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Exactly. When a user denies location data they don't mean "don't use location data from this source" they mean "don't track my location". It's not unlike them having a flag in their options menu called "Don't track my location" which, when enabled, does nothing.
I've worked from home for maybe 5 of the past 8 years. I personally hate it, but these were the better opportunities than what I could obtain locally.

I think what the original author has to see is that it's not about his strengths/weaknesses, he might be a very good remote employee. What also factors is the organizations 'warts' and whether or not they are able to make use of the employee effectively. I know at my last workplace so many decisions were made verbally on the spot in unscheduled meetings. It drives me crazy, but this is how many businesses operate.
I like how he uses transitions in CSS for Angular but does it in code for jQuery to make the jQuery code look much more complicated. Why not `$('some-box').toggleClass('open')`
Since most of the users of things like iPhones, Path, Twitter, etc. are non-technical users, most will not be aware of things like EXIF data.

They are relying on reputable companies to be good stewards of their data, and infer their intent from their actions. I would expect Twitter, Facebook, Apple, and even Path to know that unless the user has enabled geotagging, they don't want their location leaked via EXIF.

That some of these companies do not do that is not surprising, but it is disappointing.
At a business perspective, it makes sense but I think they are curious to know why the virtual currency is valuable to them.

I'm glad you brought the Gamestop example up. Gamestop gives you the option of selling for store credit or cash. If you take cash, they give you 50%. We can offer more than market value because the overhead for us is minimal since we're dealing with virtual currency. The value of the currency never changes and we're always trying to sell for the lowest amount possible to provide value to the consumer.

So certainly valid questions on here and would love to answer as many questions you have!

-Adam
Well, I'm sure there are specific use cases where Riemann would be preferable to a generic web server. But for most developers in most situations, it is a no brainer to choose an HTTP-based protocol with off-the-shelf HTTPD server over a 10x slower proprietary system.
> Site outages are never good things but feel particularly shaky when they are linked to e-commerce sites or other places where user data is stored.

Or, you know, when we've trusted the affected company in turn to run the infrastructure for so many of our businesses.
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This is great to see. Tools like JOSM look like they were developed by engineers in the 80's, while Google Map Maker, for all its faults, is much more accessible to the armchair cartographer.

I'd like to convert more Map Maker contributors to OSM contributors, and hopefully many of you do as well.
Complex topic. In a nutshell, you should care that you're mediocre only if your competing with others. If not, why should you care?

After you leave school, the need to be not-mediocre will become less acute, because life is less competitive than we're led to believe in school.

Basically, as you grow older, you'll stop competing and start living.

Not really sure if this helps. Good luck!
> the implicit threat of having that capability will keep your country from being bullied by other countries?

A state arms itself with the most terrible weapons, and the best soliders, with that very idea in mind.

Nuclear weapons are nothing new, in that regard.

However - the existence of a weapon implies that it will be used, if the bluff fails.

Shorter: no such thing as a weapon not meant to be used. You just hope real hard they won't be.
You are not granting them access to your current location...you are granting them access to the photo's location.

Facebook and Twitter also makes available the location of your photos. Is there a particular reason you are singling out Path? I hope it's not a stretch to assume this is a page view grabbing technique.
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The fact that you have Location Services enabled for the Camera app suggests that granting applications access to your photos grants them access to the location information in those photos. Note that it's not necessarily your current location, or at least I'm assuming it is only using the geotags of the specific photo you're posting.
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It's an editing mode initially re-popularised by an OS X app called WriteRoom.

