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When you have a child, car becomes required. Also, makes you realize all your stuff is meaningless.
.co.x vs .com.x is arbitrary. But .uk should be .gb technically.
There's a screenshot in The Verge's article (http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/30/4286090/path-is-spamming-a...), looks to go straight to an invite with the guy's name (https://path.com/i/BfOPb).
"Mysterious Spheres"? They look like ordinary rocks to me.
>Does Path actually say "We're going to invite all your friends via SMS", even in fine print?

Should it? More importantly, will anyone download the app in the first place if it did?

No one -- in their right minds -- would suddenly want to share (non-existent) photos with all their contacts. Seems like an odd way to say "We're going to invite all your friends via SMS". Your address book doesn't consist primarily of your Twitter followers. It doesn't matter if they intended it to be a feature; someone at the company should have raised a Big Red Flag and made any such SMS feature explicitly opt-in-only. With a big fonts, high-contrast colors, dancing bananas or whatever else you can use to grab attention to that fact.

This is an order of magnitude beyond sleazy.
When you install an Android app it lists the permissions you grant the app by continuing with the install. Contact access is one of these permissions.
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Android shows the permissions each app is requesting before you install, and even lets you know if they change their permissions between updates. While what Path did is crappy, they didn't subvert the Android permissions system.

The thing that burnt the poster is that while a social app asking for access to their contacts might not rise a brow, the user has no way to know what they are going to do with that data without looking at the reviews or around the internet for complaints/testimonials.
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How would you measure if requiring a verified Id is a good/impactful change? Has there been a problem with pseudoanonymous people causing problems that this is trying to solve?

I'm not opposed to it, but it does take away some of the splendor of AirBnB'ing, maybe it's just me but when I stay at AirBnB pads I like to feel like I've left my day to day work life behind and can now be who I want to be.
MIT did indeed switch from Scheme to Python for their introductory courses (though I've heard they still use Scheme in some more advanced courses).[1][2]

However, I recall that a little later some MIT graduate students started teaching their own version of the classic SICP-based course. I can't seem to find a link to it now, unfortunately. I wonder how that turned out, and if they're still teaching it now.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602307

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530605
At times like these I feel the best I can do is pay with my downloads (or vise versa).

I just deleted Path; I recommend others do the same.
Here's the real kicker: if I don't know where the country is, why would I care enough to google it? "Africa" in this situation gives me more info than the name of the country would.
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This is really cool. Are there plans for intellisense? Although I know that is hard to do well in dynamic languages. Also, any plans for instarepl in languages other than Clojure? Great work guys.
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Path's settlement with the FTC for the last address book incident was that they create a privacy program and get independent privacy audits every other year for the next 20 years.

I don't know what the details are on those audits, but if these texts were sent without consent it seems like the kind of misuse of personal information that they would be concerned about.
Keep in mind that getting rid of your things can turn into an expensive and long process. It took me about 3 years to dump most of my physical possessions and digital legacy and I'm still left with a bunch of stuff. During that time I've also started a new project at http://flipso.com that should help to sell/exchange stuff to or between your peers.
This is much closer to what I was imagining...

Except in my head they were also levitating in the midst of a vast antechamber paved with demihuman skulls, while bathed in a murky, sourceless flame whose flicker caused the wall reliefs to seem to dance, and stab at the probe with wicked implements of shadow.

So I suppose disappointment was inevitable :\
Well that shows you how long it's been since I've had a landline- Thanks all.

(Do they charge you 15¢ for the privilege? Can you reply?)
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I find the lisp easier to read.
We have similar ideas for integrations with those tools, with the exception of latex. With latex, we have our own online editor with some neat git integration.
1. Path was fined, not for anything involving address books, but for allowing 12 year olds to sign up for the service.

That's not true, is it? According to the FTC[1], they were fined for "collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent."

2. Yes... it is proof that Path uploads your phone book. Of course, they ask you. The OS won't even give you access to the phone book without prompting the user. So somewhere along the way, the user knowingly gave Path access to their contacts.

Giving them permission to read the address book (which might be useful and perfectly legitimate) and giving them permission to send everyone in that address book spam is two very different things.

[1] http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/02/path.shtm
Precisely what I was thinking. Expelling liquid helium doesn't introduce any heat. Any active cooling needs to somehow expel the heat generated while compressing the gas back into a liquid. In the vacuum of space, irradiating heat is the only way to remove it from the system, and that isn't going to be very efficient. Given the choices and the temperatures they needed to reach, liquid helium seems like a rational solution.
I would say, rather, that it is not a mature code editor. It aims in all seriousness to do anything we expect a code editor to do, and I have every reason to think the project will succeed.

