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@jackowayed (there wasn't a reply link for some probably well known pg algorithm reason),

I was thinking for kids in the non-rebellious stage. An eight year old probably does't even need to know.
The parent can handle the charging every night, amongst the thousand other things parents do everyday to make sure their kids are safe.

As for battery life - I won't pretend to know anything, but apple keeps surprising me with battery advancements so maybe it's catching up? or maybe someday it will. :)
a) The point here is not that all the invaders win, just that the companies that do win tend to be invaders rather than incumbents. If Hulu loses to YouTube, the fact that broadcast.com didn't amount to much is scant consolation.

b) Grocery retail is an established market. PG was talking about new markets: "The pattern here seems the same one we see when startups and established companies enter a new market."
did the founders think about other markets? i see a better use with my parents (65+) than my child since she doesn't/won't have an iPhone 3gs or 4.
I think this is just a storm in a cup of water. Seriously, read the entire patent application. The usage of the screen may fall under fair use just to make a point in the patent application. Don't get lawyers involved. Those parasites are not worth it for something like this. That is just my gut feeling.
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I don't think that's true and that should be easy to prove: the books you will read in GCSE English are below the level that any kid who likes reading will have read independently - yet no-one worries that it is turning kids off reading.
Thanks to @robdimarco.
Found something that works for MacOSX. 'SelfControl' http://visitsteve.com/work/selfcontrol/
It allows you to choose specific domains to block. For the Starcraft example, blocking battle.net would be somewhat effective. Source code is on GitHub too. Now I just need something for Windows 7.
I'm not so sure about that... If you look at my profile, I almost never comment or link anything. And yet, I have been a dedicated reader since I first found HN. I have also done as much as I can to bring new, intelligent users to HN. But none of this is reflected in my karma score.

Though I could be wrong... Maybe I should just start contributing more.
Lack of this prevents me from buying tons of apps. The idea of spending money with no promise of ROI is pretty hard for me.
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By the way, are you located around the SF area? Your profile doesn't have any contact info.
Definitely!

Whereoscope lets you setup 4 people at the moment (and we can always make it more or fewer at any time), so they don't need to be your kids.

We're really excited about seeing how people will take this thing and use it. It's awesome as a founder to see people making use of your product in ways you didn't expect. So you can be sure that if people want to do this, we'll evolve the product to make sure it's an awesome experience for them.

We picked families as a starting point because we got a lot of feedback that this is something people wanted, but we'll definitely be watching to see how people use it.
Here's a link to the Google Books blog post Crunchgear links to (with many more details):

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-...
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Generally, articles that make complex issues seem black and white are silly.
I disagree. MS is obviously way behind; nobody who doesn't work for them is unaware of that. The thing MS needs right now is to convince devs to target their platform, and one way to do that would be to demonstrate that they understand the problems with their current approach and show that they will build an interface that works well with blunt fingers.
Or maybe you tell your kids they get to have iPhones as long as they have this app installed and if its mysteriously giving problems and getting terminated then maybe its time to get a simpler phone :)
It is always important to not overreact. While it makes perfect sense for apple to develop a travel app, the fact that they also depict GuideYou Amsterdam and Ralph Lauren imply that they are not intending to claim rights over the design.
Could someone please guide me towards a "startup funding 101" resource that explains what all this means? Ideally something that walks you through the process instead of just defining the vocabulary. I've searched but I haven't found anything good.

series A rounds, additional rounds of funding, fixed size rounds, convertible notes, changes in valuation, stock dilution, etc.
I find it interesting how the attitude is different when a web startup fails and Google fails.

I keep reading here how startups must try out as many different ideas as possible: try an idea, fail early, learn from your mistakes, move on to the next one. It's a normal process. Google, on the other hand, is not allowed to fail. A failed Google project is somehow a "problem".

Google is essentially a huge startup farm. Why is the attitude so different?
I have heard each user can only do this once. If you try to do this more than once, they will likely not accommodate you.
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1)

It's really up to the families - if they are ok with sharing location data then they can keep it running. It seems like this would be most useful when the kids are 12 to 14 years old.

We have very plans for products that extend up and down the age range, but this isn't it.

2) All parties on the system get the same visibility; you can see your own history and your parent's history in the same way that they can see yours.

We've really tried hard to make the app useful to both parents and kids.
Sorry! You're absolutely right!