And, you know... Typewriters
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Not to take away from the tragedy of these founders' deaths, or from the negative effects of unrealistic expectations, but is there evidence that these expectations or the pressure they were under caused their suicides? Is their any data on the suicide rate in the startup community vs. the population at large?
I thought of it as a glitch too.. till I made enough progress in the game to find that it was a progress bar. Would be better if it started from the right of the 'up' button and not from the very edge of the screen.
I wish h264 and the upcoming hevc encoded images would become a real alternative. far better quality (for pictures especially), at a lower bitrate from what ive read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#M...
If the total value of any trades that might have been made in the claimed 400ms window was only $50k, it would suggest to me that there was nothing untoward going on, and that this story is most likely nothing more than a clock error. For any of the HF firms, prop houses and Hedge Funds that I've run into (which is not a short list, but my no means exhaustive, given that I work in finance) $50,000 is not interesting action - especially since transaction fees will eat away a reasonable chunk of that.
If the report is accessed via HTTP, I wouldn't be surprised if the clocks on the government server are off by a few ms, so all the HFTs that are pounding the URL are trying to get access to the data. The first one who got it made their trades before everyone else.
The advertising "rewards" are a bit much.
You do understand that would be a pyramid scheme, right? You can't sustainably create currency out of nothing like that. At best what you're doing is the same as what the Fed does when they print money, i.e. causing inflation, so that at least there is no big crash at the end where everyone left holding your currency loses everything (though that is exactly what would happen if your site ever experiences a significant reduction in the active user base, as it would cause hyperinflation until there are no sellers left willing to sell anything in exchange for your fake money, making it totally worthless). But you're still removing value from the credit each of the existing users is currently holding every time you do it. And you've set it up so that people can't get rid of the "money" in any way other than by putting it into the hands of some other sucker who has to hold it while its value drops every time you make more of it.

I can certainly see how that benefits your company, but I have a hard time seeing how I should like it as a user, unless I think I'm being savvy by getting in near the root of the pyramid and then immediately exchanging all my fake money for real goods valued higher than those I exchanged for them, and hoping I can make my exchanges before the market saturation point is hit and the free money stops.
I'd love to see a writeup with some code samples. Android view animation is something I've never really got the hang off.
Well, besides the fact that we don't actually live in a "Retina world", the use of JPEG, even on high quality settings, for an artificial (= not taken from a camera) image pretty much precludes the ability to produce derivative works from it without a much more serious loss of quality. That's not to mention that there are some things which high resolutions cannot make up for, like color bleeding and other pretty serious fuzzing that JPEG can introduce at low quality settings.
geo support? i think No!
Dark pools sound more ominous than they often really are. Most of the time, it's just trades that are done directly between two instituions (often via a broker-dealer like BGC or ICAP) rather than via an exchange.
I don't use Facebook because of their privacy track record, and I have all geolocation disabled for Twitter.

Twitter respects the geolocation setting, and strips the exif location data from photos when serving them. Whether or not they do this before upload is unknown, but pictures posted to Twitter from the iOS app do not include location data when geotagging of tweets is disabled.

The reason I'm not picking on them is because neither of them (Twitter due to Doing The Right Thing, Facebook due to lack of opportunity) have published my private data in express violation of my wishes. Path did so today.
WebP seemed fairly pointless; its advantages over existing formats were slim, it had some disadvantages, and lacked any compelling new functionality (e.g. good HDR support). Basically it was pretty "meh."

Given the huge effort required to get any sort of widespread adoption of a new format—and without widespread adoption there's little point unless you've got some unusual features (which WebP didn't)—I'm not sure there was ever much chance WebP would go anywhere.

I'm generally no fan of Microsoft, but MS's new image format, JPEG XR†, seems vastly superior to WebP in almost every way... and it actually does have compelling new features.

† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR
Did you even read what aphyr wrote before posting this? It detailed that unlike HTTP, which in general supplies one request per message (GET, POST, etc), a Riemann message contains potentially hundreds of different requests that must be processed individually.
>At best it's a terrible bug.

That's what I was thinking.

I recall testing Google+ to see if it would pull location data out a picture I'd take previously at the time of posting even though I'd set the app not provide location with the post - for fear of exactly this.

In the G+ case, it won't go and tag the photo, but it doesn't strip the location data out either.
Matt here. Turns out I've been talking to myself for the last year with a hellbanned account! lol.

The ACS just issued a media release:
http://www.acs.org.au/news-and-media/news-and-media-releases...

Delimiter has posted an article as well:
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/02/01/morons-freelancer-ceo-wan...

I find it humorous that the ACS's response is "the ACS Foundation has nothing do to with the ACS". It just happens to be an organisation they set up and uses their name that their members promote.

