skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain how the Hairy Ball Theorem applies to the spherical magnetic field? My first intuition is that the magnetic field would not be a tangent field because you'd want all of the force lines to point inwards to the center of the sphere. However, based on what you said, it sounds like my intuition is wrong.

To phrase it another way, could you explain why the magnetic field is tangent to the sphere and not normal to it?
You can't take credit for a lack of restrictions when users face draconian binary-only no-redistribution-ever restrictions that you turned a blind eye to.

While we're voting with our feet, I don't contribute to BSD projects unless I'm paid to, because it's mostly feeding parasites.
Yes I believe it is.
When you achieve a certain size, you need a layer of conservative power, to keep company going.
As a formerly ardent software freedom lifestylist I hear this criticism and have embraced it myself. I don't encourage the "designers" I know in my life to use GIMP anymore. Much like social revolution can be tragically violent, in 2016 it sometimes falls to us to surrender our computing integrity for a shorter-term tactical gain. This isn't good, but it's not good to avoid either.

That said, I think this essay paints an overly narrow view of Stallmanism. Stallman would much prefer systematic change, even though he is a self-identifying liberal; you see this less in the blessed FSF essays and more on stallman.org and similar because he doesn't get so speculative to talk about policy in most of the exhaustively-edited technical specifications on the finer points of software freedom theory.

Stallman is I think overly pragmatic. He lives in a society where individualist liberal political action, voting with one's dollar, etc., is the only acceptable method of political change, so he only ever expresses change in these terms. This makes for a weak praxis, because liberalism always makes for a weak praxis. But this isn't Stallmanism; it's just the overpragmatism of rms. Marx thought that electoralism was a good idea, for example, but that doesn't mean communism is inherently electoralist.

I think the best thing to do is to explicitly approach software freedom from a collective liberation stance and be ready and willing to point out the contradictions between the totality and the underlying ideological motivations of software freedom. Stallman doesn't need to do this; I think he's contributed quite enough honestly, and that if you want a better praxis, you should provide it yourself, because it isn't hard.
MANY people do essentially the same thing all the time. They call it torrenting...

Rather than say "well, I just failed to pay money I don't have" you can just say "oh no, it's cool, I'm just downloading it"
This is my portfolio :

http://www.nilsenlabs.com

None of them have made a lot of money, but one is still generating a small amount. Guess which. Hint: Income is not proportional with the shinyness of the technology stack
I'm taking about console/tripe a games, if that chart is right then it shows the revenue for those has not quadrupled and even if it did it says nothing about profitability.
I am not involved with the company other than being a happy customer. It was by far the best passive income I made this year.
h might not be evaluated at all! Consider

h x = factorial x
g x = 0

(but I agree that Haskell doesn't reject sequencing).
> You can't make a derivative closed source work.

That's not it. Your license has to be GPL in order to use any GPL code. I try to make the stuff I do on my personal time under the MIT license, which means I can't use GPL code, but GPL code can incorporate my code. Tell me which license is more free now.

Also, it completely disregards the scope of things. If I incorporate a GPL library into my software for say JSON parsing, then it means my entire program must be GPL. Thankfully most libraries aren't GPL but LGPL.

The other thing is that you can't use proprietary libraries in your own code that has been infected with GPL. If you want to develop your own software that incorporates GPL code and even release it to your users, it's impossible to link against proprietary libraries.
I've been contributing to open-source software projects for more a decade now. I've never seen any connection with left-wing ideology, and no incompatibility with any ideology I can think of. I've seen all kinds of people participating, from communists to objectivists. I think that's why it worked so well. If something can seriously hurt the idea, it's trying to make an narrow political-ideological cause out of it. You may gain some partisan support and budgets on that, but the losses in goodwill would be enormous.
What's different about the stellerator magnetic field compared to the donut? And how does that shape help contain fusion better?
ZoneWatcher - Side project of mine to monitor your/your clients' DNS services and alert when a change to a zone has been made. It serves as a revision history & alerting system which has been helpful when a client fucks with their DNS and expects you to put Humpty Dumpty back together quickly.

I launched it a few months ago and have a few smaller subscribers with a handful of larger subscribers.

https://zonewatcher.com
I assume GP meant interests generated from lending on that platform.
Google's Daydream VR and what's new
I co-wrote a book on user acquisition and co-created an accompanying video course to climb out of debt left over from a failed startup.

Made $104,000 in revenue since June (turns out the user acquisition stuff actually works), about 87k of which is profit, so we'll say ~$11,000/month part-time. It still makes me a solid $2,000/month now with zero work, and hopefully more once the book is officially published. (It's done and delivered to backers, but won't be on bookshelves and Amazon until after it's typeset.)

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-ultimate-growth-hacki...

