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Ask HN: Methods for Full Stack JavaScript Dev to Make Extra Money?
Let's start with a little background info;

I'm a mid-level Full Stack JavaScript developer based just outside of London. I work full time in the city for a young tech startup, and while I enjoy my job very much and genuinely believe it will take off one day (making the shares I hold worth something), there is still the problem that my salary compensation only just ties me over month to month after paying rent, travel costs and other monthly expenses.

Initially I thought about starting a company and building a product in my spare time - but the more I've thought about this option, the more I find myself coming up with ideas too risky (i.e hard to monetise, too big to do alone part time).

So with that being said, I'm wondering if the HN community had any suggestions for profitable, while reliable, uses of my spare time to earn some money in the evenings/weekends from my skill set (HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular, Node.JS, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL).

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions :)
No I'm sure there are requirements, but sometimes there are also space or budget constraints (I assume) since some curves are definitely safer and easier than others for the same highway (I-95 for me).

I wished they were more consistent
I am not worried about my neighbors judging me. I am worried about governmental agencies paying me visit. It rarely matters if people are racist towards me, it makes big difference if the cops treat me differently because of my skin color. Rules of the game (in theory and practice) as a bigger impact on parenting.

I take my kids to India just so that they can travel alone, play alone, climb trees and sit on the front seats etc.
I don't think it's possible to make the assertion that one branch of math is more relevant than another, given that the set of students have diverse interests.

From a computer science, more specifically programming, background I find linear algebra, logic, calculus and the combination thereof to be more insightful when handling abstract ideas.

I fear that if too much focus is put on statistics then we many end up with another generation of heavy statistical machine learning (and programs that consume high amounts of power to function).
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Nothing certified, not following any doctrines and not connected to anything official but in practice yes. Just common sense, really.
No, but as with everything else in life, experience counts.
What's the architecture course? I've been meaning to move from learning languages and APIs to learning more "lasting" things.
That's awesome! Also, Doom uses divisions?

Are you allowed to tell us what the C compiler used internally was based on? I know there are some very easy to port proprietary compilers which commonly don't see the outside world, and I'm wondering whether it was one of those, or whether some poor sucker had to port gcc.
This GoPro is RIDICULOUS
The book’s premise is that in about a century, it will be possible to scan human brains at "fine enough spatial and chemical resolution," and to combine that with good-enough models of signal-processing functions of brain cells, "to create a cell-by-cell dynamically executable model of the full brain in artificial hardware, a model whose signal input-output behavior is usefully close to that of the original brain."

Like Bostrom and Kurzweil I think this guy is seriously underestimating the difficulty of biology. I don't believe in souls or non-computable woo going on in our brains. I do believe that biology is insanely complicated compared to computing or physics; physicists, engineers, and people from a computing background who've never worked in biology tend to handwave incredibly difficult problems. See also: the long and mostly-unsuccessful history of people who thought that they could replace animal/cell culture drug testing with models in silico.

On top of the sheer audacious difficulty of creating whole brain emulations, there's the problem of competing with boring old "narrow" AI. Surely an economist of all people should recognize the feedback loop that makes narrow AI profitable first, which attracts more investment, which unlocks more capabilities without biological emulation... how many of today's jobs are going to be left un-done by narrow AI a century from now, even if whole brain emulations are finally practical then?
Human beings are not fungible components.
You could consider getting a laptop that doesn't solder in the DIMM sticks...
Just a plain colon, as an emphatic distinction from a semicolon.
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Or...just archive.is:

http://archive.is/rIBZT
The problem with evolutionary behavior hypotheticals is that it's too easy to craft them to fit a narrative - even with yours the inverse is still true.

The next generation of the species is all PB-seeking high risk ants, which expend more energy & die off faster, reproducing less. Diversity shrinks over generations as natural selection picks off most of the high risk individuals, leading to a uniformity.

This still doesn't apply to humans, because even food preferences weren't really subject to natural selection (outside food neophobia in children), because pre-agricultural humans ate whatever they could get their hands on.
My personal feeling is that this country desperately needs to move past plurality voting. The easiest path to this is for states to apportion their electors based on ranked choice voting. It doesn't solve all our problems, but it does remove the spoiler effect. With luck, that would allow us to have less shrill, more substantive candidates--even if the major parties continue to dominate.

I think you've made some insightful points here, particularly when you said "In the U.S., you're best off being part of a popular political leaning, but pray your political leanings don't grow so popular as to result in a split." This does explain a lot.

However, I'd like to see some evidence that ranked-choice voting actually leads to better outcomes. I believe Australia has this system, doesn't it? They've elected some of the worst sorts of people I've ever seen in public office outside of an outright dictatorship, pushing the worst sorts of policies.

