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You can pull money out of a Roth investment (IRA or 401(k)) at any time without penalty because the tax is not deferred. You pay normal income tax on all the contributions you make in the year you earn the money.
> "It's safe to say that whoever is storing phone numbers as integers either didn't study or didn't receive a proper education on the inner workings of a computer."

...or that they didn't absorb it. A lot of the comments on this post are indignantly claiming that "anyone who has taken a CS class...", as if every lesson of every class is perfectly absorbed by every student. As someone who teaches CS, I assure you that we discuss appropriate data representation right from the start, but I can attest to the fact that even students who did understand the general lessons about strings vs. ints (vs. other things) sometimes aren't great at applying it.

And while decent testing should have caught this, sure, test-driven design and effective regression testing was long an on-the-job training sort of thing; good testing as an integral part of the programming process was not a widespread part of the ugrad CS curriculum until fairly recently (and is far from universal even now).
self storage building? What's that?
Frankly, I think we got caught up in the races with content farms like Demand Media too much.

This would seem a lot more heartfelt if you hadn't gone into a strident attack/deny mode when the criticisms were raised.

As for your plan to change Mahalo into a deluxe content farm, color me still unimpressed. Maybe it's possible, but company culture comes from the top, and it's hard to see anybody who works for you caring about top quality.

You clearly don't care about quality. And you've clearly shown a willingness to flat-out lie about that, and attack people one year (then admit they were right the next).

As such, given that you're clearly just an asshole who wants to find some sort of profitable content, how can anybody have any passion? How can you really be the best in the world, when the CEO clearly doesn't give a fuck about the product?

Here's to hoping you become a better leader, a better CEO, and a better human being. Until then, I don't like your odds.
Here in brazil (at least in são paulo) there are around four companies (groupon included) fighting tooth and nail for this market, even using black-hat-ish techniques (unsolicited email, misguiding website, impossible-to-unsubscribe mailing lists, deceitful ads, etc).

I think most urban-ish places with a capitalized youth are a ripe market for coupon-type businesses.
Actually, in the tutorial, I go through how you can use Underscore templates, which are stored as .jst files alongside your regular ERb templates. (no hardcoded strings)

I can tell you know that after using Backbone for a largish javascript project, it really eases the pain that comes with syncing data to and from the server, and handling all the random bits of javascript that usually pile up in a Rails application.

Basically, it gives you a logical place for everything.

Of course, if you're app isn't javascript intensive, there's no reason to use it.
I just want to add that in my opinion there is nothing less risky than owning your own home. When I look at what I pay in interest each month for a mortgage and think about how much cash I would need in safe government backed bonds to generate that much income it is a no brainer for me. I know it is unlikely but the government could default, or more likely inflation erodes the real gains over time.

After maxing out a 401K the rest of my money is going towards my mortgage.
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Sadly, there's no news on the relevant question yet. Will it be price competitive with the iPad?
I think I need to choose between:
1. progressing fast now, but slowing down when - and if - the site takes off, as I will lose some flexibility I'd have with Rails.
2. progressing slower now and go rails (or even django)

I think I'll go with 1.
* Trading 'high risk - high reward' in a taxable account with margin (ex: put in 10k and they give me $30k extra). About 15-20 trades per month, 30% day trades and the rest 5-10 day hold periods. I use stop losses to minimize risk. I have no losses YTD. I use Twitter to find stocks in play and trade based on technicals.

* Max Roth IRA in long term trades.

* 401k up to employer match

* No mortgage, no car, no kids, paying under 10k school loan off

* I rent in the city, walk to work (no public transit costs) and each year I can upgrade or downgrade my monthly rent based on my income changes.

I'm thinking about buying a detached property (minor HOA fees) in Miami or Las Vegas in cash to move and dedicate full time working on my startup and trading.
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I do the same with my Roth principle. But it's worth mentioning that, when you roll a 401k into a Roth you owe taxes on it. And if you have to take a portion of that 401k principle to pay the taxes, you'd almost certainly be better off keeping it int he 401k.

Also, if you imagine you'll have the same tax rate now as you will at retirement, there's no advantage to a roth. Whether you prepay taxes or defer them, it's all the same, the cash available at retirement will be the same.

The real advantage to a Roth is if you think you're paying a lower tax rate now than you will be when you retire.
I agree with just about everything you're doing. I am still invested in the market but I know what you're saying about expecting a correction. I actually used the dip the market took last week to put some more money to work.

I totally agree on housing. Mortgage rates aren't going to get any cheaper ever again (although I said the same thing in 2003) so it is a good time to lock in a low rate. But, I live in the SF Bay Area and rents are so cheap compared to housing prices (still) that it would be really hard to up our housing costs by 50% (at least) and move into a worse place. Unfortunately, the wife has her heart set on home ownership so we might wind up going that way.
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> They're easier to create and update, and they offer an inferior user experience.

