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Scala is definitely worthwhile learning, particularly if you're coming from a Java background. If you're using it as a "better" Java it can make your code much more succinct through type inference, pattern matching, traits etc and short code is usually easier to understand and debug. It's also a great way to start learning about functional programming since Scala supports both imperative and function programming styles.

The things to be careful of are the advanced features such as implicit conversions, they seem like a great feature and in a small code base they work great. But if your code base grows at all it can be next to impossible to be sure what your code is going to do.

Not trying to repeat a cliche but as with most things, "With great power comes great responsibility," and Scala gives you a lot of power but it also puts the onus on you to know how and when to use it.
The only Google sanctioned "tablet" from that time was as you mention the Galaxy Tab. The only reason it had the market was because it was essentially a big phone. In Europe, you even pop a sim in it and make calls out of the box. However, the others were not sanctioned thus hardly qualifying as a "generation" and even the Galaxy Tab was discouraged by various people involved in Android development.
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I honestly am not trying to sound harsh, but I've found that this discussion provides a very convenient excuse for a lot of people. If your app isn't great on Android, it's Android's fault. To the reviews on iOS (which I browsed to on my iPad 3rd gen), a large percentage of the reviews complained about the app outright crashing. How is that not a problem on the client?
Well Microsoft-Facebook makes sense from a competitive standpoint with Apple-Twitter.
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"Scandanavia, England, and the Netherlands"

I guess if your idea of paying 60%+ taxes is "the best of both worlds", then by all means do it.

"The problem is that the people complaining when their benefits are cut are often the same ones complaining that our tax rate is 'too high' compared to the 92% (!) marginal tax rate during Eisenhower's administration. But of course, that's around the time that the baby boomers were born, so they don't remember that."

Should we also talk about the state of women's rights or minorities during that time? Oh yeah, and stop complaining.

92% marginal tax rate was wrong then..and it's wrong now.
I find that many people will put more trust in a scruffy programmer over one in a suit, purely because it fits their own mental image of how a hacker should look.

Stereotypes can cut both ways on stuff like this.
A recent study of the Tea Party [1] found that most grassroots members didn't oppose benefits (SS, Medicare, etc.) to people like themselves, just to "freeloaders" like young or poor people:

"Older, middle-class Tea Partiers mostly approve of Social Security, Medicare, and generous benefits for military veterans. Their opposition to “big government” entails reluctance to pay taxes to help people viewed as undeserving “freeloaders” – including immigrants, lower income earners, and the young." [2]

[1] http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/01/tea-party-passions
[2] understandingtheteaparty.com/Book
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Speaking from outside North America:
We're hoarding popcorn right now to see if you can figure out this one.

(however I've heard some west europe countries are sharing the milder form of the same disease)
Contrary to the article, the USPS is not making an operational profit. In FY 2010 it had an operational loss (NOT counting any pension funding) of $600 million. In FY 2011 that rose to an operational loss of $2.2 billion

Do your figures for operational profit consider this part of the article:

In addition, due to a 40-year-old accounting error, the federal Office of Personnel Management has overcharged the post office by as much as $80 billion for payments into the Civil Service Retirement System. This means that USPS has had billions of its sales dollars erroneously diverted into the treasury.
All this would indicate is that there's a new dress-code. e.g. not turning up in jeans, hoodie/t-shirt (or whatever counts for 'casual') marks you out. It's just another uniform.

When you can rock up wearing a suit or a hoodie and be treated exactly the same is when dress no longer matters.
Makes sense, and yeah, that kind of error is something that grammar checkers still fail miserably at. Thanks!

It's good to know that it has at least been done. There are so many places where technology lies untapped, I was half-expecting this to be one of them since it's such an old field (and with close ties to the government).
Simple fix in two steps. 1. Delink entitlement with inflation. 2. Inflate away.

Non-working Boomers with fixed incomes will lose due to inflation. Working late comers will have their earning raised with inflation.
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we have thought about doing this before, and not done it yet either, lol. thanks!
USPS sells an overpriced product. If private companies were legally allowed to charge less than the post office to stick mail in your mailbox, the post office would go under in a heartbeat;

