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That's not true: the capital gains you accumulate are pre-tax, so your entire investment is taxed once, upon withdrawal, as income. With up-front taxation you still end up paying additional capital gains taxes at the end of the day on your total capital gain.

There are conceivable situations where you end up paying more in taxes, if your retirement income tax rate is higher than your current income tax rate plus your capital gains rate multiplied by the ratio of capital gains to the total capital.

I've spreadsheeted it out and using a 30 year timeline and what I most would consider an extremely conservative rate of return, you end up with about 15% total advantage. This can go up to 20 to 25% if you assume more aggressive returns.

Despite that, I hate the fact that your money is locked up and there is a severe penalty if you pull it out (except in a few situations, and even then the amount you can pull is limited.)

Is it worth 15% of your money for it to be truly your money? It is to me, but that's a subjective call.
You missed the point: "Average return" != "real return in any arbitrarily chosen 10-year period"

It's scary how many of you don't seem to know this. Did you all read the same book on investing and skip everything after the preface, or something?
Linux driver support with the proprietary Nvidia drivers has always been iffy, if it worked.
ha! blu ray support? who cares about blu ray support?

it's a snore-fest vs. dvds:
http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/wp-content/uploads...

whereas streaming passed purchased dvds... last year:
http://www.screendigest.com/reports/2012222a/2012_03_online_...

and win8 runs your htpc? nice. other than you, i know no one who even has an htpc anymore (occasionally hooking their laptop to the tv doesn't count) and most of them (my non-geek friends) don't even know what that is.

everyone and their dog has a roku/apple tv/xbox/smart tv tho.

m3mnoch.
normal people, no. USG yes.
He would have to be head-and-shoulder above the competition, yes, but he could run.
wow. never thought about adding slot machine to that abhoral genre of game... but actually, no, slot machine has /some/ good outcome at least. even if infinitesimal...
This is not really newsworthy. As jonknee helpfully pointed out, this is only the admin interface. And anyone still using MSIE8 honestly has no business in your Google Analytics!

Now, if this were Gmail, this would be news
I concur as a Android Developer. I have kept a mile away from these sort of ad providers. I will not put in ads that I as a user will not like.
"I guess some people like kids enough to work an extra 30 years. I sure don't."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmRCixQrx8
Do you see this ending in Lord of the Flies? I just can't imagine 10 friends all growing together with the land at the same pace. Some will have kids. Other want to be more rowdy. Or less. It sounds awesome though, I hope they make it work.
all big brands are like that for windows PC. either you pay 3/4 of a mac price, or you get crap.

lenovo, HP, dell...

that's why the 1st option is asus or some other chinese/korean medium brand.
Yes, I was thinking a -3.8cm per year rate, and did contemplate the "squishing" that the moon Io has to deal with. Just pulled the timeframe from my rear end, probably would take that long just to get the process started. :/
> lack of XHTML support

I believed IE8 reads XHTML just fine — are you referring to its inability to handle HTML content delivered with an `application/xml+xhtml` Content-Type header (IIRC)?
Considering that you are "worth" what you "have", net worth is the only metric. GGP's coment is spot on, there is a 1:1000 difference between billionaires and millionaires, and another 1:1000 difference between millionaires and people worth 100k. Guess what? In the United States, less than 65% of people have a net worth under that [1]. So by this logic, the majority of the United States's have-nots are between a 1:1000 and a 1:1,000,000 difference compared to haves.

[1] http://www.nasdaq.com/article/americans-have-relatively-poor...
IMO Linux stands a more reasonable chance of being a successful gaming platform than OS X because you can actually get a decent GPU for your Linux PC.
To me, Dropbox is useful precisely because it works everywhere.
Yep, and faced with an end-of-life event we'd probably make a go of it, no?
Most interesting about Wine (to me) is its use as a pre-packaged porting mechanism; I've seen a few indie games whose "Linux port" is just the Windows binary and a wrapper script that opens that binary with Wine and the correct DLLs.
>They will still be under the control/ownership of capitalists because they won't be persons - everything that isn't a person technically has an owner.

