skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm on your side; I want the absolute least of my personal time and attention devoted to food preparation.)

IMO, tomcooks' comments aren't arrogance; they're an expression that some people genuinely enjoy the process of cooking and are perfectly happy (in fact, happiest) if they remain thoroughly engaged in the preparation steps.

To me, it's a bunch of wasted time; to them, it's enjoyable. Replace "cooking dinner" with "computer programming on an unpaid side project" and many HN readers will understand that we/they enjoy it immensely while others would see it as a tedious waste of time.
SuperGraphiQL – A GraphQL testing environment that supports multiple queries
Targeting very old versions is soon going to be banned from the play store.
Front-End Tooling Survey 2018
The kind of BASIC that did fit on 8-bit computers is a non-intimidating low-level programming language. All variables are global, you have jumps and subroutines, but no named (multi-line) functions and conditionals most of the time end in jumps that go over a segment of code.

Conceptually, it's incredibly simple and I think this is its most important contribution.
Or not..

"believed to be microplastics"

"there is a chance the Nile Red dye is adhering to another unknown substance other than plastic."

So it may, or may not be microplastics that they found/counted.
If they're "labour-intensive" that's pretty much the definition of not passive. I suppose it's possible that you could invest significant effort into setting up an Amazon affiliates site or write a book or whatever and just let it run but most people aren't going to have a lot of luck with that. Generally speaking, passive investments require investing capital and then collecting returns from that capital.
IIRC Office 97 was fully MDI. Office 2000 then used weird hybrid mode where it was still MDI, but each document had it's own taskbar button.

(It's somewhat telling that major new feature of taskbar in Windows XP is that it is capable of grouping windows by application and thus undoing this hack :))
This correctly represents my feelings about it.
According to them:
Avoid Nestle Pure Life.
San Pellegrino, Evian, and Dasani are OK.
I can only tell from my experience - I(35 y.o.) had 3 interviews in NL, 2 offers and took the one that had the highest wage that is even greater than required minimum..Also, I believe that it's pretty easy to find a developer job in NL because it seems that the country lacks IT professionals..
I don't understand, does this replace the need for the iOS/Mac application?
This should not be downvoted. This actually works pretty well.
not very passive, but in some cases blog posts can be popular for years and therefor generate revenue for years (but not in many fields/topics)

-> kind of passive in the long run
How are any of those passive?
> 3. You can avoid doing if you want. If you are doing this, you're signing up to take on this additional burden of informing your users. Consider this when making this decision. This is the only bullet in the list that is in any way burdensome as you will need to update this text in your automated response whenever you take on 3rd-parties (if at all).

Pretty much everyone is going to. Google Analytics, Zendesk, Salesforce, and more all qualify. Hell, even AWS qualifies...

> 5. and 6. are "if" conditionals that you shouldn't be doing. The answer should be "No".

Why do you say that? Given that we're discussing technical companies, I fully expect that automated decisions will be made.

> 7. Amounts to "has my data been hacked". If yes, that's unfortunate, but obviously you have a moral obligation to respond here regardless. Presuming you're hacked once, you provide full details once and send automatically to any users who ask.

And "detail all your security measures". Which, for a small company that doesn't have an InfoSec group, probably means next to nothing. An admission that feels a lot like liability...

> 8. and 9. are out of place. GDPR doesn't require you to respond to these questions within this quoted 1 month time limit (you do have to have what's detailed within them in place to comply with GDPR but that's tangential to info requests). These seem to have been put into this blog post as extra scaremongering.

It's the sort of thing an angry consumer might do, and most startup founders subject to GDPR are not deeply knowledgeable about it.
Being married isn't all that passive, but it is a great income strategy.

Having kids is a terrible one.
Pretty sure the original (unreasonable) availability of Oxycontin which caused the problems.
It's open source, but Moxie has said he doesn't want federation. I don't think he'd be okay with someone writing a third-party client, for example.
On really? In that case they definitely would not want to allow this project to cannibalize their revenue. On the other hand, it makes it harder for them to change their APIs then as it impacts clients not directly under their control.
>I spent too much of my life learning to do things by following rules, up to and including a PhD and an MBA. I've since learned to love learning by doing and diving in.

I'm really interested to know how you transitioned. I'm a recent graduate and I'm planning to pursue a graduate degree, and I'm overly concerned with rules, which provide structure but also seem to constrict my learning and work.
I generally agree with your statement of not wanting European laws due to cultural differences, but America is in sore need of privacy laws for citizens. People will be rallied to oppose said laws for the exact reason of not wanting Euro-style laws passed, which IMO is a huge shame.
Furthermore (sorry, can't edit my post): A mirrorless camera would require strictly less electronic parts than a DSLR. So your experience with electronics failures supports the idea that a mirrorless design could be more reliable.
Bottled water is a scam. It's less regulated than municipal tap water in most developed nations, companies suck up water from small towns and use tons of fuel to ship it out of those watersheds and then charge people 1000% markup.

