skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've hired a bunch of people through fiverr to do small gigs for my writing (eg copyedit, add a few jokes, do illustrations). One "dumb" way to make a bit of extra cash for programmers could be to take on gigs like that. Depending on your skills, there are plenty of web design/automation gigs that you could offer there. This doesn't need you doing time-consuming marketing or sales, or chasing consulting clients. It also doesn't require you to come up with a SaaS product. On the other hand, the gig market tends to be a race to the bottom in terms of prices, so the income won't be that amazing, but then again you asked about dumb income ideas.

a slightly less dumb idea is to write a book. it's more upfront/unpaid work than when doing gigs, and more risk because it's up to you to create a good story, but significantly less risk than building a SaaS system. I've self-published five books so far, and books have three benefits over the gig economy idea:

1) you get to learn a ton of new stuff while researching for the book. writing a book is effectively forcing yourself to learn

2) even if books do moderately well, when you self-publish you retain most of the profit. my passive income from previously published books is roughly 3-4K USD per month now

3) books have an extra effect that they tend to bring name recognition and incoming work for consulting, and that can last a few years even if you don't plan to freelance and work as a consultant at the moment.
I think Stripe supports this:

https://stripe.com/blog/smarter-saved-cards
Exactly because human nature is hard to change, you have to effectively force it by criminalizing it and not everything can be criminalized.
How do you find work? Word of mouth, or something else?
Raise your prices by thinking like a consultant, not a freelancer
Teach math. SAT prep or other forms of "higher level" math such as AP calculus is best. That said, go over to one of the math name brand teaching places and find out what you earn from them an hour (half what you make on your own.)
> Whether this is generating an online course

Seems like an incredible amount of work for not a lot of payoff. I attempted to create an online course before and stopped around 3 months in because I couldn't see an end in sight. The amount of research and planning that goes into a quality online course is massive. This is why most online courses are through larger organizations where professors are teaching an already existing curriculum.

I got the sense that the OP was looking for "dumb" easy ways to generate $100/week.
Just recently we had the author of Octave, thinking about giving up development, because of exactly this problem, so excuse me if you don't think my remark was mature enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603575

Do you at least pay for the distribution you use? I do.
They are also much, much cheaper per mile. Something is wrong with construction in the US that makes rail lines dramatically more expensive here.
Huge supporter of rail but sadly I believe there are a number of mistakes being made. This is a classic example of how projects like this in the US need to be monolithic, self contained, and gold plated to the hilt. The correct action would have been for CA to incrementally acquire and build railways along a number of corridors. Take the SF bay for example. There should be one agency running Caltrain, the Capitol Corridor, the ACE. It should electrify and improve all the routes. Extend reach to Monterey and other Central Valley locations. And do the same in Southern California.

The incompatibility of CAHSR with other rail strikes me as a repeat of the BART mistake.
That's true for single-table queries, but less so for multi-table joins. The RDBMS may need to sort your tables (even multiple times) in order to join them together, or the WHERE/GROUP/ORDER can be on combinations of fields and conditions.
In Through the Wire he also mentions "keep what's in my safe, safe" so I think he'd be amenable to promoting 2fa :)
Brilliant! I often tell myself I was a better programmer when I was sixteen. Back then I would code directly to the problem only stopping to re-factor when things got so out of control that I couldn't make progress without getting distracted by the mess. Back then I would create video games, implement complex algorithms, things that seem too hard or time consuming for me now that I have 12 years experience as a real developer.

I think this is all because of years of brain-washing by programming media personalities who tell you what is best. What is best is getting your program to work! Yes, keep an eye on maintainability, readability, unit test your stuff and so forth but as the article suggests don't over-engineer. After all the idea is to get the thing to work and to be able to easily get it out to people (CI/CD).

Sometimes I think the sixteen year old me would be too bored to come to work -- he would be scared off by the fact that he has been working for six days and only manged to get a charting library working with react in a way that wouldn't fire up the local Bob Martin wannabe.
Contrary view:

Abstraction is possibly an art and few in the IT industry are good at it. Poor attempts at abstraction underly the common anectodal experience of 'failure' to consolidate software in context of business.
would it be possible to make the files available again please?

http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gat/ftp/

Thank you!
Living in the south, I LOVE Publix. It's not much more expensive, but a much more pleasant and clean experience than basically anywhere besides Whole Foods (which has vastly fewer stores). I've never lived more than a short drive from Publix.
The problem that I have with it is that I can no longer distinguish a webpage as being from public Github and enterprise Github with a cursory glance.
Old, generic drug for rare disease gets new price tag: $89,000 per year
I agree with your comments in that I missed a major theme which is the sub culture of people who read books, the vast middle class plain old Joe 6 pack American, HN readers which are a very peculiar subgroup of the population but mistakenly think they typical, and finally the population of people still wealthy enough to travel don't seem to have much overlap anymore. At one point lots of joe 6 packs read books and a nice book about visiting the home land of Ireland sounds like a nice amount of adventure and was semi-realistic enough to consider, not so much anymore.
I've got a small local ISP by me that runs fiber to the home in rural areas and wifi as well. Them for a start. I would imagine Google and Elon musk if the price were right.
The prevailing wisdom on HN is going to say networking and word of mouth.

