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"I think it's perhaps a little disingenuous to suggest that kids lack the intellectual sophistication to evaluate the consequences of using our app whilst simultaneously suggesting that they are fully capable of evaluating all the dangers in the world that they inhabit: "

Since I never made that suggestion, I don't have to defend it.

Your "kids live in a dangerous world they can be protected from my constant surveillance" is an argument/frame you added not something I said. You are taking one part of my argument, adding some bits you thought up and creating a false dichotomy.

What I said.

(1) Kids don't have as much intellectual sophistication as adults to see through the wiles of product marketing folks.

(2) Kids are not in a position of equality of power with parents. This is ok in general and is only an issue with folks like you use the "but kids opt in too" as an argument. "Consent" is dicey in a situation of unequal power. In other words I am thinking your "opt in" argument is weak.

Now that is what I said. Where is the disingenuousness again? The rest of it is your frame. The following is your opinion not mine - (1)Kids live in a very dangerous world and are at high risk of bad things happening to them unless they can be monitored constantly. (2) Parents can protect them by tracking them constantly (and letting some random company store and process this data)

What I think

(a) Most kids don't live in an an ultra dangerous world, Sure there are dangerous parts of the world. Most kids do just fine avoiding those.

(b) Parents who are constantly worried about their kids being abducted or killed or whatever and need to spy on them to reassure themselves and have to bribe them with phones to get their "consent" to be spied upon are probably paranoid.

(c) irrespective of the "danger level" of the world, constant surveillance by parents is not the solution.(This is the same argument governments make when they try to reduce privacy of their citizens _ "See there are all these terrorists out there and dangerous things may heppen to you when we are not looking so we have to snoop on you for your own good. If you aren't doing anything sinister what is your problem anyway?". Sure it is a good scare tactic, but hardly a sound argument.

(d) Whether constant surveillance by parents actually reduces any existing danger is yet to be shown. You are only addressing the paranoia not the danger.

(e) All of this this has nothing to do with your product reducing the kids privacy to essentially zero from some non zero value, (sure "just to protect them" ;-) ).

I am trying to give you feedback honestly (since this is HN. I wouldn't bother elsewhere) Please don't put words in my mouth.

That said, now I am getting dubious about you guys personally. You are meeting honest feedback with mis characterization. Not a good sign. I am done talking to you gentlemen.

Have a great day and Good Luck with your company.
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Elon concludes the interview saying that starting a company is like "eating glass and staring at the abyss of death".
It seems to be a stupid misunderstanding: Apple is not patenting these guys' application, they're using it as an example for a product that could consume their patentable process.
Nice!

I once had a go at making the same thing:

http://petegoodman.com/labs/js-canvas-copter/
Ditto. Those who have seen my posts in the past know that I am far from an Apple hater - but their recent shenanigans have made me question if I want to continue to support the iPhone platform.

Many of the things they've done in the past few months have been highly questionable - but this is way over the line.

Here's hoping Android UI improves sufficiently between now and next July, when my contract is up ;)
So after 10 or so years of html experience, the guy can't google for "href wikipedia"?
> IF they go missing, I have a way to find them.

You're just hoping that the battery of the device doesn't dry, or that the bad guys don't toss it away.
An extra upvote because you bring up irrational fears, which I believe are destroying the very fabric of our society. This is the same mechanism that justifies, CCTV camera, body scanners & co. I worry more about how fear is changing society than about the privacy issues.
Your critique is totally fair. I agree that every situation is unique -- tried to say that in conclusion -- but I did want to take a strong stand especially for newer entrepreneurs trying to figure out their path. I've seen these pieces saying you don't need a co-founder, and haven't seen much recently saying, "wait a minute, hold up there."

I also tried to clarify twice that I'm talking about companies with a strong software component, where team is so essential. At the end of the day, everyone has to carve their own path, no arguments, but there are general points that can increase the odds in your favor and that's merely the warning I tried to give.
Personally I don't find these kind of statements that useful. I think it would be more accurate (and hopefully cause less instinctual defensiveness) to say that the politics in the US is extreme right vs center right, so one should expect most educated people to gravitate to the true middle, which puts them on the US "left".
For what it's worth, I've tried this in Safari 5 on my Mac, and Chrome on my linux box, and it is indeed the same speed...
I argue that a "well thought out procedure" is not possible for such a complex system as the internet. Every kind of procedure that can be thought of will either have holes in the logic, or will be gamed by users and providers in a never-ending arms-race.