Some interesting emails came in 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."
We charge under retail for most items and all of them are brand new in box.

On Craigslist, you have the hassle of going to pick up money and then meeting up with the person to do the transaction.

Swapidy is a b2c business. We buy stuff from you and pay you on the spot. So as soon as you checkout, you already have your currency waiting for you. You can order whatever you want immediately and we'll ship it out to you as soon as we receive yours.

There are no transaction fees on Swapidy. There aren't even any shipping costs. We generate the labels for you free of charge both for selling and buying.

So when you sell something to us, all you do is affix the prepaid shipping label on the box, and drop it in your mailbox. No need to drive anywhere.
Why is "banging the beehive" not considered to be manipulating the market?
What similarities between the two pieces do you see? What task would you replace Riemann with httpd? Genuinely curious, though slightly skeptical.
Back in 5th grade art class, our class put some dyes in a water basin, then "printed" the swirl patterns onto a paper by placing said paper on top of the water surface.

I remember being quite fascinated by the patterns on the paper, and also the swirls that were made when adding food coloring to water. I definitely would have loved this kind of game back then (and even now of course), so maybe there's some merit to re-skinning the game for a younger audience :)
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I've been working in Australian IT since the late 1970's and never once did anybody ask whether I had ACS membership.

When I graduated from uni, I looked at the ACS requirements and they were all to support the status quo of the 1960's EDP era. So I wouldn't have been accepted even if I tried. Even though I had the best computer engineering qualifications available at the time.

Over the years the ACS members I have had the misfortune of working with couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag, not even using COBOL or RPG. Of course, as other comments here indicate, they abided by the Peter Principle and had been promoted to their level of utter dismal incompetence to muddle management.
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Exactly and thanks. If I had the time and inclination I'd take a dive through HN's comments the last few years to find similar.

Truth be told, I welcome this change, Apple blew it with the iPhone 5, this is the bigger phone people want...but the user and pundit community absolutely drives me up a wall.
I'm a little bit in line with the other folks - if you grant access to a photo, the entirety of that Photo (exif data et al) should be available to the app.

I have another question (and I really don't mean it as snarkly as it'll sound) - if you are trying to keep yourself hidden - why are you posting to a social network (Path) and an aggregation site (hn)?
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I went through the process of choosing my MBP to sell: Mid 2011, 8gb, 500gb, 2.7 GHz i7 and it told me that there's no such product.

What does 'there's no such product' mean? Should it say 'we're not currently buying that product'?

I'm typing on it right now so I can assure you that it does exists.
I'd suggest not calling it Honey. It is too similar to the word money, and can cause confusion. Imagine in conversation...

"so you go to this website and trade your stuff in for honey."

"wait you mean money?"

"no honey. but honey is like money, you can use honey to buy stuff just like money..."

etc.

EDIT: I just looked the pricing model and it is evokes weird feelings. Any reason why you don't just do a 1:1 ratio? Why force users to compute a secondary calculation. True, it is a multiple of 10 but still a calculation and makes me feel like I'm making a foreign purchase.
Oh there's definitely a distinction to be made. I feel playing semantics with "startups = technology" v "a start-up business = everything else" means founders on both sides of that distinction may feel they have little or nothing to learn from 'the other side'.
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>It doesn't mean that Path has to go to every imaginable length to ensure that you don't manage to share your location through other means, like photos or status updates.

Not sure what you mean here. If my app loaded a user's picture, and they said they don't want location data to be used in my app, a simple if check will decide whether or not EXIF data should be read. This is hardly "every imaginable length".

Of course, this may just be a bug, so I don't think we can jump to any conclusions about Path's intentions.
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Once the data leaves your device, it is all business. There is nothing much you can do about it.
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> They are relying on reputable companies to be good stewards of their data, and infer their intent from their actions.

Perhaps, but without a proper study of their users (and potential future users), how can they infer their intent, and why should they assume that all or even most users will have the same intent? It's certainly conceivable that a user might deny Path access to Location Services (for example, to prevent the automatic location updates due to annoyance rather than personal privacy concerns, or even to save battery life), while still having no problem with including location information from explicitly posted photos.

