skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immutable objects in general or immutable objects in JavaScript specifically?
Google Searches About Politics Predict the Stock Market
Just a personal pet peeve: almost all apps are targeted for weight loss. I really wish apps would start considering people wanting to gain weight.

I started using MyFitnessPal to keep track of calories and although I set my goal as weight gain, it tells me I'm doing great when I'm 500 calories under my target for the day/week.
That codeht.ml is a great idea and execution. Congrats.
I agree with that but to bring encryption close to end-users you will have to use something that's simple and everybody has.
Said that, I'm aware of the disadvantages - they should provide an alternative to the phone number too.
Not comfortable sharing a link in the context of talking about the revenue (hence the throwaway), but it's an analytics API.
Sounds interesting, got anything more detailed about that approach?

Thanks for the --dns tip!
I did wonder about that given the large number of Indian workers in tech in the valley.

And as the article says there is a nasty nativist "know nothing element" to American politics that has bee around for ever
So is the ambiguity of the second sentence.
I build a small ERP (closed source so far)... 3 customers at 100€ / month => 300 €/month, paid in various ways...
I get around $30 a month from a Hacker News app I made for iOS.
Link? Details?
The U Michigan management academic, C. K. Prahalad (with an Indian science administrator, Mashelkar) had written an article about innovating for the Indian economy in the Harvard Business Review. The summary of their article is that Indian companies tend to figure out a way of innovating around these constraints [1]. They present a few case studies, notably in the mobile telephony and pharma sectors. The companies face pretty much the same problems that you talk about: poor infrastructure, etc. Certainly these can be insurmountable challenges. However, if the market exists, there is incentive to figuring out ways around this. The paper is worth reading to understand how Indian companies innovate.

Regarding non-standard addressing systems, etc. Anecdote: in my experience, courier systems are a little different in India than it is in the US. As I remember from my time there (lived there till 2007), the courier system is de-centralized. Local companies with a reasonably good knowledge of the neighborhood, etc. do the 'last-mile' delivery. The rest is usually managed by nationwide companies, including DHL, etc.

[1] C. K. Prahalad, R. A. Mashelkar, "Innovation's Holy Grail," Harvard Business Review, Jul 2010. http://repository.ias.ac.in/63026/1/25_aut.pdf
Berlin as a city is doing just fine and compared to just after the wall came down the difference is nothing short of amazing. The amount of money pumped in to the city shows up everywhere, infrastructure and public transport, the quality of the houses and apartments, the number of businesses and so on. This is not correlated at all with start-ups, which simply relates the the size of the home market (to a first approximation, Germany, Switzerland and Austria) and the ability to subsequently expand internationally (which is actually quite hard). I was in Kreuzberg (Berlin neighbourhood) this week and I could barely recognize it compared to what I remembered.

Compared to other former east block cities Berlin had of course a head start (half of it was already western), even so the progress is strong. By comparison, London today and London 2 decades ago are not that far apart, whereas Berlin today and Berlin 2 decades ago are worlds apart.

As the spoils from Berlin percolate out through the surrounding countryside Berlin will achieve yet another growth phase, what took 50 years to destroy will not be fixed overnight but you can surely rely on Germany to be able to fix such things as fast and thoroughly as possible.
(just noticed this)

I was just sort of echoing your

annoyed by the obfuscation and indirection of ...

Ansible's prime raison d'être is not remote execution but configuration management.
I've never went app exploring on my phone, tablet or any PC I've ever owned the way articles this week are suggesting is so broken. I've always started with a) a service I already use, b) a problem I need to solve or c) a recommendation from someone/thing I trust. App discovery is not something I need my device or service provider to "solve" for me.
Neat, I'll give it a shot.
TrackDuck - a nice tool for communication. Love the companies!
As a british immigrant to North America, I couldn't believe how far behind in this regard the States and Canada were. Canada has since caught up, but the US is only now getting there.

Anecdotal story: the only time my credit card has been defrauded is after a 3 day stay in the USA
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I don't know about that last point. Why even keep version numbers at all if you're going to skip over a version?

Chrome started the path to irrelevancy for version numbers, PHP is following the trend.
Interesting - you've basically accomplished the 4-hour workweek : )

I've been considering doing the same thing with some of my sites. Do you have any tips on refactoring something we've designed and selling it on a theme marketplace? Are there specific site features that sell better than others and/or are requested a lot? Do themes with wordpress/php included sell better than ones without? I'm very curious - thanks!
£55 in just over a year from ads on http://jquerycreditcardvalidator.com

Not a lot but it’s something. And I built the validator without even thinking about monetizing so it’s quite nice to get rewarded with some pocket money.