My concern is that RCV-like voting strategies may encourage a tyranny of the majority to emerge. While I'm no supporter of either Jill Stein or Bernie Sanders, I do like the idea that Hillary Clinton has to worry about what they have to say, for fear of being Nadered in one or more critical swing states. Likewise, I can see the Libertarians, both big-L and small-l, having a moderating influence on the knee-jerk theocrats who would like to take over the GOP. It seems that ranked-choice voting might have the effect of removing those beneficial "spoiler effects."

Just as one example, most Americans self-identify as members of the Christian faith. (Not picking on religion per se, just saying that it's probably the one cultural attribute that Americans share more widely than any others.) The same is true in Australia. There, a wave of neo-Puritanism has swept over the country, resulting in legislative micromanagement of everything from Internet censorship to the bra sizes of porn actresses.

So, does ranked-choice voting inevitably lead to the emergence of a nanny state? If so, I think we're better off here in the US with the strong two-party system. If not, are there any other downsides that should be discussed before switching over to RCV?
Is this that amazing if he bought billions of dollars worth of bonds? Serious question
The Register is an excellent site for what's going on in tech.
http://www.theregister.co.uk
Well, they did say that they restricted themselves to the 24k pubs in the Pubs Galore guide.
I once worked at a startup that took payments on behalf of charities. Due to the pick-your-price nature of donations there'd be a lot of users who've bought or stolen credit card information testing to see which ones are still active by making charges small enough to go unnoticed.

What sucked is that the charity would then be charged a fee when the card holder reversed the transaction.
You only give a new number to merchants where you type in a card number. For all physical card transactions, it looks like you still use a physical card with a fixed card number.
The Feds Won’t Buy This $19M Stealth Boat–or Let It Be Sold Abroad
Can you add monospace as a fallback for Consolas?
Ummm, I'm sure you're technically correct about there being folks here who were online before I was born (although there almost certainly aren't a whole lot — I'm pretty old), but my comment was against discriminating against folks based on age-related conditions like declining eyesight.

If you're annoyed that I used my elderly neighbour as an example of someone I wouldn't want to explain stylesheets to: she is an actual person, not a rhetorical device; she's a smart person, but not gifted with computers; she has failing eyesight; I help her with computer questions; I honestly wouldn't want to try to explain custom stylesheets to her.

It'd be better if folks would build accessible pages from the get-go.
> Because 32 GB is overkill in 2016 for majority of their customers. "Upgrading" to 32 GB today prevents them from doing so in the future in another line-up refresh (when 32 GB might be more reasonable for the average Mac purchaser).

So yeah, planned obsolescence. And this is a good thing how, exactly?
Note that they made $100 million. I did not see a value at risk, gross notional or netted, presented.
For a lot of people, geometry is their primary or perhaps only exposure to proofs. Not that everyone needs to understand proofs in their day-to-day lives, but it's a good mental discipline to at least be exposed to, and geometry proofs are fairly straightforward and relate to things that many people will have a good intuition to convince them that the thing proved by each correctly-constructed proof is really true.

Also, geometry gives students something concrete to visualize, and so might be easier for some to understand than more abstract kinds of math.

Maybe trig is over-emphasized at the high school level, but it is pretty useful in a lot of real-world situations, and it's easy to apply without having to know a lot of other stuff.
I grew up in a relatively large town (~300k at the time, regional capital), on a block that mostly consisted of densely packed 5-story and 8-story apartment buildings.

We all played all over the neighborhood together. There were playgrounds between the buildings, but we didn't really stick to them once we were old enough to go to school. When I was 10, I was riding the bike all over the place, within about 5km radius from home, and so were all the other kids.

I didn't personally know anyone who had a serious accident, traffic or otherwise. The worst I remember is one kid falling off the garage roof and breaking an arm, and another kid riding the bike into an uncovered manhole and falling down there. As far as the rumor mill went, the most extreme that I can recall was a story of a kid in the area who lost an eye in an incident involving live ammo being thrown into fire.
I don't think Apple can drop the Air until the MacBook is at the same price point.
I strongly believe that that's not true for most folks. And even if it were - the paycheck is why they're there so they can make ends meet for their family.
Automakers, Google object to California rules for self-driving cars
Not everyone is a parent. That's the analogy.
This bot tracks planes used by authoritarian regimes landing at Geneva
I know this has been done to death, but...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
Interop between Ubuntu and the Windows Subsystem for Linux
I subscribed to Inside's Daily Brief (https://inside.com/daily-brief) which is actually twice a day for the major world news. Inside.com also has many other newsletters that cater to a specific subject. I recommend you give them a shot.