If you don't have an existing network freelancing/consulting is going to be very difficult. I've tried the online freelance website method before while I was in college. It sucks. The clients don't want to pay even a reasonable amount and they're usually pretty shitty clients to work for.

If you have a network I'd suggest consulting. If you don't then I'd say steer clear.
You're saying the demoscene has a problem with Linux because it's generic?

Then please explain why the most popular demoscene platform is Windows, which is about as generic as it's possible to get.
And the fastest if you take into consideration the fact that you can come to the train station less than 30 minutes in advance just hop in the train and travel downtown to downtown.
Acronis True Image 2017 Crack and Serial Number Full [Latest] – Upgrade
I actually don't use my phone much, and not at all for entertainment. Consequently my battery usually lasts three or four days. (Motorola G4).

Vaguely within the last week or two, no change in behavior, no new apps, that's been cut at least in half. One day it lasted less than a day.

I've got things like location and bluetooth turned off. I haven't been able to track it down. I'm wondering if it's a recent google or other app update. It's pissing me off.
I have my Nexus 4 still until my Pixel XL arrives sometime mid March. It has gotten unbearably slow lately (navigation taking literally 1 min. or more to open up.

I tried to narrow down the cause via battery usage and OS Monitor but since all the tracking and ad related stuff apps use goes through Google Play Services I can't identify the culprit.

I assume routing ad and tracking related stuff and core functionality through there was so Google could lock down their open garden and prevent ad blockers from really blocking them. Bummer that iOS notifications are unusable for me.
Not every serverless database is embedded, but most of them - those that are also called "database library" are. Some examples of DBs that are both embedded and call themselves serverless:

- SQLite: https://sqlite.org/serverless.html

- UnQlite: https://www.unqlite.org/features.html#serverless

Serverless is used to highlight this specific property of them. The OP's database is NOT embedded, but it is serverless.
This seems to be part of the original company culture. Even back WF had only two stores, the original downtown and the one on mo pac (mid 1980s) they got in trouble with the attorney general for labeling conventional stuff as organic and marking it up.
Safaa safaa
https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...

Wearable and Cast are often missed APIs. Contacts and Calendar sync is also not implemented yet. I can't think of any app that I personally used that doesn't work. That includes Google Maps and the Play Store. There were some crashes in the past, but microG became a lot more stable since then.
However, I completely rely on my own infrastructure for mail and contacts / calendar sync (using DAVdroid).
What kind of books do you write?
SBI+Recruitment+2017+Vacancies+for+PO+and+Manager,+Jobs,+Career
"serverless" means so many things it really means nothing, that's like "cloud computing" and that's the definition of a buzzword. Sqlite is an embedded database and has nothing to do with your favorite buzzword.
Donate plasma. While donating read (instead of during your "work" time).

EDIT: This assumes the time and distance to travel to and from the center is short.
Clickbait title.

tl;dr "The destroyed object had a chemical composition similar to Halley’s Comet, but was 100 000 times more massive than its famous counterpart."
A mashup of flowcharts and FRP with Hollywood aesthetics?
Carriers do not have the luxury of enjoying such laissez-free relationship with paying customers.

That has not been my experience. Where I used to live, there was line of sight to multiple towers, presumably enough to get every carrier. Yet service was spotty at best. My monthly data usage was like 70MB or less, not because I dodn't want to use it, but because the 3G speeds were so slow (LTE was even slower and flakier). 30% of the time web pages wouldn't even finish loading.
How would I know for sure?
Yes, I concur! I am definitely trying this out. I have a couple use cases where I think lambda functions would be useful but I don't currently have the time to figure out how to write and execute them.
Attaching the Chrome DevTools to a Node process (perhaps even one on a remote host?) Is probably your best bet here.
The bugs are an indication of poor storage the rudimentary milling and processing. Most likely a one or two step processing before it hit the shelves.

Multi-stage milling usually get rid of that. If you're shopping organic you should be happy about the bugs, unfortunately.
Out of respect for Linus, it should be called Linux, and not by some made-up name.
Geez. It's only sex, I really don't understand why people make such a big deal about it, sex tape or not.
Top Most Hottest Bollywood Actresses in Bikini 2017
I'm hard-pressed to think of a feasible concentration risk for Apache projects. Can you be more specific?
Yes, the article still gives good advice for SQL Server.