It’s not 100% passive, as I do spend a little time maintaining it and adding new features, but what income is 100% passive?
Since it's an MIT license what was sold? The trademark?
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I advise you don't focus too much in dividends but spread it in emerging markets, gold and others.

In the short term it looks like a bad idea, because you could have more income coming from your dividends, but when a crisis or something hits, it's worth it.
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Very cool. To broaden the appeal I would consider expanding to include things like recreational opportunities. I spent some time road tripping around the us rock climbing and working remotely and know others who have done the same.

Knowing which small towns near climbing areas (or ski areas, or whitewater rivers, or national parks, or whatever) have reasonable coffee shops, hostels, camping etc would have been very valuable.

I guess some of this could be done by integrating a wiki or something.
I am a bit surprised at how low the accuracy seems to be. Does anyone know if this is typical just of OCR done in JS, or OCR in general? I am aware that at least one or two implementations are extremely good (eg. Google ones) but are those complete outliers?
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Hey Deadgrey,

You're totally right. I'm not sure API is the best word for it, but haven't found a better one. Would love your thoughts!

I've heard a bunch of crazy usecases from HN over the past day but my original one was to simply take some of the python and R scripts I had, and without much work (a few clicks actually) be able to execute them from my frontnd js, or from rails workers. It worked really well so we decided to see if others might find it useful too.

It's badass to see what others are coming up with in the API Library, hoping that can be a valuable page for everyone. And I imagine when we figure out fair pricing, we can actually make this significantly cheaper than a dedicated server for these processes.

Please, continue to send feedback like this. You're awesome.
> James Randi, in his wild, younger days, would spray real bills with spray starch to cause a little chaos at the bank.

Terrifyingly devious while causing no physical harm. I wonder if pranksters these days are just as imaginative. Or perhaps the environment is less conducive toward appropriate penalties.
Let me get this straight. You have a piece of software which helps monetary transactions, and yet you don't charge.
Here is the thing, I don't compete with big sites, I target only niches so I have almost zero competitors :)
Royalties.
You aren’t a lawyer, and clearly don’t have (much) practical experience as a foreign worker, and yet you still give out legal advice.

a) Some countries do require a specific visa even just for a “business meeting”. Often getting that visa will require documentation or an official letter from a company either in your home/resident country or the country you are visiting.

b) Some countries do differentiate between a visit for “business” (such as meetings) and a visit for “work” (as in actually doing something)
I've been wanting to read this. Sweet: https://gist.github.com/g-P/cbdfd4a4b982ba8fa04b
A general example would be good :)
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The amount of carbs stored in the human body would not account for 100 lbs, not even for 20 lbs. A couple of pounds of carbs are stored in the body, in the form of glycogen, plus the water it soaks - maybe three times more, so the difference may be about 8, maximum 10 pounds.

I would certainly worry about 20 lbs gain, carbs or no carbs.
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Doing anything to a live video feed in JS on a phone probably won't be very feasible except for extremely low resolution video.
Most high explosives will not detonate when burnt. They need to have a shock wave running through them for the detonation to occur. The initial shock wave is usually created using a detonator, which uses a very small amount of a much more risky explosive.

You can get a lump of C-4, and use it as fuel for a fire to cook over without any danger, and in fact soldiers certainly used to do this. You can also hit it with a hammer - the shock wave caused by this isn't strong enough to cause a detonation.

In terms of a nuke, you need to detonate a set of independent lumps of explosive with very precise timing, in order to get a compression lens that will squash the fissile core sufficiently to get a nuclear explosion. Heat is unlikely to cause this to happen with a sensibly-designed bomb.
It only validates the number. It doesn't take part in the actual transactions.
Thanks, I stand corrected on your prior participations. Proprietor was too narrow a term, and better that I had said that it represents an example of the larger case where outside participation is simple, or non-existent.

These are the relevant quotations. If one has simple capital structure and do not desire to structure non-cash employee incentives, and have no need for new rounds of investors who might make new structural demands that conflict with prior agreements of LLC present member/owners, then the LLC is good enough.

Quotations:

6 – Equity Compensation - Equity compensation in entities taxed as partnerships is much more difficult, complex and expensive to draft and administer than equity compensation in a C or S Corporation. For example, to grant profits interests in an LLC, it is typically necessary or advisable to “book up” the capital accounts of the owners prior to granting the profits interests, and this must happen at each award. If there are successive rounds of equity grants each year, these books-ups can become very expensive and time consuming. This same complication occurs with options or warrants to acquire LLC interests.