For countries without clean water, the effort should be put into getting municipal water supplies.

Don't buy plastic disposable water bottles if you live in a developed nation. They prop up a terrible industry, generate tons of waste, use tons of oil and it's less clean than just drinking from a water fountain.

Edit: the documentary Tapped is a great film about the bottled water industry, and Blue Gold is a good one about the water industry in general.
Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
There is a ton of much better tutorials online (e.g. [1]) if you want a NN 101 course.

[1] http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html#implemen...
Fair enough. Looking at an item is no substitute for feel in hand.
Yep, the RaspPi client is instead of the iOS/Mac app. Basically the Turn Touch API and Bluetooth spec is open source (https://shop.turntouch.com/pages/open-source) so you can extend it in ways that I haven't built natively.
Care to share what the app is?
It's faster
Just use telegram. Open source, native clients for every platform. No phone number necessary.
why hasn't anyone forked/cloned it's UI and feature-set?

Somebody did, The Old Reader (theoldreader.com natch) was setup to be as close to Google Reader as possible. I've been a paying user since it launched shortly after the Google Reader shut down, very happy with the service.
That's not the argument being made there.

Indeed, the argument is that "scarcity thinking" prevents people from addressing those problems, because people are afraid of losing what they have individually, and so are incapable of collaborating on collective issues.
When Jack Dorsey’s Fight Against Twitter Trolls Got Personal
The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) has a 3% dividend yield and a minuscule 0.08% expense ratio.

If you buy 500 shares of VYM, you can expect a passive income of $100 per month.
If the industry didn't want what they're trying to spin as an "overreaching" standard like GDPR, maybe they shouldn't have spent so much time and effort seeing how far they could push their abuse of users' privacy.
Does this mean I can use my gopro hero 3 as a wireless webcam? Awesome.
Ask HN: What is your preferred RSS reading experience?
Coming from the dicussion on "RSS is undead"[1], and also in a quite a few other discussions I've seen on HN, RSS seems pretty popular with this crowd.

(I'm also personally thinking about getting back into RSS)

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16785335
First Tech's membership bar is quite low, I was surprised how easy it was to get my SO an account. The Zelle integration on the mobile app is pretty slick too!
Personally I've really enjoy The Old Reader for my RSS feeds. Not really a fan of the social aspects of it and it's not self hosted, which if it's a requirement for you this doesn't fill.

I've used SelfOSS which was fine, but didn't like some of the feeds I tried to import. It's pretty lightweight though and based on your like of Fever this seems like it might be a little too light.

I'm sure I'm going over stuff you've head of with Tiny Tiny RSS, so I won't go into that too much.

A really small shared hosting reseller with decent support I've used for years is Hole In The Wall Hosting. It isn't a big operation but it just works and does what you need it to do, SSH is extra but the plans are relatively inexpensive.
Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?
cgroups are a dependency of systemd, so they're extremely standard. (I'm not sure what you mean by "customizing"; there are no binary builds of the Linux kernel available from the kernel developers, so everyone builds their own kernel.)

Not sure what you mean by symlinks either - the right primitives for secure filesystem isolation (pivot_root, etc.) are also very common. pivot_root is the normal way to switch from an initramfs to the real root filesystem, so it's also extremely prevalent.
First Tech security is pretty top notch. For online trnsacations over a certain amount they would ask for password verification.

I just wished online transactions owned it up for optional two factor online transactions, pin card transactions and SMS verifications for all transactions above $500.

That would drop fraud significantly.
I would say its easier to be focused than general for the small timer. I made a niche ERP integration with an app, then sold it for 150/monthly to 20+ customers. I've done other things like building a plugable CMS and making components but that focused approach I first mentioned was easy money compared to those.
You can also invest directly into an index fund rather than going through an ETF. Depending on your situation, both have pros/cons.

Many companies offer index funds, though Vanguard's seem particularly popular (possibly because they invented index funds, IIRC).
What is the tool you are using to write your 'logs'? (pictured in this image http://amid.fish/images/rl_logs.jpg)
Would need Python and Qt5 and OpenCascade. Huge undertaking. And for what gain? It's available on all common desktop platforms already.
And one can export 3d-model viewers that can be embedded in HTML.

On web side of things what I think would be desirable is a webUI for parametric designs, ala Thingiverse Customizer
Wish I knew where Kirkland stood on this. I drink that stuff like... water.
Probably buying and selling. There was a Planet Money episode on this, an entire industry of people who just buy things from Toys 'R Us (and other retailers without a significant online presence, esp on Amazon), and selling it on Amazon.
> A lot of people don’t care about fire safety either (until their house is burning down) which is why we have regulations, building codes, mandatory sprinklers in offices, etc.

