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Alas, your six bytes would drop older browsers into quirks mode, which makes is not nice. The only reason HTML5 has doctype at all is because it forces browsers into standards mode.
What you propose sounds a bit like the way XHTML2 was intended to go, we know how that ended.
There is and will be tons of invalid documents on the web—the wast majority of it, so browser rejecting them has no future, the blame will be on the browser, not the authors. Having at least some consistency in dealing with invalid documents is A Good Thing™.
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I know the founders personally (sorry M&J!) but in my professional capacity as a technology ethicist I think this is all shades of wrong.

Trust isn't about knowing where your kids are, it's about communication. Children have rights to privacy as well, and this includes from their parents: being able to be independent and reason things through yourself ("should I wag school?"), looking at the consequences of the actions fully on the basis of other issues than "mum & dad can see where I am" is an important part of growing up too.

This app seems to me to entirely catering to the overprotective, paranoid parents who cannot communicate with their children. It's not about whether the tech is right or effective, it's about whether we should, as a society, be encouraging this sort of tech and the behaviour that comes with it. And when it comes to encouraging independence, good communication, and healthy relationships, this sort of monitoring is not conducive to this.

Sorry guys, I love supporting you but some of your apps are pretty questionable, ethically speaking :(
Not enough because there always seems to be this one file it absolutely cannot play ;)

It’s possible to do it but it’s also needlessly complex while giving you very little in return. The biggest, most problematic flaw of allowing browsers to parse invalid code, namely that different browsers might handle failure differently, is in the process of being fixed and that’s good enough, I think.

Strict parsing has been tried and it was a resounding failure. It’s not going to happen.
I took one look at that huge text and smiled. Readability without the extra click to run the bookmarklet. Thank you.
The title is a reference by Google about how they "celebrate" their own failures by calling them out both publicly and internally. Not meant to be mean-spirited / schadenfreude-esque.
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> It's hard to tell whether these folks were submitting quality stories with a different slant, or were actively submitting crap.

If I may quote from the article quoting the conspiracy's users about the submissions of 'these folks'

> "If any of the usual suspects subbed a story claiming “sky blue/water wet,” I’d BURY IT without question. I’ve been on digg for almost 4 years…
> -JeremiahLaments (account says Joined Digg on 21Aug2009)"

> "I personally vote for a complete blackout on lib subs: Bury every comment (including the conservatives “helping” to pop the story). No up-votes (no matter how much you agree).
> -asami21"

> "Whether I agree with Bjornski, Anamaly100, PhilPerspective, Novenator, JanineWallace, UncaJoe, & a couple others I can’t think of right now, I bury `em anyway. ACTUALLY each of them has been “dead-on, balls-accurate” (an industry term) at least once in the past week or so, and it sort-of pains me to be dishonest by burying them anyway, but then I remember . . . I’m not up for re-election!
> -BentheDog"
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You’re right, they probably are dumping money at the problem and trying to catch up. After all, that’s how we got Windows Mobile smartphones, Origami, WebTV, Ultimate TV, MSN TV, PlaysForSure (haha), the Zune, Bing, Windows Phone 7, and on and on.

The question is: are any of these platforms actually successful? If Microsoft “got it”, wouldn’t there be some notable successes here among all the failures? Wouldn’t the company be able to make something other than Windows and Office reasonably profitable, if they truly understood where technology was going and what users wanted?
It's hard for me to imagine anyone using the term who couldn't be called one himself. It's really old-fashioned language. "Dinosaur" or "old coot" are more what I'd imagine someone my age saying to communicate the same idea.
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How dare you accuse Mick of being ethically questionable?

This app just grows from his natural desire to keep track of his two or more lovely children, as he has written about so passionately in this review of his own app:

http://appcomments.com/user/42248226?country=143441
Jeff Croft:

But I think there’s actually a very good reason
why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5”
as an overarching buzzword for this latest round
of web standards and specifications. Our industry
has proven on several occasions that we don’t get
excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies
and concepts until such a buzzword is in place.

Source: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/ via
http://www.zeldman.com/2010/08/03/html5-fuzzies/ (there is a term HART proposed in comments, I quite like that one).
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I knew a guy who biked 50 Miles to work and showered at work. Everything is doable :) .

A few friends of me bike in spain during the summer. You see, it can be done. All that's needed is a small shower at work and you are even fresher than by driving with your car. And sweating in the rush hour.