I know the marketing will be over-the-top for HN. Just know it sells because the content is really, really good.
great eli5. I attended a lecture by one of the Wendelstein-7X engineers a month ago, and the main reason why they would construct such a thing (took 10 years), from what I figured, was that a tokamak is operated in short pulses, whereas the stellarator runs smoothly.

Wiki: However, stellarators, unlike tokamaks, do not require a toroidal current, so that the expense and complexity of current drive and/or the loss of availability and periodic stresses of pulsed operation can be avoided, and there is no risk of toroidal current disruptions. It might be possible to use these additional degrees of design freedom to optimize a stellarator in ways that are not possible with tokamaks.
Business leaders' selection of best books of 2016
Yes, that would be the common sense take on "wage theft".

Unfortunately, HN is allergic to common sense.
I personally like free software. (My personal stance lines up the most with the Debian Social Contract.)

However, OpenBSD (my second choice of system) does not, and they've been vocal in the past.

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43

It's pretty simple - freedom 0 is the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. That includes in a proprietary environment. That includes whatever you want it to include. The other three freedoms then tell you "except in some ways we personally don't like."

They also don't like the FSF much. They have done some things that are a little controversial, like require devs to cede ownership of code so that the FSF can relicense when they want to (mostly to new versions of the GPL).
Unfortunately not 2016, but two years ago when the Samsung Gear Watch came out a friend of mine got it right away. We went out drinking the same day and when we came back at night we put together a watch face while still being drunk. We uploaded it, set the lowest possible price 1$, and... Nothing happened. Everywhere in the admin panel it showed 0. 0 downloads, not a single dime earned, even after a few days. We were devastated.

But than I found another tab in the utterly shitty admin panel and it hit me like a rock. The numbers on the dashboard were a monthly overview and in fact we earned already hundreds of dollars and downloads in just a few days. I went back to the computer, but together an even better watch face, set it to 1$ again and watched it selling like hotcakes.

However it tried out quite quickly after that. People started to copy stuff and giving it away for free and I never bought the watch myself, I just used the emulator to test my apps. So I took them out of the store at the end because dealing with taxes and sharing the income does not make it worth it if you get support requests like "how can I change the time on my watch", "what do I care, its your shitty watch and Samsung's shitty interface"...
So yea. That's my best story about unexpected passive income. Selling stuff fast on a new platform seem to work!

Edit:
Found some screens.
First one: https://i.imgur.com/TIVsPKO.png
Best selling one: https://i.imgur.com/9L8TetO.png
Oh so it's like, the employer stole some work from you when you weren't looking?

Look, I'm not saying not getting your wages is just fine. But the world sure could use less Socialism-tinged concept-twisting.
Try to move with half a million LoC of dynamically typed code with a handful of developers with not a single update breaking for any customer and I will be impressed.
Young hackers who have a surplus of income and have funds to spare that aren't being channeled toward debt / family / donations, heed me: save as much of your salary as you can, and put it in boring investments (index funds / etc), probably through vanguard.com (no affiliation, I just use them and have heard nothing but good things from people I trust). You can pretty easily set up your job's direct-deposit system so that a portion of your salary goes directly into your investments without you ever seeing it, it's a good set-it-and-forget-it system. It adds up over time!

[Somewhat related: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... ]
I'd say the smaller the Stellerator is, the stronger the magnetic fields have to be, as the curve radiuses are smaller

So there's probably an ideal size
https://www.castingcall.club Social network for amateur voice actors. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@buf/accidentally-built-a-successful-soci... Brings in about $2k/mo.

p2p lending is hit or miss for me: 3-10%

Index funds pull in the rest.

I've also moved temporarily to a very cheap COL country so that I can focus on some more side projects to pull in extra sources of income before I return to the work force.
Sure, you can apply, just expect to work long hours for free.
I'm a Software Engineer, and the more things I learn to do in life, the more I think the follow is the most important.

"Don't focus on the doing, that's easy. Focus on the planning and bigger picture".

In programming, the actual syntax and doing is simple to learn, and SO and Google make it easy to figure out problems. The hard part is the design - how do components work together, how does your system interface with other systems, etc. etc. Focus on that.

Before you start coding, think about the design.

Now I'm doing other things in my life, I see the same applies to writing (don't just start writing - think about what you want to say and HOW), photography (pushing shutter is easy - what are you trying to say?), videography (same), house building (need a good plan before hitting in nails) etc etc
Question: how do index funds (or any kind of stock, really... in fact this question isn't really about index funds) "pull in the rest"? Do you actually manage to sell them when they're high and buy when they're low again? Or do you get stocks with dividends and just make money using the dividends? Obviously merely possessing stock of high value is kind of moot if it doesn't turn into cash somehow, so I'm curious how people usually do this. (I don't know much/anything about finance.)
GogTasks? It seems to solve a real problem.
The World's First Smartwatch You Never Have to Charge
File format no, compression yes https://www.google.com/patents/US5051745
> If you willingly take on debt even though you know you will not be able to pay it you're committing criminal bankruptcy

But even that's called "criminal bankrupty", and not "credit theft" or something. Possibly because you can't steal credit - it's either given, or it's not given.

