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No demo, no screenshots, and no real list of features/things your app does. Why, as an ops guy with a trillion other services with these items available, would I sign up for this?

Feel free to add at least screenshots, as that definitely would help pique my interest.
Will definitely be checking this out as I need some charts to go with my bottle + elixir + bootstrap + datatables admin backend. :)
I don't think that's a debunking. yummyfajitas covered the plotting tool, but that's only the start.

Clearly, the metric is far from perfect -- you can tell that without his analysis. Year-over-year variation is high, indicating that there's likely a lot of noise in the measure. That said, year-to-year scores do correlate. This means that the measure is at least a little bit reliable in the sense that if you measure the same thing twice you'll get an answer that's close to the original.

All he's shown is that these are "noisy". There's no reason not to use a noisy metric, you just need to know that's what you've got, and make responsible decisions.

For example, don't fire teachers who rank poorly, but do review their performance. In that case, we'd find that the "Worst Teacher" is underperforming on this metric because it wasn't designed to test great students, and we can move on. Another example of the same phenomena in education is looking for teachers who help students cheat exams. When there are suspicious correlations found, administrators investigate.

One last thing: What he doesn't investigate -- and this is much more important -- is the (lack of a) correlation between value added ratings and other metrics (say, peer evaluations).
You have many options for JVM languages: Scala, Groovy, JRuby etc.

[edit] and many more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
You have precisely identified the bubble, inadvertently:

Why are we determining what these companies are worth based on things like number of uniques and users, rather than the actual amount of revenue they bring in? Users, in-and-of themselves, are useless. Revenue is always and everywhere the end goal. Somehow we've begun to take at face value that more users=more money, and I don't think that's the case.
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What about vibrating motors placed in different locations? I've always been intrigued by this kind of vibrating compass-belt: http://www.gradman.com/hapticcompass .
The only thing i can think of is that your csv is probably automatically converted to utf8, or utf16, whereas your xml is an iso-8859-1 ? There is no other reason thinkable. CSV is one of the most (byte)efficient formats out there, even in comparison to json or compressed xml
Realy Guys I give the poster who did not know the diference bwtween inane and insane - some valid feedback instead if insulting his lack of knowledge of english and I get voted down?
Yup. Although I did switch it to "allow scripts globally", but I guess that's not enough.

And, sorry, but I'm not going to add that to about config.
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Take a look at the rest of his site. He's been writing about this for years.
"So much suffering, so much cruelty"

Indeed, and only by an incredibly narrow margin did we escape many orders of magnitudes more suffering and cruelty - we really did come awfully close to the edge during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Unbearable Lightness of HTML5 (priority of constituencies vs great dictator)
Your definition is correct, but Real-time can mean different things in different contexts.

For instance, I never hear anyone argue when a Demoscene production is called "real-time" (as they nearly always are), that it should in fact be called "soft real-time" (which is what they really are in the context you're talking about--framerates can drop).

So while you're technically correct (the best kind of correct), failing to acknowledge it's perfectly acceptable to use the term "real-time" in other contexts as well, is just going to make you pedantically correct (which is not a very good kind of correct).
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tldr; Once you have substantial passive income, you will not want a job working for someone else.

How did this long, uninformative dribble make it to the front page?
How To Get Rich - Felix Dennis

Accidental Genius - Mark Levy
really interesting!
Just to clear up some air here ...
The government, as in the Central or State governing bodies have not blocked any sites, nor have they passed any orders for the same.
The issue involves a company, Copyright Labs (http://www.copyrightlabs.in/index.php) which through the Madras High Court got a John Doe order to get ISPs to block access to certain sites to 'ensure' that an upcoming movie is not pirated.
What is worrying w.r.t. the government is summed up quite aptly here: https://twitter.com/#!/pranesh_prakash/status/20306526313290...
There are 76 countries that have "unavailable" information, meaning the metric is based off of registered vehicles, somehow. Really, no one drives a car in Cuba? I've been there, and there are cars. Somalia? Well, I watched Black Hawk Down, and they had cars there too. There are far more cars than that number. I've seen the estimate at a billion:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/23/car-population_n_934...

All that leaving aside the fact that car companies build other things, like heavy equipment and military vehicles.
How does that work? I would think that people yelling "Bubble!" about any investment would decrease investor demand in that area, other than a minority of people who are dumb enough to think they can time an exit pre-bubble-burst.
I wonder how long it is until someone exploits the parallel nature of the googlebot's (presumably Chrome-based) javascript execution for general-purpose computation like mining bitcoins or something.
When I was in high school, I only managed to skip one math class. I was forbidden from taking AP physics without first taking non-AP physics, and the school was unwilling to work with me so that I could take classes at a local college (i.e. I wouldn't graduate because they wouldn't help me make the schedule work).