If you drive more than 20 Miles you can't go by bike, yes, but you can drive shopping or to your friend by bike. Try to use it to go to the nearest pub on weekends.

Just try it :) .
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A thoughtful analysis by a knowledgeable lawyer (Yokum Taku of WSGR) of various seed-stage terms and their use in standardized sets of financing documents appears here: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2010/03/14/how-do-the-sa.... As appears from his useful chart comparing the various standard sets, investors (and lawyers) just have different ideas of what they regard as important for different types of investments.

Jason Mendelson, a well-known lawyer-turned-VC, took this further in a piece entitled "Why There Will Never Be a Standard Set of Seed Documents" (http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2010/03/why-there-...), in which he gets into more details about how people differ on what protections and terms to seek when making early-stage investments.
It gets humid in Europe, too. They survive.
Yeah, he should use his middle initial or something. When I did my Masters I did everything using my middle initial (even though I never did before) just because there was another guy at the university with the exact same name. It makes sense, no one asked me to, I just did it.
thanks for the feedback. I need to rethink the 'social network' moniker. It's more of a communication tool.
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Bikes are great, but not very practical … if the infrastructure isn’t there. You know, city planning and stuff. I think the goal is not to get people to drive 50 miles to work, the goal is to make it possible for them to live so close to work (or appropriate public transport infrastructure) that they can bike there (or use public transport).

You are right, bikes wouldn’t work in every case but sometimes they can replace cars just fine.
Microsoft hyped it (like so many such devices) as an “iPod killer”, and dumped massive advertising at it. It has 2 or 3% market share, is perhaps nominally profitable but barely makes a dent in Microsoft’s bottom line, is only available in the USA, and is mainly known to the public as a joke punchline.

I don’t see how that can be called success.
Same can be said about cars :) .
Not to argue with the sentiment, but to take it to its frivolous conclusion:

According to Wikipedia[0], the letter A begins words approximately 11% of the time. This only includes english, and is a distribution over all text, not book titles. It is, however, a decent proxy[1]. After that, I also assume regular English letter frequency for the rest of the letters [2].

Using these factors, there would be 14,175,136 books under the letter A. Aa has 1,157,683 books. That's over 3,171 years just to get to Ab.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency#Relative_frequ...

[1] A much better proxy would be to find the relative frequencies of book titles on Project Gutenberg.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency#Relative_frequ...
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> In other words, I should come into work completely drenched in sweat?

With enough training (build up the habit) and if you don't exert yourself too much (it's not like you have to go 20mph all the way), you shouldn't sweat too much. Add in a pair of showers on work site and you're golden.

> In addition, many people commute long distances to work, which may take up to an hour just by car.

That's an issue of brain-dead urban planning and stupid personal housing considerations, not of bikes.

> Bikes are great, but not very practical.

The article, and all of Amsterdam or Münster, already prove you wrong. Why do you make declamations which are already disproven before they even get out your mouth?
Kids are pretty damn smart when it comes to lying, unfortunately.

I think they are going to learn to come home, leave their phone there (or at a friend's house) and then go do whatever they want, secure in knowing they are definitely fooling mom/dad.

So you are right back to where you were before they had a phone at all.
Man. The web was barely used in 1991, which seems very not-that-long-ago.

I was born in 1988, so it's strange to me to imagine life without the web. I eventually want to be in an environment where I'm surrounded by the grandmasters of those older eras, to learn the lessons they learned; lessons that can only be taught after decades (plural) of engineering experience.
Most of Europe is far drier than the US. I don't know of any place in Europe which would be similar to Japan or Florida (consistent high heat and very high humidity during months on end in Summer), though they might very well exist.
Regarding your comment about the landing page seeming info-commercial-like, that's par for the course in the content-selling world AFAIK.

Potential customers are sold with lots of text, emphasizing the volume of stuff you get for your $25 per month. It's never about having a beautifully-designed 37-signals-like plans page etc.

Long lists of what you get are the order of the day; you hope that one of these list items will be the prospect's exact pain point, therefore making the $25 fee seem instantly palatable as it solves a problem immediately.
fucking unbelievable. Apparently, small teams of apple lawyers aren't as effective as startups.
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It's always meant "hyperreference" to me.
Perhaps people would be better off not living in these places where it's impossible to survive without a climate-controlled bubble-environment :)
Thanks for the thoughts. The reason for its lack of sensational front page glamour and glitter is that there has been no reason for it so far (academic endeavors hardly do; we have only provided an RTFD link sadly).

