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Hi,
Being a startup based in Perth (the most isolated city in the planet by Bill Bryson's reckoning) there aren't too many folks we can chat to over a late night beer to get feedback on our new app Floq that we just launched in private beta. So I'm reaching out to the HN community for a bit of advice.

We built Floq because we think group feedback should be as easy as asking a your friends over a burger, but with the added benefit of knowing how your friends opinions compare to the rest of the world.

Everyone loves the big picture. Big screens at the cinema. Mountain top panoramas and views from the window seat on a plane. However we think the problem with many feedback and survey apps is they don’t give you the big picture. If you ask a few questions to your customers about what they think of your customer service, there’s no way to find out how their opinion compares to the global or industry norm. You might think a score of 4.5 out of ten is below average; just about there, but not quite. But it could be great, you just have no idea because you can’t compare it to anything if you're using a monkey to collect your feedback. ;)

Floq solves that by sharing questions. The auto-suggest dishes up options for you as you type, and shows you how many people have used the question before you, so you can always compare your feedback to the rest of the world. You may just find that 4.5 actually means you’re top dog in a tough town.

I'd be grateful to get some feedback on the idea and app, and any thoughts about how to market it or cool partners in the US of A? We've had some success locally but even though my old man is from new Jersey I don't know any folks there.

The site is:
www.floqapp.com

If you pop (HN) in the last name field we'll make sure you get an invite straight away.

Thanks in advance!
Jonah
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Wow. Staggering results. Fantastic news for the team.
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> Yet Mozilla is giving up before collecting the fruit of their previous policy (no system codec).

The bigger issues are that

* Google never followed through on its declaration it would remove H.264 from Chrome, which would have made almost 50% of browsers that don't support H.264.

* Flash never followed through on its declaration it would include WebM, which would have enabled WebM in IE and Safari and made it possible for YouTube to go WebM-only (on desktop).

Mozilla using system H.264 codecs on mobile (not even desktop) doesn't matter at all compared to those.
I've had several inquires about this. I'm hesitant to talk about what I might do in the future, but if the market is large enough for an iPhone app I would certainly be open to making one. Since GitHub has their own iPhone app I'm not sure how much of a market there is for a comercial iPhone app.

I think the market for a Mac app might be a bit larger, so I'd love to know what everyone thinks about a version of the app for either the iPhone or OS X.
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> Honest question though: do you think that, given all of the breaking changes and toughness of upgrading, _even more_ should have been broken in this release to improve the language?

Yeah, sure, there are still some things in there that make me wonder why they didn't go one step further to fix it too. Little things even, like the names of the special methods to intercept attribute access: __getattr__ and __getattribute__ should have been swapped for consistency, since __getattribute__ is closer in behavior to __setattr__ and __delattr__, making the current __getattr__ the behavioral outlier.

But meh, any language has its odd little warts, and so has Python 3. It does have significantly less than Python 2, though.
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Now that Twitter has bought Posterous, and they will likely shut it down at some point, it makes sense to think about moving my blog to another service.

If I have a Posterous blog on a custom domain, and it has a certain Google page rank, if I move the blog to another service and keep the custom domain, I assume that the Google page rank will remain the same.

Is this correct? Is there anything I need to be careful about during the transition, so as not to get a lower rank in search results?
The "Curator's Code" is an attempt to make things better on the web for sites that aggregate and curate content. It's definitely not perfect but Marco's complaint is pointless. His complaint amounts to "Sure, I try to drive the speed limit. BUT THERE ARE ALREADY SPEEDERS OUT THERE!!! So screw the speed limit."

Despite his throw-out-the-baby-and-bathwater approach, the discussion is worth having instead of dismissing the idea wholesale.

The NYT article he refers to covers the modest goals quite well. It's not a panacea that is just about using "via" and "hat tip" correctly. It's about making attribution clearer and putting in place some guidelines about attributing things to the original source.
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It sounds like we both agree on post-PC devices for non-techies.