In the same way, work is either performed, or it's not performed. It's not somehow stealthily extracted from you while you're not looking.
Sorry for the confusion. It's just a set it and forget it robo investment for now. I go in and adjust every quarter.
Heh, I get it, they're both socialists and all. But Bernie is the opposite of what OP describes. Stallman is a purist, Sanders is a realist. Stallman fights to keep "GNU/" attached to "Linux", while Sanders talks about the fake news coming to people on Facebook's closed platform.
210,000 Euro, divided between me and a friend.

We started a small online shop about 10 years ago, and it's mostly automated. About 5 minutes/day + one week / year of work.

Before that, I had spent a few years (trying to) run rather big software projects (for me – I was 18 or 19). They had cost me so many sleepless nights that I swore to never again take on customers paying me more than 100 Euro each. Now, if anybody complains, or gets on my nerves, they get their money back and are never heard from again.

My friends joke I'm the living example for an unconditional basic income. They haven't decided on the outcome yet, though.
AMD has been good to Linux and Linux community always supported AMD. Its principle from beginning of creating x86 clone has been something similar to what Linux is to other OSes. There will always be some up and down but has not gone too much away from Linux.
Undoubtedly it's awful to be denied payment for work you've done in good faith, and the more so the lower your income and safety net. It's happened to me several times in my career, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

But as cperciva pointed out, the Crytek case doesn't sound like a case of a "corrupt manager or investor who's buying an Audi on [their employees'] dime". It's a company with a history of both successes and difficulties, struggling to survive in a notoriously risky industry, and facing serious cash-flow problems.

Of course we don't know the details of what's happening at executive level, and we can safely assume there's been some poor management and poor communication to staff.

But we can also assume that the management is sincerely doing everything they can to keep the company afloat, to get their staff paid and to keep them employed well into the future, which is what the staff want too, given that the alternative is to shut down the company immediately and for everyone to be made unemployed.

Conflating this situation with wage theft is quite unfair, at least in the absence of further evidence.
I wrote my first e-book [1] about how to save money to work less and live your dreams. I'm really happy for a first attempt, and it has inspired me to write more.

[1] http://amzn.to/2hcfuB7 - Work Less to Live Your Dreams
2 (count 'em) dollars a month. For letting two people who don't want to run an instance of my OSS program themselves tap into my personal instance.
Monad implies Applicative, so the "might need a free applicative part as well" is already a given.
Brilliant deconstruction.
Yes it's quite obvious GV and Gcap are not in Magic Leap. But it doesn't mean they passed on Magic Leap. It could've been that Google Corp told them to back out because they were doing it alone. Speculation of course, but hard to tell.
I'm sure the site contains a lot of useful data but the presentation is so ugly that it's hard to get motivated to dig in deeper.

Compare it to this, for example:

https://sourcemaking.com/refactoring/smells
I dipinti realistici di un amante del cibo
Ah, so no actual income then? Just stocks going up in value? As in, at some point you'd have to sell before you actually have any income from it, right?
I have a website with ads on it. Or actually a few, but one that mostly pays for my life right now.
There's a difference between the financial aspects versus the legal aspects of software freedom.

You can make the argument that it's too financially expensive for most companies to make their devices more modifiable, but that same argument cannot explain why people are banned, by risk of government punishment, from decrypting their programs, which would be the first step to investigation.
Yeah thats exactly what you should do to promote something like this.

Tell anyone how much you made with your own tipps without proof/proof of your specific case and use it to sell it
And then you could use a k-map to build equations!

I love the "I don't care" option xD
Inside Aircall’s powerful and complex front end apps
Games are a huge market but it's also extremely competitive and difficult to build a lasting advantage over your competitors. It's all hits-driven, so in many respects competing is closer to running a Hollywood studio than a tech-driven or even sales-driven company.

Contrast this to a group like Windows or Office where Microsoft knows they will be making billions of dollars off of it over the next 10 years, even if they also know it's in decline.
Although the standard lib is still improving, Nim is doing it right.
Naloxone is definitely the standard when it comes to treating withdrawals. From a harm reduction perspective it would make a lot of sense to include doses in clean injection kits (if your state has such a programme). Although I suspect the 'zero-tolerance' crowd would oppose anything like that.