I also subscribe to Forkast.com to get a weekly email on major upcoming things (https://forekast.com/weekly). It seems to be mostly tech, though nowhere near exclusively.
If you prevent banks from doing the riskier forms of market making, then that responsibility will move to firms that don't have access to customer deposits.

Because their capital base is less stable, they will be more prone to stop making markets precisely when you need them most. That will probably make extreme volatility events like flash crashes much more likely.

This is already happening today to some extent:

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-07/flash-cra...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-06-03/people-ar...

'In the new system, the market makers are computers, and when things get hairy they just stop buying pounds and walk away with their computer hands in their computer pockets, whistling a jaunty tune out of their computer speakers.'
> So yeah, planned obsolescence. And this is a good thing how, exactly?

I see no one here making the claim that it is good.

However, planned obsolescence has been Apple's MO for as long as I can recall.

They are a hardware company, after all, and selling you new hardware is exactly how they make revenue.

Bottom line really is - if you want a developer-oriented laptop (with many high performance CPU, GPU, RAM, Disk and I/O Port options), Apple isn't really the place to get it. Apple is a consumer hardware company.
You don't have to think that this is the most likely scenario to think this is a very important book. Even if the chance that em AI beats ab initio AI is only 5%, it's a dramatically different and important scenario to consider.
yes. I'd have liked to see what exactly failed that got him so riled up
I feared calculus, right up until circumstances forced me to not only take calc in high school but to take the hardest level of calc my school offered (AP BC Calculus, counted as 2 semesters of college calculus). I was greatly benefited by an amazing teacher.

I've always felt that calculus is one of the most important branches of mathematics for the simple insight it should hammer home time and again: An infinite amount of infinitely small things can and will add to infinity. All too often, humans fail to see the cumulative effect of an integral.

Every branch of math has these types of insights built into them. Calc the power of instantaneous change. Geometry shows the beauty of a proof - and if you scratch a little bit, the shattering epiphany that triangles are literally the same everywhere, always and forever. The reality is that many of these concepts are simply absorbed into our culture, and we fail to realize it until someone explains that it took centuries of work to formulate the concept of 0.

When it comes to education, I believe the struggle has far more to do with testing standards than the material. It's easy to teach to process, much harder to teach insight and further harder to test. In reality, none of this matters until your institution decides and commits to truly educating its students.

tldr - None of this matters until your institution decides to truly educate its students.
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Same here. I took both AP Stats and AP Calc BC in high school and I'd be more worried about stats being taught wrong to a bunch of teenagers than calculus.
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Contrast doesn't bother me. It's the countless popups, and repositioning the content multiple times after loading.
He may be an economist by training, he may teach in an economics department, but as described, his course would fit right in at any future studies program. The article certainly makes him sound more futurist than economist.
Ours was more spur of the moment and done without our parent's permission. We spent hours on the boats, and none of us had traced this particular creek that far (and the water was moving at a nice clip).
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> If the US made any sense, this would be a public works infrastructure project rather than private enterprise.

No thank you. My Verizon plan is expensive, but it works pretty damn well, unlike most of the public services here. My wife and I took Amtrak every day between Wilmington-Baltimore and Baltimore-DC for about two years. It was regularly late (often very late). Trains broke down in-between Wilmington and Baltimore regularly, and my wife would be stuck in the train for hours waiting for a replacement engine to arrive. Many of the tunnels along the route are decades past their design life.

Before that, I lived in Chicago, where ancient lead water pipes poison kids. Before that I lived in Atlanta, where ancient sewer systems dump untreated sewage into the river whenever it rains. I also lived in Wilmington, DE, where bus drivers would just randomly decide to end their route 15-30 minutes early. Now I live in D.C., and even though I'm within 0.3 miles of a metro station both at work and at home, I take Uber because Metro trains keep breaking down and/or catching on fire.

I'm not a libertarian nutjob, but I don't want the government running my cell service. Our roads are awful (I just came back from Munich), our transit is awful, etc. There are a tiny handful of competent public infrastructure organizations in the country (e.g. New York's water system, Metro North), but most are a disaster. Verizon may be evil, but unlike say WMATA it doesn't have to regularly shut down major sections of its network because it spent decades neglecting its infrastructure.
Why shouldn't they? If they make risky bets that don't pan out, they will make their losses will the government's problem.
"Consider Phlebas" takes place in 1331CE whereas "Surface Detail" takes place between 2700 and 3000CE, with the other books in the "series" taking place at different points within that range.
Pubs Galore shows pubs in Nairn, Forres and Applecross.

http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/towns/nairn/highland/
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/towns/forres/grampian/
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubreviews/51349/

EDIT: maybe these were added after they snapshotted the data.
Yes. In Alberta, all you care about is the rate of change of the the price of oil and computing the volume of manure, so only the basics about derivatives and integrals are needed. In British Columbia, you have to worry about how to fit your oddly-shaped modern furniture into your tiny Vancouver apartment and find the region of convergence for your mortgage, so more advanced techniques are necessary.
> Hanson is not breaking new ground; he's recycling SF as economics.