It's simply a resource exchange tool where you input haves and wants and we output a set of matches of mutual relevancy, where each user "picks" from predefined item/skill options users set.

The types of uses are many but for clarity's sake: barter, share, product testing, borrow, and various types of skill exchange.

I apologize for my glaring lack of bravado or salesmanship. However, on the other hand, the service is free.
Now I can finally make a cool easter egg for anyone who tries to access the roots of my asset domains. I've always wanted to do that. Thanks Amazon!
They didn't specify yet, but I'm guessing yes, they want to display an ad.

I have about 78K unique visitors.

It would be nice to be able to demand a higher CPM, but I don't have the experience to get that yet. I'll try putting Adsdaq on it, who knows, maybe I could get a $2 cpm there :)
Ah of course! Leave a textbook open, or a notebook open that shows you were in the middle of a sentence before you had to go take a call.

I've actually thought about doing an experiment with an iPod: I'd leave an iPod in the student union and observe how long before someone turns it in / tries to run away with it.
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Heya liedra,

Well, we're definitely not professional ethicists. What we do do a lot of is talking to our customers, and the people we've spoken to, generally, haven't been the paranoid types that you describe. Generally they've been very level-headed people, and in speaking to them you can hear how much they care about their kids.

One person we spoke to recently, though very concerned for knowing his kids locations, I think has much better data on the actual dangers to his children than most (certainly more than me, and I'd posit more than you). He was a police detective and loved the application because of the piece of mind that it gave him. I think I'm a reasonable judge of character, and in my evaluation, this wasn't a trust issue, it was just an early warning system to know when his family might be in danger.

I don't know that we're encouraging paranoia. I think that paranoia will be there no matter what we do. I acknowledge that there's the potential for us to profit from it, but I guess I think you under-estimate parents, and I can see why: I did initially as well.

To me, it comes down to this: when we first came up with this idea, I had a lot of the same reservations you do. But, we did our homework. We speak to people all the time about this. And my honest opinion is that parents are not as bad as you think.
People working on the web for 10 years don't know what HREF stands for? I take back all the good things I've said about 'em youngsters ;D
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If you choose to live 50+ miles from work and commute everyday...you're making a compromise for a reason (spouse, slow real estate market, etc). But likely...you're doing it wrong.
I am seeing an emergence of physically aware programmers who realize sitting in a chair all day isn't an healthy environment. Biking to and from work gives some great exercise and time to clear your head.

pg gets ideas in the shower. I get them cruising on the bike. Same effect.
All great solutions, but the infrastructure just isn't there (as already mentioned).

Blame it in "brain-dead urban planning", or "stupid housing considerations", but that doesn't change the fact that biking to work is simply not possible for most people.

If you live in the suburbs of New York, biking to Manhattan to work just isn't practical. If you live in the middle of the country, biking to work can be a nightmare. If you live down South, again, very difficult. If you live in San Francisco, hope that your job is downhill.

Let's build a better infrastructure, and not accuse people of being inconsiderate or stupid.
"Google asserted in court documents that Reid was fired because the program he headed was being eliminated and because of poor performance."

Hopefully the Google Wave crew is not reading this. (some sarcasm intended, if Google started laying off people for working on a project that ended up being eliminated then employees would be fearful to be placed on anything not established.)
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OMG, there's another trending topic right now "Exercise Boosts Your Brain - Here's How" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580236

I believe that post will also feed hungry trolls
Is apple the new microsoft? I lively remember a lawsuit from apple against miscrosoft, because microsoft had a wastebin icon on the desktop. copy instead of innovate.
"The last line of defence is that we plan to build in features to tell parents when the app has been disabled by the kid. Saying that the app has crashed is one thing, but if that results in an angry phone call telling them to start it up again -- even if it has just crashed -- I think kids will be less inclined to keep playing that card."

So in other words you do plan to (help parents) invade kids privacy even when the kids actively don't want their parents to know where they are. The word "defence" in that sentence is pretty revealing - your frame of perception seems to be that of a battle between kids trying to get away from your app and parents who don't want them to.

Your " kid who want to see how far away their mother is when she's coming to pick them up," scenario doesn't need this feature.

"We, like you, hate the idea of abusing trust and privacy.

However, children who want their parents to know when they're getting home from soccer practise, or see how far away their mother is when she's coming to pick them up, is quite a different scenario."