We don't have mandatory sprinklers in home offices and undeveloped land and buildings that are still under construction.

The problem with the equivalent distinction in software is that there is no clear point that software is "finished" like a building is. The architect doesn't come back and make changes a year after the occupants move into a building.

If there is no exception for new code still under testing then there is no way to test new code. But if there is, everyone will live their lives inside of it.
Not only are your points unrelated, but I'm intimately familiar with message-passing languages and metaprogramming. This article reads like somebody who is just beginning their understanding of computation and is fraught with inappropriate metaphors.

Moreover, I understand her point completely and outlined the failures with her analogy above.

Ripping out HTML while browsing a site has nothing to do with the "browser as a programming target" - no reasonable user would ever do that and 99% of jQuery scripts targeting websites would break if you drastically alter the HTML structure they depend on.
I equate the events right now surrounding Facebook to Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle", and GDPR being the privacy-analogue to the creation of the FDA.

The FDA makes the medical field hard to break into for startups, but for good reason. New medical devices need to go through rigorous verification and validation to show that they work as intended. If a company making pacemakers had the same "move fast and break things" attitude as most of SV seems to have, I might never trust medical companies again. As a consumer, I'm extremely content with the quality of pharmaceuticals and devices, and I wish I could trust Facebook or Google as much as I trust Medtronic or Philips Healthcare.
Ask HN: How to stay engaged in your career?
I'm continually feeling disengaged at every workplace I've been at after some time.

Even though I perform well externally I'm starting to yearn for harder intellectual challenges. Data Science looks like one avenue of harder work, but it seems like I will have to retool my skillset completely as I am mostly an enterprise software developer. If I stick on with my work, I am sure I will be promoted but I'm not sure whether I will be fulfilled managing others who will replace doing my low level work.

Any advice? How do you sustain your passion for the work you do? How do you know when it's time to be okay with retooling and trying something radically different?
Ask HN: What are good alternatives to Postman?
What are good alternatives to Postman that allow you to easily write API tests to be run as part of integration testing? Postman doesn't appear to be putting any effort into accessibility which is an issue for me as a blind developer. Before the team I work on builds up a large sweet of Postman tests I'd like to see if there are any alternatives that will still allow us to create and run API tests against REST endpoints with out having to write code for each test.
See following issue for comments on lack of accessibility in Postman and there lack of a response.
https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/3121
Should Small Businesses Be Using Marketing Automation Tools?
Marketing Automation has emerged as one of the key trends in B2C businesses. Today, marketers realize the importance and the need for automation. So, investments in marketing automation strategies have increased over the last few years.

https://www.engagebay.com/blog/marketing-automation-small-businesses/
> Linux users are advised to get FreeCAD from their distribution's repository

Wow, it has been a long time since I last saw a big piece of software recommending distribution repositories instead of a custom repo, a standalone package, or a curl|bash.
It's good to see Zuckerberg taking swift and decisive action to try and plug the leaks related to Cambridge Analytica. I think that it is sorely needed, and it is probably too late for many on the Facebook platform.

However, what's more interesting to me is the disturbing details about the spread of political advertising on Facebook. It seems that elections were much more heavily data mined and influenced than before. A nation state level attack on elections seems plausible and highly achievable, and was done not just in the US but France, Germany and elsewhere.

I will be closely following whether the radical transparency measures proposed will have much impact given the upcoming elections in much more corruption prone countries such as India.
While there may be some questions regarding the exact methodologies used in this study and its accuracy, it is still pretty fucking scary to hear that microplastics are in so much of the water we drink and bottled companies are not filtering it out sufficiently.
When I started learning iOS development, I was always surprised at how often I ended up leaning on Xcode's version of this tool. It's surprisingly useful for debugging hierarchies, but that may be something more specific to iOS development than for web development.
To IB's defense, he did make a point to seek after his lost progeny on the way home. One son of his in Damascus had died, and another in Maldives he decided was better off staying with his mother for reasons he doesn't mention. Moreover, there are at least three separate towns he visits where he mentions that it was the custom of the women of that place to marry travelers and then divorce them rather than leave (Oulata, the Maldives, and another town in Iraq I can't remember the name of). So you might be applying presentism there, even though I agree with the spirit of what you're saying.
> They won't be able to tell you why they prefer the one with more time invested in the UX/UI, but they will almost always choose that one.

do you really believe that or does your job depending on you and others, believing that? I get UX is important, where UX is defined by such things like "number of clicks to achieve a task", but the OP was talking about margins and padding etc which just are a lot less important than designers like to think. It's probably an uncomfortable truth for people who spend all day tweaking things 1px at a time, but I think it's largely true.

A case in point is the new Reddit design being tested (https://media.wired.com/photos/5abed25228f0c90b2647ac08/mast...)