>When machines do cross the barrier of deserving rights, we should reconvene and have this discussion again.

You are assuming the rule of law holds through all of this.

If an autonomous machine intelligence is capable of becoming militarily sovereign (in the sense that it becomes nontrivial to simply "arrest" or otherwise overpower), it matters little whether the rest of us think it has rights, or who nominally "owns" it.

If that machine is also able to outcompete human capitalists at wealth accumulation (assuming market holds) or human generals at military power (assuming nothing)...

And let's face it, it's not that hard for even lone smart humans to be militarily untouchable. Think cybercriminals: If today we decided that cybercriminals weren't people and were owned by the government, would the they care? No; they are sovereign through anonymity, and their legal status is not an impediment to their work. Likewise with autonomous machine intelligence.
So let's say I want easy cross-platform access to a monotonic timer which gives me the number of egg timer (to use the phrase here) milliseconds since a certain UTC time. Assume that I've got an NTP server available to keep me somewhat near atomic reality, and let's neglect relativistic shenanigans. Is there such a function call?
Nope, that's not it.

Proof: Would you get excited about a story of someone buying a five acre plot of land with a fence around it? Or a moat-like trench?
Focusing on Efficiency
The Death of Moore's Law: Design Matters More Than Technology - (John Maeda)
It's a fact, verified on two brand new identical spec machines side by side, with GTX 670 cards. I have multiple witnesses!

All you had to do to crash X was move a window quickly from side to side. The proprietary drivers are infinitely better in so far as they don't crash.
Is Linus Tovalds really a hacker? I think of him as a benevolent dictator bureaucrat.
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment | Lawrence Labratory Research
That is one thing I don't understand, is the advice to not borrow against your 401k. Lets say you have a 3-year auto loan, that is 7% interest. If you convert that to a 401k loan at 4%, that is a savings right there.

Oh, but that money you borrowed isn't getting any investment returns in our 401k (I hear people say). But it is -- it is getting a 4% return (what you are paying back in interest). And considering that a well balanced fund is going to have some amount in a lower fixed-interest investment, that isn't much of a problem (just rebalance the fund when you take your loan out, then rebalance again as it gets paid off).

The ONLY downside I see, is that you have to pay it back all at once if you lose your job, or face a 10% penalty (plus tax) on the loan balance.
> completely secret for decades. Virtually no secrets survive that long.

How do you know that? If a secret did last for decades, you wouldn't know about it.

I can actually give a couple counterexamples: two big government secrets that lasted 3 decades:

(1) A US bomber accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb out of an airplane into the dessert near Albuquerque, New Mexico, triggering a conventional but non-nuclear detonation. This happened in 1957 but was kept secret until 1986 -- a span of 29 years. "It was only in 1986 when an Albuquerque newspaper published an account based on military documents recovered through the Freedom of Information Act." (ref: http://www.hkhinc.com/newmexico/albuquerque/doomsday/ )

(2) The British were regularly reading encrypted German messages by around 1940. The codebreaking of the German Enigma machine was one of the greatest secrets of World War 2, and the British shared the knowledge with the Americans. This secret was revealed in 1974--after 34 years--because of two books by key intelligence figures. (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Post-war_disclosures )

In both cases, at least dozens of people--but more likely hundreds of people--would have been privy to the secrets.

I'm certainly not endorsing conspiracy theories about fake moon landings. I'm commenting only about the persistent meme that big secrets are quickly exposed: it's not necessarily true.
Exactly. 33% isn't bad to be honest.

When my advisor quit, I left my PhD without thinking twice, because I got a job at a much higher pay than my PhD stipend, and leaving my PhD didn't present the kind of financial burden that it would have were I in a humanities field.

Now I'd like to complete it again, but I'd want to do it part-time, and I have a much better idea of what I'd like to do. As engineers, we are pretty lucky to be in that position, even when things don't quite work out as planned, we still end up pretty well off. So there's not quite the same determination to make a particular course of action work.
Here's a second try.