Do you have a citation for that? I fail to see how on the one hand there is the argument that the USPS can't stay afloat and on the other hand a private company can succeed in the same business by charging less. Further, what service would these private companies be offering, exactly? Door to door pickup/delivery? So Fedex and UPS would ramp up massive infrastructure to support door to door service, but each would effectively only have 1/2 the houses in a neighborhood. And that would be profitable for less than 45 cents a letter? Doesn't seem likely to me.
Startups need designer co-founders. Design is that essential. Instead startups try to hire a founder role. And that is a shitty deal few would take.
I am not, by the way, sold on this particular ideology about models and controllers. The controller-based pattern has stuff to recommend it, as does the model-based pattern. I think most apps are going to end up wanting to do both.
This was sort of our "plan b", but he just can't make the time commitment we need right now.
Implications: Verizon plans bandwidth-gobbling mobile video service
I think you would enjoy the book _The Tangled Web_ by Michel Zalewski, of Google's browser & web security team.
I'd say it's less "creepy" than "awkward." Which is exactly why it's humorous.
It's definitely an interesting question because technically there isn't a huge difference between streaming video from Netflix and watching on-demand programs through your cable box. They're both just streaming video.

So, the flipside of this argument is whether your regular cable programming should count against your bandwidth. In order for net neutrality to work property that might have to become the case one day because otherwise there's a lot of gray area.
Ruhoh another static blog generator. from the creators of Jekyll Bootstrap
Reminds me of the work by Johnny Lee on projector calibration. His appears to be a bit faster.

http://johnnylee.net/projects/thesis/
I agree about the wedding, and disagree about the investor pitch. Underdressing for a wedding might be perceived as an insult. Likewise with an investor meeting, but the risk is much lower since it's not principally a social occasion. Moreover, dressing like a hacker has an upside: they'll know you're a hacker. Finally, underdressing is a status hack known as counter-signaling: if you're confident enough to show up to an investor pitch in jeans and a T shirt, you must be a badass. Jobs wore mock turtlenecks and jeans with holes in them; Zuck wears fleeces and shitty sandals.
It seems down right now, but there was a nice database of secret preferences at http://secrets.blacktree.com/ and included a Preference Pane to access them.
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Yes, I do know how it is. My cofounder has a 7 year old, and I have a 6 year old and a 4 month old. Luckily for us as well, we have a great support network, and amazing spouses who are super supportive as well. I think if anyone wants us to get YC as bad as we do, it would be my husband :) I think it's easier for us to drop everything for our start up than for him because it's "our" project, you know?
Did you apply to yc this session anyway?
I'll chat with my girl and maybe we can send you an email monday!
HaHa! Google is awesome! Other outlets are just running bizarre news stories today, but Google actually developed and released something so cool!
BB is insanely popular in Indonesia and from my understanding and from all my Indonesian friends, almost everyone has one. Besides being really cheap to buy one, their phone plans are really cheap as well.

Probably due to the prevalence of BBM as well.

I would have bought a BB long ago, if not for the ridiculously overpriced BB specific phone plans that are for offer in comparison with the other mobile plans.
thanks, that is what we were hoping :)
(I'm not a tax attorney) Most of those countries have double taxation agreements with the US. You can take a credit or deduction for taxes paid.

In general, if you're a US citizen, you pay the maximum of US or foreign taxes. Usually you end up paying mainly foreign tax, since most (worthwhile to live in) countries tax individual income higher than the USA does. There's also a ~95k income exemption if you're out of the USA.

If you move to a zero or low income tax place, then the global taxing power of the US becomes relevant. Still, you don't pay higher taxes than if you remained in the USA.

Taxes probably shouldn't be a major factor for a US citizen in deciding to expatriate. If you want to live in Sweden more than the US, and can get a job, go for it. You don't have to go forever. I think the only issue is that you might not end up paying enough Social Security tax to the US to earn the maximum amount, but for someone paid like a tech worker, not an issue.

The other thing is if you move to a place with lower cost of living, you might have lower wages for the same quality of life, which means lower taxes paid (in absolute rate, and in progressive tax tier).

I don't think there's a better place to do a tech startup than Silicon Valley now, but if you want to do a wind or solar energy startup, moving to Germany might make sense. If you want to go SCUBA diving a lot, move to Malaysia or Australia and put up with worse jobs.

Taxes really shouldn't be the primary reason why you do anything.
Treating the software craft like factory work is cheap and profitable in the short run and disastrous in the long run. Without top talent you have a less capable, lower quality product. Without innovation you are more likely to get disrupted and have your entire business and revenue fall out from under you.
You don't get to say you aren't playing the signalling game. This is just interpreted as either a high status move (if you're already high status) or an admission of defeat if you are low status.