I was meaning in the more general sense - Oracle hadn't released 12c yet, Postgres was at 9.2, MariaDB just released 10.0. Lots of changes in the other DBs to make them more competitive.

One thing that has seemingly changed for SQL server 2016 is the licensing cost... $14,256 per core now??? Or is that only in a 2-pack?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2016-p... (Open Level)
point taken. but it need not be solved by increasing the barrier to entry. instead it's a ranking problem; make the poor titles sink to the bottom.
"It was people of 70+ who voted for the Brexit; I doubt that they're more than a tiny part of the market for travel writing."

Both parts false.

Moreover, the implication that Brexiters are 'against foreign travel' is also total rubbish.

Brexit was widely supported among younger people: 44% of those 25-44 voted for Brexit. And 25% of very young. That's not a small number.

Senior Citizens are the travel a lot. They are retired and spend long sojourns abroad.

"I doubt that they're more than a tiny part of the market for travel writing."

Actually, they are the primary source for the classical travel writing market.

The 'king' of travel writing is Rick Dee's (see: PBS). His guidebooks sell by the millions all over the world - and overwhelmingly, his readers are near-retired or retired.

I'd suggest that younger people consume more 'new era' travel writing such as blogs etc..
Just out of curiosity, what do you do with a card which has one of its corners creased already?
Huh, neat project, but it points me towards asciicinema, which is a really neat service/idea I've never heard of before. What a good lil niche service.
Wow, thank you for this excellent heap of info!

I noticed you reference the Cosmic Microwave Background in a nuanced way, "How the early universe "behind the veil" of the oldest visible surface becomes that particular surface" before mentioning the name itself. You never quite define the CMB or highlight its significance, which may be a bit confusing for readers. Otherwise, awesome stuff!
Investing.

Not "developer" specific but worth mentioning at a general level.
Surely, any chain of anything can have one-time, harmless, quality control problems at one location, without symbolizing some sort of corporate identity?
String example: if you have "foo" and "bar", both are a list of characters. Now, "bar" has a beginning represented by a handle and you drag that handle to the end of "foo". Very briefly something like that. Of course, not everything is set in stone and we need to try multiple approaches to see which one is the fastest.
At some point though, isn't better to get paid more per hour than working more hours? The average senior developer in the area I live - a major metropolitan city on the east coast that isn't NYC - can easily charge $60-$75 hour as a W2 contractor, probably 30% more as a corp-to-corp contractor. It would be a better long term investment to keep learning and gaining skills that make your hourly rate of your salary higher. You can only work so many hours a day.

A side benefit is that the more marketable skills you have, the easier/faster it is to get another job if you get laid off. My quickest time between looking for a job and getting an offer has been 4 days.
All of that (identifiable info such as bank accounts or other docs) is already required when you are applying for the visa in the first place
I have no idea what was there. That was a long time ago. If there's a particular item you are looking for I might still have a copy in my archives, but that directory is probably gone forever. You can contact the JPL public information office to ask if they archived it, but I would be shocked if they did.
Good Deals Make Good Neighbors: Arab Nations Doing Bus. With Israeli Tech ­Cos
Platelets.. more money
RFS: Hacker News without the anecdotal comments
I enjoy HN except for the anecdotal comments of the form, "I think X based on my experience Y, so the solution is X". Myopia degrades the community just as much as the ad hominems do.

Is anyone working on a natural language processing plugin to filter out these low quality, N=1 comments?
Good timing on this post! I just got a new card and was baffled by how Netflix was able to update my account details before I was.
Maybe I should be creeped out? But damn if it isn't convenient. (Who else finds themselves uttering this phrase with increasing regularity these days?)
> since those who want to go direct between SF and LA will always have a direct flight as an option

Therein lies the problem. The cost of the line can't be justified unless it provides a viable alternative to flying between SF and LA, because that's the only conceivable way to get enough ridership. The problem is the distance between SF and LA means being competitive with flying in terms of travel time is incredibly difficult. To achieve parity the trains will need to average around 220 MPH, which is incredibly optimistic. Existing high speed rail lines rarely run at 200 MPH even momentarily due to high operating costs.

All this means that most trains will have to run nonstop between SF and LA to even have a hope of competing with flying. If the trains fail to draw passengers away from the airlines, ridership will be far too low to sustain the line without absurdly high subsidies.
That looks very cool! Thanks for the pointer.
I assume that effort is already there and the OP is trying to generate additional revenues beyond his or her primary income.
Though I guess the beauty of it being something on the side when you have a job is you can advertise your services and not worry if nothing come through.
Cool project.

How much does it converge / diverge w/ Xonsh (http://xon.sh/)?