Imagine that lots and lots of people own shares in the mineral rights to various oil fields. Oil is at a really high price, all those rights are being traded for tons of money, and they're assets collectively valued at billions of dollars.

All of the sudden, the value of oil plummets to a fraction of its former price. So cheap, in fact, that it costs more to get the oil out of the ground than you can sell it for. So all these mineral rights aren't worth anything anymore, there's no more income coming in from selling the oil, the fancy drilling and exploration equipment is being auctioned off for pennies on the dollar, and all the people depending on that money go broke. Then their employees, accountants, lawyers, dentists, real estate agents, grocery stores, furniture stores, and everyone else that depended on that cash flowing go broke. And, of course, a lot of people bought those oil rights or that expensive equipment on borrowed money that they can't pay back. So now the banks go under, and hurt anyone depending on those banks. That's a brief synopsis of how billions of dollars vanished in the blink of an eye in the Texas oil boom collapse (and then the Savings and Loan collapse) in the 80s.

The real estate thing is more or less the same thing, but with mortgage backed securities. Once it turned out that people couldn't pay back all those ridiculous mortgages they'd been getting, suddenly the right to collect those mortgage payments was worth a fraction of what it had been. And all the high-flying companies that were getting rich off of owning, trading, and packaging those securities suddenly were left holding little pieces of paper that went from being worth billions to being worth a tiny fraction of that. Because it turned out that those mortgages were worth way less than everyone had thought they were worth, all that money effectively just vanished.
The top 10th percentile of earners in US are barely even eligible to use Roth IRAs, which have gross income participation limits.
>Although I'm happy to be saving money, my _primary reasons_ for living in an RV are that it _forces me to be minimalist and focus on what matters_, and it's a lot of fun. I've modified nearly every aspect of the interior of my RV (...) Some of the changes include:

> Maple and marble floors

> Brazilian granite countertops

>Japanese-style tea room in the back complete with rush-reed tatami
mats and mulberry shoji screened rear window.

>Golden tin ceiling

>Gold-leafed 10 foot curved section of the wall

>Home theater system with LED projector, 50" screen, and 12" subwoofer.

>Handmade zebrawood desk

>Controllable low-wattage LED lighting system with over 1000 bulbs

Minimalist and focused on what matters indeed.
They should definitely do some editing. The grammatical errors are kind of off putting, I totally agree. That said there's a very clear value prop/use case and clear, concise documentation. You may be getting downvoted because your language was rather harsh.
> In short, it needs an editor. I'm plowing through 3000 words where a better structure could probably cut that in half.

Ah yes, like an O'Reilly book...
Software patents are not as useful as a cotton gin patent because:

1. Most software can be reverse engineered through observation, without disassembly.

2. A sizable chunk of software innovation is already publicly documented in the form of research papers.
I remember reading several articles about massive "white plight" in Detroit. Especially in the middle class.

1950 - 16% black
2000 - 81% black
http://historydetroit.com/statistics/
Reid Hoffman: Overhaul the degree
I agree, a lot of the time your code would be too long and involved or too confidential to post.

So, what you need to do is boil your problem down to an essential few lines sufficient to make the bug happen or illustrate what you are trying to do. A lot of times, when you do that, you find your answer along the way.