As for my family, a number of them, like my sister, proudly exclaim that they are luddites, and they like wearing it stubbornly like some strange badge of honor.
Hard to believe that a team that knows it will be able to be acquihired won't be phoning it in and slacking off. Same as people do when they have taken finals and know that grades don't matter anymore. If you know failure is at the end and not some big prize and do over you will naturally try harder.
How does NAP deal with property rights? Pretty much all the property in the entire world was gained through aggression.
Isn't that typical of (academic or industrial) research in general? What about it is specific to MSR?
There were large changes to the standard library :). The big io rewrite, for example (which was also one of the reasons for the slowdown initially as it was implemented in pure Python; it eventually got rewritten in C and should be faster than before now).

Anyway, I think it makes more sense to major-version language than implementation changes. In theory CPython vs. PyPy shouldn't matter to code.
It also depends on the context of the presentation - was he being condescending, for example. Standing by itself, I don't see it as rude, personally.
Amen. The issue is this: If you eat well, sleep right, exercise, go on dates, and your company goes kaput in 2 years, those two years aren't wasted.

If you burn every waking hour on your company, and it goes kaput in two years, what do you have to show for that time?

For me, adding exercise and learning a musical instrument to my routine have been major wins. I can have a day where everything possible goes wrong at work, and still look back and say "I got something done." It's a pattern of life that, even when things go awry, I can say that I'm closer to where I want to be now than I was yesterday.
I would much rather prefer for there to be #promoCol and #promoCol2. From my experience, promoCol2 often ends having more things in different than common from promoCol1.

I love IDs because I don't need to think about changing a class to fix one page only to see the same class screw up another page.
An alternative process to fix the problem would be to pressure supposed "defensive only" companies to put that promise in writing by offering universal defensive-only patent grants akin to the GPL. Named inventors could even push that change at their own company, in exchange for going on record that their implementation actually counts as an 'invention'.
We provide social media analytics software for the intelligence community. During the height of the Occupy movements, various 3-letter agencies were very concerned about what people were saying on Twitter and how it could be used to organize and create trouble for authorities.

It's the double-edged sword of anything that's public & open - it can be used for good and it can be used against you.
Buddy, you just described all these companies that were aquired, many are hyped and dont last sometimes thats the only option or move forward. Loopt was aquired doesnt mean it was a success. Look at the details, if a company gets aquired for 20 mil, but needs to pay the vcs and staff and themselves alot of times its a loss, not in every case. But yc hasnt had any facebooks or googles, maybe later but I dont see it yet. And I never said they wouldnt have success, many will, but I dont care if they get people from each continent, they can still be the same style and type from what I see.
have you ever met one doing this alleged scamming with programming books?

That's the hilarious part about this. I get similar comments from time to time, even with my free programming newsletters ("oh, you're tracking links, that's really scummy!" etc) and I think.. if I really wanted to scam people and make tons of money, I'd pick a much more gullible and grossly larger market than programmers! ;-P
The buyout prices you described are baby buys, those happen everyday, trust me investors arent thr those low ball buys. Yes people make money, but its not one for the history books, if success is maki million, then I guess thats your success.
I really like this idea as well. Are you pitching it as a dating site or just as a group of people to hang out with? Making it groups, in my mind, takes away a lot of the stigma of online dating websites, though I wonder what you gender breakdown is like - do you have many groups of men compared to women? Is there a wait time before a night can be organised?
A nice publicity stunt and also provide a valuable service!

Of course this makes the homeless person somewhat of an employee or at least have a leg to stand on to sue if something happened to them in the course of providing the service. They have everything to gain from legal action and really nothing to loose.
I figured an 8 hour day, but I don't really know.
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And so this team is moving from one unprofitable company to another

There's a pretty good chance Twitter is already profitable[1][2]. If they aren't then it's pretty clear they can do a facebook and turn on the profits when they choose.

[1] http://mashable.com/2011/09/29/twitter-revenue-to-hit-400-mi...

[2] http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-30/tech/30012755...
grabbed it from your code. promise a nice (honest too) review after using it on the app store. good luck!
I wasn't clear. I wasn't meaning to suggest that Chrome were going to move away from C++. But they are trying to sandbox using NaCl and other mechanisms. I was aware of the Rust effort, but not that they were going to implement more of the DOM in JavaScript (thanks!). Maybe there will be more security-by-design.