World-building for purposes of entertainment generally has little to do with successful prediction. Hanson has made this point in a few places, eg, http://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/11/science-fiction-is-fan.... I'm not sure if you've read Age of Em but it didn't feel like reading scifi, so much as reading an encyclopedia.

RE: the list of "wild ideas." He estimates that maybe a third of them are true. Quoting a few and acting shocked that that's the case is not a very epistemically hygienic criticism.

BTW if anyone wants to read a summary that carries some of the tone and emphasis of the book itself, https://casparoesterheld.com/2016/08/30/the-age-of-em-summar... is pretty good.
Also, here's some info regarding their revenues, take it for what it's worth:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/261...
There's already a USB-C charging laptop from Apple and that does not have any DRM in it...I highly doubt they'd do the same for chargers for the rest of the family.
Meanwhile here in Tokyo my mobile data connection is faster than the wifi running off of my 1 Gb/s internet connection...
i have always kinda hated Amazon. There service is just badly made and run, there products are pretty crappy too.

Last purchase I made, took them ten days to get it to me, even though it was supposed to be next day delivery. I wasted three seperate days waiting at home for it all day, while there tracking showed it was out for delivery, only to find that it was far far away from me and had arrived at the wrong depot that morning (Why did nobody call or alert me of this?)

They kept blaming the delivery company but it was Amazon's own delivery company that finally delivered the item. Even then on a different day than they promised and luckily someone else happened to be home.

They then offered me a free month of prime, I couldn't care less about prime. It's a total rip off, basically a next day delivery service with a few half assed add on services, that if you wanted, you would pay someone else for a real version of the service, ie Music - Spotify etc, Movies - Netflix.
I agree.

The same thing annoys me here on HN.
This is no surprise. She has long wanted to create a "Manhattan Project" to backdoor crypto

Why the infosec community overwhelmingly supports her is an ongoing point of confusion for me.
And on text posts. Whenever I see top-level text it looks like it's been downvoted to hell.
Two Dangerous Fault Lines Under San Francisco Are Connected, Study Finds
I use it almost exclusively to just print out what every variable is reading at any given moment to find the one spot where it's not within expectations.

I'm not a very good programmer...
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:-). Yes I do love it here. Thanks!
Take a look at Rodeo from yhat.com.

The screen layout is very similar to RStudio and you can see the inside of variables and data frames like in RStudio.

Btw - Yhat developers also hang out here in HN.
Yeah but the money he made from this doesn't sound like flow, sounds like a large directional bet (similar to the london whale event, except this one happened to work)
Sure. I missed that. It's getting late so I'll do it tomorrow. Meanwhile you can add custom css rule in settings and override the default font.
Same thing here, and I was one of those kids who got regularly taunted by playmates for being a bookworm.

I recall we were also pretty cavalier about getting messy - dirty water, actual dirt, clay, even animal poop. I wonder whether exposure to all that stuff has any benefits for the immune system later.
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I was impressed with how marketers are hacking emails to get the most out of them. personally I would love some of this ingenuity in my inbox.
Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
Beagle 2: solar panels didn't deploy. Philae: didn't anchor to surface, bounced into a crevice. Schiaparelli: missing in action. If this is another loss, ESA is continuing its bad run with landers.
MacOS Sierra on Safari, looks fine to me. Does not match the screenshot provided in this thread.
Other societies without helicopter parenting (read: most of them) don't have a wealth of maimed and dead kids. Instead, parents are involved with their child's development and they teach them to keep themselves safe - though their societies are not unoften more safe than the USA, anyway.

We could do things like reduce the incidence of gun and car related injuries and fatailities and provide more opportunities to encourage parents playing with their children outdoors. Or we could create more protective laws and further cushion the playgrounds we essentially "walk" our kids in, and more organized sports leagues for children where the parents act like an unruly mob.

This whole article is so insanely closed in view and experience that it's not worth reading unless you're an upper middle class white American in the suburbs. Talk about first world problems.
I remember getting on VZW LTE reasonably early, with the HTC Thunderbolt (don't even get me started; that device was trash) and I consistently got 60-80Mb down. Now I'm the same location, same carrier, infinitely faster LTE modem, I get maybe 5-10Mb if I'm lucky. Such a shame, could've been transformative.