Sometimes it can be difficult, however. E.g., you may have a race condition that shows up in your actual code but which you can't make happen in your short example. Then you just have to explain your question as best you can.
Box.com Melds Google and Microsoft Into Document Engine of the Future
It's worse than that, there's pretty much no effective way to use the site to learn about a topic. It's a very effective Q&A site but that's all it is; it was meant to be slightly more but has never managed to achieve that. I'd say there's a very big opportunity in there for anyone who wants to try to compete.
It literally doesn't matter. I know you've convinced yourself that you are in some way better or smarter than everyone else, but you will not beat the averages unless you happen to get lucky. Your biggest mistake is assuming the market is a numbers game that you can win if you calculate things carefully enough. If that were true, all of the quants and hedge fund managers would be making there fortunes off of stocks instead of salaries and fees.
One can do a backdoor Roth conversion to get around that limit. (but you need to have no money in regular pretax IRAs to do so)
Bump Technologies (YC S09) Acquired By Google
Just a heads up, you list C# twice under Programming Languages...you must really like it ;)
When you're talking about being retired for fifty years, it's the average that matters.
> the code is full of weaknesses, like no NULL checks

NULL checks for what? It's encoding binary, so there is no need to worry about NULL terminated strings. The only possible NULLs (the state pointer, the source pointer, or the target pointer).

Sure, you could make a version of the code that adds those checks, but particularly given the context of the problem, those checks would be superfluous. As an example, look the b64enc.c program and tell me how a NULL check would avoid a possible problem in the code.

> one endless loop based on pointer arithmetic

It's not an endless loop, and actually that's part of their formal proof. It ends when they reach the end of their input, which is provably true, even if your memory model allows a buffers allocation addresses overflow (e.g. a buffer that might start at 0xfe and finish at 0x10).

> good and fast c code looks not like this.

I'm not sure that you're a good judge of that. For example, the "endless loop" & switch statement that you refer to is actually a very standard approach to implementing a state machine in C. You'll find the moral equivalent of that code in a lot of parsers.

Minus the formal proof, this actually looks like very standard code with a lot of very common C idioms.
Awesome work, congratulations!
> Windows is still the only OS which supports Minidisk, PS/2 and 5 1/2 flopies

Liar! ;-) I use a PS/2 keyboard on one of my Linux boxes. Works flawlessly. Linux also supports Jaz and Zip disks/
The library may work, but Grand Central Dispatch, which is the whole point, is really an OS X thing. BSD may have adopted it, not sure. I'm pretty that confident Linux has not.
"When you're talking about being retired for fifty years"

Yeah. We aren't. This whole thread spawned because the claim was that you can retire in 10 years if you save 66% of your income.
>Want to have a family? Want to send your kid to college?

Marry someone with their own $25k/year and you'll be able to pay for plenty of college.

>Want to be ready for the day when you're old and paying for medical problems?

Insurance?
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/mavuva-island-lo...

Yeah that looks like a tool :)
OP: can you fix the title?
It's "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory"
(include 'Berkeley' so people don't get it confused with Lawrence Livermore, which is named for the same person, E.O. Lawrence, but is in Livermore, CA)
(fix spelling of Laboratory)
The purpose of Stack Overflow is not to serve the people who ask the questions, that's just a happy side-effect. The purpose is to create a resource to serve future Googlers.

There are less broadly-interesting new questions in areas of established technology, but that's fine: there's less need for new questions in areas that the site already serves well. Stack Overflow is not having any trouble getting good questions about new technology as it becomes out.
Mount your friends.
In Australia, with a scholarship and a few hours a week TAing during term time, I made enough to buy a half a million dollar apartment with my wife who was on a new-graduate nursing salary. She then got pregnant just as I finished up (good motivation to write fast, that was!)

YMMV but if you're thinking you're being used for cheap slave labour, you're in the wrong university.
I'll ask a question. Have you seen a correlation between companies that have simpler code bases and are more successful in the long run? Personally, I've never seen it. The most successful companies have horrible code bases that are eventually replaced by well written modular architectures if the become successful. I personally love the idea and value of simple code but I can't say I've seen a lot of evidence for it.
It's not necessary to be evil in your heart to nevertheless do things that are evil or have very negative consequences. EE was classic bait and switch. Moreover, they monetized cloud sourced answers without adding anything of value to the equation (compare this to stackexchange which put a lot of R&D into a system that facilitated better quality answers and also goes out of their way to keep their content open). Certainly that's not the worst crime anyone has ever committed but it's very scummy and has had a very real negative impact on a lot of people's lives. Thinking that the solution to your problem is available when it's not or finding out that it's behind a paywall (without even knowing if the "answer" actually works) is very disheartening.
> Very little of my Steam library is available with Linux versions. Almost none, in fact