Besides the obvious fact that Xonsh is (from what I can tell at first glance) a Python-like shell scripting language, and Ergo a bash-like shell language written in Python.
Cube composer
How is their design choice on case sensitivity a reflection of its production readiness (or lack thereof)?
FRP seems about right and I wanted it to look cool :). But no flowcharts, those represent steps. If you are talking about the logical symbols, they are not step based at all. Rather more similar to physically implemented logical circuits.
Frugality is great, but, repeating myself from below, I assume that effort is already there and the OP is trying to generate additional revenues beyond his or her primary income.
I use Geltbox Money.

No need to use online financial aggregators, which are limited to certain financial institutions.
Record your own downloaders and have them run automatically in your device.
Can work in most countries in the world.
Data and credentials are stored and encrypted locally.
No need to give away your user names and passwords.
No need to store your personal financial information online
This is very common among almost all major eCommerce companies. Clickbait title, but the gist of this is to say, "Hey, we know you lose your card from time to time... and cards eventually expire (sometimes because of a security breach or other issue that you, the end-user, had nothing to do with). Rather than make you waste time going back through and updating every instance where you opted for the vendor / service provider to save your info, and risk you getting late fees or your electricity being turned off, let's just be smart and push updates to trusted stores that you have already opted to give your card to."

Nothing sinister going on here at all.
I like it, but I don't see people paying for it. Your market is mainly women in relationships. I don't know how you would get them to download it and actually use it.

The best marketing angle would be to get a high profile celeb to get behind it, maybe one that has had a sex tape leak.

Honestly, even then, I don't know how much they would use it.

It sounds sexist, but women (on a large scale) just aren't into this type of security thing.

Women would rely on the relationship and the trust built up into it to make sure their sex tapes don't leak.

Honestly, I really like this type of thing for sensitive business stuff or other security oriented material.

You make the boss/owner/manager the guy with one key and then he can sort of decide who has the other key on a need to know basis.

I really like the idea, but the application use is just off in my opinion.
I think you'd appreciate something I've been working on and I'd love to hear what you think!

https://www.60secondseveryday.com

It's basically the fastest way of daily journaling - you get a call each night and record a 60 second journal entry.
"Pot committed" has a subtly different meaning. A player who is pot committed hasn't necessarily made a mistake and isn't necessarily in a bad situation; the pot has just grown so large relative to their stack that it's worth calling even with a very weak hand. If the pot is offering you 15/1 and you think your opponent has a 10% probability of bluffing, it's worth calling with ace high. It's a slightly tricky concept to apply, because a lot of players who think they're pot committed are just falling prey to the sunk cost fallacy.

Many startup founders are effectively pot committed. The potential reward of an acquisition is very high; the cost of staying in business is just the opportunity cost of your time. Running the company until either bankruptcy or acquisition often has a higher expected value than quitting to do something else, even if the situation looks dire.
Ms magazine was completely ad-free for many years starting in 1991. They currently accept only 'mission-driven advertisements from primarily non-profit, non-partisan organizations'.
30 minutes in advance for a train? Sometimes I arrive a minutes in advance and just enter the train before it is continuing its journey. Happens when my connecting train had a delay.
> I am fascinated that they never felt any pressure to update the design

What slander, Ambassador issued updated models from time to time, changing the shape of the headlamps and the like!
An author who fesses up to a mistake is more credible than one who doubles down on it, or pretends that it didn't happen.

Very few pundits are intellectually honest enough to look at their history. They make their name on being loud. Pundits (and VCs, journalists, doctors, etc) who do check their work become better for it.
Agreed on the deal with the devil notion.

Jumping on the anti-Trump wagon is the virtue signal du jour, but care should be taken as Trump is not a one-off event - it is a worldwide trend
You'll be fine. Chinese citizens eat all sorts of insects.
If I were going to do a small gig at a low pay rate to earn a little extra money, it would be something using a technology that I didn't have any on the job experience with that would increase my marketability.

For instance if I were interested in getting into mobile development and had spent some time studying but hadn't done it for a job, I would take a low paying gig as long as I had the right to show off samples of the work for future employment.
Yes, those would work too.
This could use more endorsement
No, I haven't considered it yet. To be frank, my plate is full right now.
The "serverless" starts being used and abused the same way "microservices" and "rest" are.
I'm still shocked that the spotify desktop app won't let you output to anything other than the default audio device. There's an open request with thousands of votes on their tracker that has been in "not right now" state for half a decade. I know people with multiple outputs aren't a majority, but c'mon, it's gotta be less work to add than pretty much every other "feature" they've added in that time...
Richard Hipp called SQLite "serverless" long before you started trying to be cool by hating buzzwords https://sqlite.org/serverless.html
Might make sense to rename this to avoid confusion with AWS Lambda (I immediately thought it was related). Otherwise, looks like an awesome library!