Emergent complexity is not "random", although it can be based on elements of randomness.

Nature is an example of a massively complex system that has evolved on elements of randomness, but the system itself is by no means random. And there's no way that it could have been designed with a "well thought out procedure".
There's two standard responses to this point.

One, that the risk of that happening should have been obvious at the start, so it's silly to feel burned.

Two, if you do build some add-on feature to someone else's platform then the challenge is to do it so well that the company behind that platform offers to buy you. Tweetie was so good it could not be ignored, Twitter loved it, they wanted an app, buying it would save them the effort of writing their own, plus talent is scarce. Thus, they get bought.
I knew what it stands for, so you can still say good things about me.
'Your first claim is false: if MS isn't big, what is?'

You're paraphrasing me. I said MS isn't big and scary anymore.
Like a big scary monster. Of course they're still a large company.

But now anyone doing something in computing is worried that MS will either incorporate what they're doing into Windows or buy their competitors product instead of theirs.
Well I disagree that it is harder than finding a soul-mate, but I do agree it is tricky, and I do agree that you shouldn't partner up with someone you are not feeling great about. I actually wrote that you shouldn't wait to start your business, so we're in agreement fmora, but there are good reasons why you should continue to seek a complementary partner and not be overly stingy in order to bring them on board. Obviously have vesting schedules and protect yourself in case it doesn't work out.
Yeah...a HN Cologne Meetup would be great!
Well, they bought Spyglass's browser, and pulled the rug out from under Netscape. The lesson is don't be the next Netscape. Be the next Spyglass.
This is what I was told when I requested a refund. I have only had the need to make one refund request, so I can't say whether it is true.

The most interesting thing was that they don't do anything to take the app back. I received a refund, but still have the app on my phone. In fact I think it's even been updated since without a problem.

Here's a snippet from the email from Apple support.

"I have reversed the charge for the accidental purchase you reported. Please note that the iTunes Store Terms of Sale state that all sales are final, so this is a one-time exception."
This is why all my major decisions are based on gut reactions and intuition and I'm not being sarcastic. As soon as something 'feels' wrong I know it's time to make a change. This strategy has been working out well for me so far and I'm happy to see there is research to back it up.
Speaking of the Netherlands, one of their contributions to cycling are the Rainmates overtrousers: http://www.rainmates.nl/?ln=en

I've got a pair of those and they are really convenient: I can put them on quickly, even while wearing shoes, and my legs don't get as sweaty because the rainmates are open in the rear side.
I went back to click my Readability bookmarklet just for fun, it actually looked worse.
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I've always thought that it was a common saying in Britain, notorious for its bad weather. IIRC the world's rainiest place is some island off the coast of Scotland.
I'm in Munich too; compared to the UK it feels like a cyclist's paradise, especially with the ubahn as a backup in case the heavens really open.
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Uh... no. There was the results of a survey that seemed to indicate otherwise, but a survey is, ya know, a bunch of data of what people answered to questions.

"Truth" doesn't work the way you seem to think it does.
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Hi,

as the title says list here all the companies funded by angel investors, you think will pioneer future technology (please biotech too).

I'm not listing one because right now I can't think of any (this is why I posted this). After you've all submitted, I hope the results would help some entrepreneur (I'm expecting a pattern of some sort).
I wonder how things would have gone if these companies had patented the features they built and then sued Twitter to prevent Twitter from implementing them. You could argue (or, I could at least) that this is what patents were made for.
Having this complexity ensures that nobody will ever endeavor into writing any more browser engines, those ensuring that there will be no more browser bugs. The rest of the job is fixing the behavior of the already existing browsers and then the web will be perfect.
It attaches you to part of a page. Like an anchor moors your boar to part the pier.
Absolutely, there's no doubt that it's an operations issue rather than a memcached issue and, when found, indicates poor ops standards (remote enumeration of a cache is a debug feature apparently). With services moving out of private data centers and into the cloud, security tools are different from the arsenal used for internal apps; if you're an app guy deploying on EC2, you don't have a network security guy who's responsible for protecting your services. It's now your job to configure EC2 to protect your services, which is a small but significant difference. In terms of scanning for open ports, I think the main takeaway was that in distributed apps running off shared infrastructure, the basics often aren't followed by under pressure admins and devs. Memcached density was about 1 per 274 scanned addresses, which was higher than I'd have thought; it's apparently a mistake that's not uncommon.