Honestly, I think any attempts at preempting all supposed outrage like this are futile. You're always going to have someone who will complain about something in your app that works differently than they expected or intended. If Path did ignore geotagged photos, they might have someone just as outraged as this author, but for the opposite reason.

The argument that Apple should be more clear is more valid, since for them there is little downside to being as explicit as possible. This is the same position I took in the Great Address Book Debate. I don't think app developers have a responsibility to second guess the options provided by their platform (especially when their platform is as huge as iOS). In fact, I don't even think it's wise in general.
Holy crap that is a good idea to get useful work out of these guys.
How are larger, but lower-density screens getting your money's worth?

Oh well. This is why Apple keeps the iPad 2 on the market. Side-by-side, cheap sells and larger screens sell. Higher dpi and better calibrated displays don't sell.
Should my desire for my personal location to remain private (for whatever reason: safety, professional courtesy, contractual obligations under NDA, et c) mean that I should not want to maintain any other type of digitally-mediated social communication with my colleagues, friends, and family?

That doesn't really make sense now, does it?
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Just wait until this stupidity [1] starts getting turned into lawsuits. Half the trendy clothing, soap and perfume stores on the planet look like this.

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85036990&caseType=SERI...
You do understand that would be a pyramid scheme, right?

I think this would be true if there is no value added, as in the case of the Fed. But in this case, the model creates a market restriction which can theoretically benefit both parties.

Consider the following case:

1. Consumer A has an Apple and wants an Orange
2. Consumer B has an Orange and wants an Apple

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.

Swapidy will benefit specifically for consumers who have one of the devices they are buying and want one of the (new) devices they are selling. They can get a better deal than the full market would allow.
It's not clear in the post: Is Path taking location information from photos and geotagging posts that do not include these pictures? Or are they just publishing the picture that you gotagged yourself and asked path to publish?

The former is outrageously slimy and the latter is clearly absolutely reasonable.
TL;DR: "It wasn't us, it was an organisation closely affiliated with us with almost the same name who we have absolutely nothing to do with".

Convincing.
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100 employees and contractants, 60 full-time, we've all been working remotely since we were only 3 people. It's hard to understand the debate... Some like it, some don't.

This SEEMS to be about which is better, but it's actually about trying to win a debate that can't be won (no one's going to change their minds).

At the end of the day, the founders/money men get final say. But so what?

The beauty of today's world is that you don't have to change anybody's mind, just choose a place that fits with how YOU want to work.
Parsing is not deserialization. I keep having to say this on all these threads. There should be a giant glowing force field between these two practices.

the particular issue in the Yaml parser is explained pretty well here: http://www.insinuator.net/2013/01/rails-yaml/
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Thank you for your concern. I will go over this with my your co-founder and come up with a way for consumers to feel comfortable that this won't happen.

-Adam
Have you read the sites context ? It's not a pyramid scheme. Lets recall what a pyramid scheme is expressly defined as

"A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising participants payment or services, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public"

Now lets read what the site does

"We buy your products for Honey. You buy anything using Honey." - all the products you buy using honey are new according to the site. There isn't a second hand market place on this site - so there is not any supply issues here. The supply is the company sending out products based on the current market value of the products interpreted into their model.

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 ?

Frankly speaking, dealing with morons from craigslist is becoming a pain in the ass and if the value is not that different and these guys can give me the convenience, delivery and remove headaches - great. It comes down to their pricing vs. others in the market (gazelle and so on)
This post annoyed me. I have a solution: don't use Path. Also, don't share your photos. Problem solved.
In other words: do the job that the compiler would have done for you if you'd been using Haskell!
iOS 5 used to require that you prompt the user for location data in order to have access to photos camera roll in a non standard user interface.

iOS 6 introduced the 'Access to Photos' privacy settings/prompting that separated photos from location.

This 'location' embedded in photos is different than user location, and I guess should really be considered a third case. I think 'photo metadata' might be an acceptable third option with an explanation of all that contains. Some photographers don't want their non-location EXIF data known too.