Yeah that's why kids can't turn the app off without letting their parents know ;-).

"We, like you, hate the idea of abusing trust and privacy."

is very believable, given that feature ;-)

I guess it is all right (must be a dumb kid who'd accept such a poison pill gift ) as long as there is no sugarcoating involved and everyone (including the kids) knows what they are getting into. The latter (kids knowing what they are getting into is somewhat dubious).

Somewhat slimy product in my personal opinion, but hey if it makes money I can't blame you for trying to get some.

Next step: Spouse tracking so you know they aren't having an affair on the side. ;-)

Next step: Employee tracking so you know how much time they are spending by the watercooler or the coffeeshop or whether they are really attending the tech conference your company sponsored , or even if any two employees are spending time in each other's bedrooms.

As I said it must be a dumb person who'd accept this kind of un-switch-offable- without-warning-Big-Brother app on his or her phone. No different from an electronic monitoring device (as mandated by law for people under house arrest say) as long as you want to use your phone. The only difference is that it isn't strapped to you.

If you could somehow add a breathalyzer to the IPhone you could broadcast the alcohol content in your blood to your parents. How about letting your parents know how long and when you spoke to whom? Maybe add some speech recognition to catch any "dirty language". All unswitch off able of course!

Surely there's an app for that!
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I lived in Frankfurt for many years when I was young and just took for granted the fact that I could bike just about anywhere without tangling with cars. Paths through the forest, farm roads, bike paths through towns, one could just ride forever.

When I returned to the USA where I was born, I noticed that every American had a gaggle of dusty, low quality bikes in their garages that never got used. There were no bike paths anywhere and riding on the roads looked like suicide. I once asked someone why they even had the bikes; where do you ride them? He answered without hesitation that you could load the bikes in the car and drive across town to where there was a park with a bike trail. I though it was a quick witted joke (load the bikes in the car and drive to ride them).

It was not.
I often bike to work, which for me is about 26 miles each direction. I take a shower right before I leave, and when I get there I just have to rinse down and change out of my cycling jersey. The theory behind the pre-ride shower is that body odor is caused by bacteria on your skin, and showering temporarily knocks out enough of your bacteria that it won't cause significant odor during your ride. (I'm not aware of actual science on this topic, but I've asked a trusted coworker whether I smell after riding into work, and he says I don't. So there's your anecdotal data point...) So for me the bike is extremely practical even living in an area that wasn't designed with bicycles in mind.

As for humidity, this is in south Florida—if we can manage it here, then we can handle the humidity pretty much anywhere in the US.

Now I'm not saying everyone can or should bike a 52-mile round trip to work. But the point of this article is that this little experimental suburb has 5,500 people within a single square mile; biking or walking is a perfectly reasonable way to traverse such a small area at nearly any level of fitness, especially when you don't have to worry about automotive traffic, and for the few people who can't manage that there's the public transport option. Even on our hottest days here in south Florida, one can easily bike a mile, fully dressed, without breaking a sweat.
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The subject of the article was not what I expected.
Happens here too. If you've ever wondered how a certain austrian entrepreneur always manages to garner enough votes to put him on the front page even when the material doesn't support it...
I don't know what your age is, but as a 20-something, I can confirm that "Dinosaur" is an extremely popular term for this in my circles.

It's particularly common among my Microsoftie friends to refer to executive leadership. However, I've personally starting using the term "Crustacean" to refer to the dinosaurs who just refuse to go extinct.
In Europe there are good public transport in each city, so you don't need car at all.

I use to commute 35 miles each way without owning car, it was taking quite a lot of time, so I moved closer to work, but I still don't own car.
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Congrats to a fellow YC W10 team. Smart guys that work hard. The headache they solve is very real and the analytics and data they collect will be invaluable.
You hit the real root of it there. Detroit auto bought out the passenger rail system in LA in the late 40s, then shut it down (true story).

Oil drives concrete & consumption. Crack in a US sidewalk? Break it up and pour a new pad. Euro sidewalk? All pavers. Pull 'em up, fix a sewer line or whatever and put the same ones back down.
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So far, Cloudfront's origin servers were hardcoded to be your S3 bucket. So if you used Amazon as an extra service to serve static files of your website from a CDN, you'd have to do trickery to set up your website as the S3 bucket's origin. I assume this is what he was talking about, not having to copy his file to S3 so the CDN edge location can pull it from S3.