Unfortunately it's often not good enough to point out open ports, and one needs to demonstrate exploitability. The main thrust of the talk was so say "if you come across memcacheds, don't skip them, there's coolness there". e.g. an open memcached used by Django directly equates to remote code exec due to Python's pickle.

You're spot on with the final point; firewall firewall firewall.

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You might want to look at the powerMTA from Port25 Slutions. It is certainly best in its class when it comes to an outbound MTA and deliverability.
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I hadn't come across 'munctional' before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yH_j8-VVLo

I don't know whether to thank you or not. :)
Jeez, the Apple haters around here. When I was 12 I used to poop and play my gameboy color.
Can only speak for the current version (1.4.5), but it binds by default to all interfaces.

If a memcached was bound to non-public interface then it wouldn't be reachable from the internet (and you'd have to explicitly configure it as such). However, if you're running the cache and the app on separate machines, the cache will need to be reachable. For poorly thought out deployments this means publicly reachable.
Wow, I hadn't seen that exchange between sanj and cperciva. It's hilarious!

Incidentally, one of my favourite HN moments also involves cperciva - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1201012.
thanks for the feedback, very useful. Integration with other services is on the todo list but for the time being I want to focus on the core features and user experience.

I think it can be useful without a large existing social graph. For example, I went to a local tech meetup last month and met some interesting people. I wouldn't necessarily add them as facebook friends but I am following them on twitter. The downside is I now get updates on anything they post when I only really want updates on the things they're working on.

As I said in a previous comment I think social network is the wrong label for this product. It's more of a group communication tool. The broadcast/follow model is a very efficient and useful way for groups to communicate and that's the core of of swytch.net - it's group communication with less noise and more signal. Because it's not trying to be the 'one true network' it doesn't need a huge social graph. Just the people that you want to communicate with in a specific context need to be on it.

> Signup was easy, the username admin was available. Sweet.

:)
Steve Ballmer couldn't find his ass with a stick and a mirror. (Thanks, Lee Childs.) What amuses me is that people can't bring themselves to say the obvious: the CEO of Microsoft is a fool.
>Apple have a history of treating developers badly with the App Store.

Citation?
Sure, compared to towns like Münster, Freiburg or Amsterdam, Munich could offer better bike support, but there are still lots of bike lanes and you are rarely forced to use car lanes, so I would still consider it quite bike friendly.
I think having the right legal framework helps a lot to get a good bicycle culture.

Here in Belgium, when a car hits a bicyclist, the car driver's insurance will always pay for bodily damage of the bicyclist, even if the bicyclist is at fault.

Most streets where I live (in the center of Antwerp) are one-way for cars, but two-way for bicycles. And cars are limited to 30 km/h.

My wife goes to work on her bicycle and gets paid for it (per km) by her employer, enough to buy a new bike every year.

At busy crossings with stop lights, bicycles get a designated space in front of the cars. That way when the light turns green the bicyclists can get going first, safely turn etc.

I just saw 2 policemen on bicycles pass in front of my window...

Measures like these help make bicycling something accepted by society, not something only crazy lycra-clad hipsters do.
Why the heck is a question up-voted to 4 points and its actual answer down-voted to 0?
Everyone: write me at bodo (a) bitboxer . de . I will setup a google group and stuff for a cologne hn meetup.
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What about pages that are not maintained but still carry value?
I don't think that's a good parallel. Windows is an actual platform. Microsoft thrives on third-party software that runs on Windows. There are tons of things you can build on Windows without worrying about competition from Microsoft.

Twitter is more like an app than a platform. Building little apps for Twitter is like writing features for MS Outlook. You can be bought by Twitter or MS but it's a risky proposition.
Not really true in this case. WebKit's previous HTML parser is similar in complexity to the HTML5 parser. Adding a second HTML parser would have been more code, more complexity, and a more complex test matrix.
Your reasoning is absolutely right. I wouldn't be surprised if the founders felt the same, or agree with you. Sadly however, often business success and ethics do not go hand in hand. Pandering to what people want - rightly or wrongly - is how businesses get built.
I don't like this new trend of people making blog posts and comments about questions that can be answered in 30 seconds with a Google search.
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Your logic is the logic of police states: it's not to hurt you, it's for your own good, so why do you need privacy anyways?

I'm not debating whether this product is good or bad. I'm simply arguing that its value proposition was misunderstood.