I also think JavaScript is a bad basis for a platform in any case, since it requires loads of complexity to be fast. Why not just a simple typed language or VM? I have read some JS JIT papers and they have found plenty of code generation bugs (more security holes).
Thank you for the comment, currently our perks are mostly for the companies themselves, we will improve it!
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I would posit that people that say "um" more, came from upbringings where they were more likely to be interrupted the moment they left a gap in conversation. That'd be an interesting study.
That goes against your advice of getting away from technology to avoid burnout.
I think that len() is not a good example, it was actually designed that way for a very good reason. [0]

[0]. http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/9/python-and-pola/
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I had a PM at Google who did debate in high school. In his debate class, everybody would throw a pen at him every time he said "um". He has very precise, articulate diction.

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I think you missed my point and sure companies fail every day but, Y Combinator doesn't actually need a Facebook or a Google to succeed.

Sure, a $XX Billion IPO would be awesome for them but they're investing $17k for 6% of the company at those levels, they can survive on small acquisitions etc.

Plus, your point of if a company gets acquired for $20M then it still can actually be considered a successful exit. You need to go and look how much they have raised etc most of those I listed had raised only a couple of million or less prior to acquisition.

Also I agreed with you regards to style and type they do look for a particular type of founder (as I highlighted earlier) one that is relentlessly resourceful http://paulgraham.com/relres.html
We all accept that Paypal probably have a hard job to weed out frauds etc, but they could improve things immensley by just making sure their phone support people do not patronise and talk down to customers when they freeze their funds. I had a frozen payment once and the needless beauracracy and petty attitude coming out of those Paypal phone operators is truly mind blowing. If you ever have to deal with this sort of situation it just turns you right off PayPal altogether.
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I would rather make $2.50 in an hour than $0.00. This is precisely why minimum wage laws are so immoral: they take people that are employable at the market wage and render them unemployable.
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No they don't! Probability does not work that way!
I've used via as "from a website" and hat tip as "from a tweet", mostly because I will use "via" on my blog and "ht" on Twitter.

"Via" should not mean the original source because it means "through" or "by means of".
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Heroku was acquired for $212MM with a 400x return to YC. I wouldn't exactly call that a baby buy with a small return from a $20k investment.

With regards to the other acquisitions I was highlighting that YC is actually successful without the need for the huge IPO with billion dollar exits. It doesn't need them in order to survive in can happily have $XX Million exits and be hugely successful.

However, they will have those billion dollar etc exits soon as you can see from the likes of some of those companies I listed such as DropBox, AirBnB, Stripe etc.
Plus tips. Which is about what they pay people that bring me my food at restaurants, if I understand correctly.
This is actually an idea that I've been kicking around for a couple of weeks. My idea is slightly more complicated, but this is the gist.

I would call it a digital media consumer's union, where a person pays in a certain amount per month and then the total is allocated to the copyright holders proportionally to the amount that their media are consumed by the members of the union. Consumption statistics for music are already tracked by things like last.fm (and libre.fm), and it would not be hard to build a tracker for things like movies, books, and possibly websites and computer programs.

The monthly bundle of money would obviously be the carrot, and if one of the companies getting the money decided to sue a member for copyright infringement, then the money would be coverted into a stick in the form of a legal defense fund.

What about free riders? There would obviously be some, but I think a lot of people really do think that digital distribution is terrible and would pay if given the chance.

What about trust? Whoever was doing the collecting would have to have a great reputation and be completely transparent. It should probably be a non-profit and regularly audited.

Would it be be sued into oblivion? IANAL, but it seems like giving people money should not be actionable. The big guys would probably try to get the list of members, so being paranoid about privacy seems like it would be a good idea.

What would it do to the incentives? This is my favorite part. Instead of the publishers attempting to lock everything up, the incentive would be for them to make content that is as consumed as possible. That is, the publishers would want their stuff to get out there so that people see it and give some of their share to the publisher. Things like digital locks would become counterproductive.

