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Ask HN: For your side-projects, how do you avoid the 'money' question?
I've been working on side projects for the past 3-4 years on whatever caught my fancy and have thoroughly enjoyed experience and the rabbit holes some of them have led me into. I like it and I feel I'm at a point where I want to get more people involved in side projects. But, any discussion about these projects with (nearly) anyone ends with 'How will you make money'. I don't have a way to avoid or answer that question without losing people's interest. I'm curious about how others handle that one.

To be clear, I do not work on side projects for money. Neither do I intend to. Thats what my day job is for. I just want to involve more minds interested in similar things that I'm racking my head against.
So, slippery slope?
In Finland it is illegal to google for applicant's online presence, because of the possibility of judging the candidate because of misidentification. You have to have applicant's permission to that. And I am glad, because one of my name doubles isn't very representative person according to their online presence.
Why would you need $1 million cash on hand? Lol. A $1.4m house only needs a 10% down payment, 20% at most.
There’s also https://github.com/tfc/pprintpp which is quite nice.
Google is just indicating a world economic slowdown. Compare its revenue growth numbers with the world's economy and you will find it has a similar pattern.
> It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Macbeth Act 5, scene 5, 19–28
> The big difference between the USA and regions further south is that in the USA white settlers just mass-slaughtered most of those who remained post-disease so they could steal their land, whereas further south they were instead pressed into forced labor in service of a relatively small group of white colonial overseers.

This seems to be at odds with the fact that the US colonies (some of them, at least) imported African slaves. In theory, if they needed slave labor, why not make slaves out of the indigenous? Which leads me to believe that there's another distinction at play. I like umanwizard's explanation that the North America was settled by families whereas Central and South America were settled by single men. This would seem to jive with the genetic evidence from Central and South America that there is a high degree of admixture between Europeans and indigenous people, but that it is heavily skewed toward European males mating with indigenous females.

EDIT: Though now that I think about it, perhaps disease resistance in African slaves was an important factor in why they were preferred over indigenous.
One good book on this topic is Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People by Thurman Wilkins.
From what I know of Hemingway, it's sincere.

The image he gives of himself (or imagines of himself) is a barrel chested beer swigging straight shooting Man's Man. He bullied "pencil necked" little Fitzgerald into alcoholism, and possibly abandoning his wife. He used a writing style that was the quintessential "no fluff" style of the period.

I don't know him but from what I know of him he would not be a fan of having untanned literary professors claiming his works were about more than literally just an old man pissing in the sea or a bull fighter fighting bulls.
Which is totally reasonable. You can't follow two sets of laws at once.
"My favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a story of a man who hates an animal. And that's enough."

-Ron Swanson
There’s also https://pkgsrc.joyent.com (yes, for MacOS too).
How is this law enforced? It seems like you could google them and discard their application for other reasons.
Where I live, it's expected from candidates to show they looked up the company and have prepared a question regarding a project the company is working on or something else about the company itself. So, you actually end up googling the thing.
+1 for what monitor is that?
You may see a growth in audience if you extend your site styling to support mobile devices.
Out of curiosity: do you draft on paper or do you go straight to the text editor?
If the car in front is 50cm further from the gutter then a cyclist can easily be in a blind spot that's directly in front of your vehicle, especially a higher and less transparent vehicle like a delivery van. If that van is 50cm in front of you then you can easily miss someone still crossing the road, like an elderly person that can't walk fast enough, if you were paying attention you have a much higher chance of being aware of them.

If you aren't willing to be attentive then you shouldn't be trusted to operate heavy machinery.
> Otherwise it's impossible to answer questions like: "If the Lagrangian formulation put space and time on equal footing, and if the Hamiltonian formulation gives a preferred role to time (generating time evolution), could we give a similarly preferred role to space?" "More generally, why isn't there a third or forth major formulation of mechanics?"

Hey, can you answer those questions? Or point to the right answers. Thanks!
I think you are conflating two unrelated things just by assigning the same percentages. Stating that coding is 95-99% easy doesn't necessarily means that it only accounts for 5% of the work. Yes, I perfectly understand the words you have emphasized. I do believe you are a pretty good developer, but please don't get the impression that people who questions the stated 95% work allocation is a asocial code monkey who is incapable of empathy.

> Why would the implementation matter more than having the strategy in the first place

Who said that? Noone is saying that programming is more important. On the other hand, I see I lot of people saying programming is trivial and not important. I wouldn't have objected if it was at least 25%. But 5%? That's probably true if you're just gluing frameworks together all day, but even then...

Is it not really absurd to claim that the person deciding things and telling people what to do is doing almost all of the work? But suppose that maybe there was a lot of nuance and research involved, and the resulting specification is very detailed. If that is the case, the programming involved will not be trivial either, hell it might be even harder.