No, they're not. Good web apps have never been easier to create but what they offered was extremely easy distribution. What Apple did on the iPhone was make distribution almost as easy as going to a web page, knocking out HTML-based apps best advantage.
My kids (9 and 11) aren't going to be allowed to use Facebook at 13 either.

It bothers me a bit --- it's something I've considered Asking HN --- that what meager writing ability I have, I gleaned from dialup BBS's in the early '90s; my kids lack a similar forum.

This is a big deal. Holding everything else at a low constant threshold, the ability to write and to take tests practically guarantees a B average. On a single day, no, hell, between build cycles! we write comments on HN that'd pass muster as a middle school essay. I've tried to communicate to my hemming and hawing son that I write stuff of similar length for enjoyment, and he doesn't get it.
Awesome, I'm really excited to see what you guys come up with. Also, I'd definitely be interested in trading some guest blog posts at some point. On the off chance that you're NYC based as well we should totally grab drinks and talk shop sometime.

And the pic on the front is my girl and I. Glad you like it :)
An Android app that generated $150,000 in a month
Actually, this year she switched hers to an IRA.

The other issue we've run into is that there is some law that says (and I forget the exact details) 401k contributions from the highly-paid employees can't be more than x% greater than the average employee contribution in the company. So if you work someplace where several other people are not doing 401K allocations, you get a "refund" at the end of the year (has happened to both of us).
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We reviewed Xtreme NO, a new muscle building supplement that claimed to provide huge gains in muscle and increased strength in the gym while working out, along with super fast recovery times.
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For the record, the majority of Timbuk2's bags are made in China. It's only their custom bags that are made in the city.
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And yet, still unrelated to library porn-viewers.
devonshire-recruiting.co.uk does not exist and they linked to trollface. It's clearly not the actual recruiter.
"Those invited to join are asked to pay a $5,000 participation fee and to donate a 1 percent equity stake."

Thanks, but, no, thanks.
I went all in on my startup. Jury's still out, but it felt like the right thing to do.
Oh right. When you rollover, you pay normal income taxes on it. My big point was that if I have a year where I have minimal income, normal income taxes are going to be so low that rolling it over makes a ton of sense. I doubt I'll ever have a lower tax rate than in a year with very little income.
Is this different from a VPS?

Looks like Linode has Debian 6 available too:
http://blog.linode.com/2011/02/08/debian-6-squeeze/
It's not lower latency, it's hidden latency. If you are one to be randomly amused and distracted by shiny things, perhaps you'd like it more.
Huh? I thought these were Swiss banks. As far as I know, he didn't break Swiss law.

Many organizations have a fiduciary duty which may break the law in some countries. For example, Tarsnap's fiduciary duty to protect secrecy almost certainly breaks the law in China, North Korea or Iran. Do you believe their duty to protect their client's data should not trump the laws of China?
completely agree, he is a US citizen that was partaking in breaking US laws (tax evasion) by US Citizens, that trumps Swiss Law let alone Swiss "Duty".

It also makes no sense to me ethically to have the same protections as Drs or Lawyers for bankers, lawyers protect your rights, dr protect your life...what exactly do bankers do that is so important...besides hide Nazi gold and crash the world's economies?
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Where do you keep your mailing addresses?
There are many places you keep your contacts (e.g. Outlook, your mobile phone, Gmail/Yahoo/...), and there are many tools to keep them in sync.
Where do you keep the information about mailing addresses of those contacts? And how do you keep the information up to date?
I don't think it's controversial.

For one thing, I generally advise people to try to be prepared for future financial catastrophic events (job loss), but also enjoy the fruits of your labor in the short-term.

Also, most of history has proven out that the most reliable path to wealth is self-employment/entrepreneurship. However this also has very high risks, so if you're not ready to FULLY commit, your best option might be a 9-to-5 and a slightly less spendy lifestyle.
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Redis solves the same problem, while offering way more features. In terms of speed, Redis is in the same area.