You have strong opinions about what parents should or should not do - fine. And strong opinions about the value of privacy - still fine. But you're picking the wrong person to disagree with.
You state this as though it's a fact, so I assume you have some citation of it, you know, actually happening to someone?
Nice way to collect tons of passwords for your dictionary. :)
Betting your business on hoping to be the next Tweetie or Spyglass is pure lottery though. Not worth it.
Anyone uses Riak? How does it compared with Mongo?
Or elementary school turtle programmers. Anyone else that relates to that reference is also officially old.
Regardless, it's still a stupid patent.
One wonders how the folks on the Novell Pulse team are feeling about this announcement. And how many hours they may have spent on "interoperability with Google Wave through the federation protocol".

http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-unveils-real-time-co...
I was expecting something about layered Gnu screen sessions.
Whilst you might not create a stable business out of a Twitter feature, if you can implement a feature that lots of people want for a time when no one else provides it you could make a lot of dosh in the short term.
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I think you underestimate how addicted kids are to their smartphones. There's no way they're going to hang out with friends without it. How would they take their hourly facebook portrait?
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ECMAScript has escape sequence just for this occasion:

<\/script>

Works everywhere (it's shame so few people know about it and use uglier and invalid "</sc"+"ript>").
well, here is one argument that you may not have heard :)

as per http://www.denverpost.com/election2010/ci_15673894 Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding "could threaten our personal freedoms"
You don't. I agree that self-signed certificates are mostly useless (although stuff like the perspectives extension to Firefox might help in verification, and at least you can be sure that you are still talking to the same server), but that does not it's worse than a plain HTTP connection.
as you said, that's pretty much a recipe for an unstable business.

3rd party platform + a feature that everyone wants + makes money... it would make zero sense for the 3rd party to sit on their hands. you're either going to be acquired (lottery) or, more likely, they will implement the feature on their own and you'll be both out of a revenue stream and have a piece of obsolete software on your hands.

good for hackers with ADD and I see nothing wrong with building this kind of thing for teh lulz etc, or to promote your real app.

very strange when you see VC-funded "features" though.
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You'll want to be able to embed these easily in other pages, with very simple tags and url's, much like youtube. Does it do that?
No - not even close for total amount of precipitation.

However, the Scottish Highlands do excel in miserable drizzle that falls continuously for days, weeks and probably months ("dreich").

And yes, I am Scottish and have spent a lot of time outdoors!
Especially the handicapped and elderly like bikes (or not). A good train system (such in Japan) is much better). That way even children and elderly can travel long distances.
I found the main point of this article to be profoundly depressing...

Our rational faculty isn’t a scientist – it’s a talk radio host

...what a good way to sap my enthusiasm and hope for the day.
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Wait, patents are for suing someone who has actually built something (that wasn't too innovative) over something that isn't innovative at all? We are talking about rather obvious things here, after all...
This is Apple. They will bring the lawyers into it. You can't even talk about their pre-released products without a lawsuit hovering overhead.

And ... this is Apple. They win this patent, they'll sue. They've always done this.
Doesn't stop the lawsuits from being filed ...
Neophobia is not the correct word to use, because it's not necessarily about new things. Not even about things new to a specific person. Some BSD admin may irrationally and violently dislike Linux variants of his tools.

It's always nice to have a proper word available, but sometimes it just doesn't exist. If you can think of a clear, succinct description to replace 'a xenophobic attitude' when you want to say someone is irrationally negative about something and you think it's because of the unfamiliarity of the thing, then I'm listening.
I think social networks are cyclic because they have a 'fashion' element to them. Whereever the 'hip' people are that's where the rest will follow. So once the 'hip' people (some would say the trend-setters) move out their groupies will follow.

Of course after that it's a long way down that hill that you can literally shoot up on but I don't think there ever will be a permanent social network. It's more like a locust thing. And hip people will always be on the move, if only because they really can't be seen eating in the same restaurant that every other person eats at, so they'll go and discover a new joint that nobody else has heard of or a new style of wearing their hair, their jeans or their baseball caps. It's a fashion thing.
Even Foursquare/Gowalla look like features which can be out of business by either Facebook/Twitter
HTML already tried the "let's switch to a simple parser" route, and failed:

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166

Now HTML5 has to deal with two parsers.
I'm never going sailing with you, if that's what you use an anchor for! An anchor holds you (sort of, if you're lucky) to the seabed.
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I don't understand why you think the article is against conservatism or even advocating using the latest fad. I read it as saying that Solaris sysadmins tend to disregard the tools and methods of Linux sysadmins (as a possible concrete example; I'm making it up on the spot, because the article doesn't give any concrete examples of the sort)
Link to original WWW source is interesting:

http://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/Hyper...