> Writing code is, for the 95% to 99% case, easy

> Programming is not easy. Programming is specialized labor

D-did you just contradict your self there? I'm not sure what are you getting at anymore.
Two comments on that A) its impossible to prevent jailbreaks no matter if a second OS option exists or not and B) the Linux option was removed since it was seen as an unneeded expense. Its function for Sony was to keep the people motivated to jailbreak a console from doing so. After the removal of the Linux option the PlayStation was jailbroken.
Shame there is no mention of pkgsrc, I've been using it for years.

https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/
> If you’re running Kubernetes in a network you don’t fully trust or need to encrypt all pod network traffic between hosts for legacy applications or compliance reasons, Wormhole might be for you

Is there a good analysis somewhere about how typical kubernetes setups trust the network and what badness an advesary could do with kubernetes network access? How sound is this default deployment setup from security POV?

For example I think DNS is used internally for service discovery, and incoming TLS is often terminated and proxied onwards as HTTP - those could be both MITMed, right?
What's tooling like? Would be keen to jump on if, say, generating a web app, an exe, and an apk were straightforward, but it seems to be anything but that.
France, Germany to support battery cell consortium including PSA, Saft
To be fair, MacPorts will also ask you to have the latest Xcode, though many (dare I say most?) packages will install without it. But I do think that Homebrew's permissions are pretty broken. Apparently macOS does too, since it'll reset them (and make Homebrew unhappy) if you do a reinstall.
The article says 15ms. Even 2x that at 30ms or 4x is totally playable on most every game.
There is a very practical reason for choosing a copyleft license as an author. If you choose a non-copyleft free software license, then downstream users actually have more options than you do. They can take your code, add small modifications and then release the result under a non-free license. Even if you implement those features as well, you aren't playing on a level playing field. You have to support all of the software and they only have to support their small additions. The end result is that they can offer a product with a value-add at a lower cost than you can. You are essentially competing with yourself.

Of course you can decide not to release your code under a free software license, but that rather defeats the purpose of running a free software project ;-)

Looking at it another way, more permissive licences grant more options to downstream users than copyleft licenses. It doesn't make sense to argue that you are offering only copyleft licenses to benefit those downstream users individually (and I know of nobody who makes that claim). Instead, the argument is that it is better for the group that everybody has equal restrictions and can't use proprietary code to gain an advantage over everyone else.

This is actually one of the reasons why if anyone asks me to assign copyright for my side projects over for work, I'm happy to do so: on the provision that all of my work is licensed under the GPL. It barely matters to me at that point who owns the copyright (though to protect yourself further you should ensure that no one person has copyright over the entire work).

IMHO, although the choice to write free software at all is often ideological, the choice of using a copyleft license or not is usually pragmatic -- at least among those who understand why copyleft licenses are written the way they are.
Hey, Scott from OpenAPS.org here. That’s my email address: if you’d like to get in touch I’d be happy to arrange getting unused Edison’s to folks who need them. Or if you’d prefer, my Twitter DMs are open as well.
> My day to day life is very unlike the TV show this place is based on

I always thought the show Silicon Valley was based on the place but your way round actually explains a lot.
My lawyer looked up my profile online. He loved a lot of games I made.
Agreed. I'm a bit jealous of his (Mostly) food truck name ideas, https://writing.markchristian.org/name-ideas/.

Once, in the functional programming rabbit-hole, a coworker advocated for a hypothetical Indian food truck named Haskell's Curry.

And when I was studying propositional logic I certainly wouldn't have said no to a side of De Morgan's ColesLaw.
Of course there are: user cannot block ads, cannot copy text, cannot change scale, robots cannot index the page, it will take more time to load and will work slower.
Looks like Massdrop addicted (keyb, mat, sad, maybe the whatch and monitor too?)
Maybe

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double sy, double *sub_x, double *sub_y)
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npm installation is broken with brew. had to use the standalone installer coz none of the workarounds would add npm to the path correctly(brew has some problems with access permissions and can't be sudo forced to get those permissions)

kinda irritating
I have the opposite problem, I share the name with someone else working in the tech field who is academically and professionally my senior.

I frequently get emails and phone calls from recruiters offering positions with a salary up to 200k more than I'm expecting at my level because they think I teach at Stanford
No, the article isn't about this drug at all. It gets mentioned at the beginning, mostly. The rest talks about biology. The main takewaways for me, after having read it in its entirety, were:

* exercise regularly
* don't overeat
* ensure you're getting enough omega-3 (EDA and DHA,
from fish/fish oil/algae) and arachidonic acid
(beef/chicken/eggs)
It is completely unreasonable - people are allowed to have dual citizenships, sometimes even by birth. And of course you can follow two sets of laws at once - for example, fundamentalist Christians strive to follow biblical laws and local laws all the time. There may be occasional contradictions, but it's hardly a common problem.
What does it use to scrape? Is it just an xml/html parser, or does it run a headless browser?
It hasn’t been a big issue the past five years I’ve been there. It’s for professional artists and designers so they all have a common interest in taking care of it. It’s been going for almost 50 years.