Memcached is also a key-value store (quote from the official site "Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data"). I've been slowly using Redis more and more over the past 6 months, and as an heavy memcached user, i can tell you that i don't really see a need for both, might as well take advantage of the useful features Redis as to offer on top of the "basic" Memcached-like stuff.
Your local Credit Union Bank, will offer free financial advise, if you have an account with them. Our credit union advisor, was really patient in answering pretty much all our questions..

well.. he will try to sell some of the bank services, but
finally he was able to convice us to roll over IRA to our bank's IRA.
Cocoa and Android are the native APIs of the platform. HTML5 is an abstraction on top of Cocoa and Android; it should be obvious that it's not at the same level. HTML is the least common denominator across all platforms and is a sandbox on top of that. The distinction is a lot stronger than you make it out to be.
I agree that it is fully capable of producing professional quality work, given that it's professional adoption has been relatively small as to date. 3D packages take years of investment in training to master and once one masters a suit they are hesitant to switch. The dogma in 3D packages can be worse than language dogma. For good reason as well, with languages some amount of foundation transfers but with 3D packages how one accomplishes a task differs from UI to UI, it is closer to starting completely over. When I left 3D as a career I had one of 2 choices buy a full license for a commercial package(and an SGI at the time, Wavefront had just become Maya and the windows version was in the works) or learn Blender. I chose the latter it really was starting over but I eventually became as good with Blender as I was with Wavefront (now Maya).
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When did selling shares (especially when you have many) become dumping? As I recall he's doing his humanitarian bit nowadays, which strangely enough costs money.
We are offering cloud servers i.e. stand alone servers in a cloud environment. You have complete control over the software and networking layers. So you are basically running Debian (in this case) with the same level of control that you'd have over a system installed on a dedicated server. You have full and sole root access inside your system.
Only up to contributions, not gains. But for most young people, you're right: contributions > accumulated gains.
I don't like receiving unsolicited template emails from recruiters. However, you never know when you might need them, or their colleague, in future. So, although I don't respond to unsolicited template emails, I politely respond to individual LinkedIn requests, individual emails and phone calls. It doesn't take long to understand the opportunity, explain my position and ask them to only contact me in future if they have some specific kind of role I'm interested in. Usually they go away with no hard feelings and sometimes they've called me back in a couple of months with something genuinely relevant.

Now, just occasionally I've run into a total asshat. In fact, there is a guy who calls me in my current role who actually wants to act as an agent for my company. Every week he calls and asks to speak to <made_up_name>, expresses surprise when I say they don't work here and then asks who's in charge now. Every week I tell him never to call here again and every week he calls. If I could be bothered, I would report him to the phone company, authorities or whatever but frankly, life is too short and it's almost more of an amusement now.
I got out of employer 401k. Yes they are tax advantaged, but your money is hostage and you will be harshly penalized if you ever need it for some unapproved use. I find that these penalties cause me to be much more conservative with the amount of money that I am willing to invest.

Since I got out of tax advantaged accounts I now use an online broker to buy exclusively index funds. In the past I was only comfortable investing say 15% of my money (after living expenses), but now I feel comfortable investing 40-50%. I don't need to simultaneously keep a huge amount of cash savings because at any time I can sell my index funds and have the money in less than a month.

You also pay extremely low fees with index funds whereas 401k plans can have pretty high fees depending on the provider.
Bullshit. The fundamental difference between email and telegraphs are that you don't have to "go down to the email office" (and furthermore, is more decentralized).

You know what is otherwise nearly perfectly analogous to telegraphs? Texting. That stuff is popular as fuck.
Well, it's public how numbers vary so much. Mine's a niche music site so I don't think I should expect much more than what it's doing right now. I could easily improve the banners placement though, I just think it isn't worth it.
And just a little while ago Eric Schmidt was dumping his shares!

You're completely correct. There's many reasons to "dump" shares, and very few of them are indicators of something bad.
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I also felt in love with the country, but so far no "fun and easy resources". Also, it is a heck hard language, so far it is the hardest grammar I've found (although looks like gaelic grammar is hard, too), the declension rules are nightmarish.
Really? So if I sell this as a "product search engine", I'm immune from people claiming I stole their images. I noticed Polyvore which lets people tag and share images seems to fly under the copyright area.

Such a grey area though....
How is that different than stand alone servers? Is the amount of RAM and disc virtually unlimited?
Yup. They sell them on Amazon too but they are significantly cheaper at JR... the UL30VT that is.
Sure, but there's a major incentives issue when people start demanding a percentage of the proceeds for uncovering frauds they initially helped to commit...

I also don't think it's appropriate that he's in prison whilst those he tried to unmask aren't, of course.
> but portability is non-existent

I'd argue that portability is a non-issue. iPhone developers know that to make sales to iPhone owners, their applications have to visually and functionally integrate seamlessly into that environment. The same is true for Android owners. Anyone writing a portable HTML5 application is at an extreme disadvantage. And the fact is, the effort necessary to make an excellent mobile browser based UI that integrates seamlessly with multiple platforms is more work than simply rewriting the app for multiple native platforms.
I wrote a popular article about this: http://techneur.com/post/3068783134/customers-demand-native-...
I am heavily invested in Australia - huge natural resources and located close to the growing asian markets.
I'm not sure I understand. You mean it should release both throttle and brake at the same time? Or by "feather" do you mean "push"? If so, what are those situations? The only one I can think of is deliberate rubber burning...