Chris is focusing on providing new functionality; the expected stuff can and should come later.
I only had to restart Light Table after adding the path to python in the path envvar.
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> I wonder how much of the rapid map improvements were the very public bad press and the apology by the CEO putting a laser focus on the problem vs. something that would have happened organically?

The iterations, things like building outlines, or on the iPad, 3D building textures for historic Rome, could not possibly have been produced on short notice.

I believe iOS 6 Maps was simply a month behind schedule, and iOS 6 was launched before Maps was ready, with data and features continuing to release until they hit their deliverable. After that additional three weeks, Maps seemed to stabilize into incremental improvements rather than the leaps and strides made during in the three weeks after iOS 6 release.

> It is surprising that they aren't investing more of their piles of cash into expanding and improving their software development practices.

My perception is Apple has a different dev model of sticking with comparatively small dev teams in an effort to keep product lean, focus tight, and quality and polish high. I'm not sure what the result would be if they expanded teams. Some research suggests both quality and output might actually drop.
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There's a big difference between "X would like to access your contacts" and "X would like to access your contacts, then store everything on their servers for reasons/duration of their determination"
I agree that it needs to be tweaked a bit so the images align better. It doesnt handle portrait oriented images very well.

I think as programmers, sometimes we fail to realize that just because something is simple to us doesnt mean it is to everybody else. The reason I put this together is because whenever I saw these types of images posted somewhere, non-technical people would reply saying they wish they had a way to do it themselves.

There werent many technical challenges honestly. The lessons I learned were more about finding something people want and delivering it quickly with the minimum features. Now I can tweak and iterate and try the more challenging aspects.
This is why we need Bitcoin. There shouldn't be a reason for a business like this to exist.
Trying out ThetaBoard right now. It's funny, it's sort of like Trello with everything I want to change about the Trello design – no pop-ups (edit in place), black/grey color scheme, cleaner typography – but then it ends up feeling more complex and busy.

I think click anywhere to open/close a card would be a huge help. Having two or more cards is confusing and destroys the 'overview' feeling that makes kanban great.

We could use more kanban products anyway – keep it up and monetize!
It may be free, but it isn't open to all. They have an admissions gate, aka "picking winners".
It seems to be the AirBnB's effort to build more and more community into the platform puts the business at odds with its ultimate growth driver (replacing/substituting hotels). This just feels like another step to move the company further away from a hotel-replacement and more towards an online community, which feels more niche.

I'm not sure what the solution is to making hosts feel more comfortable with strangers, but stuff like this just makes me want to use the platform less.
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> The OS won't even give you access to the phone book without prompting the user. So somewhere along the way, the user knowingly gave Path access to their contacts.

The introduction of address book privacy in iOS was in large part prompted by the publication of Path's behavior. Up until the Path and eventually iOS update after the controversy first arose, Path didn't explicitly ask the user for access to their address book.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/15/iphone-address-book-issue...

> Path was fined, not for anything involving address books, but for allowing 12 year olds to sign up for the service.

Path was fined for the 12 year old signup thing specifically, but they were still charged with privacy violations regarding the address book kerfuffle.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/02/path.shtm
Also strange things like .britishlibrary.uk in the early days no one quite knew how naming was going to pan out.
You're living up to your name.

> I'd really recommend getting a bike

For sure. Work is a mile away by road, but it's only two by trail. I'm really excited about that.

My main worry is that it'll be awful to go anywhere during the winter. Do people there bike through winter?
I'm with you. Its starting to become the new "I don't even own a TV".
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No, it's not. There is nothing to vary by Dennett's account. Our two "red qualia" are exactly the same: non-existent.

Dennett argues (actually, he just asserts it over and over), that there is no such thing as subjective experience, so to speak. He argues that, whether or not my version of red is different than yours, we're sharing a common delusion -- the delusion of subjective, conscious experience.

(Of course, we're aware of an experience, but more along the lines of a webcam program that, upon sensing the color red, flips some boolean is_aware variable.)

