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I've never heard anyone say you can retire on an IRA alone. A full-funded IRA is a (almost) necessary but not sufficient condition to retire. You'll probably also want a 401k plus real estate.

Yes, your primary residence should not be thought of as an investment vehicle, but it's a good way to have your money ~keep pace with inflation and the mortgage is a bit of forced savings. After the kids move out you can downsize and you'll have the difference in cash.
"The thing about grad school is that everyone else is at least as special as you, and most of them are more so. They all had 4.0 GPAs, they all have gone through life in the same insulating cocoon of praise, they all really, really love history. Hell, some of them shoot rainbows out of their butts and smell like a pine forest after a spring rain--and they mostly aren't going to get jobs either."

Oh man, does this ring true. If I had a nickel for every snotty remark by an arrogant first-year grad student about how they're not going to have trouble finding a professorship, I think I'd have enhanced my earning power more than the actual degree. In academia, everyone is a unique snowflake.

If you ever interview for a PhD program, you may notice that the people at the recruiting party are all first or second year students. There are many reasons for this, but a big one is that there are very few students past the second year of a PhD program who are under any illusions about their specialness in the order of the academic world. These are not the people you want recruiting new grist for the research mill.
True, but there are also significant cost of living differences between urban and rural areas. More generally, there are valid reasons why some people enjoy living outside of large urban areas, and I don't think dismissing them as undesirable bolsters the author's argument.
There are lots of companies (Streak.com is one of them) using appengine in production.
The world for a graduating History PhD is totally different than for most STEM majors. Very very few History PhD's get their tuition paid for and are typically hugely in debt upon graduation. At least in the sciences its /possible/ to graduate debt free. Also in the sciences its entirely possible that your specific domain expertise will land you a job.

Not to say a history PhD is useless for finding work, but its likely more difficult to find work than say a Physics PhD (which has a 96% employment rate 1st year after graduation, according to the APS[1]).

[1]http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/reports/phdinitial.pdf
Android uses the Linux kernel. But when one talks about Linux, one usually means GNU/Linux: that is, the kernel and the unix (or rather, not unix) userspace.

Android has little, if any, of that user space. That is, assume I have a dynamically linked Linux program: I'd probably won't be able to run it on Android, even if cross-compiled to the proper hardware, because much of the libraries and tools one expect a Linux distribution to have are missing there.
That's worlds away from certifying that all the Steam games will run on arbitrary Slackware boxes.
To me the big thing is "Music, TV and Movies". If they are able to get rid of the "This Show is not Available in Your Country" thing, that would be huge.
Ageism? He's a marketing guy, but on HN, 35 is already considered functionally obsolete. At over twice that age I think you guys as a group would LOL.

Couple that with having been out of the field for many years...
Sending emails "from" your Gmail address has nothing to do with granting application access to your Gmail account.

The former is basic spoofing; the same thing spammers do to make it look like "you" sent that C!alis email. Any mail server can put whatever they want in email fields, no special access required.

The latter means that LinkedIn can actually harvest your list of contacts in Gmail for marketing. Way worse IMO and I encourage people to be very careful about what apps they authorize into their personal accounts like Google.
Windows comes with a dedicated math handwriting input panel. Totally random, all because of their long (failed) push for Tablet PCs. I'm not sure how well it works though.
Well that would simplify things greatly of course, but then it means bit hit on the bandwidth.

I mean, a 720p60Hz stream in 4:2:0 (12 bits per pixel) still amounts to 663Mbits/s. You won't get that out of a gigabit link realistically (at least not over IP). Of course you could use a lightweight compression algorithm, but you'll have to divide this bandwidth by at least 5 to make it manageable for the average home network I'd say (I have absolutely nothing to back that last number, but 100Mbits/s doesn't look too scary...). And that's only for 720p remember.

I think if you plan to stream HD video over the network you have to encode and be clever about it.
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SteamOS: The Linux for games is coming
I'd love to hear more about it when/if you get around to writing it up!
I've worked at a few places that hire top level engineers and use this tactic. It seems to be very successful.

As a developer, why wouldn't you want to see what the codebase and your coworkers are like in a real environment - and get paid for doing it?

Worst case scenario: you wasted a day of vacation, got paid a consultant rate for it while still getting vacation pay from your "real" job.
The NSA has the actual data as well. The metadata is there to serve as an index, for easy searching.