It's prettier, I can see that. If it was a painting I'd rather hang the new one than the old one on my wall, but when it comes to pure functionality (read a list of links) the current (ugly) design is better (imho).
Given the enormous expense in both time and money it's pretty hard to see college as an equalizer for those who start off with fewer resources in life.
but still 100% relevant
Show HN: A Crowdsalable Cryptocurrency Token with Ethereum
Here are the free (as in beer, sometimes FOSS) applications that really amaze and inspire me. In no particular order

- pi-hole
- irssi
- plex
America is too business friendly for that to ever happen.
A CRM working on IBM AS/400, DB2 from the 80s.
here is the full paper in case anyone is interested:
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones-ben/htm/Ag...
> Zuckerberg isn't rich and famous because he is good at programming

I doubt we'll agree on this, so I'll agree to disagree and just leave it at this:

I think he is. He was instrumental in programming the early and core product of Facebook. Facebook wouldn't have become the monolith it is today without his ability to program the very early versions.

Being a star programmer doesn't necessarily mean tackling self-driving vehicles or the linux kernel, and it can very much blend into what looks like traditional business decisions: Deciding what to build, what to allow/disallow, etc.

Pop music is actually pretty similar in this regard: It's not well-known as a technically difficult or especially avant-garde form of music, and being a pop star is often not about the music as much as it is about everything else surrounding the music (branding, marketing, etc.).

Still, we consider pop stars to be star musicians. Even when they don't write their own music!
I am fascinated to watch his testimony. Regardless of what is submitted, it will be highly interesting to see him deliver these words and stand up to questioning.
This is an interesting idea. Are there any information sources you'd recommend to people who are curious about this strategy?
As native to one of the countries affected by Manifest destiny, I can assure USA's foreign policy never has had the moral high ground, but it just liked to say it did.
Is this an intuitive interface for anyone? It looks incredibly frustrating. If I want to turn on a lamp, I want to turn on a lamp, not spend hours configuring the optimal way to navigate to a lamp rpg style (north east north north south).
this exactly. still selling your time for money, just at different rates.
Albert -
Ignore the naysayers and keep writing your book and ideas.
I have followed your writing for years, and share many of your hunches. As did Aaron Schwartz.
It's a bold attempt at a future worth working on.
Abundance is indeed here now, and attainable in a more equitable distribution. Not easily - indeed it's hard work - harder still allowing the negativity on Hacker News.
Not only that, but we have no idea what the "safe levels" are. They say it's only roughly double that of tap water, which doesn't seem alarming to me.
Add a functionality to allow users to "endorse" a publication as a verified truth, and heavily warn when that many users have seen it and not "endorsed" it.

Somebody has to put a stop at fake news, anti-vaccine campaigns, homeopathy...
React1 6.0/Angular 1.6/5.0 components file upload with multiple file selection
Reverse Engineering Compiled Core ML Models
That, and turn down the heat.
I second that. I am an avid Feedly user and a paying customer. It really filled up the huge void in Google Reader. I use Feedly it to consume RSS feeds.

Although nowadays they hide the feature in the interface, it is possible to subscribe to a feed by just pasting it in input text box when you are looking for new content.
I created an app a couple years back that I still work on regularly. So it’s not super passive, but I only manage to spend a few hours a week on it. Generates around $1,XXX/month profit. It’s called Meta Meme, it’s in the iPhone App Store if you want to see it.
I built the bulk of an Android app awhile ago and now it makes a nice passive income off of ads. I do end up making updates to it though since I love to use the app too, so it's not entirely passive I suppose
You can't plug a data leak. It's too late. The data is out there in the wild and will be forever: https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/facebook-cant-clean-up-...
It's pretty simple. Four buttons for four devices. Each button can toggle a device. You can also hold a button to switch to that button's app, giving you four apps with four buttons each. So music app has volume controls and play/pause and next track. Lighting controls has scenes and hue/brightness controls.

There's no multi-touch or sequences to memorize. Just the four buttons and the four apps.
Better is ChromeOS 67 enables running your own containers without having to put CB in developer.

It uses the KVM to run a second Linux kernel. So you will be able to use GNU/Linux applications including Steam. More to be shared at Google IO this year.
Just adding the math: Current price around $80 per share, so 500 shares = $40k ($40k*0.03 = $1200)
"From now on, every advertiser who wants to run political or issue ads will need to
be authorized. To get authorized, advertisers will need to confirm their identity
and location. Any advertiser who doesn’t pass will be prohibited from running
political or issue ads. We will also label them and advertisers will have to show
you who paid for them. We’re starting this in the U.S. and expanding to the rest of
the world in the coming months."

Interesting!
I have 4 rental properties. Selling 2 though since they are too far from me (GA and OH). Each under $30K.