I'd add that -- ok, qualia have many variations. From where do we deduce that it's a grand illusion? Matter has many different variations.
This. OVH is a budget provider. While this doesn't excuse them from fault here, you definitely get what you pay for in this case.
I'd add "rounded profile picture" to that list of design trends.
Blossom.io does this and is similar in functionality to trello. I was using it for a few weeks on their early adopter $9/mo plan but got tired of having to reload the app a dozen times a day when they pushed new versions.
The I guess I'm less intelligent than most of the 12 year old kids in your country, because to be honest there's more relevant things I still have yet to learn before I get around to memorizing the name, location, and capital city of all 195(?) nations in the world and keep this information updated in my mind when, for example, a regime change in Central Africa means the name of the country is now different or what was one country is now two.

I should have your middle schoolers tutor me.
I do not know if we have made ​​the right decisions in all areas and really made ​​progress. The Internet is currently full of stupid commercial content. To the point and valuable information is hard to find. Interaction and interfaces often serve no purpose.

I wish more focus was on the content and less on making shiny things.
The problem was the guy's address book got spammed AFTER uninstalling, yikes!
Without addressing the opt-in point, which I agree with...
You're also assuming there is no "continue without doing this" button, which of course, I was assuming there would be...

Many users just mash on the "next" button on app intro screens. Again, it's all just speculation until someone takes the time to start researching and documenting the facts instead of just yelling "KILL IT"! :/
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It looks like despite the error the verification still goes through. I uploaded my ID, it said it was doing some processing, and when I clicked next I got an error. However, I was still able to complete the verification and it now shows me as verified.
The endorphins from working out really help -- I've gotten back into yoga and even at 20 minutes every morning, I feel like a more productive person, raring to take on the day.

I've found that there are people who just spam-post statuses to show off, garner attention, and/or put on their best face, but never really 'like' other people's posts or pay attention to their news feed. This behavior makes sense, because my FB news feed depresses me and augments any bit of subconscious insecurity I've willed myself to ignore. Except I deal with it by unplugging from FB, whereas the aforementioned type of person would overcompensate by ignoring the news feed, posting about their great life and garnering attention. This would be an interesting psychological study to read about.
There is a population that would like to return home...
It tells you the permissions requested by an app before you install it. For Path, see the "permissions" tab on this Play Store page https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.path&h...
"spheres" makes a few strewn rocks sound more supernatural or alien. The article talks of high powered people and rituals, but in all likelihood it was just something utterly mundane, like trying to make cheese.
They don't look like spheres to me either.

But I guess "robot finds rocks on the ground" doesn't have the same ring to it.
> What in the world do you mean by "endless divisibility"? In your previous post, you said that everyone may have a different experience of red, which is more like "endless variation."

A qualia is, according to Wikipedia, an "individual instance of subjective, conscious experience." Individual means you can't subdivide it any more and still call the divisions experience. The canonical example is the "redness of red". So, you'd look at a sunset, and divide that experience up into qualia, individual instances of experience. You might come up with [redness of sky, yellowness of sun, roundness of sun] The question is, can you get to a point where you can't subdivide anymore, are there absolute elements of experience?
You never burn out buying lotto tickets.
Using CloudFlare or Google Page Speed Service is also a good idea to further optimize!
I threw this together so quickly that I didnt honestly do much benchmarking. I will be trying to improve performance as much as I can. It does only pull high res photos from Bing. Which in itself, takes around 1 minute over CURL (longer if it gets hung up on a heavy file). The image processing takes another minute or two usually.
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This is rather surprising, the 3DS has been out a lot longer, and as far as I know remains unhacked.
Well here's where you might start: https://github.com/tayssir/cl-loop

Although the community seems to prefer the port of Iterate:
https://github.com/nathell/clj-iter
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Oops, looks like this happened after I went to sleep. Hopefully there werent too many issues for people.
Why do people use these horrible services? Is having an online social presence so important? I understand if you do it for business, but if bad news like this keeps coming out of a company, I simply stop using their products.
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Well we know they don't keylog, they can't act outside of their sandbox. Curious if they'd try if they could though.
Ok, anonymous "if I could blacklist you I would" guy. I'll try to be more careful about generalizing.
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The truly sad thing about the state of console security for the past few generations is that as they lock them down more, it becomes significantly easier to play pirated games than to use homebrew content. With both the Xbox 360 and the Wii, it took (very) simple drive authentication hacks to get pirated content to run, but many manhours (probably in the high single-digit manyears, honestly) to get homebrew on either of them.