Doing nothing is always still a move.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/bam/doing_nothing/

The general rule of thumb is try to dress 1 step above the average level in whatever setting, but no higher.
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I have been actively looking for summer internships for the summer. Does anyone know of any companies or online utilities that can aid me?
No, I'm being serious - I've only been to NYC twice, but both times I made a point to go have some great pizza (and then walking around I had some $1 slices as well).

Coming from Toronto, I know we have half cardboard in most places, but the grimadlis pizza just didn't taste that good to me. Could be that we just weren't used to it, but we tried it twice and had similar thoughts both times.
China is going to have plenty of demographic issues of its own. One-child led to a demographic bulge.

Other countries with huge youth populations (Egypt, Iran, Oman) seem to have difficulty with it due to lack of productive economic activity for them, too.
Television has exacerbated this phenomenon. The good looking people do all the interesting things.
Honest question: how have they ruined the world?

No. Most of them are in "the 99%", and the fact that the upper class of our society is extremely parasitic has nothing to do with generations. Look at the elite of the U.S., and you'll find that the kids are shittier than the parents, and the grandparents often are fairly normal people who are disgusted by the shit their youngers pulled.

I wish it wasn't this way, and that there was a single person one could blame it on, but the decay of the U.S. starting in the late 1970s was a product of impersonal historical forces. It's not about Reagan or Thatcher or Boomers or oil prices or Yuppies or Wall Street. People matter but personalities don't. Rather, post-FDR America did such a good job of eradicating the parasitic elite that people started to romanticize it and want it back (assuming, of course, that they'd have a good chance of entering it; in reality, they had no chance).

With New Deal-esque social regulations and the dismantling of them after 1980, it's much like the anti-vaccine movement. Vaccines worked so well that people forgot why they needed them.
"The problem is that the people complaining when their benefits are cut are often the same ones complaining that our tax rate is 'too high'"

That is because it is.

"compared to the 92% (!) marginal tax rate during Eisenhower's administration."

Compared with a 92% marginal tax rate everything seems low, but that was not a "tax", it was a commandeering in times of war.

I think that is the reason governments love wars so much, you can steal all the people's property and have people feeling thankful for not being dead.
There seems to be a lack of intelligent conversation on this subject, but this article (despite not being very substantial) hit upon one of my pet peeves, so I'll give it a go.

Western society, or at least North American society, has long been set up to the benefit of the boomer generation. That is not terribly surprising as they make up the largest single group. I don't blame them individually or collectively. It is, after all, my parents generation. The real issue, to my mind, is that they still occupy the top positions they they have been occupying since their 20s and 30s. This point of view may not get much sympathy on a forum dedicated to entrepreneurial pursuit, but I feel I have been seriously disadvantaged in my career as there is still a glut of boomers occupying the middle and upper rungs. I have a good job, but it is a limited term position, and I am still at the bottom of the totem pole. I am in my 30s, but I am still considered and treated like a "young person." When is it my turn?

This is, of course, part of the reason that I lurk on HN, and that I consider launching a start-up almost on a daily basis.
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He is incorrect on this point. Authentication of requests is not an "ugly workaround" to a browser security issue.

The browser isn't just doing what it's "supposed to be doing" (always a flimsy argument in favor of the status quo, I agree!) but also all it can do, since only the server has the information needed to judge how sensitive a request is.

It's true that servers & browsers work together to create a semblance of a security model for the web. But the bulk of the job belongs to the server; there are hundreds of thousands of different applications each with different needs. And the servers have a means of enforcing controls flexibly: by authenticating requests.

The browser isn't protecting your email. The server is. The browser isn't protecting your bank account. The server is. The browser isn't protecting your HN karma. The server is. The browser isn't protecting your code repository. The server is. No simple HTTP standard will cover all these cases, and so it's silly to suggest that HTTP is where this security controlled should be expressed.
You're right that the BB has a smartcard reader, though the reliance on bluetooth makes it... problematic for use in the field. What I was trying to describe was something similar to what we currently use in laptops. Remove the card (express card in most cases, though they can be built onto the ssd themselves) and the computer is no longer able to read or write to the drive, as it never actually holds the FDE keys.
The insiders lock in period ends May 2nd, that's 30 days to keep it together before they can start cashing out. If they last that long they have 12 days before Q1 results. It's going to be tricky to unload meaningful quantities of stock before the earnings since daily volume averages 0.4% of market cap and 95% of the stock is held by pre IPO investors.

