuff is Lululemon. I'm shocked that in a city like SF that has lots of cyclists, that it is so hard to find good biking clothing.

Given the growth of urban cycling, I'm honestly surprised no one has noticed that you could create just a store that has an excellent selection of fashionable everyday cycling clothing.

I hope the guys at HB are reading this, because I plan on going by there to see if their clothing selection is any better than PushBike and MissionBike Co.
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Have you looked at the raw data in this particular case? The particular deviation that nanex points to isn't borne out in the exchange raw feeds ...
> Isn't your productivity gain coming from using a statically typed language rather than Haskell specifically

I think it's a bit more than that, Haskell has a much more sophisticated type system than quite a few of the popular statically typed langauges ( C, Java, C# ). Static typing is only the start, to be really useful we need modern type inference methods and a concise way of expressing generics. Both Scala and Haskell do this very well.
> It's like Newton and Leibniz with calculus or Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace with natural selection; there were a lot of similar problems to be solved in the web dev space in the early '00's, particularly around accessing databases, structuring URLs, and handling authentication, it makes sense that a few similar approaches would show up around the same time.

And can you imagine, they could have patented each and every one of those solutions, and spurred their competitors to greater innovation! What a surprise that they didn't - how silly of them. /s
If this is true it would make even more sense to drop down to 1:1 so that users would "get it" and not have to familiarize themselves with a new market.

Converting $1 = 10H might seem like a simple conversion, but you'd be surprised how difficult it can actually be for many general consumers. I've seen people bring out calculators to split a $130 bill evenly between 13 people.
Somewhat related, i'd really like to see if all this minimizing actually has a notable effect. It strikes me as over-optimising, I mean, i see it all the time, but never _why_.
Well many people don't know what that great thing is, and never find it. Many feel they ought to want to do great things even if they don't really (if they could let themselves be free to think about it) and so are caught up in the game and setup to fail.

And our society is setup to tell you that luck has nothing to do with it. Our heroes are idolized as self-made people. And if you had only tried hard you actually might have made it. But you didn't. And why not?

Well actually, despite overtones of meritocracy and that failure is ok and you can start over and remake yourself, the true message of our culture is that you either got it or you don't.

Witness the obsession with the young founder. He's got it. Made millions in months. Why can't you? Because you don't got it.
I telecommute full time and have for upwards of 8 years, so I'm wildly in favor of it.

My comment was not a poke at you, just the absurdity of not allowing it at all.. if the alternative is worse.
This user obviously had location services enabled in the camera app that took the photo that he gave to Path. If location services were actually off, there would be no leak.
I want to like MEGA, but it can't compete with Dropbox and I've lost interest already.

Yeah, MEGA is different, but that won't matter if people don't want to stick with it. Also, MEGA's customer support sucks (although that's completely forgivable seeing its the first week).

MEGA needs a desktop client, and to fill out basic features and profile settings. For example, last time I checked, I couldn't change my password. There is no way to do it.

One more thing. Kim has an amazing artistic sense. I wish there was more of that kind of brash yet polished aesthetic he is known for with MEGA.
They both excel in their own ways.
>() commercial success () long-felt but unsolved needs () failure of others

I don't know how appropriate these are for software. The second one would almost always be impossible to show simply because of the recency and rate of change of the industry as a whole: How do you show "long" anything when the market segment has only existed for five years? Likewise failure of others; most of the problems haven't even existed long enough for anyone to have seriously tried and failed to solve them.

And then commercial success goes the other way. Because software is so complicated, it infringes a zillion patents by accident, so is all you need to show commercial success that Android or iOS is allegedly infringing and you're done because they're commercially successful? Or do you have to show that the patent was the main cause of the success, which will then go back to almost never being the case?

I suppose setting a nearly impossible standard that would result in a de facto abolition of software patents is one way to fix it, but I would much prefer just actually abolishing them. The alternative is to give the Federal Circuit yet another opportunity to read language broadly and expand the scope of patentability beyond what is reasonable.
For me, there's a pretty big gap between the available educational materials and research papers. My understanding of the academic stuff is mostly intuitive. It isn't until I read a paper like Monadic Parser Combinators [1] or sigfpe's blog [2] that it really becomes concrete.

I find that for a lot of higher-level ideas much of the heavy lifting isn't necessarily through application of functional ideas per se, but through more sophisticated type gymnastics.

Because expressions are often written in short-hand (to expose structure), as well abbreviated and underspecified (to get the compiler to do the work), making sense of academic code can be a challenge.

In another life I'd have dedicated more time to learning the fundamentals (of Programming Language Theory and Category Theory), because I find the whole field insanely facinating. Maybe I'm looking for a short-cut but there isn't one?

[1] http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/237/1/monparsing.pdf
[2] http://blog.sigfpe.com/
Limiting passwords to 12 characters is "secure enough"
Wow, thanks for the response! I wasn't really aware of the buy and replace strategy. When I wrote this, I was building of the personal desire to be able to upgrade and customize but that presents a unique point.
Share data with strangers, strangers share data. Don't use an app whose entire purpose to expose your life publicly.
I agree about the outrage part. There may not be malicious intent from Path, but I do think that there's a better way of allowing users to control their data. A simple extra option of "include location data from photos" would mitigate this entire scenario.
It's also worthwhile to watch the WWDC 'recap' videos for a given category or framework every year. These usually include discussion about Apple's reasoning for the changes they've introduced and suggestions about where the categories/frameworks may be going.
Call us back when you figure out how to do that impossible task. Or just turn off location services for the camera app.
Sorry, I guess my iron-o-meter needs calibrating. (Someone should invent an emoticon for irony.)
He actually says "I’d die or become crippled about five times before reaching my life expectancy." Being crippled does not necessarily preclude you from taking a shower. Therefore, if you look at his expected value of "having a significant fall in the shower" instead of "dying in the shower", it doesn't have the same problem of being impossible. Obviously all 5 can't be fatal events.
Please don't criticize what he's built before you even barely understand it.
How does Jekyll + S3 + CDN compare to dynamic rails site with russian doll caching (cache digests) using something like redis?
I remembered he did explain why Europe failed to become a united empire - geography.

According to the book, the reason China has a large stable empire was because of China's geography, which was mostly flat and well-connected by the Yangtze and the Yellow river. With few geographical segments, this led to the people being less likely to form 'tribes' and more likely to be united culturally.

This is in contrast to Europe, which has a large impassible mountain range in the middle, and lots of peninsulas and small rivers, forming natural boundaries. This led to Europe being more diverse culturally.
>This is no different than if you gave Twitter access to Location Services, then gave Path access to your Twitter account, and then were supposedly outraged at Path being able to read the location of your tweets.

That's a pretty bad analogy.
Should we talk about the fact that President Obama didn't just die?
You seem to imply that "a little bit of negotiating leverage" is of trivial consequence rather than a question of how many people were at the mercy of a corrupt and perversely-incentivized bureaucrat or an abusive factory owner.

We didn't fight the cold war over which side you butter your bread on.
Apple provides an API for determining permissions.
I wonder how many board members of the ACS and ACS foundation actually have computer science degrees. Would their qualification pass "accreditation" by the ACS or do somehow the lawyers and accountants gain "life experience" sufficient to be an "ICT professional" which makes them qualified to run the "peak body" for computer scientists?