If public sector pension plans earn 8% on their investments, four states - Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana - are predicted will run out of assets to pay retirees by the end of the decade. credit: Marion Siegel Yes, cultural. because when school funding gets cut, arts get squeezed and libraries close, our whole culture suffers. MORE >>

High school in London and CT, college in LA, China, and Cambridge, banker in NYC, HK, and Singapore, teacher in Indiana, business school student in Chicago, and the last twelve years in venture capital and start-ups. Today, I am 40. write this from a small village in Baja, where I am celebrating the milestone with my wife and best friends. MORE >>

You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. That's right--Indiana. It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. Scaling and succeeding is hard, but just to get from napkin to prototype and some users is so much less of a hurdle than it was previously. Really? MORE >>

Abraham Lincoln was once asked about ethics and he quoted an old man he had once heard speak at a church meeting in Indiana. You can resolve any ethics dilemma you face by running through this series of questions"and only one of them really matters. ’ There is only ethics.” Is it legal? How will it make you feel about yourself? MORE >>

By Alex Williams / February 5, 2011 11:40 AM / 2 Comments Tweet Hacker News This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Developer Regan Wolfrom wrote the post. Here are the features they are considering. What do you think? MORE >>