Ref: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70944
Do you realize that the axes have different scales? Even a state school returns ~$400K with a cost of only ~$75K. I'd like to see the returns converted into net present value, but it still looks like a win.
I feel obliged to toss in Joel's commentary... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html

His commentary about "hitting the high notes" was new to me. It isn't just that 10x people are faster and make less mistakes, they also can do things that others can't.

This doesn't mean that you have to ignore culture, and tolerate bad behavior. But it does mean that in software it is worth the effort and cost to chase and properly manage the best talent.
LinkedIn is the only "social network" I have anything to do with and it isn't so much on a regular engaged basis as a "well, someday it might be handy" sort of way.

It has never really benefitted me in any way (I haven't been actively job-hunting this century), but since I don't care for social networks and if I did, I wouldn't want professional contacts in the same circle as my friends and family and barely-acquaintances, it is a fantastic way to keep in contact with colleagues throughout my career, on my own terms and segregated from the rest of my life.

Unfortunately, it has become more of a nuisance in the last year. News feeds, streams full of discussions, streams full of people posting links, advertisements. That doesn't even take into account the constant spam email from LinkedIn. I'm an engineer. I know how to make sure I hit the right buttons --- and yet just when I think I have unsubscribed from nearly everything I want to be unsubscribed from, I get more spam. So and so has joined! You should join these groups! These groups might interest you! Here's what went on today! Here's what went on this week! Here's some articles from people in the industry! You should add your email accounts so we can reach out to your contacts! So and so has a new job!

It's really the only service of its kind with this sort of reach, but I'm concerned that they're going to slit the throat of their golden goose by engaging in the sort of behavior you'd expect from traditional social networks (or worse).
So much the worse for Origin, which was a stupid idea anyway.

Desura runs on Linux.
X has a lot of baggage. And by lot, I mean a few metric tons. The protocol can do things you wouldn't believe, and do that in the most cumbersome way (it was all the range in the Eighties, or so I'm told).

Most of Steam and Steam games don't really use X as anything but a bootstrap for GL, and run full screen, so they could be easily ported to FB+GL (consider that there's already a GTK backend that renders to FB, no X involved).
I don't know. In my personal opinion those critiques are overly critical.

My circle of friends is pretty much exactly like the main characters in the show. Nerdy, 20-something PhD guys that play board games and watch sci-fi. A few were actually almost as bad as Raj in not being able to say a word when a woman was around.

And I love the show. Loved it as soon as it came out just because it reminded me so much of my friends. And I don't feel like the characters are meant to be laughed at.

So, just to say, there's more than one perspective on this.
Ask HN: UX/Usability Lab Software & Equipment Recommendations
I am strongly considering starting an UX lab to conduct website & interface usability studies. I am currently trying to decide what hardware and software to invest in.

I already met with some of the larger players in the industry and tested some of the products in the market. I will be leaning more towards more remote testing but will definitely have eye tracking equipment as well. Eye tracking is expensive but helps make a good sales pitch and is interesting.

I want to invest in a set of tools that will help in collecting meaningful data and will help in creating actionable and accurate reports.

How would you set up this lab? What software & equipment would you invest in?
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Well, any given rural area of the same size. America only recently crossed the 50% urban threshold.
Yes, "only hire the best" hurts everyone.
What they should have been doing is hiring more and firing more. At least you'd have a better idea of how well a person does in the context of your environment.
That is insulting. Perhaps you earn more than "minimum wage", but please be respectful to everyone. Everyone out there is doing a job and deserves respect, even if he's earning a minimum wage or if he's working at a mall kiosk.
I didn't miss them, and I'd like you to link to the revelation that tha NSA routinely collects data stored locally on iPhones with Apples consent and involvement.
My in-laws did that, they moved to Brazil. (expatriating) Mostly it was the weather (they are in the northern part) and the lower cost of living.

I find these sorts of articles interesting in a morbid sort of way. I've been making out my 401k contribution for as long as I've been working, and was told back in the 80's that it would be worth millions by now. Uh, not so much :-). To its credit though it has come back from 2009 which was pretty horrible.

The scary thing about watching technologists age is when they stop learning. If they stop and figure "I'm there" and then start to coast. Never a good outcome on that as far as I can see.
LinkedIn emails get through spam filters because they have properly configured email auth like SPF and DKIM, LinkedIn accounts are double-opt-in, and because LinkedIn works closely with major email providers like Google and Microsoft.
All I see are red dots bouncing up and down....
> The Surface Pro is just a Windows laptop with decent build quality

Well its a "Windows laptop", except for the fact that its a tablet that can (like most tablets) also function as a laptop and (unlike most tablets) comes bundled with the hardware for that rather than it being a separate purchase.