However, I'm not sure it would be effective in treating long-term withdrawal. It stops withdrawals by essentially knocking heroin off μ-opioid receptors (i.e. it is an inverse μ-opioid agonist with a very high receptor affinity). But it's effects only last a bit over an hour. Additionally, because of its inverse action, I suspect you'd experience withdrawal symptoms that are more severe than those you would experience going cold turkey.
Slow Cooker: Load testing for tough software
Well, looks like it got $103k in crowd funding, so it's not totally unsubstantiated.
To answer your other question (hn has a child-reply limit I think), it makes money on the dividends, which are reinvested back into the portfolio.
Why would anyone extroverted enough to use this app decide to use it instead of inviting their existing friends to the event?

I personally don't know anyone who would use this app. Then again, I have very, very few people I would call friends. But, you haven't convinced me, mate.
Optimage – a visually lossless image optimization tool

http://getoptimage.com

Released this week. Came unnoticed on HN but somehow got featured on PH. 1200+ downloads of free version and a few sales.

Not sure if that'll change. In that case, the best of 2016 will be one of the plugins for Sketch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319286.
The thing is, the world 30 years from now doesn't need RMS.

(I realize that sounds callous, but my long-term partner split from me today and I'm a little drunk, so spare me :p )

What the world in the short-term and 30 years from now needs is someone new to think about and develop philosophies around today's software freedom concerns.

What's that look like? I dunno, I'm not that thinker.

What RMS did was profound and important for that time in history. The last few years, everything he's written seems goofy and childish. What we need is an RMS for the modern era, i.e. a significant thinker who can speak to the next 20 years of people.

Sad to say, like most nonprofits, there's no succession plan.
FYI Amazon is not a thing in some countries. People in Switzerland avoid amazon because you usually end up on the cart page where it then tells you that barely anything can be shipped to your country.
I mostly agree with this. But nobody is "forcing" anything, one can still use Haskell and avoid the e.g. infamous (and non-idiomatic) lens library.
But just as you haven't given up on lenses, I also don't agree with the wholesale rejection of ideas based on imperfect implementations, which is what prompted my comment.
Trump game! Not huge amount, but for the small amount of the effort it was great.
Yes and no. With Free Applicatives you can express side-effects such as parallelism .. not so with Free Monads afaik
In Perl 6:

$width-in-terminal = $text.chars;
$codepoints = $text.codes;
$bytes = $text.encode('utf8').bytes;

The .chars method should be the fastest, because Perl 6 internally uses strings of fully composed characters (normalized form grapheme). It's much better than having to do regex hacks like in Python.
My brother and I have built a couple of test prep sites for UK medical school entrance exams: https://www.bmat.ninja, https://www.ukcat.ninja . BMAT Ninja made about $25k this year (up from $16k last year) and UKCAT about $10k.

Didn't do any work on marketing really so it is pretty much passive, but I think with a bit of work they could both do a lot better. It's a very seasonal market - we only get customers for about 3 months per year (the 3 months leading up to the exams), so thinking of branching out into other exams that occur during other times of the year so the income is a bit more steady.
I don't think there's anything ethical about stringing your employees along for 3 months without pay, regardless of how successful you may have been in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140938
Giving due credit to scientific software development
How is prosecuting time theft socialist? If you do work, you should be paid plain and simple, hence why it is a felony in most countries to alter timesheets or not pay your employees.
I put my CSS Layout knowledge into an online course at:

https://thecssworkshop.com/

Interestingly it has been very popular with teams (so selling a set of licenses so a whole team of developers can use the material). I also teach the same material in person (either in-house or in open workshops) so I'm keeping the two in sync. I made some notes about that process on my blog: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/06/03/creating-an-e...

I intend to do a bit more marketing of both the in-person and online training in the new year.

As an independent (not working for a browser vendor) invited expert to the CSS Working Group, training and offering this course is really how I can fund doing that.
This Russian Hacker Is Spamming Everyone's Google Analytics
No, no worries. it happens to the best of us. I've been suckered in by a zillion trolls. Good on you for leaving the (edited) comment up.
Some years ago, I did some referral promotion for a webhosting company with nice results, around 70k.

Later, company rules changed and I stopped actively promoting it, but second level referrals still are generating 5-10k year with doing absolutely nothing of work.
Java and C# aren't going to give you the same flavour of protypical inheritance that JavaScript has.

Perhaps you might try Lisp or scheme:

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/little.html
Please go back to Reddit. Thanks.
Writing a book is not exactly passive.
Would the German experience of transitioning from Bonn to Berlin be of much relevance here?
Why do you think you need duplication of hundreds of structs?
Anyone with domain knowledge cares to TL;DR the significance of the Hough Transform and its applications? Never heard of it before...
You're right. I looked up "cindy ffxv" since I didn't know and by comparison this is one is cool.

I guess I was expecting an image which says more about what happens in the game.