At the end of the day, it's infinitely easier to make a drive say "oh, yes, that disc is clearly on original materials" than to subvert, say, signature checks for code authentication, as required for homebrew code. The console manufacturers really screwed themselves here.
It would need to be about three bugs. First, there's the bug where users who say that Path can't have their address books get their address books sent to Path. Second, there's the bug where their servers think the user has photos that he does not have. Third, there's the bug where their servers think the user wants to share these photos with Path's list of phone-number contacts for that user.

This does not seem like the most likely scenario to me.
Perhaps make it more specific? Trello for ___ ?
It's scalable for the partners at Skadden (and similar service firms) to trade time for money because the time they trade is that of other people (viz., associates, and/or analysts at investment banks) who put in prodigious hours in the hope of becoming partners themselves someday in the distant future.
Yes. In related news, Transferwise just banned transfers to bitcoin exchanges.
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Sure. That's how you scale a professional services organization.

Later

You fleshed this comment out, which is great, but I want to be careful to say I'm not endorsing the business model of wringing hours out of people's speculative hope that they'll reach the top of the pyramid. We don't have "work 60 hours a week and make partner" model, for instance.

But the general principle of developing and refining skills to the point where they enable you to ramp up new people and deploy all your people more effectively is a good one that works in a variety of different cases.

Tech is myopic (extremely) about professional services; many of the largest firms in our economy are effectively scaled-up professional services companies.
There's also a lifetime issue. Say you decide, "forget the whole vibration thing, we'll run the cryocooler half the time and take data half the time while the cooler is powered off"

Then you either get half the mission data, or extend the mission by a factor of two, which means twice the operational labor cost, plus every other part of the craft has to be double lifetime rated, which could get expensive. Hubble used to burn thru gyros on a regular basis, so now you need them to last twice as long or launch with twice as many spares. Or maneuvering propellant if any, now you need twice as much for station keeping.

You can easily get painted into a corner where the cheapest way to run a mission twice as long is to launch two of them. At that point you're better off saying "you know the cryocool half the time and take data half the time idea? Yeah scrap that idea"

This is before we started on energy issues. A heavy helium tank doesn't use much energy. But cryocoolers on earth take quite a bit indeed, well, at least compared to a couple watt transmitter and all that. Whats heavier, a tank big enough to last mission lifetime, or a cooler and a stunning array of solar panels to run the cooler? Or since it only runs half the time as per above to prevent vibration issues, you could put a battery in which is heavy and becomes another exciting point of failure. This makes the existing power system more complicated and less reliable possibly shortening the theoretical craft lifetime to less than you'd get if you just launched a big simple tank.
Well the spheres do sound like "Alien" eggs.
I like the vertical side menu. It saves valuable horizontal space, and adds a touch of class too.
Obviously at 4K there is more thermal noise than at 1.4K - but is there no value at all to the photos it can still take, even with some noise?
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this actually made separation logic make sense for me! I was hoping that there would be some analysis of the borrow checker though, maybe next time...
1. The sub title: "Company also Will Pay $800,000 for Allegedly Collecting Kids' Personal Information without their Parents’ Consent" The fine was only with regard to the violation of CIPA.
This is both funny and a serious invasion of privacy. Path keeps on stepping into it because they are hell bent in using web 2.0 tactics to get customers. The smartphone is a very personal and intimate device completely different than a desktop or laptop and when you loose the trust of people who have invited you into their homes, you will not get a second chance. Path has been struggling for a while but for the last few months I have been noticing a lot of PR articles talking about their growth, especially outside of the US. My guess is that their VC probably said fuck it! We can ask for forgiveness later!

When a company is this small and shows no regard for privacy we better hope that it falls in the deadpool because if they get to scale, we are going to get to hear a lot more of these invasive tactics. I really hoped for path to put a dent into Facebook's growth but not anymore!
Thanks for the link. I've been looking for the list archives on http://ml.ovh.net (as advertised in the email itself) but the domain doesn't seem to exist anymore; hence my (unreliable) copy on pastebin.
I agree, we're just all shooting the breeze here until we get a proper word from Path, and/or a journalist does a proper investigation into what exactly did happen.

I'm not unsympathetic when someone says "oh, I didn't read that bit" (I'm guilty of that too), but surely they have usability experts who would have warned them about it. The original author is technically inclined to make an informed decision. That's a big deal to me. That tells me, they never gave the guy any settings options to begin with or hid it in an obscure panel.

What's worse, according to the author, texts were sent possibly after he uninstalled the app. Which means they still keep the data!
I thought the Gentry method solved the problem of enormous cyphertexts (via 'bootstrapping') while still preserving addition and multiplication operations. Is that not true?