The pressure to manipulate earnings and create more time for the insiders to salvage value must be unbearable. GroupOn may be remembered as the first big fraud of "Bubble 2.0"

Pets.com lasted 268 days from IPO to liquidation, it could be close.
Happy to see that in Boston, you can check out the MIT campus, its nearby Google office, the Hancock Building and Fanueil Hall.
I feel that the main issue is that "Designers" that are great at design, often are pretty difficult to work into the dev processes of a bootstrapped startup, without slowing things down. Therefore design gets prioritized lower than features and this has an undesirable outcome for everyone.

A great designer (for an early stage company of 1-2 people) should be able to turn a PSD into HTML/CSS and work with tools like smarty templates.

Its just my two cents, and the requirement certainly changes over time...but in the early days, the most useful thing a startup could get us someone that can easily integrate with the dev process.
absolutely! we actually auditioned for Dragon's Den last year on one of our other projects at the very last minute, with nothing but financial projections, a crappy poster board and a "game" as a hook intro. We didn't get on, but it was a great experience, and, heck, lots of fun!
1. "stop complaining" is the best advice to give to someone who wants to ruin a democratic country.

2. "state of women's rights or minorities": Please don't embarrass yourself by giving said advice after waving around a huge red herring to distract from an enormous, subtly woven social problem that touches every part of modern society.
> hardcore hacke

> node.js

oh please, come on.
I'd start with how good they are at sales. If you sell twice as many cars to everybody else, then why should you care if there are some bigots who don't buy your cars.
According to this page, it's related work:

"This project is an update on a previous rig I did in 2011. The original project was inspired ("Reverse-engineered") from a paper published in 2004 by Johnny Chung Lee"
I get the sense that it's my fault if I can't jump over all the hurdles that fragmentation sends my way. Sorry, I'm not going to follow you off that bridge. I'm too old for this stuff.

Edit:
Please show me your apps running on various hardware and OS versions in order to convince me that it's not as hard as I've heard from other companies. And your apps better not be simple.
I'm not posting this as an expert, but am thinking about where it's all headed.

If only 10% of mobile users watch video, and that video takes up 38% of the network... And Verizon is not compressing video as much over LTE so they can impress you with how much data you're using, and eventually show you why your bill should at some point turn into $150/month instead of $80-100...

Sorry for the incomplete ideas. But is there a magic solution in there somewhere? If the network doesn't care about finding the sweet spot between quality and efficiency, and if the hardware and the OS also don't care, does that open up a big opportunity for some fourth party?

It seems like pretty soon instead of keeping phones simple to use and getting absolutely everyone on the mobile teat like they are in position to do, they may overreach and end up making people really need to do all sorts of stuff the guy won't tell you at Walmart, like pick and install the right bandwidth optimizer if you don't want to blow through 2GB in a day. And possibly save you an extra 20 minutes of battery until someone fills that other huge opportunity of substantially better batteries for all this stuff. There are still plenty of people who don't have a computer at home and won't, because of stuff like that getting in the way of just picking it up and using it.

This could be an even worse example than signing people up to 2-year contracts and offering phones that are sometimes in rough shape in half the time. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but they seem to have a pretty good thing going here and potentially push it further than they should.
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To the point where the less-privileged suffer significantly? It's not as though rounding up a bit is going to be the only way businesses try to squeeze out more money.
Because to get on iTunes you have to sign up with apple and jump through all their hoops. Given that, this is actually a big, welcome change. It means that artists can keep all of the proceeds, instead of having to cut a deal with tunecore or any of the other iTunes aggregators.
Already actively looking, but thanks for the advice. If you're straight out of college with no other realities in place, it may be doable, otherwise it's just a stupid waste of an already too short life.
someone like Scoble probably put you in a circle and then 3k folks followed that circle.
> Never mind the fact that virtually all Bitcoin development is done either as a hobbyist project or by fly-by-night operations that end up getting fully compromised.

The last (and hopefully only) time a critical vulnerability was found in bitcoin was in May '09: it was exploited on the testnet and then patched. The largest bitcoin exchange did have a security breach in July '11 and suffered a loss of 6k bitcoins, but the rest (most of which were in cold storage) remained secure (at least 424k bitcoins). And in the most recent incident, a couple of popular services lost a combined 50k bitcoins (the users were not affected) because Linode was compromised.

Your "fact" is entirely disingenuous.

Bitcoin is certainly not a silver bullet to securely using on a compromised machine (and nobody is claiming that it is). Obviously no system will ever 100% protect stupid/compromised users. But many credit card numbers are compromised mid-stream or at a malicious PoS. The public-key nature of bitcoin protects against those attacks.