This was at a small, elite private school.
Of course everyone loves the climate out there :-) - apart from the guy who I know who went out to that part of the world and had to return for medical reasons.

Oh and you know in the next door country guys can't have long hair and also runs a system best described as "Apartheid with a brown face"
Although I recognize that this topic is specifically about girls, this is important with kids in general and not just daughters. My uncle is a programmer with more than a few lines running in Red Hat and various other large projects. He works for a large company writing code in C, assembly, Python, whatever is needed. He is a programmer, and that is his life.

He also has a teenage son, who cannot write a single line of code despite the obvious will to learn.

I've tried teaching the boy over Skype. I've written tutorials, done my best to help him. Although I am not a programmer, I was willing to learn with him. But as much as he wanted to learn, he didn't want to learn it from me or from O'Reilly or from anyone else. If even his professional programmer of a father won't give him a few minutes of his life a couple times a week, how can anyone else hope to drive the boy's ambition?

A kid shouldn't be expected to keep pressure on their parents to help them learn, that should be an intrinsic value distilled in all parents. Your story has you sounding like an adult version of my cousin, looking back on a missed moment. That kind of makes me sad. Don't waste time with your kids. Opportunities like that don't stay around forever.
Alpha users wanted: Offline git push
Howdy there!

I'm building out a daemon similar to http://pow.cx/ that can watch for git projects you want to push the next time you are online.

Great for road warrior types. Commit and offline-push when disconnected, and the next time you get online everything syncs right to the server. You don't need to remember which three projects you meant to push when you get back online. Just watch the growl notifications for which pushes succeeded and which couldn't push automatically. There may be an option to have it pull-then-push-if-no-conflict.

If you want to be an early user, post an email address here or email matt.beale@madhatted.com
would be nice to have some tooltips.
hnhg,

Thanks for saying that because it brings up a problem that HN has that I've been thinking about for awhile. HN seems to be stuck in an upper to upper-middle class/Leftist/Politally-Correct viewpoint, and I think that is to its detriment. Why do so many HNer's startups focus on things like iPod Apps, whose chances for profitability are very questionable, instead of markets like industrial sales software, which is very under-served?

Shouting "That's racist!" every time someone expresses a non-Leftist opinion here is a symptom of your limited viewpoint, and frankly is embarrassing for you.

Would you express the same righteous indignation if I was trying to distinguish between groups of Europeans and had said "lederhosen not shamrock"?

I used to live in an Alaskan Native tribal village, and my friends there would be some of the first ones to tell you that some Indians are wild while some are not. (Note, in my comment, I am not saying all Indians are wild, I am only specifically referencing the wild ones.) And, by wild, I mean those who stereotypically disregard personal and communal property rights and engage in harmful activities like thievery and poaching for the fun of it.

hnhg, I don't know if my point will get through to you or not. I can only hope that you will actually go out and experience the greater world sometime.

If you're angry, please go ahead and downvote me. I've been voted down to -80 karma before. It is close-minded people like you who are the reason why PG no longer shows karma scores for users.
How is it that "keep a blog about passive income" is such a common path to living off passive income?
I love Jython! and for me is the best combination of two rich library worlds. I use it mainly for scaping together with htmlunit
50 years ago the american civil war was only 100 years ago (does that make sense?)

Strangely the sixties doesn't seem that long ago for me personally. I wonder how the contemporaries of Kennedy thought about 1912, when there were few cars/planes, no radio, no television, no talking movies, no color polaroids, William Howard Taft was president and Europe/Russia/China/Japan was ruled by Emperors.
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> "He has categorically stated that they cannot."

No, he stated that they do not. Businesses don't hire employees they don't need. They can, but if they try it at any appreciable scale relative to their business, they will go out of business.

It's not about what can happen. It's about what does happen. And what does happen, is that employers hire employees when they need them. Not just because they've made money, nor just because they got to keep more of the money they make via changes in taxation.

They could. But they don't. There's decades of data and research on this. It's not really debatable. Tax cuts do not translate into jobs. It's never happened. The increase in wealth of the wealthy does not translate into jobs. It's never happened. Consumer demand and business expansion to meet that demand, does translate into jobs. It always happens.

The question is how, or even whether you should try, to stimulate consumer demand when unemployment is high. (And the follow-on: what problems does that (in)action create)
The shrinking of the middle class is something we should all be concerned about.