That probably means you don't play any Indie games. Not sure who is the norm here. Indie Games have been booming in digital distribution, in case you did not notice.
Anyone know anything about how this compares in practice to Lightning MDB (which uses a memory mapped B-tree, I think, and is apparently insanely faster than most of the other enbedded key-value stores people normally examine)?
What are blu-rays like for the rising 4K/UHD resolution? If that takes off, could we be looking at new format requirements? Higher bandwidth? Higher capacity? What about 3D? What about beyond that, holographic?

I don't know. This is all speculation, but I would grant Gabe the benefit of the doubt here. Over the next.. 5+ years, who knows what the entertainment world might be like?
It's not about assuming that your 60's are better than your 20's. It's assuming that having 7 dollars inflation adjusted tomorrow is worth not having 1 dollar today. Clearly, the higher your savings rate the sooner you can retire but the lower that multiple becomes.

More importantly when something bad happens you both have a cushion and a cheap lifestyle so it can last.
Wait, you mean there's a better technical explanation than the CNN-quality original article? (that's just trying to sell Oracle Slice)
I've got a need for something like this, but would like to have the keys and values delta encoded to achieve simple, yet effective, compression.
Can someone summarize the story in a way that doesn't presuppose prior knowledge of what Mir or XMir is, and who isn't familiar with the Ubuntu-Intel history?

Free karma if you do!
Doing a startup is inconsistent with the advice give here.
The problem stackexchange faces now isn't failure, failure is easy to spot and often straightforward to fix. Instead they risk not living up to their potential, and not by a small amount but by orders of magnitude. With enough effort they could be the new backbone of q&a and forums on the entire web, but they've instead settled into a much smaller niche where they feel more comfortable.
The patent expiration on a drug is a huge event and it provides tangible benefits - creation of a drug, and then wider availability.

The same is hardly true with software and many other technologies. By the time the patent expires, the described technology is frequently obvious and offers little additional value.

Patents may be a good thing when applied correctly, but use of software with a vague tie to some physical hardware is not the right way to apply it, as evidenced by the these extortions.

If one actually examines how the software is being patented and the problematic linkages to hardware that make it patentable, the entire argument falls apart in my eyes.

"For computer implemented processes, the “machine” is often disclosed as a general purpose computer. In these cases, the general purpose computer may be sufficiently “particular” when programmed to perform the process steps. Such programming creates a new machine because a general purpose computer, in effect, becomes a special purpose computer once it is programmed to perform particular functions pursuant to instructions from program software." [1]

In other words, the only thing that separates software from a business methods, which enjoy much less protection, is the fact that instead of a human performing the tasks, a general computer is performing the tasks.

If you consider a software program is nothing more than a collection of instructions, it then can be considered similar in nature to a operator's manual given to a worker processing something.

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2106.html
If Linux is ever to become mainsteam the way OSX and Windows are then 'apostasy' needs not be accommodated.

Now you can debate whether the philosophy of the Linux and open-source community is for creating a standardized product that can be easily adopted and used by the mainstream user-base. But for companies like Intel, I understand why they want to push it in that direction.
What do you see them being able to do, even with a bunch more capital?
I'd take the mafia over what they have in SF any day. The mafia is significantly cheaper and they actually give better protection than the police. I used to live in the North End of Boston, an area which used to have little active police presence but was kept under the watchful eye of the "locals". All problems were taken care very quickly and there was no aggressive pan handling like you see in SF.

The $520 + other fees is clearly unreasonable and is a case of collusion with the single towing company.
>Yeah. We aren't. This whole thread spawned because the claim was that you can retire in 10 years if you save 66% of your income.

I don't understand. Retiring after 10 years means you'll be retired for around 50 years, doesn't it?