But its a full Windows tablet, not a WinRT tablet.
Depending greatly on your hardware. And there's the rub.
And there's the reason it could be really nice to have Steam boxes and certification of hardware for SteamOS
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Even the 100x is a simplification, of course.

One example (out of an infinite set of them) would be if you need a software system that deals with massive amounts of signal processing on a power constrained real-time DSP chip. There are lots of people out there who are "Senior Software Engineers" at whatever company they work at currently (because they can create website solutions by stacking existing JavaScript frameworks with some glue code) who may never be capable of delivering that system to you. Not 10x later than someone who can, not 100x later than someone who can, not 1000x later than someone who can, but not within their lifetime and thus certainly not within a useful time-frame for your project.

And I don't mean to pick on web developers here, that's just used for example. There are plenty of people out there doing web development who could adapt to embedded system programming, or who already do both adeptly, but there are also plenty of "web programmers" who are really actually designers or glorified project management people with little to no aptitude for programming at all.

Also, I don't think this is unique to programmers. I wouldn't expect a general practitioner doctor to be able to perform neurosurgery and just have him take 10x longer to do it, he may just never have the "hands" for it.
Replace "history professor" with "any traditionally stable white collar job" and you can re-post this same article on websites for bright, aspiring young people in many different fields. Certainly, I've said more or less these words to aspiring lawyers.

There is an underlying phenomenon affecting an entire generation of kids of educated middle class parents, and that's this: the future of our society is one of fewer jobs and more competition. It's just the structural dynamics of a society that transitions from a long phase of fast growth to an indefinite phase of maintenance.

It's not anybody's fault, not really, and there isn't much you can do about it. A big generation that has a lot of kids creates a high demand for liberal arts education. A smaller generation that doesn't have many kids creates a lesser demand. When that big older generation continues to hold onto jobs, you have a recipe for a job crunch for younger people.

More broadly, as capital shifts and is put to work in Asia, there is less demand for ancillary jobs here in the U.S. That phenomenon affects nearly everyone. Say you're an architect. Where do you think all the jobs are designing big corporate high rises?
Or it just wants to show ads.
I managed to delete my account about a year ago, on my second attempt. That was after two unsuccessful attempts to unsubscribe from literally all emails from them.
The rule for law school is don't go at all, even for free. There are de minimis* exceptions, but for the vast majority of people at this point in time, it's a terrible move.

*E.g. your grandfather is Joe Jamail
I work at a private intelligence firm in London. We provide intelligence and risk analysis to oil companies, banks, insurance firms etc.

In the office next to me there is a PhD in classics, a MA in maths, and a PhD in ancient history. They all make over £150k (that's like $240k).

I don't earn that much as I work in a different part of the firm, so I'm not boasting.
Are you saying he shouldn't have supported his children, and that he shouldn't go see his relatives? That's fucked up.
Valve took out a patent a while back on a gamepad where the fixed D-pads were replaced with sockets that could accept a D-pad, a trackball, extra buttons, etc: http://gamerant.com/valve-console-controller-hold-137072/

I will be so Goddamn happy if they're actually making that thing. I love modularity, and a trackball gamepad would flawlessly combine the convenience of a gamepad with the precision of a mouse. Several groups have tried to bring one to market, and studies have shown their superiority, but apparently they were too weird to get enough preorders. Hope hope hope...
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It's not specific to Russian nature. It's the nature of any environment where people are punished for reporting bad news up the chain of command. That's the relevant message most of the HN readership should be taking from this. You'll never be in charge of a Soyuz launch but you might someday be in charge of a project or company that has an opportunity to correct problems before they become disasters. Make sure the workers on the ground floor aren't afraid to tell you about the problems. Conversely if you are on the ground floor and find yourself afraid to report problems, it might be time to start looking for another job.
Just extrapolating from http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BBRY rather than digging in to financial statements: Blackberry has $10 billion in annual sales while losing $200 million.

Is it such a stretch to imagine a buyer killing R&D and investment, and marketing the carcass for enough years of free cash flow to get back the $4.7 billion?

Value investors aren't necessarily growth investors. The margin of error they look for can come from a cheap price.
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Why not, each distribution/DRM platform can go in its own sandbox... ;)
The vast majority of people.
I think Matt did a pretty good job of showing how they were at about the same level of complexity for a new audience, but one of the things you don't see is that

(A) there's error handling,

(B) the system will only run commands as needed

and of course using things like 'with_items' and 'notify' ends up making it a lot shorter.

