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The most retarded blog post I've ever read probably. Gives a valuable insight into the american elitist mind-set and their so called moral "high-ground". But then again we all have freedom of speech, don't we ?
I agree about the eye-roll, although in my case I tend to do that when the subject is Facebook without regard to content. What I'm really curious about and I mean no offense here is whether or not you last sentence is self-referential?
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Most of the hard problems are to do with depreciation, and the legalities of how you classify them.

For example, Police departments have dogs. Dogs are assets. If all government departments are told to use accrual (rather than cashflow), they need to depreciate assets.

So the account needs to figure out how dogs depreciate. Should you assume that a dog has a useful life of 10 years, and loses 10% of its initial value every year? Or that it exponentially decays, as it gets older and less able to sniff bad guys? Or should it only be 5 years? What do you do if a dog ends up working long past its expiry date?

It can be tricky to come up with sensible numbers. Especially when accountants don't have domain knowledge, and people who do don't like speaking to them.
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Is this something like what's going to happen with IPv4?
> Remember that this feeling is not necessarily correct.

It is natural non the less.

> They are really asking to be challenged or given responsibility, and they probably will fail or need a lot of help.

So it's the responsibility of their parents and the society at large to help them become independent, instead of beating them down and accusing them of being stupid and irrational.
http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

Gates already had a million dollar trust fund.
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Quite different, basically no gui. I like ledger better. I have my personal and two different business accounts using ledger. I use git to VC the data files. I've done quite a bit of scripting to make the system more convenient (automate billing, tracking inventory, converting between cash-based and accrual reporting).

Ledger is really quite simple. The core of it could be implemented pretty easily (witness the number of "ledger" clones). I have my own somewhat compatible ledger program written in Python. It's crude otherwise I would release code.
What about Flight Control HD?
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(a) What value is there on that page?

(b) Knowing the person asking you the question had just selected and reviewed a sample of 12 of your content pages at random, what would you say the average Questia page looks more like: the Pabst sample you provided, or the sample Patrick provided above?
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2299608

No discussion on either yet, but they both are getting votes.
Would you say socialcam is a direct competitor to Qik? Does it do live streaming? video chat?
I'm really not sure how this is different from Last.fm. I use Last.fm for all the purposes mentioned in the article: keeping track of what I listen to, finding new artists, following friends, etc. Am I missing something?
Felix Salmon had an interesting take on this topic as well for those interested.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/03/07/the-economi...
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societies around the world who don't even have a word for "teen".

But isn't that just a matter of how they count? Admittedly it would be nicer if we said, tenie one, tenie two, tenie three, tenie four, etc... But he's saying that this is the crux of the problem?
I guess I just haven't been able to comprehend the usefulness of what node.js does and the potential it has. I'm planning on moving back to the bay area soon and I've heard that developers with ruby skills have not had a hard time at all getting job offers. My thinking was that having an understanding of PHP and ruby would be a pretty good combo for a backend developer but I guess learning JavaScript with node.js would give me some front end experience as well
So, did they do brain-scans of "teens" and "adults" in societies where the distinction doesn't exist? Seems like the critical piece missing from the argument.

It's also possible that there was a smaller difference in the brain a few hundred years ago from factors like food availability. The current over-abundance of food is changing the the timing of puberty for example.
You guys aware of http://postmarkapp.com? You guys might have problems with naming issues or trademarks. Nice design though
At the risk of being pretentious, I would say that what we all yearn for is (Heidegger's idea and vocabulary): "spatio-temporal ecstasis" -- the feeling that our self is expanding into the world, quickly and far. I get it when I learn more math -- I can feel my power or whatever it is expand into world. Teens in a good environment get it when they do their homework -- they know they are expanding and they feel it. All teens get it when they discover and become proficient at adult fun like fighting, working (at least some get this ;)), sex, driving fast, and becoming a mother. And when we crank down on this flowering of a person, they get upset. As they should (I love a pissed off teenager, myself, as long as they are smart too ...)

I don't think it's independence, it's this Nietszchean sort of power. (Remember, Nietszche knew that the discipline of the self christian ascetic was as much a will-to-power as the rape and pillage of Attilla or a successful HS football player...)
I don't think it makes sense to spend time on SVN support.