7 – Raising Capital - Raising additional capital through an LLC is much more difficult than raising a next round through a corporation. LLC agreements are more difficult and complex to prepare than their corporate counterparts. In addition, you can hit upon sticky and highly complex tax issues in the LLC context that just don’t exist or arise in the corporate context.
The anti-techie sentiment seems to be more based on class than race. Maybe a better way to think of the problem is as gentrification.
> I've seen 500+ concurrent but of course that is based on whatever Google considers concurrent.

Almost sure that it means at least one hit within the last 5 minutes.
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Earlier this month, the FBI warned that driverless cars could be used as lethal weapons

Is this the big hold up in testing driverless cars? Human-driven cars can be used as lethal weapons too. In fact, humans can turn many mundane things into lethal weapons.
Start blogging about it, there's got to be a good handful of stories and advice in that throw-away "Its the hardest thing i've ever done". When you're at a 100-odd pages, make it an ebook for more passive income :)

Mind sharing what the cleaning company is? You appear to be in the UK, and I will soon be in the market for a cleaner.
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Unfortunately, this seems to also apply to high level sports stars in Australia. Various "Judiciaries" punish players for criminal behaviour with penalties of missed matches, or bans, when they should be dealt with in front of a proper court.
$2-5k per month (after Apple's cut) from my Fitbit mobile app, Fitwatchr: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitwatchr/id684005201?mt=8&i.... The unique value is Fitbit activity conversion to Weight Watchers points as well as a tougher but more rewarding calorie tracking that is based on real science (Mifflin equation). Effort on my part really depends on me/my current schedule as it's a side project. I admittedly have some bad reviews that boil down to getting users to understand how the calorie tracking works. Using Freshdesk (love it!) to answer 1-2 emails per day. It'll be 1 year working on this next month.
They probably get the npm name
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The idea it that if I have a few containers that need to know each others. Say an application server `app` and a PostgreSQL database `db`. While conceptually I need to spawn only `app` and `db`, I have a script to actually spawn `ns` (i.e. dnsmasq), `app`, and `db`. That script will register the IPs of `app` and `db` into dnsmasq (as you describe in the post).

This means that I can run that script more than once on my laptop and have multiple triple (`app`, `db`,` ns`) side by side without fear of crosstalking between logical groups.
OOPS! I meant 10% of 7500!

About 750 people signed up to play and there were about 500 games played (a game needs exactly 2 players).

The homepage stayed up the whole time. The stuff that got hurt was some actual gameplay due to an exception that was getting thrown, and I hotfixed.
$300-$400 per month from my side project [0]. I spend 5-10 hours per month on updating/adding_new_features etc and the revenue comes from Affiliate/Ads.

[0] http://assembleyourpc.net - a pc builder tool
Thanks for the advice. We already built some contents around Ghost blog. :)
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I have targeted some very specific jobs which are usually known as "sexy".
I am not proud of it because I don't think it's very ethic, I can't imagine putting this on my resume and technically the challenge is nonexistent (a simple html page with some css, few hours of marketing)
Though the service is real and people don't pay for nothing, at least it's legal...
Still, it helps.
Paris, New York, and Hong Kong are all in very low earthquake risk areas though. I imagine people were sensitive in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake destroyed most of the city.

That said, Tokyo shows how it can be done, but to replicate Tokyo in San Francisco would require tearing down and rebuilding a lot of existing housing stock which would temporarily make things even worse.
Four stories? Wow, even the "historic downtown" part of my city is zoned for 5 stories, and they explicitly keep the roofs low so you can see the dome of the capitol building from anywhere in downtown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire#mediavi...
I am the affiliate, I build front-pages for a major dating website, my page is just a front-door focusing on a niche. I don't sell anything myself. I am just hosting the page which is an entry point to the main website (which I am not managing at all)
I think the idea is that if you have a useful script, you can set it up here just once and it's automatically wrapped with an HTTP-based interface so you can use it like an API. Now you can use that script from any Internet-connected device, with basically zero setup on each device. I'm not sure if I can think of something I'd want to use it for, but this is an interesting idea and a great proof-of-concept implementation.

I think perhaps the most interesting part of this is that they're apparently spinning up/down Python (and other languages) sandbox environments on the fly, nearly instantaneously.
I hope those MacGuyver tricks include either an invisible skeleton key or a wrist-strap soap on a rope.

There is a lot of commentry in thailand right now because immigration are cracking down on people abusing a loophole in the visa exemption system.

The law hasn’t changed at all, it’s just being enforced, and people act like it’s somehow against their human rights for a country to enforce it’s own immigration laws and tell them “no sorry, you are clearly not a tourist just because you have left every 30/60/90 days and returned the same day, for the last 3 years”.
I really appreciate when a new project mentions the ones in the same space - or the ones that inspired it - and why they aren't good enough and a new project was started.