We're in Mountain View and Sunnyvale. In true startup spirit we're working out of our respective apartments :)
don't think there's any law against it if the kids know about it (and thus consent by taking the iPhone and enabling the app)

Are you implying that kids need to consent to being tracked by their parents? That's.... interesting.
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While I quip -- and have concerns about monitoring trends in society -- I know that parents want your product, children will tolerate it (especially if it means getting a smartphone), and it's inevitable. So I hope you build the best system balancing all their interests, and congrats on the launch.
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I'm pretty sure Skype, and gchat both have a public API. Not sure about others
I really hope this practice extends into all app stores. It would only be bad for people who make bad apps.
I mentioned consent to cover 18+ "kids". What I said is that if they know about it it's always ok (because they're consenting, so there's definitely no issue.). If they're over 18 and they don't consent, I feel like that should be illegal, but I don't know for sure. If they're under 18, I'm pretty sure they don't need to consent, since parents can basically make them do whatever.

Not certain on any of that, though.
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I'm just looking for a way to to start contributing to already existing projects. But, if you have an idea and would like to start a new project, sure thing.

I prefer desktop apps and I code mainly in Java and Python.
My understanding of this is that the developers have to pay 100% of the refund, even though they only got 70% of the revenue. Does anybody know if that is, in fact, the case?
Most markup languages (indeed most languages) don't have error discovery and recovery built in and specified.

HTML5 does, and most of the spec (and probably the parser) is about dealing with error cases.

Plus it's not like XML parsers are small. And HTML parsing is far more complex an affair (due to not just blowing up on error)
I'm not going to say anything about how dubious your sources are, but I will address a couple things:

1) Blogs are not inherently "news". Ergo, they should not always be put into a news feed.

2) The blogs in question were removed because of objectionable content. Which, after reading a couple of articles on one of the sites mentioned, seems totally reasonable. The reason it's OK to remove these from the Google News feed is because it's not news. It's a few paranoid people talking about how dangerous RADICAL ISLAM is.

This is not a "liberal bias". This is an attempt to have a news feed that contains news. Not libel. Not hate speech.
1. How do you discriminate?

2. What would the point be, apart from annoying every single end user?
I don't understand this whole spying on your kids market.

I wouldn't spy on my kids. Lack of trust becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

How about spying on your gf or bf or something?
You'd really benefit by letting people know what this site does. It isn't immediately obvious, and it usually doesn't make sense to have the user presented with a login without any content (if ever). The docs also seem pretty long at first glance. Just a paragraph or so about the goal of the site right on the landing page would help a lot I think.
My experience has been that most entrepreneurs, myself included, to be completely honest, are not the best workers when it comes to working for other people.

I know for me, I tend to get tangled up telling the boss that we are going in the wrong direction, rather than working hard on the doomed project. I find working hard in the wrong direction to be very frustrating... and when I'm not hired to set direction, I imagine the boss finds it very frustrating that I'm arguing about direction rather than implementing.

Even when I am working on the thing the boss wants me to work on, I'm not the best employee. I'll never be a 'company man' - an Entrepreneur is never going to believe that the company is a family, or that the company will take care of him.

Perhaps most important of all, even if the Entrepreneur is doing his best to do right by his employer, his dayjob isn't going to be, as pg says, 'the top idea in his mind' - even if I wanted to, I don't think I could make other people's problems the thing I think about in the shower.

So yeah... personally, I think Entrepreneurs usually make pretty shitty employees.
Mixpanel needs a better way to track links. Just my honest two cents.
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So we deliberately designed the system to be 2-way - both parents and kids need to consent and are aware that their location is being broadcast.

Additionally, on iPhone you can always tell when location services are running as there's an arrow that appears in the top bar. You can also see in Settings->General->Location Services which applications are using it.
Hi,

To be clear - this is about building trust not a lack of it. The kids can see where the parents are, and the parents can see where the kid is.

We agree 100% that setting this up as a spying tool isn't useful for the parents, the child, or the family.
You cannot do this alone — it is way too hard, both work-wise and emotionally.

Who's "You"? Does he know every person planning to be a single founder that well?
We hope so too and thanks!
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Nah, the "mainstream media" won't report the liberals doing it. ;)

I think this would be the most interesting problem a social media site would have to solve once it got traction.
Yeah i have an idea for a fb app that i wanna do in django.It's a personal itch of mine that need solving.