The bigger problem comes from what kind of production you allow. We focus on large scale production but it’s not a production line. Nobody needs permission to work on anything specific but some people have exploited the subsidized rates and then you need to step in.
> I don't trust MacPorts, it's old, confusing, has terrible UX and promotes system-entropy increase

MacPorts is old, but I think that's a good thing: it's robust and well designed–at least compared to Homebrew, I feel. It's lacking a bit of color and a few emojis, but usability isn't that bad (in fact, I would say it has fewer surprises, because commands usually do exactly what they expect you to and nothing else behind your back).

> I don't pipe bash into shell, so no sudo for you either, mister package manager.

Sorry, what? I don't know that the first part means, and the second is standard across almost every system package manager.
My personal beef with Homebrew is the amount of work they create for third-party "tap" (package collection) maintainers by constantly making breaking changes to the formula interface.

For example, Homebrew used to support compiling on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. They provided a "is 64 bit" function that packages could use to check if they were being compiled on a 64-bit system. It worked great!

Then, Homebrew decided they no longer wanted to support 32-bit systems. Instead of doing what any reasonable project with a stable interface would do and modify the "is 64 bit" function to always return "true", they just deleted it! I found out when one of my users emailed me to let me know that my packages crashed when you tried to install them.

Changes like these mean that I spend 20% of my package-maintainer time on real work and 80% dealing with Homebrew's nonsense. Moreover, they show that Homebrew doesn't care at all about the people who maintain packages outside homebrew/core. And as someone who maintains packages outside homebrew/core, that makes me not want to continue.
Just going further and further off-topic here, but it's so depressing contrasting that list against what Australian politicians actually treat as important issues in regards to the Australian economy.

But then, what would one expect when the Australian Prime Minister (at the time) was one of the names in the Panama Papers listing investors making use of complex offshore shell companies registered in tax havens for the purposes of avoiding local tax law.

Also, Foxtel! $0 in tax on $6 billion total income. I guess that covers all the Australian pirates' share of GoT downloads.
Why do people here seem to think that the only form literary analysis is direct symbolism? Is it the only thing covered in the American high school curriculum?
I have built https://www.gosourcingwise.com/ which could use probably better owner who invested more time into it then me.
That's probably because you've read it in English. For the life of me I don't get why non-Russian people read Russian classical literature. Just don't. It is true that there aren't really any Western authors of the same stature as Dostoevsky or Tolstoy, but really, you aren't really reading what they wrote. Their work requires quite a bit of thought, and that thought requires quite a bit built-in stuff that a native wouldn't even notice.

30% of the meaning is not there because you don't have the same cultural background. Another 15-20% is lost in translation. What remains is still formidable, but nowhere near as good as the original work. I happen to also have recently re-read Crime and Punishment, but in my native Russian, after a gap of some 25 years. I've found it very vivid, engaging, and full of nuance I just wasn't even able see when I was a teenager. Likewise I have fairly recently re-read War and Peace, and it is now my favorite book of all time. When I was much younger it seemed "too long" and extremely boring, because it requires quite a bit of lived experience to fully appreciate, and not just any experience, but experience that only someone who has lived in Russia for an extended period of time (not necessarily originally Russian) would have. Really fundamental, basic things, which Americans just can't even begin to understand. I.e. how the government is perceived there (hint: Tsar-like figure is still perceived as a desirable thing), what it means to have a land war on your soil (Russia had many, some extremely devastating), Russian ideas about patriotism, yet at the same not liking how they do things over there, Russian fatalism, how women are perceived by men and the other way around, etc, etc.

Having spent 20+ years in the US and having traveled quite a bit, I've recently read The Grapes of Wrath. I liked the book, and the use of language in it (it almost reads like poetry at times), but I very strongly suspect I didn't quite "get" it to the extent that an American would, for the same reasons I alluded to above. And I have vastly more "American" lived experience than most Americans have "Russian".
Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Functions 2.x
Hyundai Introduces Smartphone Based EV Performance Control Technology
They tried a bit of that with Google Shopping Express. Unfortunately that turned into a me too product versus when it launched you could get same day delivery from a variety of places.
Azure Functions now has support for PowerShell
Sorry for missing Nix! I have almost zero experience with it outside of hearing that it existed, and MacPorts has been working fine for me, so I didn't go any further than that :( I'll have to try it out sometime; it's nice to know there are a couple of other options for macOS if I'm ever feeling underserved.
For now…
That doesn't address the question at all.
Why should it start at specifically zero though? Growth can be, and often is, negative. Shouldn't it start at -50 to be sure? The point of the chart is exactly to show ("exaggerate") the difference in values!
I used to be an analyst, and used to make atleast double that. But to earn that kind of salary you often sacrifice work life balance and experience all consuming stress. I decided being poor was more healthy and quit.
Why should this be public information, though?
Even bigger question: how is it tracked what application was discarded and why?