The guys in the ATP podcast talked about a similar gesture in the Overcast app, and that most users really enjoyed: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19746944/overcast_others...
Sold some Microsoft office365 to a handful of clients. Averaging 1200/month.
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Not "best" by any means, and perhaps not even passive, but I'm earning around 5% in my LendingClub account. I had some bad bets early on which lowered my returns a lot, but it's building up again.
What if you prefer colder climates? Not sure why the city should be penalized for it. High temperatures make me less productive.
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The problem in SF isn't that we couldn't build up more - we certainly could. It's that you generally have to tear something down to build something up,. I live in one of the less fashionable parts of SF that is zoned single family, though it is somewhat dense by American standards (small lots, no space between houses, though each house does have a small backyard). Most of the houses were built in the 1920s and are in my opinion architecturally interesting, though of course opinions will vary. I suppose we could allow people to buy up a block or a bunch of houses, tear them down, and replace them with 6 story (or higher) apartment buildings.

While there is a case to be made for allowing this, I think it's probably the weakest place to make your stand against the lack of new housing construction in the bay area. We have options other than tearing down some of the oldest neighborhoods west of the mississippi.

While everyone may be saying Not In My Backyard, there are degrees of NIMBYism. Personally, I think that it's far more egregious for very low density areas like Mountain View or Menlo Park to ban new housing development, especially when these are the same cities that have green lighted office construction that will bring hundreds of thousands of new workers to the region.
How are these?

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I hope my landlord appreciations my paying early as well. I always pay a week and a half to two weeks early, just because I've schedule my bills out for it to be that way.

Probably not though since I live in Brooklyn. :(
I think the normal reasoning is that higher rent filters out the bad tenants (statistically). But once you have a good tenant then you probably don't want to raise the rent unless they move out and you're seeking a new one.
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Depends on where you are. In the U.S, interest rates aren't anything to talk about. In India, my dad gets something like 7% (I think it is more for people over 60)
Speaking of Dutch companies, I think I may be getting a job offer as a Data Scientist from booking.com. Anyone working there? Is it a decent company to work for? Ok pay and relocation package (would be moving from Norht America)? Thanks.
This SO makes me think of Arrested Development ....

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I ran my own team as a non-dev and built http://drawvault.com - Took a bank loan to fund it, and ran out of money on the final straight.

I really was hoping to be earning a meagre passive income by now, but i'm searching for a second job.

Lesson learned!
I purchased, gutted and renovated a 1 bed flat in the city 4 years ago. It's gained about $7,000 a month every month for the last 3 years, plus saving about $3,000 in rent. Not exactly 'income' but most certainly passive, and I do plan to sell out when I feel prices are aproaching a peak and move out the city so will yeild then. Neighbouring flats usually sell within 7 days of going to market.
"Illegal number" is a loaded term designed to point out the ridiculousness of certain copyrights.

However, I've always found this odd. Since pretty much any information can be conveyed as a number, why aren't people complaining about the UTF-8 encoding of Harry Potter being an illegal number? Why does this term seem limited to crypto/DRM?
I wrote all the content myself, which took maybe 20-30 hours. The theme is a profession in the veterinary field, so it offers advice to prospective students and people interested in the career (schooling, salary, etc.)

It requires zero maintenance. I haven't touched it or written anything new in a couple years.
Vim-like window manager for OS X
http://youtu.be/yror1qNQQQE

This is a "window manager" for OSX I am in the process of coding (not released yet, just a demo of some of the things I've got so far). It is heavily inspired by how VIM operates and it only takes up one global hot-key. Watch the video and let me know what you think, either on the youtube page, or here!
> The "people tried before" argument is never convincing.

Perhaps, but "it'll happen Real Soon Now" isn't either, really.

> I once was a unique butterfly. Now I can name dozens of people who operate just like I do.

You've grown your network! :)
Earlier this year, I helped out a friend setting up online shop selling electric bike (dropship model). It has been good this summer, average of $1000/month net profit. Traffic is still very low but constant buyers. - shopebike.com.
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I would live in something like this happily, but for one thing: I have three large dogs. Without a yard, it's a lot of work, and I'd hate to think I couldn't keep a few dogs around.
The sources (https://github.com/marijnh/Eloquent-JavaScript) are written in ASCIIdoc which has an epub export. So it should be easy to build one yourself.
Well, once it's banded it becomes much easier anyways. A stack of 20s costs 40 dollars, because your interior bills can look as fake as you like - just use real ones on the external faces.
React's documentation also discuss their immutability helpers [1]. This new library looks like a better way of implementing this though. Will the documentation be amended to discuss use of immutable-js?

[1] http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/update.html