But it isn't caused by tax policy: outsourcing and automation of traditional "middle class" jobs are a much bigger force.

We really need to figure out what the middle-class jobs of the future look like. What is above menial service job like retail, and below specialized trades like software?

Even people with college degrees struggle to get into the middle class these days. That should scare us all.

I have no answers to this, but I'm pretty sure tax policy isn't going to fix it, nor would protectionism.
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"By "dropping like a rock", you mean the 5% and 6.9% in 2000 and 2001, respectively?"

hmm..what happened to all of the independent music stores? Between 2000 and now..they pretty much all went out of business...because...people aren't buying music anymore.

"Yes, record labels that give music out for free "will never happen""

Did you even read what I wrote?

"Album sales are not the only way they make money."

This is the entitlement I was talking about. This isn't for you to say. If you don't like their music, don't buy it (or download it). If the artist wants to give it out for free, they can.

The same people that hate the record industry because they think it's somehow propping up a dying business model..love the unions..when they are doing the exact same thing.

We could have automated many of the assembly line jobs in the US auto industry (like Japan), but the Unions are preventing it and forcing companies to pay ridiculous wages (which is why they pretty much went bankrupt). If you want me to feel sorry for the jobs lost, I don't.

Nobody feels sorry for the jobs lost when software, music, and or movies are pirated.
Get the money now before it fizzles!
Yes, post is blogspam.

Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I use Airtel at home and these sites are blocked. But we use a different ISP at work and vimeo and pastebin are not blocked.
Can anybody who uses another ISP confirm that it is not just Airtel?
It's a little weird to post this out of context. This article is part of a long (planned) series about passive income. And this particular article is focused more on convincing the people who want to go that path but have mental barriers holding them back.
The CEO of Copyrightlabs was just on TV. He says he wanted the ISPs to only block specific URLs serving pirated content but the ISPs went ahead and blocked the whole sites
He once posted that he has calculated every article he writes earns him $2400 in revenue[1]. From that, he can calculate that if he wants to increase his annual income by $5,000, he just needs to write 21 more blog posts.

So from that perspective, this article is just another $20 per month in his pocket. That's the point.

[1] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/09/how-much-is-a-blog-...
I've been pretty happy with Dokuwiki with a CMS template (DokuCMS). Used Dokuwiki in internal and external (with DokuCMS) sites. The editing is text based but not hard at all to grasp (I tell staff just copy the text from an already made page to use as the new page.

The DokuCMS template is pretty well laid out so it can be modified to suit. Also the DokuCMS navigation menu is just another wiki page, so s/he can edit that via the wiki editor as well so adding sections/pages are no problem.

http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

http://www.dokuwiki.org/template:dokucms
Court _has not_ ordered to block any website. The order asks ISPs to make sure that illegal copies of movies does not get distributed.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bxi2TzVXul5ZUl9EclRQZXlRdVdU...
The amount of coin change is the remainder left over after dividing the total change by a dollar. Thus although the total change may or may not obey Benford's Law, the coin change certainly doesn't.
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I got "Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders" message when I tried this.

It's not surprising, because a year or so ago Airtel was using deep packet inspection to throttle torrents and file sharing sites. They already have the necessary equipment in place, they can use it when and as they please.
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Hulu's XBox UI actively conspires against me. Aside from the couple of actual bugs, it's frustrating as hell. What's worse, Netflix seems to be copying them. The web interface is better, but still not fantastic.

But they're the only two legal games in town that don't charge an arm and a leg.
It probably isn't the content, but the one-sidedness. Tying loss of the middle class to tax policy is a political statement, and probably not even correct - or at least he didn't give much evidence for it.

I happen to agree taxes on the rich should go up, but that's not the point
People in the Supreme court couldn't care less about these kinds of protests. It does not impact anyone, though it wastes tax payers money.

Second, piracy in India is a real issue. Its almost at the level in the US during 1999. Revenues for good movies are not impacted by this obviously but the bad ones (which is 99% of the movies made) are impacted.
3 simple steps to become a millionaire (by Steve Martin)

"First, get a million dollars..."
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The very term "passive income" sweeps the bootstrapping part under the rug. It's anything but passive. A more realistic term would be "delayed income".
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Americans tax payers are a trampoline for globalizing these corporations through subsidizing their R&D, bailing them out and soldiering their resources abroad. These corporations have global consumers now, the health of the American consumer isn’t a priority.
Note to people who make decisions about content-based websites: Based on previous experiences with these kinds of features on websites, I half expected each picture to be on its own page. If it was, I did not intend to click past the first one. However, in this case I browsed the entire thing, and am much more likely to share this URL with others.
Picture 47 - I thought it odd that no-one removed the sprue tags on the lettering. Also, how deep is that TV?