Sounds like a well-intentioned eurocratic nightmare.
Using SQLAlchemy and Postgres functions to produce JSON structures from joins
Sure doesn’t seem like it’s constitutionally sound. If they’re born in the country, they’re citizens. Personal affiliation isn’t specified in the constitution or its amendments.
Joe Lycett Tests UberEats with Most Unhygienic Restaurant in London
UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)
It makes one an easy target for negative campaigning. If you have no "real" web pages showing your real self, the first hit will be someone else talking trash about you. Or worse, pretending to be you.

A vast and positive online presence is an insurance.
Improving Accuracy of Maps Using Anonymized GPS Traces
“Plausibility” in Science Fiction
Compelling Science Fiction magazine’s editor lays it out in episode 38 on ScFi Thoughts podcast: https://lancerkind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/
Yeah, Homebrew tends to not handle upgrades very well, especially around major versions -- I remember when their decision to change the "qt" formula from Qt 4 to Qt 5 broke pretty much everyone who had it installed.

Part of the problem is technical--IIRC they don't have any CI infrastructure to test upgrade processes--but mostly they just don't care. They'd rather have the cleanest, most elegant code today, even if it means breaking everyone who installed it yesterday. That philosophy makes sense for a lot of projects (like in SaaS, where you often deploy new versions by creating new virtual machines and installing everything from scratch), but I'm not sure it's the most productive way to run a package manager.
That's familiar...

There's a call to:
https://customer.api.drift.com/targeting/enrichment/clearbit

That returns a json payload with a big hash of "conditions" with encoded-looking keys...

(And "too sleazy for _Adobe_"? That's something I thought I'd never hear...)
Yea but that's okay right... people can write that. It's actually probably more effective than an "objective" piece. It's persuasive because the author's clearly loves the vibe, and describes it in a weirdly beautiful way. Which got me to buy into it, as a software developer myself. And the contrast with how the valley is portrayed normally is refreshing. (FD I don't live there, but I did really like this piece.)
In San Jose, they have already peaked some time ago. Not that the current "post-peak" prices are especially low... but the growth has slowed down for now.
No, but it's seen by many engineers/scientists as too hand wavy to be worth spending mental cycles teaching/practicing it.

Personally, I believed that until I began to think about literary analysis like math. Some people make careers out of it because there are situations where it has real impact (law, for example). For the rest of us, it's a form of intellectual play as a proxy for other mental skills.

You might come up with some wonky and possibly wrong theorem or some useless formula, but I wouldn't jump to say "you're wasting your time" because the process is the valuable part of the exercise.
- Show screenshots on the home page of key features and explain how they’ll help users

- Respond to people in Twitter looking for budgeting software

- Cold email people who’d get the most value from this (freelancers?)

- Improve the product based on feedback

- Keep improving the product while soliciting feedback until people start talking about how good it is
They are a product of industrialization! But here is what's the nagging thought on my mind. This industrialized schooling has allowed basic human knowledge to be disseminated at a faster pace than ever before. The need to do so caused it to roll back on quality, sometimes greatly. But without this tradeoff, would knowledge be able to reach so many? Is there some sort of balance point to be reached?

I agree that currently, education systems are terrible, but is there any way to maintain them at scale that is not?
Very interesting. I always assume VPN providers are dishonest at best and hostile at worst.

Does anyone know which VPN/proxy provider is the one labeled "A" (with claimed proxies in almost every country)?
It's too bad that you don't recognize the well established emotional connection that people make to the places where they live.
Looks like the one I have, an LG 38UC99-W.
That'll sort it itself out over the coming decades; but the other interesting one to me is that a sizeable group (majority?) of people are still saying "two thousand nineteen" instead of "twenty nineteen". I'm pretty sure I stopped using the former shortly after 2009 ended. I wonder if that'll stick for the whole century.

In the other language I speak fluently (Portuguese) there never was an abbreviation, it was always the full "one thousand nine hundred ninety" as opposed to "nineteen ninety". In that case "two thousand" is already an improvement, but for some reason it bothers me in English.
Or, for that matter, the extensive loss in social connections/cohesion that results from such a move.