Any .NET shop who is stuck on SVN is NOT going to outsource their deployment/hosting to AppHarbor. It's better to serve the people on the cutting edge first.
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Yes, that would be where you would start, but I mentioned Growl because it comes packaged as a self-updating framework.
> What happens when you run out of batteries mid flight?

The same thing that happens to all the other electronics?
I don't understand the problem. Does the map rely on a different datum than WGS 84 (which GPS uses) for latitude/longitude?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System
> Look how quickly the Android market went from the G1 to the Nexus S.

In about the same time frame, Apple created the original iPhone and revised it into the iPhone 4. It's not clear to me how Android has a clear advantage here.
Oh, you're the guys who posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043422

Not what I was expecting from you, but this is pretty cool, too!
If they had taken risks in a perfect market, I would agree. The problem, at least in the US, is that because a limited amount of spectrum is available, and only a few companies have been given an exclusive right to use it, wireless data is natural monopoly / oligopoly.

Cable, telephone, wireless monopolies are very similar to, and should clearly be regulated in a similar way to power and water utilities... The only reason that they are not in the United States is political corruption.
At Grooveshark, we have a feature that does this and it works amazingly well. If you click on the people icon at the upper left hand corner of the screen you'll see a feed of what your friends are currently listening to on Grooveshark.

The feature has become so useful, that I often discover new music to listen to through it much more so than algorithmic recommendations. Social recommendations are indeed the best way to discover new music.

In fact, one interesting example of this is when one of our co-workers began recommending everyone listen to Mumford and Sons about 10 months ago. Within a month, everyone feeds were filled with Mumford and Sons playlists. I remember looking at my feed and thinking "Who the hell are Mumford And Sons". Turn's out they're awesome and blew up.
Until Apple switches the search box to Bing... Google's no slouch.
Whenever I think of "kik" I think of the three letters next to it on a qwerty keyboard "lol". Perhaps they wanted to make the name LOL messenger but switched to kik for whatever reason.
I would rather see an alert system to alarm the police when facebook is caught selling my information to 3rd parties.
I find it funny that they never bother to explain what or who are the Samaritans. It's probably a charity but I like to imagine they're talking about the real Samaritans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan
Simant lost a lot of its appeal once I worked out I could enter a new zone and queen-rush the enemy with a 50/50 chance of winning, and just send in a new queen if I failed.

For me all the various SimSomething games were more about figuring the rules, limits and possible abuses of the simulation design than the intended actual game.
I have totally been working on a site that would recommend music based on what your friends have been listening to. Similar to this, except it didn't have the great idea of tracking everything you listen to online through extensions. This is such a great idea. Congratulations guys!
Oh, you're the guys who posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043422

Not what I was expecting from you, but this is pretty cool, too!

Also, why no soundcloud?
The article points out that the societies have no word for "adolescent". The parent was using a synonymous term, not one involving counting.
At Grooveshark, we have a feature that does this and it works amazingly well. If you click on the people icon at the upper left hand corner of the screen you'll see a feed of what your friends are currently listening to on Grooveshark.
The feature has become so useful, that I often discover new music to listen to through it much more so than algorithmic recommendations. Social recommendations are indeed the best way to discover new music.
In fact, one interesting example of this is when one of our co-workers began recommending everyone listen to Mumford and Sons about 10 months ago. Within a month, everyone's feeds were filled with Mumford and Sons playlists. I remember looking at my feed and thinking "Who the hell are Mumford And Sons". Turns out they're awesome and got super popular.
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Please don't copy this notification system. It's too cumbersome.

Instead, copy Android's (preferably) or WebOS's.
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Formal education is probably the culprit here. It segments young adults into age groups, and then limits the entire days interaction to the same lot of children.

You can't define people simply by what year they are born in. Some family environments provide children with an outlet where they end up with a very mature outlook, others don't.

The problem with this stratification is that it soon becomes the "norm" for children. My kids would say, for example, he wouldn't talk to some other kids because they are in another grade or in another class. It is a totally artificial barrier.

In days past, you'd have a grandfather or grandmother around. Kids would hang around their uncles and cousins workshops. There no distinct border. Children can see how they are expected to transition from one role to another.

Fast forward to the present day, the "teen" is now effectively a market segment, and it has become "weird" or uncomfortable to deal with kids who are too young for them or adults who are uncool for them. The narrative behind TV shows and books only serve to reinforce this.