Picture 44 - Anyone able to locate this on Google Maps? I can see a sign for "Viginia Stree", but I'm having toruble finding the place.
I can have patience with people that have limited capabilities, but people who choose to act stupid?

You assume it's a choice, as if at the brink of decision, someone says, "I'll do the stupid thing." But in real life, you see people motivated by ambition, pride, fear and desire. And if that drives you do stupid things, to argue for stupid positions, does that make you stupid? Well, if limit ourselves to "stupid" always being contextual, if we understand "is stupid" as "acts stupid in a given context", then sure.

Likewise, if someone doesn't care about the things you care about, and consequently doesn't focus their attention on them to the same degree you might, does that make them stupid? Or just uninterested?

It's not a semantic issue. You are dismissing people outright, you are creating an alternate universe in your mind that through hubris drifts further and further from reality. Invariably, there's something else going on, something more interesting and more true to reality than just "he's stupid", and you miss that. I'm not arguing that you necessarily should engage with such people, but neither should you box them off with pat pronouncements on intellectual capacity.
Usually mass-media use the worst examples of libertarians to make fun of the whole concept/idea behind it. That's a common fallacy used to fight different kind of groups, when they are not mainstream and opposed to the current "approved way of thinking".

EDIT: Hayek, Nobel Prize in Economy in 1974, is one of the most well-known libertarians out there: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1...

His advices on Economy were notoriously NOT followed.
Cool pitchdeck, but the navbar is really distracting. Should just be persistent, instead of constantly drawing my eye back up to it.
Ha, similar to selling instructions about how to make money fast is how to make money fast.
I'm not quite sure I understand the statistics here, seems to me that they are basically saying "stuff that is popular with pirates pre-release is also popular for purchase post-release" which is not exactly a revelation.

It also doesn't seem to account for total revenue rather than just total sales.
I said:

"prevent them from getting into the hands of other angels/vc's."

I'm going to pay you a complement here to get you out of your bad mood.

Your team is a perfect example of what I meant. I went and took a look at clutch.io. It looks beautiful and it's obvious you and your co-founder are very talented and will create something great even if the market for clutch.io isn't that large (I don't know what the market is, I'm just saying "if" it isn't that large). So if you pitched me and said you wanted funding you would be exactly the type of person that I'd want to "tie up". Nothing wrong with that.

But it does look like a great idea. My question as an investor would be "how large of a market is there" but the fact that you have talent means any investment will pay off in the long run.
Why does it have to be small transactions? Every transaction, regardless of size, has a chance to end in anything from 0 to 99. The more items on your receipt the more chances to have different variations. Plus tax rate varies from area to area. I don't think that his assumption is that far off. But yes, he probably could have done something to get actual data.
I'm not sure what kind of friends OP has but I don't know a single person who would argue that a day job making the same amount is better than passive income.
Good one !
You're an example Lachy
Same way "How to make money" books make money for just the author.
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My parents did. It's called private school and then you can choose any place you want.

But in all seriousness, while there are exceptions for arts schools, you generally cannot choose where to send your kids except by moving. Some people "rent a room" in a desirable district so their kids can go to a better school, but really all that happens is that housing prices skyrocket in the "right" areas.
I know we still have a ways to go before we're a country free of racism, but it still makes me really proud to hear you say that about America.

Thank you for coming to the US. I think of the United States as a country that belongs to the whole world, and it really makes me happy when people from other countries like America enough to move here.

As a visitor from India, you're making our country a stronger, better place. I hope you decide to stay.
Independent music stores were killed by iTunes Music Store.
Neat. Like a real-life + hardware version of ifttt.com
This website is junk. I just skimmed several of his articles and the only example of passive income he gives is maintaining his website--on how to make passive income.

He does though like to say things like you have to "create value". That's useful advice. Thanks Steve.
Note that there are many industries in which passive income is simply impossible. Yes, this is _Hacker_ News, but fields outside of software engineering do exist.
That may be true, but your point is the same as the author's, that desire should be the motivating factor. Whether you chose the free or paid route is immaterial. And FWIW, there are plenty of reasons to pay for tools and learning resources, not the least of which is that some people prefer learning in the "guided mode" that these resources provide.
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non-french speaker here, but i think it's "eat the cheese" vs. "eat cheese / eat some cheese"
I imagine that Google imposes pretty strict limits on computation time for any javascript that is run, so I'm not sure how realistic that idea is.
Facebook, timeline and apps: A love-hate relationship