But have't come to putting it down in code yet. Still learning the ropes, a lot to learn. It would be great if you help out tho.
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Are these defendable?
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Alternate title:

Whereoscope give parents a way to find their kids lost iPhones.
I'm getting very uncomfortable with Apple. Not sure how to describe this in the best terms, but this is just plain wrong.
How about picking up the phone and asking where they are?

I mean knowing where they are doesn't tell you if they are doing something they should not be doing, which after watching the trouble these kids in this neighborhood get into between 3pm and 6pm before their parents get home - trust me you better find out what your kids are up to, not just where.
I have no need to know where my fiance is at all times, but I really like being able to see where he is on Google Latitude. It often saves a phone call and makes planning simpler, I can see when he's on his way home.
at the risk of sounding crazy, has there been a more rational explanation for our actions?
I tried it, and it's pretty neat, but by now I'm just used to multiple browser profiles for this purpose.
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oh my god, give me a break. Everyone has their own opinion on what works for them. Single, co, tri, quad, what does it matter? Sure if you have the perfect people working together in unison then it will be easier. It comes down to YOU, as you allude to. And just because you can't do it alone doesn't mean that you have to lump everyone in together.

This is like the NYC vs SF debate, we are like schoolchildren. "My way is better". Now it's the single vs co-founder debate. Statistically, two people starting a company are usually better than one. But remember that every situation is unique, and what works for people works for people. That's the reason that we have so many different types of companies.
I also disagree with a lot of what he says, but then I realized it's his personal blog.

I know plenty of people running small companies by themselves.
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I lived in Münster, Germany for a few years. Münster is THE bike town in germany. Statistically every citizen has 1.8 bikes. And i begann to love biking there. A lot is done in that city to make biking the #1 way of transportation. Now I am living in Cologne, Germany and see the difference. I miss the good bike lanes but I kept biking in cologne.

Nothing is better for your head than biking a few miles home after a hard day of work.
I don't know. It likely depends on what kind of cash you are looking for; twenty five grand? no problem, especially if you can take smaller investments. Two hundred fifty grand? eh, that might be more of a challenge, and outside my area.
Yeah we're really aiming to cut down the number of times you have to call and say 'Where are you?' 'Where are you now?' 'How about now?' :-)
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I'd like to see the addition of videos to go with screenshots on the app description pages. A good video walk through is sometimes better than a lite version or a time bombed trial. It would be fantastic for games.
Yes absolutely. I used to live in a suburb of Stuttgart, and that was around the first time I really tried biking. It was definitely worth it, the well maintained bike lanes, the free burning of the fat, lovely relaxing scenery and off course a few extra bucks saved per day.
Biking lanes, is in my book a top investment a city can make, wonder why not many keep it high on their priorities.
It'd difficult for me to imagine anyone at Google (at least in that era) using the term "fuddy-duddy". None of the quotes sound like anything I ever heard or over-heard, which of course doesn't prove anything, but it's not the culture that I ever observed.
There is a lot to learn; may be more for Google itself than anybody else.

I didn't like the post title, though. Celebrate others' failures?
Ever notice that in much of Europe bikes get used for work as well as general transportation/play?

In EU: postman, grocery getting/delivery, common commute vehicle, etc etc

In USA: NYC bike couriers.
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Boulder, CO in USA has done a LOT for putting in bike lanes. Very bike-friendly city. Up there with Portland, OR and Austin, TX
The fact that it's his personal blog doesn't make his opinions on what I can do any more or less valid.
There'll definitely still be times when you'll want to pick up the phone and call them. For sure.

But our belief is that there's also plenty of times when you really do just want to know where they are. If you're a busy person (say you're a single parent who's at work when their kids arrive home), being able to quickly check that your kids got home ok is huge piece of mind, for a very small time investment. Also consider the equation when you've got a few kids running around -- being able to open our app and see where they all are in a second or two is going to be easier than calling them all up. There will also be times when you're in a meeting and discreetly checking this app is going to work much better than running outside to make a few calls and track down all your children.
Is there any reason kids can't abandon the tracker-phone and buy a separate, prepaid phone they use to keep in touch with friends?
I agree and more sadly Wave in the form of Etherpad would have succeeded. A more de-centralized architecture with many Etherpad servers would have been perfect. Company related traffic wouldn't have left the LAN and of-site traffic would have been routed via federation protocol to other servers.
I think that is related to their engineering culture. "The product is done when the code is done" instead of "The code is the first step to making a product."