As parents, we have a duty to help our children recognize these artificial barriers and help them overcome these perception.
They have stock options for employees and a lot of VC capital, so the "owners salary" is hard to define. I'm sure the founders receive a nice salary, but the investors aren't going to be happy with having $2k left at the end of the year to split.
... and back up to 1 on March 6, very close! I'm running the nightlies and find recent builds to be very stable.
I misread the title as Last.fm there!
It's a really inefficient way to present the fact you support both platforms.
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From what I've seen, the intersection between "Material taught as part of a CS degree" and "Material needed to be a competent coder" is alarmingly small. The people who turn out to be good programmers are the ones who are working on their own stuff outside of class--and aren't just making sure they can sort a linked list efficiently.
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Has there been any thought to making use of facial recognition software for instant tagging. I had a similar idea to Socialcam but for pictures that auto tag and upload your pictures with location, people, along with some other features.
My startup blaster.fm which I submitted for review recently - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2275032 - does a similar sort of thing with more of a social bent. It leverages last.fm's idea of scrobbling, so there's no need for new ways to track what you're listening to.

Best of luck though, guys.
Dear YooLi: That comment specifically addressed the misleading, US only, practice of advertising phones as free when they are no such thing.

That goes to the heart of this discussion. In the US, the iPhone is marketed as a premium product apparently because it isn't available "FREE". In fact, the total-cost-of-contact is pretty close between say an iPhone and an Android phone with similar specs.

Obviously price (and price perceptions) affect market share.
Writing a 2D platformer this year was one of my more enlightening programming experiences. It absolutely made me draw the line between "Things that are theoretically correct (and impossible to implement)" and "Things that can be implemented easily and are `close enough'".
The signup process is fantastic. I had zero trouble whatsoever completing the registration and installing the web & desktop clients. Streamlined = good stuff.

I can't tell you how pleased I was when I clicked the Facebook Connect button and didn't see a request for permission to post to my wall. Thumbs up for not needing that.
Try hitting the refresh button - it acts like it's disabled! Ctrl+R still works, though.
In the UK (I can't speak to other regions) unlimited SMS plans became common because the networks realised it was a great way to hook young people - and it's been available for several years.
Great to see; loving what AppHarbor offers over other .NET based 'cloud' hosts. Simplicity above all else.
I wouldn't. That would be comparable to phone networks charging for access to instant messaging on their phone (on top of data costs).

Charging for SMS is more like your ISP charging you an additional $xx/month to use an instant messaging system that they themselves provide and host.
No, really. There were three FB stories on the front page when I wrote that.
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I believe that simple economics will kill the shared hosting company, given enough time:

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/07/10/shared-hosting-is-doomed...
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I find the thrust of this article fascinating -- it makes sense intuitively.

But the following quote clearly sounded over the top: Teens are subject to, Epstein explains, “…more than 10 times as many restrictions as are mainstream adults, twice as many restrictions as active-duty U.S. Marines, and even twice as many restrictions as incarcerated felons.”

I'd sure like to see some proof of that. Surely teens get a raw deal, but to that extent? It set off my "critical thinking" alarm.
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This is the captain speaking. Does anyone onboard have an iPad we can borrow?

/humour (just in case someone feels the need to explain the problems with that idea.)
You can't review twelve of their content pages at random. After the second page of one of those public domain books, you'll be hit with an unskippable signup prompt. (One day free trial with CC.)

That's actually within the letter of the Google guidelines for First Click Free, but you could be forgiven for not enjoying the experience as a searcher.
One wonders about the wisdom of treating any interaction with an adult as being tantamount to asking for sexual exploitation... but I think I talked to maybe three adults who were not parents, teachers, or family in an eight year period.

Did your family subscribe to any specific religion or something that would lead to this behavior? I just had never heard of something like this. Although I guess if the age span is 0-8 there's really not that many adults to interact with who aren't family or teachers. It's not like you're going to work or having lunch dates. And it's not like some random 32 year old is going to come over to just hang out. But still, it seems odd to even think that either you were being specifically shielded or you thought you were.

At age 8, or even 10, I never though, "I wish I could talk to more adults". If anything, I probably would've like to talk to fewer adults. :-)
Thanks for that signup process.