Edit: I guess another is for not spooling down the turbo when braking for a corner. If you're worried about that, you are probably far from a normal street driving situation.
Which technical point of view? From an enterprise standpoint, where it's on par with the iPhone and behind Blackberry, or an API standpoint, where CocoaTouch has about 30 years of development lead-time?
This isn't controversial at all. This is pretty much the typical HN answer. But, the OP wasn't looking for this...

"I realize the general consensus around here may be that the best investment would be in yourself (have 25k? start a business!), but surely some people have "normal" investments, too. How do you hack it?"

Congrats on making this decision to do a startup, but that's not what he is looking for.

For what it's worth, I think that the way "big money" wins and "little guy" loses is exactly because of this. When people lose a ton of money, they lose confidence in the market and don't get to make much of it back in the subsequent rebound. To answer the OP's point, I invest in tech stocks/ETFs that I understand. I cut my losses very quickly, but buy more shares on my way up if it's going up. That's how after taking only a 10% loss in the market collapse I grew my portfolio about 80% the past 2 years in the recovery. Good luck! If you want more thoughts/ideas definitely email me- in profile. I'd be happy to discuss.
I'm pretty sure you're right - Bill donates BILLIONS of dollars to charity and humanitarian cause(s), so he needs to have billions on hand to do that.

You don't see Steve Jobs "dumping" his shares because he doesn't donate most of his money, like Bill Gates does.
You can't use Google to prove anything. You are not privy to their evaluation of success and failure. But don't feel bad, very few are.
How about a 1.9.2 compatible heroku gem ? Do I still have to run heroku commands on a 1.8.7 ruby ? Last time I checked it was still binary-tied to 1.8.7.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4764509/ruby-1-9-2-heroku...
Isn't a place like this (or reddit or any of the many special-interest forums out there) an equivalent replacement for the BBS era? Are the available platforms just not productive for "long form" writing?
I really hope they do come out with something nice. I wrote applications for the palm pre with their ares IDE and it was a blast. They just don't have the user base to make it worthwhile for developers and it sucks because I don't think anything beats HTML/Javascript when it comes to writing mobile apps.
I wouldn't mind one that just saved to git.
I think there are several unanswered relevant questions:

1. Is it priced competitively (base model between $400 and $600)?

2. Does the software fit the form factor (unlike current Android tablets)?

3. Is its hardware up to the task (not in terms of specs but in terms of “snappiness”) and does it have competitive battery life?

4. Will it be available immediately or very soon?

Some of those questions will be answered today, others only later in reviews.
For a second I thought you had accidentally linked to Robert Plant's blog. Looks like there's a ton of good stuff on there, thanks.
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In my case, the hashtag was all I used. McCain's "That one" moment was enough of an insta-meme that it exploded pretty quickly.

I think the key was spotting that the phrase would resonate with so many people as soon as he said it. By the time the press picked up on it and columnists started writing about it, I had already made the bulk of my sales, and the dropoff was as fast as the spike had been.
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A portable, federated, school-based social network might be an interesting end-run around the data lock-in problem.

You could pitch the solution as a sort of portal-with-social-network-features to the school (something they're all keen to have) and you'd wind up with a huge userbase and a steady stream of profiles that want to port-out or echo-out from their school-based service each and every year. And, as even large schools are tiny on an internet-scale, scaling problems are vastly simplified.

Then each outside service that wanted to be able to take these profiles in, or allow a link between an in-school profile and one of their profiles (so Sue's uploads to the photography club make it to the flickr stream their parents can subscribe to), would essentially be signing on to a common data format and interchange protocol.
One question pops up from your post: What happens when you internalize both success and failure?
I liked this article a lot because I've just came to the same realization a few days ago. To encourage innovation you have to have a culture that encourages it ... that puts the emphasis on doing amazing things instead of not fucking up.

Big companies are all about not fucking up, and when there is a fuck up, bending someone over the barrel for it, so that it never happens again ... which is why they are places where innovation goes to die. I mean why would you attempt some crazy initiative when you'd just get dinged/fired if it didn't work out.

Google's masterstroke was is in empowering people to try new things without fear of failure with their 20% rule.

So whenever somebody asks how you/they can be innovative ... what they really should be asking is "how can we give people who work there, the freedom to try new things without fear of failure".

Any organizations that will do whatever it takes to possess that culture will generally succeed at this 'innovation' thing.
Robot buys a scone in a coffee shop, that's all you really need to know
The only thing "Textmate-like" about this Chrome extension is that it has a file list on the left and a tabbed editor on the right.

That said, this looks quite convenient, and I appreciate you bringing it to my attention!
Is this different from a VPS?
But if you're in Greece and can speak and read Greek, but are then put in front of a Greek computer and can't use it, that looks pretty bad...