Technical founders should take note of that!
Maybe a content-type header from the server? The point as I may wrongly see it is, that attempting to support backward compatibility indefinitely will result in overly complex and bloated browsers in the future.
When things reach a lawsuit stage, they often take on a surreal air and become increasingly disconnected from what is likely to have happened in fact. Lawyers embellish, witnesses develop convenient memories, and those with a motive or agenda will tend to shade their testimony in ways that promote their case (on one side or the other), whether or not this conforms with exactly what might have happened. I don't mean by this that most people intentionally perjure themselves (they usually don't). I mean only that, once it all goes through the lawsuit grinder, what emerges may or may not be recognizable to those who actually went through the experience or who know the environment. Often, it isn't. Just a sad fact of life of what happens when people start fighting in the courts.
Even then, who would want to abuse trust and privacy and track their kids location.

I hate the idea. Absolutely hate it, and (No offense to those involved) hope and expect it to fail.
That was not the case for me. I've seen some refunds in my financial report, but apple only took their 70% back, not the full 100%.

There is a scary clause in the agreement which says they could do that, but to my knowledge they never have. All of the scary blog posts on the subject were worried speculation, not actual applications of that policy.
Do you know of an instance of this actually happening? I know about the scary clause, but I've never heard of it actually being applied. It's become something of an urban legend.
Biphasic is fine, sleep deprivation is problematic. You've got a grand total of 6 hours, when most humans do best on 7-8, so you might be running a bit low.
As a product manager, I'm not sure how I feel about doing SO much testing by throwing code out at people and seeing what sticks to the wall. If feels like a hammer problem ("All I've got at Google are a bunch of engineers, so if I need to see what the market wants, I'll throw engineers at it.").

However (also from the product management perspective), it is always impressive to see a company that effectively kills products. So many companies hold onto lagging products because they are afraid of the negative impacts of killing a product without ever doing the analysis of the negative impacts of keeping the product.
I haven't done this at a large scale(most of my bigger Flippa sales have been web services I built myself) but I routinely see sites on Flippa with decent traffic and authority that are very poorly monetized. If you can optimize the advertising to appeal to your target market, maybe line up some direct media buys or premium ad networks, you can do very well without worrying about SEO or increasing traffic.
It just seemed self-evident, and not worth an article.
Um, it costs money (both a fairly hefty (for a kid) price up front, and recurring). And at the rate most kids text, it would cost a lot of money on a prepaid plan.

And then if they want to use a phone in their parents' presence, they need to be using the iPhone.

And the parents might wonder why the kids almost never answer their calls (to the iPhone).
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I like that he links to how to choose a co-founder down the bottom, but what I want to know, how the hell do you find one in the first place?

If your in SF or any other startup hub then thats fine, but what if your in a proverbial co-founder desert?

Now my situation will be somewhat unique, being in China and all(not even a big city, some backwater, the main industry here is agriculture, this is China's rice basket) but I really wouldn't know where to start and many others would be the same.
I have met quite a few Americans who think of biking as a sport first and as a means of transport second which is exactly opposite to how I perceive biking (I’m from Germany). That might have something to do with city planning (many places where you would want to go are actually realistically reachable by bike), it might (and I’m quite fond of that hypothesis) also have something to do with driving age. 16 in the USA, 18 in Germany.
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In other words, I should come into work completely drenched in sweat? In many parts of the USA, it is very humid and temperatures can easily reach 90 and above. How do you expect people to bike in such conditions? In addition, many people commute long distances to work, which may take up to an hour just by car.

Bikes are great, but not very practical.
posting this as an example of highly misguided thinking. though I am curious about "Three-fourths of executives at venture capital-backed startups say patents are vital to getting financing, according to the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey". Who are these executives?
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Apple needs to build in proper software support for app trials. You shouldn't need two copies of the apps in the app store (each with their own ratings and comments). You should be able to purchase the full version of the app and keep your existing data (tricky to do unless the developer builds in code to send your data to the server and load it back into the paid version of your app, since apps can't share data).
Hi axod,

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.

There are services that are as one-sided as you imply - the child doesn't have to 'opt-in'. Whereoscope is built quite differently.

cheers
Mick