How hard is it to extend this to some linux apps like Amarok or VLC? Is that in your development list, or are the programs too sparse?
OK, that sounds pretty amazing, but is it as good as it sounds? For example, Leon Sterling wrote a 400 page book that included a crappy unrealistic example of how to write a Tamagotchi program. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262013118 Funny, considering Luca Cardelli's paper about biologist's fixing tamagotchi's.
Same here. No more Manning MEAPs for me. I'll wait for the finished book next time.
This seems pretty cool, but I use the Pandora desktop client (paid for Pandora One.. hated the ads) or foobar2000 as my player and neither of those are supported :(

I haven't used Last.fm in years and this is very appealing, but Like.fm just doesn't offer a way to track what I listen to right now.
Hey, it is HN again. I would have about four times as many points if I ever remembered to post any of my stuff here. :-)

Thanks for the feedback, will update it with regards to osx later.
Fortunately, Like.fm has almost the same scrobbling API as Last.fm, which makes it very easy to port existing plugins.

Chris (Like.fm's creator) was able to help me modify a python plugin for Exaile rather quickly to support his website. I'm sure he'd be willing to work with anyone who would want to create and open source a plugin for other players.
You haven't made an argument why such would be considered "rot".
Early 20th-century child labor laws were a misguided attempt to solve an important problem (the exploitation of a specific class of workers). The evil they meant to prevent is child abuse, which is a subset of basic human rights abuse.

Abuse is a violation of a right. What rights do children have that adults lack? What rights do we lose when we reach the age of majority? That's a hard way to look at this problem from a society that purports to grant additional rights (or to lift prohibitions) as a person ages.

Many of us on HN understand that non-academic labor is the best way to gain experiences that we find indispensable in the pursuit of happiness. Withholding opportunities from minors is an even greater abuse than the working conditions that prompted the prohibition of child labor and compulsory schooling.
Foobar2000 is actually next in line for windows to be supported.
I'd be interested to know how to even count "how many" restrictions one is subject to.
Don't worry, they'll still make you turn yours off until 10,000 feet.
> Most of the hard problems are to do with depreciation, and the legalities of how you classify them.

I would generalise that to say that all the hard problems in accounting are ones of classification.

Does sale X fall in 2010 or 2011?

Do we book the inventory when we order it, when it is delivered to our warehouse, when it is delivered to our shop, or all three? And if we use some combo, how do we combine them in LIFO calculations?

We've just donated $100,000 to Fashionable Cause, a charitable foundation founded by Irish rockstar Nobo and in exchange he will wear our platform shoes exclusively. Do we book this under philanthropy or marketing? If philanthropy, do we consider it part of the overhead cost for the shoes sold?

And so on and so on.

Most of the big bucks in accounting comes from coming up for clever excuses as to why something should be categorised in a certain way.
I have a hard time reading it as anything other than Last.fm even after knowing it isn't Last.fm.

Wehn you cnodiser how we sacn wdors scuh taht the bignennig and end are by far the most iportmant deriffentaiotrs, the nmiang is annoyingly similiar, IMO.
You are looking for a rational argument where it's pretty obvious that what the poster you're replying to is saying is "I like the taste of the Apple koolade"

Every discussion of Android vs iOS phones ends this way: "No matter what milestone has just achieved, iOS/Apple is better because of X!"

It's tedious.
I'd take that "hundreds" and divide it by 4 to arrive at the upper bound of the number of actual Qt developers Digia have.
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Heh, the last sentence was a joke akin to "Absolutes are never absolute."
Not to pick on your comment specifically, but I've seen a couple of comments that imply this is the kind of mistake that one would make in a moment of absent-mindedness, and I disagree. Nobody with any semblance of a clue is writing (new) apps that access user input from PHP super globals directly. If you are ever using $_GET in your app-specific code you are doing it horribly wrong, not making a silly mistake.

That being said, there are legions of clueless devs out there who will do this, and that is unfortunate.
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> numerous societies around the world who don't even have a word for "teen"

Arabic doesn't have a word for teens (not even a loan word), but they have a word for adolescence.

This may be a bit embarrassing, but I only recently understood the real meaning of "teenager". I used to think it's just an arbitrary word that has the same meaning as "youth".
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You would be punished, or demerited, I assume.
I think I'd choose blip.fm over like.fm, personally.
That is a great post (and may be how the info got to the people who clued me in to the existence of sip.voice.google.com).

He also has this post writing about the type of SIP integration we really need to have with Google Voice:

http://blog.duh.org/2011/03/google-to-kill-gizmo5-on-3-april...