But yeah, most of Hacker News already has a read on that :)
I don't really understand what problem this is solving. Perhaps someone could enlighten me? Why don't I just send a Google Maps link?
They may also be able to ride the machine down by underinvesting in R&D and marketing.
Jarvis 0.3v Prototype Demo
http://youtu.be/jGPpe8DMMD4

Context: Regardless, it is still a hack. We want to make (multiple) rule creation through voice possible. 1st goal is to make it so that it is through set grammar structure. Please leave comment here. We have a landing page on http://jarvis.co and here https://www.facebook.com/jarvisapp
I'm not a parent, but do you think that is acceptable behavior? (Regardless of the product, service, or situation.)

I can't imagine wanting to be the teacher or classmate of said 11 year old if he/she is always "bitching" about stuff. And if that behavior continues into adulthood, I can't imagine being the boss or coworker of him/her. Such negative social qualities might be detrimental to his/her professional success and social well-being.

I wouldn't be able to say for certain until I have kids, but it might be beneficial to teach your 11 year old how to tactfully and constructively discuss the negative aspects of something rather than just "bitching" about it.
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I once heard Big Bang Theory described as "blackface for nerds"* and it made me suddenly realize why I was so uncomfortable watching that show.

* I hope no one thinks I'm trying to trivialize blackface which was, of course, far worse than what Big Bang Theory is doing.
Yeah, this reminds of the initial launch of Steam back in 2003. At first it seemed like an annoying hoop to jump through. As the years went by and it got more dependable, more games, and more features, it became easier and easier to forget how annoying it was in the beginning.

I wonder if the same thing will happen with SteamOS. At best it will initially seem like a novelty, then 10 years from now a huge group of customers will have forgotten what it was like to never have had it.
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I feel like there should be a button for people who don't have accounts to say, "I don't want to make an account and I don't want any more email from LinkedIn."
I personally find the characters very sympathetic and laughing at the BBT characters is like laughing at myself. It's refreshing to see the extreme qualities which other shows merely caricature be shown in the context of fully fleshed out human beings.
Cleaning. Like house cleaning, dry cleaning? I'm intrigued.
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Hans't the cost of living in Brazil been exploding in the past few years?
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This is what's hard to hear for me. The knowledge that academia is more or less impossible to get a job in has been out there for much more than four years. It's obvious if you take even the most cursory look at job openings, career advice comments on sites like these, the news, etc. But somehow, students continue to finish up their degrees only finding out toward the end.

How is it that so many students are unaware of this until the end of their education? Is it just the quintessential American "you can be anything you put your mind to" wishful thinking? This question goes doubly for humanities PhDs, because at least you can get a job elsewhere.
I agree with this. Insofar as you're supposed to laugh at the characters, I think it's true of pretty much all sitcoms. Sitcoms are almost always about broad stroke "laugh at yourself, because you are funny" kind of stuff.

But more interestingly, often people who hold up this argument are fond of bringing up The IT Crowd as a counterpoint to BBT on this front and... I just don't get it. The people in IT Crowd are basically awful human beings I can't sympathize with, in spite of existing in a vaguely similar world as they do. The characters on BBT feel much more sympathetic to me. They're mostly trying to be good people at least.
If you're interested having this kind of setup for your own team, without having to muck with servers, you can use something like https://circleci.com. We use LXC, and pay lots of attention to having fast I/O. [disclosure: I'm founder/CTO of circle]
Oh I'm sure if they put their minds to it they can make some improvements and clever optimizations. The thing it becomes exponentially more difficult the lowest the latency you want to achieve, obviously. <300ms? easy. <100ms? manageable. <50ms? hey, very good! <10ms? uh, I want to see it with my own eyes.

Also, you have to remember that steam won't control the encoding end of the pipeline (and if the "steambox" is third party hardware with steamOS installed, no control at all on the hardware). Which means that in the end the observed latency will depend a lot on the hardware and drivers of the desktop PC and there isn't much Valve can do about that.

So in the end I'm sure it'll be more than fine to play Civilization or Torchlight, MMOs and most RPGs but maybe not Counter Strike or Quake III.
This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
Citation? I've heard that QNX is used in something like ~70% of automotive touchscreen systems. So maybe Apple just ported Cocoa to an existing QNX system? I kind of doubt it, but I would be very interested to read more.