Things like flattr provide some precedent for this idea, though they obviously don't go track down people that aren't part of the system.

I'd love to hear critiques of this idea, because if it can't work, then I can stop thinking about it.
IT is not a question of grades, but solely of marketing power. Vista was unanimously hated. How many millions copies did they sell ? Merit has nothing to do with that. Even a 10/10 Ubuntu would not manage to unseat windows as it is.
Maybe there will be an 'evil' fork of his projects under a different license.
Amen - you hit the nail on the head. Their CS phone people are truly loathsome individuals, seemingly on a never ending mission to patronize the person on the other end of the phone.
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>I also want to say that I understand the compulsion to lay blame at the feet of the person being screwed over in stories like these ("They used the wrong button!" "They didn't read the TOU!"). Human nature is such that we have to find fault with the person on the receiving end of treatment like this. We desperately want to believe that if we'e very good, nothing bad will ever happen to us.

I'd say this is roughly 50/50. While Paypal's customer service is legendarily bad, and there's no excuse for not providing a method to talk to a live human, there's also no excuse for not reading the T&C and knowing what you can and cannot do, moreso if you're a business. This is a friggin' payment processor. One of your lifelines as a business. Not reading the terms is one of the dumbest possible things I can think of doing.

And this isn't a case of fine print, either. It's not hard to find Paypal's policy on preorders, or other things which you are specifically not supposed to do, and in fact agreed in advance not to do when you signed up.

You'd think that people knowing in advance that they're dealing with the devil would make them scrutinize the details that much more...
> You could always give performances and charge for those!

So, software as a service? It appears we've been heading that way for a while.

> Joking aside, I think that IP is and should remain a messy compromise. There are no easy answers. Were it to cease to exist completely, it would reduce the incentives for producers, and thus consumers would be worse off too because they would have less software, books, movies and music to enjoy.

I'm not sure we'd see less content, but less financially motivated content. Keep in mind, copyright is not the only way to subsidize content creation.

New music genres and artists are giving away their music online today -- and not just some of them. I'd say most new electronic music winds up on Soundcloud from the artists themselves. RIAA has a choke-hold on Pop music and that's it, but given the nature of Pop music, that's unsurprising.

It would be impractical to expect artists to give away their content with nothing in return... so create a business model that relies on payment before you produce the content rather than after you share it.

Copyright will die a slow and painful death, whether or not it is a compromise by today's standards. What are you going to do when I can put every HD movie ever created on my hard-disk? Enforcement isn't a gradient, it either largely works or largely doesn't.
I still don't understand where it's Paypal's place to do fraud investigations. What happened to Buyer Beware?

Let people spend their money how they want, be it scam or not. The only monitoring Paypal should do is that accounts aren't getting hacked.
Yes heroku did a great job, but what about the rest, they may just end up like Loopt, it was hyped and came down to alot of money raised and sold for nothing. And trust me YC isnt in this for the baby buyouts, its looking for that facebook.

Scribd is next, alot of hype and money, but just sucks.
Before you downvote, I'm all for providing employment for people who are unfortunate enough to be homeless, however I think the language chosen to describe the project (i.e. using the phrase "I'm Clarence, a 4G hotspot" on the shirts) is really what is causing the problem, as it seems to be what is seen as objectifying and depersonalising the vendor in a way that (as the article suggests) does the opposite of drawing attention to the person and their plight and ignores the wealth divide between the vendors and the customers.

I can't help thinking that the negative PR this is going to inevitably generate could have been completely avoided (and possibly paved the way for more permanent/better/similar experiments on a bigger scale in the future) if a different set of branding/wording had been used from the outset.

For what it's worth, I think that giving people an "honest day of work and pay" is an amazingly positive thing to do. You can't argue with Clarence!
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I am from the south so I think I probably pick up on the socal "like" more than people out west who hear it daily, and I distinctly remember listening to Marissa Mayer and attempting to count the instances in which she said it when I heard her speak about 7 or 8 years ago. The talk was very interesting and she didn't use it as a "thinking pause" however it was used very frequently.
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